Our house in Shanghai

The Astor House Hotel, originally uploaded by sazztastical.

I guess I should have posted this sooner but this is inside the hotel we were staying in while we were in Shanghai. The Astor House Hotel is described in all the travel books as "a backpackers paradise" but I'm not sure where they get that from - it's not overly expensive but it's not the £2 a night that you pay in a hostel over here either.

The best way to describe this hotel is like a really old lady who was once the queen of the scene :) It's been patched up and painted over in more places than I could count but the basis is all there and you can see what a wonderful hotel it once was - and still is.

We're now thinking of changing our booking for the end of the holiday. The hotel we're booked into is three times the cost of this one and in a really crappy area. Not by Chinese standards, but by ours. And we both really loved the Astor House Hotel. I'm thinking we're going to go online and change our booking :)

Oh did I mention the porters all wear kilts? No idea why and they are like no kilts I've ever seen before - they come down almost to their ankles :) I'll get a photo when we go back and you shall see what I mean.