Everything about this hotel screams "look at me! I...

Everything about this hotel screams "look at me! I'm expensive!" If you like this, then cool. Else, be prepared for staff that are generally helpful but cannot communicate in English.

Service staff at The Social are particularly good at ignoring non-Caucasian guests. The Japanese restaurant on the 2nd floor gets 5 stars for great food and service. The Chinese restaurant is good too. But the service, again.... Sigh.

The room is spacious and the bed is comfortable. Electric sockets on both sides. 2 prong sockets. Nespresso machine in the room. During my stay, all the pods were decaf as they ran out of other types. Double sigh.

Bathroom is spacious, again. Why not? Two sinks and luxurious looking toiletries. However, liquid body soap contains microbeads! Do they still produce stuff with microbeads? I'll go Google.

Talking about Google. Internet... Not the hotel's issue of course. In this hotel, in Shanghai, Google is blocked. WhatsApp is blocked, YouTube is blocked. Yahoo is fine. Haha. Outlook and Bing also. Jeebus.

I'm back in civilisation posting this. Also will be going back to Shanghai in a couple of months.

Send help!