Environment: The room is not big (it is an executive king-size room), refer to Figure 1-2. The sound insulation is very poor. As a frequent traveler in Shanghai who has stayed in many hotels priced between 300 and 500 yuan around Hongqiao, this is the first time I feel that the plane is so close to me. (You can refer to the effect in the video. However, since it is a hotel near the airport, I still have certain expectations for the sound of airplanes. But the poor sound insulation of the entire building is simply outrageous. My room is on the third floor, but in the video, you can hear the sound of pots and pans in the restaurant on the first floor of the next building, which can't even cover the sound of airplanes. In fact, it is even louder. Not to mention that I can hear clearly anyone talking next door or in the corridor (The humble tone of a worker trying to finalize a meeting time with a client really made me empathize.
Service: There is a very smart girl at the front desk. The first room I was given was on the second floor and was even noisier (I didn’t expect there would be noisier rooms than in the video). There was a parking lot outside the window, and I could hear every car coming into the parking lot and the conversations as they parked and closed the doors, so I asked to change rooms. The girl at the front desk first ran to the new room to check and turned on the air conditioner (probably to dissipate the smell as much as possible) before taking me upstairs. Overall, the front desk training was pretty good. However, when the housekeeping lady came to clean the room, she knocked on the door three times. I replied "Hello, who is this?" three times from the bathroom door (which was less than one meter away from the main door), but the lady didn't hear me. I heard her swipe the card to open the door and quickly shouted “Someone, don’t come in”, but she still pushed the door open and saw me changing clothes 🙂 Logically speaking, with such soundproofing, she should be able to hear me farting at this side of the door. I wonder if she also wears noise-isolating earplugs because it’s too noisy 🙂
Hygiene: Maybe because it was a temporary room, it was generally acceptable. However, once you actually moved in and started using it, you would find traces of decoration in the bathroom (Pictures 3-5), bedside (Picture 6), window (Picture 7), and washbasin (Pictures 8-9). I guess I was honored to be the first guest in this room 🙂 But it may also be that it is too dusty here (refer to Figure 10 where my computer was taken out of my bag and left there for the whole afternoon) or that this hotel is really not ready to open, and hygiene is not on their priority list (refer to the last picture where there are flies leisurely on my breakfast.
Formaldehyde: As someone who often goes to factories, my tolerance to formaldehyde is very high, so I don’t have any overall olfactory reaction. But after a night of sleep I still have a headache.
In short: don’t come!
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