Pro

Great people, good metro and bus, pedestrian friendly, sophisticated , bookstores, Boonna Cafe, Xinle Road boutiques, cutting edge fusion restaraunts, a haven for shopping!
Con

Summertime it is incredibly hot and humid!!!
In a nutshell

One of the world's greatest cities.
218 Reviews After dark, take a cruise on the Huangpu River, where you can take in the beautiful sight of Shanghai and Pudong at night. The lights from the tall skyscrapers in Pudong as well as those from the Bund are especially amazing. A romantic experience! There are numerous tour boat companies, offering...
95 Reviews Take an elevator up to the Oriental Pearl Tower to get a fantastic view of Shanghai and Pudong. There are actually three levels (spheres) you can visit -- at heights of 90 m, 263 m, and 350 m. One of the levels has a glass floor, where you can look directly beneath your feet to the street below. A...
73 Reviews Nanjing Road is the connection shopping street between the Bund and the People's Park. If you get off at People's Square metro station, you can visit Shanghai's museum, Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center, and several upper market shopping malls, then walk all the way along East Nanjing Street...
36 Reviews The former french quarter was renovated respecting its old characteristics, and became a trendy (and expensive... it seems) touristy area. It's different, but the contrast with the shiny forms and colours of the old town (if it happens to you moving from one to the other, as we did), becomes...
37 Reviews The Jade Buddha Temple is a Buddhist temple in Shanghai, China. As with most modern Chinese Buddhist temples, the current temple draws from both the Pure Land and Chan traditions of Mahayana Buddhism. It was founded in 1882 with two jade Buddha statues imported to Shanghai from Burma by sea. These...
19 Reviews Zhou Zhang is located 37 miles west of Shanghai in Jiangsu Province. This town is more than 700 years old. The highlight of the visit was a boat tour along the canals. It is well-preserved village in the ancient Chinese style. It is amazing to walk beside the creek and see people still moving about...
10 Reviews and 1547 Opinions I must say, Shanghai is a city that a $350 a night for a hotel room doesn't get you much anymore,...
10 Reviews Cloud 9 is located at the 87th floor of Grand Hyatt Shanghai. It is a great place to enjoy the skycrapers at Pudong area with a seat enjoying the music and the drink. Although the drink is quite expensive, it might still be an option to stay comparing the expensive entrance fee of the other...
18 Reviews you can buy drinks and refreshment and even eat streetfoods or a full meal at the food court. this food court cum street stall is just located across the street facing Oriental TV Tower and my suggestion is that you eat and buy drinks here first before embarking on a jaunt to Oriental TV Tower as...
12 Reviews This larger restaurant branch is fantastic with formal dinning, great service, relaxed, clean, tidy, pleasantly decorated with hardly an empty table. If you get yourslf a private room you will have your own balcony.....ya! The food is very Shanghainese with some great award winning dishes. Crab,...
11 Reviews I have to say this place isn't bad, but it isn't the best in Shanghai like everyone says. The service is OK, the wine list is extensive and expensive, and the menu is a bit short on the selections. So after going to Laris (please read my other travel tip) the night before we were disappointed with...
8 Reviews The interior of the restaurant is good but thats about all that is good. Its well over priced and i was even overcharged for something we did not order so check your bill. You even have to pay for a glass of water. Despite being so expensive no one smiles or makes you feel welcome. No one came and...
Xin Ji Shi / Zin Tian Di Restaurant
4 Reviews The ambiance is perfect, truly Shanghai. Even my Shanghainese friend swears that this is still the best local place to eat, at a great location - Xin Tian Di! The Grandmother's Pork is a must have, it is slowly cooked, very tender, super tasty, and truly a taste of Shanghai. A gastronomic feast! We...
60 Reviews You look at the Bund, with futuristic buildings in one bank of the river, and classical ones in the other, and something looks... odd. I was not very familiar with Chinese architecture but... those buildings... it seems that I saw them somewhere else, but not in China! Russia! Of course! The old...
33 Reviews the view of the ultramodern district of shanghai! Shanghai is home to more than 4,000 buildings, but it is the Huangpu's east-bank development, Pudong, that is the star of the Show in Shanghai. In 1990, this area was still marshy farmland but now in 2009 or 19 years later, Pudong has become a New...
23 Reviews I was impressed by the development and organization of Shanghai. What they show to us today has nothing to do with the generalised idea of China. We had to look at the small narrow roads, to see the old China living, according to the expected standards, but in good harmony with the construction...
12 Reviews The city is so huge, if one has just a few days, the best thing to do is... to go back for more! I liked that we stayed along Nanjing Road. That way, we got to stroll along this long avenue filled with so many interesting things to see. The food, I must say. I loved the steamed dumplings, Xiao Lung...
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Q: I'm going to be flying from Beijing to Shanghai. On my intended date of travel, there are four flights going to Pudong airport,...

A: Although this makes Pudong sounds preferable: http://wikitravel.org/en/Shanghai#By_plane
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Sex and the city... so to speak.

Shanghai is modern China's largest metropolis and one of the greatest cities of the 21st century. Like any great city, it is many things to many people - c.f. its old nicknames "Paris of the East" and...
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Something about Shanghai conjured up this famous existentialist axiom by Jean-Paul Sartre in my mind
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When you think of Shanghai, what would be the first thing that come to mind? The Bund is by far the most famous attraction in Shanghai. The landmark in the city is the rocket look alike Oriental......
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Shanghai - a classic blend of the old and the new

On our plane trip from Guilin to Shanghai, it was my first and only time with a window seat, and I took full advantage of that. I knew Shanghai was a BIG city but I never knew exactly how BIG until we...
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