MEHOOD LESTIE Hotel (Shanghai Xujiahui Hengshan Road)

Good points: - Friendly and helpful staff. - Stylish interior throughout the building. - Free laundry facilities available. - Pleasant green surroundings with lots of trees. - Comfortable chair and desk in the room (good for work). Minor points: - Breakfast: Authentically Chinese – travelers wanting Western/international options may find it limited. - Staff speak very limited English (be prepared for language barriers). - Unstable Wi-Fi in rooms and common areas. - Fitness room is basic: no weights. - Few restaurants within walking distance.

Front desk service by Ms. Lily when arrive hotel. Her service is service upon check in. Allows late check out up to 2pm. Hotel provides welcome drink & supper meal.

The room was clean, except for some details like under the bed, where it was full of dust. The closet is small for two people to share and the space available for storing clothes/luggage is in general tiny. Location of the hotel is nice, as it lies in a quite walkable area, and by foot you can reach the Huaihai Road (good for shopping) in 35m. Metro line 9 is a 15m walk. The service was okay. The staff at the reception did not speak English and they offered no help or guidance about the city: quite essential service. Their attitude was in general detached and seemed quite un-open to communicating. Also, after leaving the room and realizing there were still some clothes left inside, I tried to report it to the reception and they just sent me to the room to check without even communicating to the cleaning service. It ended up that my clothes were not in the room anymore and the staff offered no further help, so I left without these clothes. Also, i had explicitly booked a room with “City View” and I was placed in room 1402 with one very dirty window - out of 2 windows available to enjoy the view. After asking to clean it, they made an unsuccessful attempt and then just left me with the dirty window without any kind of compensation. I was only offered to switch to another room in a lower floor and with no city view, which made no sense considering I had paid more specifically to have a room with “City View”. Breakfast is decent and offers a good variety of food. The staff is understanding if a host is taking few minutes past closing time to finish the food. The staff at the breakfast floor is also very nice and friendly. The main perk of the hotel for me was the cafè at the hall, where a very friendly girl employee works. She was very nice and gave me and my girlfriend some unique advice on places to visit in the city. She was of course also making extremely good flat white and coffee. Balancing everything out though, if was to come back to Shanghai, I would probably choose a different hotel.