[2025 Shanghai Hotels] Travel Guide for Holiday Inn Shanghai Jing’an (Updated Jul)

This time I stayed at the newly opened Holiday Inn Shanghai Jing'an, which will open in 2025🏨 As a smart hotel, the check-in experience was full of tech vibes, and I met many foreign guests—almost felt like I was abroad🫣 📍Location: Right near Shanghai Railway Station🚉, just a 5-minute walk🚶 from the North Square. Super convenient whether for travel or business trips. 🧑‍✈️Check-in Experience: ✔️Staff were warm and efficient, processing quickly ✔️Luggage carts🛒 available at the entrance for heavy bags🧳 ✔️Free orange juice🍊 and cucumber🥒 lemon water in the lobby to beat the heat 🛏️Room Experience: Stayed in a Deluxe Room (king bed) on the 23rd floor. Elevator🛗 requires keycard access for added "security." ▪️30+ sqm room, spacious with a work desk and sofa area ▪️Separate toilet🚻 and bathroom, featuring smart heated toilet seat ▪️Two pillow options (soft/firm). Near the station but zero noise ▪️23rd floor offers stunning city views—just missed the sunset that day ▪️AC cools powerfully without needing keycard, and operates silently 🏋️Facilities: 🔺24th-floor "Sky Gym" with floor-to-ceiling windows, well-equipped with water provided 🔺Laundry room requires keycard access, has dryers and laundry bags 🍳Breakfast: Extensive buffet with quick restocking—no empty trays even at 9:30am ◽️Noodle toppings include three options—pork with pickled veggies combo had me "devouring bowls" ◽️Rare hotel breakfast dishes like sweet & sour ribs ◽️Western pancakes🍕 are unique—perfect for DIY "egg burgers" 🍃Nearby Attractions: 1️⃣Skyline 1000 Trees: Suspended riverside complex with occasional night markets and Instagrammable shops 2️⃣M50 Creative Park: Tons of free art exhibitions, great for photos📷 3️⃣Jade Buddha Temple: Famous Jiangnan Buddhist site with renowned jade reclining Buddha 4️⃣Changshou Road: Artsy coffee street perfect for citywalk

Holiday Inn Shanghai Jing'an is a brand-new hotel opening in 2025. Here's what you need to know: - Basic Info: Located at No. 1738 Zhongxing Road, Jing'an District, Shanghai, adjacent to the North Square of Shanghai Railway Station, just a 100-meter walk to Metro Lines 1/3/4. - Hotel Facilities - Rooms: Features 447 smart guest rooms and suites starting from 25 sqm, all equipped with one-click screen mirroring TVs, some offering city views. - Dining: The all-day dining restaurant "Jing'an Pavilion" offers diverse Chinese and Western cuisines, including Southeast Asian specialties and Shanghai fusion dishes, plus 5 private dining rooms. - Meetings: Over 800 sqm of flexible event space with professional one-stop services for various functions. - Leisure: The 24th-floor panoramic gym overlooks Shanghai's skyline, plus self-service laundry and EV charging stations in the parking lot. - Surroundings: Adjacent to Shanghai Financial Street Center, within 30 minutes to Shanghai New International Expo Centre, National Exhibition and Convention Center, Hongqiao Airport, and popular attractions like Jing'an Temple and The Bund.

I heard there was an amazing exhibition opening in Shanghai during the Dragon Boat Festival and Children's Day—the #LittlePrinceMemorialArtExhibition—so I rushed from Guangzhou to Shanghai. 🌈 If it's your first time in Shanghai, you can ignore this post. If you're looking for introductions to must-visit attractions like Yu Garden, Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street, or the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, please skip ahead. What I want to share is a travelogue or guide perfect for weekend getaways, relaxation, and discovering the city's finer details. 🌟 Ramblings (itinerary) begin (schedule at the end) Of course, it wasn’t literally 10,000 miles from Guangzhou to Shanghai—just over 1,400 kilometers. But my heart raced with anticipation to see him again. I arrived by train in the early hours and just wanted to collapse into bed. But where to stay? Then I looked up and saw the words "Shanghai Jing'an Resort Hotel"—wasn’t this part of the InterContinental chain? 🏡 Accommodation 👉 Lucky for me, they still had rooms available during the holiday. I checked in quickly. Choosing a chain hotel isn’t about looking down on budget options—it’s about the guaranteed quality in environment, comfort, cleanliness, facilities, and service. 🚶 After a night of "recharging🔋," I woke up refreshed. After a hearty buffet breakfast, I headed to ➡️ the Little Prince Memorial Art Exhibition. 🚗 Transport: The exhibition is reachable by metro from the hotel (Line 4️⃣ to Line 6️⃣). 🏠 Address: Building 7, EKA·Tianwu (an old factory complex) 🌟 Exhibition highlights: It was a meeting of "love and light," like reopening *The Little Prince*. I met him in the "Sahara Desert🏜️," with the "vain king," and the "drunkard who drank to forget." 🍽️ Dining 👉 After the exhibition, I was hungry. EKA·Tianwu is a great spot with plenty of delicious options, such as: 🍃 LENBACH Lakeside Bistro: A fantastic place for Spanish paella and German pork knuckle, paired with craft beer🉑. Sitting by the pool elevates the dining experience⬆️, and if the fountain happens to be on—oh my, the romantic atmosphere might just outshine the food [happy]. 🪲 There’s also Firefly Space·More Than Coffee, where the coffee beans are excellent, and the French imported ice cream is delicious. I especially loved the second-floor view [heart]. 🚶 Continuing the journey 👉 Full and satisfied, I wandered near Suzhou Creek. It’s close to the Shanghai Sihang Warehouse Memorial, the real-life setting of the movie *The Eight Hundred* (remember to book ahead—it’s free!). After reflecting on wartime history, I strolled east along the riverside promenade. The Shanghai Postal Museum, recently renovated and fully reopened, is another gem. Along the way, you’ll find the Waibaidu Bridge’s twin (Wuzhen Road Bridge). Tired? Sit by the river with coffee and watch boats pass by as the day ends in the glow of city lights🔚. 🚶 Early on the third day I debated between local Shanghai breakfast and the hotel buffet—the latter had so much to offer. Then—off to Disneyland! ——————— Itinerary Day 1: Arrived in Shanghai late at night ➡️ Checked into the hotel Day 2: Visited the "Little Prince Memorial Art Exhibition" in the morning ➡️ Ate ➡️ Explored EKA·Tianwu ➡️ Sihang Warehouse ➡️ Postal Museum ➡️ Iron Bridge ➡️ Dinner and drinks [beer] ➡️ The end🔚 Day 3: ➡️ Disneyland ➡️🔚 ——————

Who says "civilian price" and "ceremony" cannot go together? At the InterContinental-owned Holiday Inn, discover exquisite cuisine for less than $100 per person 🍢 Unlock a new way of high-value vacation 💰 Eat a fine meal at the hotel                  —— The "Jing'an Pavilion" on the first floor is an L-shaped restaurant🍴 and a hotel buffet breakfast restaurant. The decoration style is more business-like and minimalist. Choose a window seat for higher comfort                  —— 🍃Crispy-skinned springfish lotus root tuck: lotus root tuck fried crispy, the shape is indeed exquisite, the top multi-seed springfish smell slightly heavy, replace other ingredients taste will be better, lotus root filling is quite full                  —— 🍃Vietnamese Seafood Spring Rolls: No need to order sauce, the ingredients have been seasoned, more like a cold snack, shrimp 🍤crab fillet with refreshing carrots🥕 and cucumber strips, Vietnamese spring roll skin is quite tough, the overall taste is refreshing                  —— 🍃 Curry Bass with Butter Nut Rice: The site will be sprinkled with butter sauce, Hawaiian nuts mixed with rice 🍚 quite crispy, the curry is salty and fresh, the Bass meat is tender, the pan-fried small potatoes 🥔 are very tasty                  —— 🍃Fruit Platter: Five kinds of fruit platter, pineapple🍍 sweet and sour appetizer, 🍉watermelon sweet, grapes🍇 replaced with seasonal litchi or myrtle would be better