Hi Inn (Shanghai Chenghuang Temple)

A REAL review of this hotel by a solo traveller who was there for 6 nights, as you can notice - a lot of 5/5 are MOST LIKELY FAKE REVIEWS!! Because - they are left from guest or anonymous accounts with the review here often being the only one, if you read them they don't look real, more like advertisements, nothing about downsides + they add non-related photos or really clean wide-angle photos of the room. All real reviews are not like that. Putting a 5/5 to this place is just wild, can't imagine someone really thinking that this place is "perfect" lol. Good sides because it has them - the price is not very bad, location is... okay, subway station is in 10-15 min walking distance, there are grocery shops not far away. Beds are clean and there is a table to work and eat even. BAD THINGS: 1. Corridors and common areas are EXTREMELY DIRTY and smells bad, really, I attached photos, maybe it's hard to see but floors do honestly look like they were not cleaned for a year+, not kidding. Also smells of cat piss a lot. I'm just baffled on how they even run a hotel and not even clean common corridors? 2. Internet is just BAD. Extremely slow, around 300 KB/s max. What was funny is that guy at reception didn't even know how to set it up on my phone (doesn't speak English, of course). Said I need a Chinese number, which wasn't true after all. 3. Rooms themselves are really run-down, take a look at the ceiling and window photo I've sent. 4. This place probably holds an achievement of the poorest sound insulation I've ever saw in hotels. It's just awful, next door to me had a pair of old Chinese guys and I really could hear every word they say, one of them was really loud - which also gave an interesting vibe for me. 5. Reception workers are really non-helpful, usually they try to solve your problem, but when I asked them to switch rooms to another because of loud neighbours but which will still have windows - they literally said sorry, can't help, no free rooms. Which is weird because they have, I don't know, tens and tens of rooms there on this huge hotel floor, and didn't see to many people there, so that was non cool. OVERALL - not a complete trash, still you can pretty much live there and there are no cockroaches or something like that, but definitely quite bad and I'd put a 1.5-2 stars to it. LIKE THIS REVIEW if you think it can be valuable to others.

Convenient location near public transit, quiet, room without cigarette smell available upon request, recommended! :)

Pretty small and quite old hotel but affordable price Near by 2 metro station but highly recommend take a bicycle. Staff do not speak English, so be prepared translatation tool if you need any assistance.