The Longest Hotel Stay Ever

(Another backdated post)

We stayed a total of 26D25N in two hotels in Shanghai upon our arrival on 1/1/2013. Initially, mummy and I were supposed to move here in February, after daddy has settled the house-hunting and school-hunting for us. This plan did not work out because that would put all the “hunting burdens” on daddy alone. Since he was given a 30-day free hotel accommodation, we finally decided that it was best to fly together, stay together and do all the necessary hunting together.

For the first 3 days, we stayed at the Renaissance Shanghai Yang Tze Hotel. This was a very nice hotel but the room was too small for the 3 of us and our 5 luggage. The room did not come with any cupboard/wardrobe or proper storage space for our stuff (imagine all 5 of our bags scattered all over the floor!), plus they refused to include daily breakfast for mummy and I despite the fact that we were staying “long term”. Hmmph!

Nice room with comfortable beds but very little space to move around :(

Lighted polar bears at the hotel lobby

The buffet breakfast here was yummy but it was not included in the room rates (daddy paid first and later claimed back from his company hehe)

On the 4th day however, daddy received good news from the HR of his company… we got upgraded to a better hotel! Within that very morning, daddy and his colleague came to move us to the Shanghai Longemont Hotel. We were given a very spacious and comfortable Studio Room (60sqm), which came with a large and luxurious bathroom…

Finally, a big and spacious room with a huge wardrobe and plenty of compartments to put our things

Very happy to have this as our home for the next 22 days :)

Part of the big and luxurious bathroom

The cylindrical shower screen

My favourite was the bath tub... I enjoyed a few sessions of bubble bath, of course

Not only did this hotel offer us a bigger room, they also generously included daily buffet breakfast for all 3 of us at no additional charges plus complimentary laundry services (2 pcs) daily. Yay! Needless to say, the next 22 days spent here was one of our best hotel stays ever! We should have just stayed on until Day 30 haha! (This was not feasible because Day 30 was a weekday and it would be too difficult for mummy to move so many things to our new home all on her own).

Our buffet breakfast vouchers for 20+ days.

Mummy and I had a slow and enjoyable breakfast in this restaurant every morning. Daddy always ate alone at an earlier time as he had to leave for work at 7am+

I ate mainly all the healthy stuff everyday... colourful veggies and fruits were a must on top of the other usual fare like bread, pancakes, eggs, noodles, porridge, yoghurt, milk, cereal, fruit juice etc.

Another happy breakfast shot... Breakfast was definitely our favourite time of the day!

After breakfast, we would return to the room to "hibernate" because it was too cold to go out (winter). I always did some Maths and BM homework first before I was allowed to do anything else for the rest of the day. I spent most of my time watching tv and DVDs, reading and playing on my own.

There was an indoor heated pool in the hotel but mummy felt that the room temperature was a bit too cold for me to swim here... I could only view from afar...

Christmas decorations in the lobby when we checked in...

When we checked out... CNY decor already :)