Okura Garden Hotel Shanghai

It was useful that trip tells you the size of the beds so that you can determine whether they’re big enough to share with children. Lots of the hotels say that children can stay free, but the beds are no way big enough. The shanghai garden hotel has 2x 1.2m single beds in a standard room, which is considered a small double in the uk, and was comfortable for my family of 4. We visited the swimming pool during our stay and it was very refreshing. Be advised it is mandatory to wear swim cap. Which will have to be purchased if you don’t have it. Breakfast was vast, lots of choice of Chinese, Japanese and western style. We particularly enjoyed 混沌汤, 点心。 Disappointed with the 包子, 生煎包 - which didn’t really have much filling, flavour, and 油条 - which wasn’t fluffy felt it was cooked from frozen. Particularly annoying when we were asked to pay the high full price for our small 12 year old and half price for 7 year old, rather than by height which is what other hotels do. They hardly ate anything! Consider being more family friendly!

It was not easy to travel with elderly people aged 88 this time. We were glad that the hotel provided excellent service during our stay and we enjoyed the meal discount offer of the in-house outlets. We loved the Japanese restaurant the most. The hotel staff was very friendly and caring, especially the front desk staff when we checked in. They upgraded our room taking into account an extra bed needed for 3 of us and one is an old age.

This is a lovely old hotel in one of the best areas of Shanghai. Breakfast was delicious and staff friendly. It is an older hotel with more traditional hotel facilities than a lot of the new hotels in Shanghai, but everything was in good shape and clean. One tip--we didn't realize there was a hot tub in the locker room, as whenever we started to go in that direction the lady in charge of the locker room would stand up and ask where we were going. She made it seem like we weren't allowed to go to the shower/rest area until we were done swimming. So we swam, then came back to shower and found a nice hot tub (and cold tub) in the shower room.

Super good location, within walking distance to shopping malls and eateries.very comfy stay!

Very happy with hotel and staff, more than happy to stay if over this way in the future.

Location is very near to metro line 1,10 and 12 exit 3, South Shaanxi Road. There is also another metro line 13 exit 1 nearby Huaihai Road. All main sightseeing places are easy to access from here. There are also Michelin starred restaurants around. Bed and pillows are very comfortable, I had good sleep every night. Overall satisfied with my stay.