View from door

Salvo Hotel Shanghai

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August 20th 2008
Our hotel in Shanghai isn't quite as nice as the one in Nanjing, although it may actually be ritzier. The room is badly designed. Didn't they have a feng shu artist work on this?! It's a long rectangle. You walk in and there is a closet on one side and the bathroom on the other. There is a large tub, but the shower is just next to it without a door. Thus you get the tub wet when you shower. A row ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more