A friend and I have just returned ffrom a week staying at the Crowne Plaza Fudan. We stayed on one of the club floors which represented excellent value for money. The rooms are beautiful with THE most comfortable beds. The club floor provides breakfast, beverages during the day and wine/spririts and canapes in the evening. It's quiet and lovely. The only drawback is that the staff speak very little English but if you're prepared to explore Shangahi with an easy-to-read Subway map you'll have no problems. The concierge is your best bet for English speaking assistance. Enjoy!

Very clean and spacious room, good food in the restaurant and very helpful staff. Location is about 30 mins from the Bund . Club lounge good for internet access, breakfast ok, nothing special.

It may seems foolish to many booking a hotel room near Fudan University, when Shanghai city centre has plenty of great hotels. Yet, this Crowne Plaza deserves a go! It's just 10 kms. from Pudong/the Bund ( a mere 25/30 RMB of taxi fare!), and the hotel is great!

The lobby is not enormous, but big enough to accommodate groups. Check in was pretty fast. That's important!

Even though we arrived at about 10 am at the hotel, our king club room was aready available. As you can see from the picture, it's a modern, new and arge room, with every amenity you can expect from a 5 stars hotel, including, slippers, bathrobes, office utilities, in-room internet (100 RMB per day), bathroom amenities.
The bed was very large, and comfortable! If you have any allergy, just ask the Housekeeping, as they have as many as 6 different types of pillows to accommodate every guest!

The hotel opened in June 2006, and in fact it's very new! The Club Lounge - located at the top floor (all the club rooms are located in the top 3 floors too) is large, and the staff always helpful! Breakfast there was very good (buffet style, very good quality); all day drinks available; and evening cocktail hour with canapes (very good ones! 4 choices of white wines, just to tell you something about the quality of this hotel!).

This hotel boasts a Beauty Salon/spa (we didn't try it), a gym (very new! Not big, but with state-of-the-art treadmills, step and rowing machines, and three or fours other machines plus weights) and an indoor swimming pool (large and with access to a open air terrace with chairs and tables). Changing trooms are top notch, with sauna and whirpool! Wow!

The hotel has a wine bar, a Tea Lounge and a restaurant. The concierge is very helpful, and they booked our train tickets to Beijing easily, fastly and with just 50 RMB surcharge per person! So why go to the train station when you can ask them??

Taxis are readily available. The hotel is located just opposite to Fudan University, a quite area with a lot of students! It can give you a glimpse of everyday Chinese life!

My only compliant is that the staff doesn't speak an adequate english. It's really difficult make them understand everything but the simplest requests. Anywho, there are a couple of good english speakers, so just locate them and stich to them!

All in all, this hotel is very good, some way between a 4 and aa 5 stars hotel And the price is very cheap, compared to same quality hotel located downtown (club room for just 900 RMB/day! Isn't that a bargain??).

I'm sure that if you choose this hotel, you won't be disappointed!

Rating: A--

We really liked the hotel, service, concierge services, room quality, club lounge at this hotel. The breakfast was average and not as good as other hotels we stayed at in China but the other things made up for that. The beds were very comfortable. The club lounge with internet was very useful. We were 2 adults and 2 children (11, 7) in one room which had two double beds. The room worked well for us. The kids loved the pool.

The location is a negative but the hotel was very comfortable and taxis were never a problem to find. The hotel’s concierge handled tickets for the Shanghai Circus for us. The concierge staff was very helpful in making reservations, providing recommendations. The food mall they recommended for lunch about 15 yuan by taxi was a great place to go for meals. There are all kinds of restaurants here including the Pizza Huts etc. There is a Walmart behind the food mall area too. There is also an excellent Chinese restaurant called "Real Good Seafood Restaurant". The food and service was very good here. The market price fresh fish can be pricey though it was the best fish I have had in a long time.