Home Inn Plus (Shanghai Bund Jinling East Road store)

Great location, right in the center of Shanghai. The room was comfortable, although a bit small for 2 people. Nice choice for food at breakfast.

I’ve come to this hotel quite a few times over the past few years and overall, it does the job. Front desk staff are pleasant enough, rooms are clean, and it’s a great location near a subway station. It should be known, however, that apparently some of the rooms are Dragonball Z themed. After three years and maybe ten stays at this hotel, I had not come across this fact until I booked the day before my stay and Trip warned me it was the “last room” as I was booking. Boy, howdy were my partner and I surprised when we opened the door and found the whole room (luckily excluding the bathroom) plastered in giant pictures of DBZ characters. As I am a right side of the bed kind of lady, I had the honor of this giant picture of Freiza to wake up to. It’s not exactly a deal breaker, but it would have been nice to know that in advance. Again, one time out of ten isn’t bad, I just think a little warning from the front desk or Trip when booking would have been nice. If I were a ten year old boy, this would have 100% made my life.

Room still had dust and hairs over the floor and bathroom upon arrival. Cleaning was better on some days than others, floor was only mopped one time during a 7 night stay but not even once in the bathroom. The bed, shower and room were pretty nice, the view was nonexistent but got some nice air and light through the window. Aircon worked fine. No fridge sadly. Absolutely horrible soundproofing, woke up so many times because of loud noise from other guests or the staff (their walkie talkie was right outside my door one whole morning and I kept hearing static yelling through it, I was so annoyed). I’m usually not awoken very quickly, but I really did not sleep well because of this. Location was good, not right in the center but pretty calm and a good convenience store next door. Some nice restaurants nearby (see pic). Really close to metro station. I only talked to the reception 3 times. 1&2 were fine: 1. Check in 2. check out, but 3. I had a simple question. I used my translator app to ask the man where I can find the laundry room. He sighed at me as if it was a super hard task to point me to the room (he wasn’t even busy, only folding napkins or something). He was going to make his way over but then another member of staff walked past and he appointed him to show me instead. It was like 10 steps away. Was it really that hard and difficult??? Why so rude?!! Anyway, simply do not recommend because of the bad service, not that good cleanliness but mainly the exhausting noise waking me up many times. Consider these points before you book.