[2025 Shanghai Stay] Travel Guide for Home Inn Plus (Shanghai Xintiandi Lujiabang Road Metro Station) (Updated May)

Day 1 Morning: Depart from Bangkok to Shanghai ✈️🇨🇳 📍Address: Check in at Home Inn Plus (Shanghai Xintiandi Lujiabang) Evening: Visit the 400-year-old Yiyuan Garden, have dinner ✨ Day 2 Morning: Visit the Shanghai Natural History Museum 🦕 Afternoon: Visit Starbucks Reserve Roastery ☕️ Evening: Shanghai City Bus Sightseeing, take a bus to see Shanghai at night 🚌 Day 3 Morning: Visit the Shanghai Astronomical Museum, the largest in the world 🪐 Afternoon: Enjoy the view of the Western-style architectural buildings The Bund and Waidan Beach 🌃 Evening: Visit Nanjing Road, go shopping, and have dinner 🛍️ Day 4 Morning: Visit the Shanghai Ocean Aquarium 🐠 Afternoon: Visit the Thousand Trees Building 🌳 Evening: Enjoy the view from the 118th floor of the Shanghai Tower 🏙️ Day 5 Morning: Visit the North Bund Green Land Park 🏞️ Line: Visit the Shanghai Automobile Museum 🚗 Afternoon: Visit the Union Church, a European-style architecture ⛪️ Evening: Visit the Xintiandi area and have dinner 🍔 Day 6 Visit Shanghai Disneyland all day 🎡 Day 7 Travel back to Thailand ✈️🇹🇭 #TravelChina #PlanTravelChina #PlanTravelHoliday

🌸Air tickets 1. Prepare a passport with more than 6 months of expiration date. No visa required. 2. Book a flight ticket through the airline or via the Trip.com app, which has many airlines such as Spring Airlines, Thai AirAsia X, China Eastern Airlines, Shanghai Airlines, Thai Vietjet Air, Air China, Thai Airways, Bangkok Airways. All airlines have direct flights, approximately 4-5 hours, ticket prices are approximately 10,000 - 15,000 baht. 🌸Accommodation 📍Address: Home Inn Plus Hotel (Shanghai Xintiandi Lujiabang Road Metro Station) 🏖️Environment/Facilities: Breakfast is provided for 1 person. Buy an additional 48 yuan or 225 baht per person. Buffet style. Stay 2-3 people per room. There are both double beds and 2 single beds. 💰Average price per person: Approximately 1,800 baht per night. Use the same power plugs as in Thailand. 🗓️Travel planning: How to get to the accommodation Metro: Madang Road (280m) or Metro: Lujiabang Road (450m) 💞Recommended reasons: Good location, near Xintiandi, near 2 subway stations, easy to find food, inexpensive, quite high reviews 🌸Spending money 1. Through the Alipay app, you have to top up the app, you can exchange from the RMB exchange group, link a credit card, or transfer from True Money to Alipay 💞Recommended reasons: You can use the money in the app to spend on many things, such as calling a taxi, buying things, paying for public transportation, both buses and trains, ordering food delivery, easy to spend at every store 2. Use a credit card or Travel Card 💞Recommended reasons: Convenient, no need to exchange RMB 3. Through the True Money app 💞Recommended reasons: No need to exchange RMB, can be linked to a Thai bank or credit card, and can be used in China 4. Through the Wechat Pay app, you have to top up or link a credit card as well. 💞Recommended reasons: Convenient, widely used in China, can be used at every store 🌸Internet 1. Buy a SIM card from Thailand or open roaming from Thailand by yourself. You must prepare enough internet for use. 💞Reason for recommendation: You can play all apps without using VPN. Convenient to use 2. Buy a SIM card in China, but you may not be able to play foreign applications, such as Tiktok, Instagram. 💞Reason for recommendation: It is cheaper than opening roaming from Thailand. 3. Use WiFi at your accommodation in China. You will not be able to play foreign apps. If you want to use it, you must open VPN. 💞Reason for recommendation: You can use the service for free when asking for a password from your accommodation or a restaurant with Wi-Fi. 🌸Food Shanghai's famous food, such as crab noodles, steamed buns, xiao long bao, barbecue restaurants, hot pot restaurants, bakeries such as Butterful & Creamorous, famous milk tea brands such as Hey tea, Naixue, etc. The cost of a meal is approximately 500-1,000 baht. 🌸Dress code 1. Spring, from April to June, the average temperature is 15-20 degrees Celsius. There may be rain on some days. 2. Prepare long-sleeved shirts that are not too thick. And long pants Such as sweaters, sweaters 🌸Travel 1. Take the subway and bus by paying the fare via the Alipay app, 2-5 yuan per trip. From the airport to the city, take the Maglev for only 8 minutes. 💞Reason for recommendation: The subway is relatively cheap. 2. Use the map app on the iPhone, such as Apple Map, Baidu Map (百度地图), Tencent Map (腾讯地图) 💞Reason for recommendation: More accurate than using Google Maps. 3. Call a taxi via an app, such as Didi. 💞Reason for recommendation: Convenient for picking up and dropping off at places that are not near the subway station or bus stop. 🌸Essential applications 1. Alipay and True Money 💞Reason for recommendation: Used for shopping, spending in daily life. 2. Google Translate app 💞Reason for recommendation: Helps with language translation, used to communicate with Chinese people. Use to translate signs 3. Apple Map or Baidu Map (百度地图) 💞Recommended reason: Use to open the navigation map 4. Shanghai Disneyland app 💞Recommended reason: Use to open the map in Shanghai Disneyland and use to check the queue for various books 5. Wechat app 💞Recommended reason: Use to communicate with Chinese people like the LINE app in Thailand. Use to pay for shopping #Traveling to China #Prepare to travel to China

Home Inn Plus (Shanghai Xintiandi Lujiabang Rd.) Overall, the hotel is good, clean, and the MRT is not too far. If visiting during mild weather, you can enjoy a leisurely walk for about two traffic lights. You can also call a Didi to various check-in spots, costing around 12-20 yuan from the hotel. Pros: 1. The rooms are clean and spacious, with complete amenities. Additional items can be requested anytime. Housekeeping cleans daily, and there’s no cigarette smell in the rooms. However, you might encounter strong cigarette odors in the elevator if other guests are smoking. 2. There’s a fitness center and free laundry facilities on the 5th floor, including detergent. This is a great perk. 3. Free tea and coffee are available at the lobby, and self-check-in is possible. However, there’s always staff at the front desk. Cons: 1. The hotel is slightly far from popular tourist check-in spots, requiring either a car or several MRT stations to reach. However, transportation costs are affordable.

📍Address: Home Inn Plus (Shanghai Xintiandi Lujiabang Road Metro Station) 🚊 Transportation: Take the pink line 13 to Madang Road Station (马当路站), Exit 1, and walk for about 700 meters. The dark blue line 8 to Lujiabang Road Station (陆家浜路站), Exit 7, and walk for about 460 meters. 💰Average price per person: About 1,800-2,000 baht per night. There are many types of rooms to choose from, including a double bed, a twin bed, or a family room with 1 double bed and 1 small bed. You can choose. 🏖️Environment/Facilities: The atmosphere around the hotel is quite peaceful and safe. There are not many restaurants, but there are enough to choose from. It is about 700 meters from Luone Mall. You can walk to choose from many different foods. There is a small fitness center with washing machines. It is a hotel with only 4 floors and is not very high, but there are quite a few rooms. Breakfast is served downstairs. There is a small lobby to sit 💞Reason for recommendation: It is close to many tourist attractions, convenient to travel, almost no need to change train lines, near Yuyaun Garden Market, near Huaihai Road and Xintiandi areas, the price is not too expensive. There are many trees in front of the hotel, suitable for those who do not like to stay in a busy area. Inside, there are complete facilities, including hair dryers, toothbrushes, water and coffee services in the lobby, washing machines, fitness centers. It is worth the price paid. What I like the most is that I almost did not smell cigarette smoke in the room. There are security guards and staff at the lobby taking care of it 24 hours a day. On the right hand side is a restaurant, on the left hand side is a small supermarket, a coffee shop and a noodle shop. 💯Review score: 9/10, deducting 1 point for the room that is not very soundproof and is in an area where there are not many restaurants to choose from. But the overall atmosphere of the hotel is good. Lost my key card once and got a new one for free, no adjustment. 🥰 The reason I chose this place is because the review score and reviews on the Trip app are quite good and higher than other places. I really didn't regret choosing it. ✅ Summary of advantages: There is breakfast, convenient travel, clean, not expensive, complete facilities, new room 🏨 Booking: We booked on the Trip.com app, very convenient. When we arrived, we could check in just by showing our passports. There was 1 staff who could speak English, but many others tried their best to help. #HotelReview

Home Inn Selection is really the first choice for business travel accommodation 🧳! ! This time I tried to sleep in the Home Inn Select Hotel (Shanghai Xintiandi Lujiabang Subway Station), which is the No.1 hotel for both experience and comfort⃣️ The overall environment is a high-end British style decoration design, the warm yellow lighting and metal lamps give it a unique feel✨ There is a coffee bar on the side of the hall. The classic British style with marble coffee table has an elegant and luxurious flavor. You can experience quality coffee for free and enjoy a quiet and beautiful life🥰 The room is clean and comfortable, spotless🥰 It uses a soft 0-pressure mattress and pillow, which fits perfectly when lying down, and really allows you to sleep peacefully😴 The design of separating wet and dry areas for washing and brushing teeth is very perfect, and the toilet inside is automatically heated, showing its high-end quality. This home-style hotel also integrates technology into its services. You don’t have to go downstairs if you need anything or order takeout, the smart robot 🤖️ can deliver it to your door. There is an exclusive laundry room on the fifth floor, which is really convenient🦷 The most surprising thing is that there is also a gym, so fitness enthusiasts don’t have to worry about interrupting their fitness plans during business trips. The breakfast is also very rich, with more choices of Chinese and Western breakfast🥣 Transportation🚇: Turn left and walk 200m to Madang Road Station of Line 9⃣️, turn right and walk 400m to Lujiabang Station of Line 9⃣️. It only takes more than 10 minutes to get from the hotel to the Bund and other central areas‼ ️ There are also FamilyMart, Century Lianhua Supermarket and other shopping places nearby, which is really very convenient. Home Inn Select gave me so many surprises during this trip. It was really a comfortable and wonderful experience! 💕