Shanghai

About a month ago we were able to spend a weekend up in Shanghai - following are a few photos we took and some of the fun that we had. That Saturday Tina and I wandered over to the Shanghai market so that we could buy some good low cost items.

That evening we went up to the Jin Mao Grand Hyatt to have a drink at their Cloud 9 bar. That's the building on the right in the lower picture.
It's not too bad, the wine isn't overly expensive and they provide snacks and water for you whilst you are enjoying the scenery.
That view is across the river over to the Bund - we were there on a fairly clearly night which was quite enjoyable.

The next night we went over to the new Park Hyatt in the new Shanghai World Financial Center (this is the big bottle opener building on the left in the first picture). There we went up to the 100 Century Avenue Bar which is up on the 87th floor, also a great view - although there was some fog that rolled in and slowly took away our view...
Looking from the World Financial Center past the Jin Mao over to the Pearl Television tower. Problem we had with the Park Hyatt is that the same wine is almost twice the cost, they will charge you for any water that you want to drink and there weren't any snacks to make us happy. We did try to argue with that a little but to no avail...

At least by the time we left a nice fog had rolled in which did a good job of framing up the Pearl television tower.
But, of all the issues that we had with the Park Hyatt we did fully enjoy the bathrooms. I had originally read about it over on the She's Electric blog where she talks about how the toilet seat opens up to greet you when you walk into the stall. Below is a photo of the remote for operating the toilet - it's on a little hanger so you can take it down and hold as you make adjustments to the cleansing water....
If they had served drinks in the bathroom one would never want to leave. Well actually, you would need drinks and snacks before it was really worth it....