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Many hotels offer lavish spa treatments
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The pace of development remains unrelenting. High-profile architects and wealthy deve-
lopers are teaming up to reconstruct the Pudong and Puxi landscapes with glassy 'mixed
use' skytowers, comprising hotels, retail and office space. At the same time, heritage proper-
ties along the Bund and in the former French Concession are being converted into more at-
mospheric, period-infused boutique hotels, while cutting-edge contemporary interiors define
a growing band of small design-led hotels.
None of these come cheap, of course. Shanghai is an expensive place to bed down and
demand for accommodation still outstrips supply, so book early. Visitors on a lower budget
need not fear, however. Shanghai also boasts Asia's fastest growing budget hotel portfolio,
most of which are well located and can be booked online.
In general, the quality of accommodation in Shanghai is very impressive. Most of these
hotels have opened in the last decade and come equipped with latest technology and com-
petitive guest perks. Large flat-screen TVs, iPod docks, sweet-smelling bath products and
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