InterContinental Hotels SHANGHAI HARBOUR CITY, an IHG Hotel

Can't turn off the ceiling light.

Everything is perfect. Love the room that’s overlooking the Dishui Lake and the outdoor pool. Early in the morning, feel free to walk around the vicinity and enjoy the scenery and the fresh air.

I have to say my stay at the Crowne Plaza Shanghai Harbor City was subpar. Unfortunately what could have been a great experience was taken away by the low quality and minimal choice of food, bad employee service, nickel-and-diming on hotel services, suspicious vending machines not working forcing you to their high price of drinks (both non alcoholic and alcoholic), bad and smelly A/C. It feels like an old hotel with that dingy smell just handing on by most likely government funding. The architecture is wonderful and the grounds and lake are great. Unfortunately for them there are 100s of other hotels to stay in Shanghai many for the same or better price that are much better than this. It's an hour from the Pudong airport in the opposite direction making this facility around 2 hours away from Shanghai. (FYI you can get to downtown Shanghai in ~7 minutes using their MagLev train from the Pudong airport). My main reason for staying at this facility was for business which was in that area. And there are very few hotels around there. The surrounding area is still being developed so don't expect to find much of anything but a few local restaurants.

Hotel is what you would expect for a four star. Room is a bid dated but clean. Not many guests staying at this hotel mainly due to local area still under heavy development. Designed mainly as a vacation resort. Service needs to be improved. For example, there are many servers in the restaurant (Chinese style), but most of them just stand around. They should take away finished dishes on our table. Also, two of the hotel staff members in their uniform sat down and starting eating next to us. I honestly don't know if this is appropriate. But in all my experiences stay in a hotel (4 star and above), this was the first time. It felt awkward.

Nice hotel, but it is far from shang hai city center.

Great stay for business travel

Overall a really enjoyable stay. It’s a great place to stay if you want to get away for a couple of days as there’s nothing close by.

Great Location. Very close to Airport.

The location is fantastic. Very close to the airport. very convenient if you have a early morning flight out of Shanghai.

The food was terrible, mostly deep frozen and very tasteless. Even worth was the service in the Crown Plaza. Absolutely not recommendable.

Room was very nice . A little far from city but close to metro . Hotel staff was very helpful. Food was a little on expensive side compare to restraunts in Shanghai .

It's a shame that it is managed the way it is as it is such a cool thing right outside the city, but there is a few key decisions that blow my mind, but make a big difference. I live in China, so am used to the quirks of Chinese hotels, but was hoping for a little more being a western chain. 1) The pictures showed all the rooms to have balcony, but over half do not and we came prepared to relax on our balcony and look at the lake - wasn't possible. 2) The pool is lakeside, however, they built shrubbery all around the edge of it, so that when you lay by the pool you have no idea you are near the lake. What is the point of that? 3) We had to pre-order all of our drinks from the hotel lobby and have them deliver it paced out because there was no set waiter taking orders by the pool. 4) We had read other reviews, so we were prepared for this, but the only place to get drinks is the beer garden (in the middle of the hotel- no view of lake) that goes from 6-9 and as soon as 9:00 hits the music and food and beer stops. The manager really tried to accomidate us, but I think this place was a good idea but was executed very poorly.

Overall it is a great hotel! We loved the pool! The great rooms and also the employees had very friendly, although many of them really lack in English. What is a absolute no-go, is what happened at breakfast! We would really have loved our stay, but such an experience can bring a bad taste into the overall stay.

clean room, well trained staff

After living in Shanghai for a while now, I thought this hotel would be a good option for a quick getaway from the city. The hotel is falling apart, no maintenance at all. Poor service and staff speaks little to no english (this is a Crowne Plaza!). Hotel room is just ok. There was a piece of glass on the carpet that got stuck into my foot, I guess they don't vacuum. The pool closes from 12 to 3pm because they have to clean...WHAT?! That's the best time to enjoy a pool. I complained and they told me it was for the guests' safety since the sun is too dangerous, true, but let me make that call... On top of that the staff collects all the pool towels at 12pm because they need to wash them. Again, I complained and the front desk manager told me they did it for the afternoon guests, what a joke! I guess I'm not a paying guest...Food is below average, far from an "International" experience. Bottom line, don't bother booking this hotel, you will be disappointed !

Checkin was efficient, but not very friendly. No conversation was made, and we had to carry our own luggage from the shuttle drop off to the hotel, and then to our rooms *which for a high standard hotel was very, very poor service. The rooms and hotel amenities were amazing. Very clean and spacious. The outdoor pool was shut down when we were there, which was a major bummer as that was half the reason we splurged to stay here. The location of this hotel is very poor. It's far from the city center, and about an hour walk from the metro. Good location if you want to be isolated in a ghost town, with staff that barely know any English and don't respect that you're paying to stay there.

hotel western restaurant service was way too slow for dinner time. taste was nice. anything else are good.

no tours availables

beautiful hotel. Management clueless about running a hotel. However, breakfast was excellent.

Facilities: State of the art; Value: Bargain; Service: Outstanding; Cleanliness: Immaculate;