- I requested a smoking room, but they put us on the Smoking floor, and I am extra sensitive to smoke. I ended up having a nose allergy here while staying. We didn't that I know that hotel in China people can actually smoke here so I didnt make a complain for my 2 nights stay here. On last night I clarify late at night about the smoking with the staff, they mentioned that they put us in a smoking floor and ask if “you dont smoke at all?” And do offer the room change but we were too tired to pack and move for less than 8 hrs until we check out. - Bed on the 8th floor is extremely soft that you would sink in the bed. The spring came out from the side of the bed. Too disappointing for such a good brand as Kempenski. This is the worst Kempenski so far I stayed. Warning, coming to the pool here you need a swimming cap as a regulation from the goverment. They should put this is the website or inform guests to prepare. We didn't have ours an ridiculously need to buy for another 80rmb. - check in was smooth but the staff should inform us that the floor in smoking floor we specifically request for non smoking in the booking. - cleaning lady was so nice that she come to our room to spray for the smoking odor so many times.

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I stayed at Kempinski Shanghai in October 2023 and had also previously stayed in Kempinski Xiamen. My recent stay was a disappointment. I booked 3 rooms; 2 King bed and 1 Twin for 1 pax (Guest, Kho Chuan Seng). My room was on a non smoking floor but the instant I opened my room door, smelled of cigarette smoke and there was an ashtray on the table next to a no-smoking sign!!!

The hotel was really hot and there was no way for it to cool down.

ordered room service food several times. food is ymmy.

This hotel is beautiful, but has a service environment I can best describe as hostile. Rules are plentiful and enforced with vigour. Much of this, I should say, relates to travelling with children. We booked an executive floor room. Only after arrival did we learn that children are not allowed in the executive lounge free of charge (unlike any other executive/club hotel we have ever stayed). At the swimming pool, the only motion allowed is in a single direction. Swimming across the pool is forbidden and will result in verbal redress from staff. The idea of children playing and enjoying the water is foreign here. After raising some of these issues with the hotel, they did offer some accommodations - allowing our kids in the lounge for an extra night, for example. But the general hotel environment was unwelcoming, and this seemed to be institutional, not at all a question of individual staff.

This hotel is beautiful, but has a service environment I can best describe as hostile. Rules are plentiful and enforced with vigour. Much of this, I should say, relates to travelling with children. We booked an executive floor room. Only after arrival did we learn that children are not allowed in the executive lounge free of charge (unlike any other executive/club hotel we have ever stayed). At the swimming pool, the only motion allowed is in a single direction. Swimming across the pool is forbidden and will result in verbal redress from staff. The idea of children playing and enjoying the water is foreign here. After raising some of these issues with the hotel, they did offer some accommodations - allowing our kids in the lounge for an extra night, for example. But the general hotel environment was unwelcoming, and this seemed to be institutional, not at all a question of individual staff.

Check in and concierge service were really good, but service at breakfast and lounge bar was mediocre and disappointing for a 5 star hotel. When it gets busy, breakfast staff get really flustered with little organisation of which tables have been allocated, then tables are cleared whilst you queue at the different stations getting your food. The cocktails at the lobby bar are also not really recommended - they didn't seem to know how to make the basic cocktails. Overall a hotel that has a good reputation but the service does not quite live up to it.