Our room was comfortable with a view of the city. Lobby area spacious. Breakfast was amazing, so much to choose from. It is located near a subway and taxis are right outside the door. It's part of a sports complex with gym equipment located around the area in a huge parking area. The hotel sent a van to pick us up at the Maglev train station which was helpful. We would stay here again.

Its located in the Shanghai Stadium used during the Olympic Games. So space is in opulance. Nicely done but can be little run down here and there particularly some rooms. The rooms looking out of the stadium is better than the one which looks inside (just a wall or stairs in front of the window). Located in the heart of the Xuhui Business dist is well connected with Bus service and metro. Also a pleasure for IKEA fan being close to the IKEA store. Room service is quick and decently priced. Coffee Shop buffet is huge and good but slow and reluctant waiters. Language is the biggest problem if you don't speak chinese. The operator and other associates in the hotel takes lot of time to understand your requirement because of the language barrier. Good options of restaurant. Nice gymnasium. Spa facility also available but expensive. Most of the rooms particularly the one facing out of the stadium are bigger, nicely furnished and clean. Good internet speed. Lastly a good price.

Very noisy, this hotel is old and not very well maintained. staffs are useless, it's almost 30c outside and there's no air-con. in-room internet is 80RMB for 24 hrs. Location is OK, 5 min walk to subway.

The first thing that strikes one about the Regal Shanghai East Asia is its very unusual location. The second thing that strikes you is that your taxi driver will have no idea where the hotel is and once you've told the driver where it is they'll have no idea how to get there because of the maze of small streets that lead to the entrance. Yes, like the Toronto Skydome, it's a hotel inside of stadium with rooms that look out onto the field. Like many stadiums, the roads aren't designed to drop people off right next to it. This location inside of the stadium has both advantages and disadvantages. The biggest advantage is that it's got two metro stops right by it. Excellent access to public transportation is a big plus for me and made our trip much easier. The disadvantage is that you're in a stadium. It's a little strange.

Check in was pretty quick and easy. It's a little disconcerting having to go through the metal detector to enter the lobby, however. What was even more disconcerting is how often they told us just to walk around the thing. At check in we were offered an upgrade. Great! Well, if the room was an upgrade I'd hate to see what a normal room was. Not only was the room much smaller than the size of the room I had booked and quite dirty, but rather than one king size bed it had two beds that were marginally larger than a twin. I asked down at the front desk about this and they said that they didn't have any king size rooms left -- so really what I got wasn't an upgrade at all. Furthermore, the windows to the outside world didn't seal tight, this had the double problem of letting in those nasty little biting gnats that are endemic to Shanghai and also made it so we could hear the music of people doing their 6am exercises in the public square outside the window.

However, we could have done worse. Aside from the issue with the room, the staff was great and was able to get us taxis when we needed them and provided directions for the best way to take the metro to our locations. It was also a decent price at an expensive time to visit Shanghai (near the end of the World Expo).

In short, it's not that I'd say "don't stay at this hotel", more like "well, here's a lower bar for your expectations. If you don't want to gamble or pay a lot, it's not a bad place to stay."