Best Hotel of the Trip

We had perfectly lovely rooms at the Shangri-la in Chengdu and the Sofitel in Xian, but they paled in comparison to the rooms at the Park Hyatt Shanghai, located on the 79-88th floors of the Shanghai World Financial Center, currently the tallest building in China (although another planned structure across the street will beat it by a few floors in a few years).

Our building is the one that looks like a bottle opener.

The lobby is on the 87th floor and we were escorted to our connecting rooms on the 79th floor.  The rooms were very high-tech with automatic blinds and very complicated control panels.  And what a view!  There were two long boxes on the desk, filled with little madeleines, cookies and macaroons.  And a large fruit tart was also waiting for us.  Plus a Nespresso machine and a great selection of teas.

My favorite part was the toilet though - it was the same, very high tech, Japanese toilet that we had in Macau two years ago!

Our bathtub had a bird's eye view of the city.

And the pool is on the 85th floor, so it was our highest swim ever!

The lobby area had some nice telescopes to view the world down below.

It was a great start to our stay in Shanghai.