Hi! I'll keep this rather simple. The Shanghai Home Hotel, at least when we visited it, could only be described as a hotel within a hotel. Located in the Pacific Hotel building, the "Shanghai Home Hotel" is discretely located on a couple of floors (8th and 9th, if I remember correctly. In fact, it appears that some enterprising young entrepreneurs (or so it would seem) rented out some of the Pacific's unneeded floors and operate the Shanghai Home Hotel as a separate entity. (Oddly enough, several of the people who worked at the Pacific Hotel--the one whose lobby we had to walk through and whose restaurant we ate at a few times--had no idea about the existence of the Shanghai Home Hotel. One advantage of being within the Pacific was that we could use the services of their reception desk (currency exchange, getting a porter to tell a taxi driver where you wanted to go, etc.). The rooms are modern and well-appointed, the bathrooms are great, and the service is... Well, if they had any weakness, it was the service. The "reception" desk is in another room facing the elevator on the 8th floor (or was it the 9th?), attended by friendly young and sometimes English-speaking locals. The effect is minimalist, but effective enough. The prices of the rooms in the Shanghai Home Hotel are a few times lower than identical rooms in the host Pacific Hotel, so it's definitely a good deal for the money (I think we paid US$96 per night for a one bedroom + one livingroom "suite"; it also had a small fridge, a sink and kettle in case you wanted to make your own tea or cup-a-soup.) The room also included a free Asian breakfast (a few choices, including some kind of chicken noodle soup, or something I could only describe as Chinese churros (fried pastry sticks) that came with some unidentified yummy sauce, plus a huge cup of home-made soy milk. Oddly enough, the Shanghai Home Hotel does not make use of the Pacific's kitchens, but rather, brings the breakfast food in from a nearby restaurant. I guess I'd qualify it as "authentic local": not impressive, but it does the trick. You also have the option of a "Western breakfast" for a few dollars more, but as they say, When in Shanghai... A nice little touch was the box of Tasty Chocolate Cookies that greeted us in the room. Oh yeah (so much for keeping it simple), if you go, just be careful not to use their "hotel laundry" bags for your dirties: no matter how hard you hide it, they will take it away, wash your clothes and bring them back nice and clean... along with the bill. And unless you speak fluent Mandarin, you'll have a heck of a time claiming that you didn't want the stuff washed! (Happened to us, but they were nice enough about it, but tracking down the person who had cleaned the room was next to impossible. But they're friendly.) I suppose that's it. We'll be going back to Shanghai in Summer 2008 and, assuming they're still there, we'll be going back to the Shanghai Home Hotel. Why? Great price and pleasant rooms for a price you can hardly beat for the quality; we shopped around once there and didn't find anything vaguely as nice in the same price range. We wanted a pool (the Web site originally said that there was a pool, but they no longer had access to the pool, wherever it was--we never saw it), but we couldn't find a hotel with a pool that fit within our budget. I'll write back in 2008 to let you know how it went the 2nd time around. David

Rooms like an apartment with cooking facilities(if you needed it). The hotel is located on the 14th floor of the Shanghai Pacific Hotel. Close to shopping mails and easy reach of the metro. A short trip to the French area from here. Service was good.............generally a homely feel about the place. Breakfast was very poor, delivered to the room ... an egg, and one drink plus two bits of toast. Don't bother with breakfast!. No satallite TV here in case you need to catch up on any newsCNN etc. All in all good value for money based on the very good room and location.

This Hotel is only service apartments. I never taken breakfast because they offered poor menu and served only room services. I could not use wireless broadband service. I suppose there was wrong user name and password on poor instruction manual.(I used PocketPC.Not supported?) Room was always clean and confortable.There was only shower booth(no bath tub).Microwave was unplugged. Maid service was poor.They did not understand a memo message request,so they did not fill up body soap etc.. Suddenly door key card did not work,but they did not have spare card key.They never offered another room... The Shimen Yilu subway station is within 8 minutes walking distance. The subway is easy to use. Not Value four or five star Hotel ratings.

Stayed at the Home Hotel first week of May 2005. The Home Hotel is located at No. 288 North Shanxi Road (1 block north of Nanjing Xilu intersection) in a building completed in 2004 that actually houses two hotels. The Home Hotel is located on the top floors, while the Grand Pacific Suite Hotel is located on the lower floors. The Home Hotel is also a suite type property. They don't have a website yet just search the web under Shanghai Home Hotel. The single bed (appears to be queen size) suite has a bedroom w/big screen TV, modern bathroom (glass shower only w/multiple showerheads), small kitchen area & a basic living room. The room rate was $95 per night & well worth it. The Shimen Yilu subway station on Nanjing Xilu is within 10 minutes walking distance. The subway is easy to use. WanChai is a very good restaurant serving Sichuan cuisine & being located within easy walking distance at #1327 Middle Huai Hai Road. Shanghai musts: checkout the Pudong skyline from the Bund, YuYuan Bazaar shopping & the Shanghai Museum. Shanghai is full of shopping & restaurants. Hint: very little English is spoken in China so before going be sure to print out the Chinese name of your hotel as well as the location so it can be shown to the taxi driver.