This airport is real oppressive. As soon as you ge...

This airport is real oppressive. As soon as you get in you see how dirty it is. Signs everywhere saying "No pictures" "quiet. No talking" If your not from singapore or germany and you plan on staying more than one night at a hotel they want you to pay hundreds of dollars for a visa. If you overstay your one nighter, they remind you of the $5000 fine. Don't fall for the sharks who try to hook you up with a taxi. After a few minutes of the two eployees arguing with each other, the driver agreed to load our bags into the trunk. Our taxi was 500 yuan. Which was $100! The hotel was 15 to 20 minutes away from the airport and our driver was lost. He had no clue, taking us in circles and checking his phone GPS for almost two hours! UGH! Never again will I pass through China. Avoid Shanghai airlines. They use older Boeing 737 jets and their flights are packed like a can or sardines with dangerously overloaded carry on luggage compartments. Their planes are not properly pressured when in flight and your ears will be paying for it. Be careful not to get caught with your phone on while flying on china/shanghai airlines. AIRPLANE MODE is not allowed and if they see the screen on the flight crew will point at you and tell how that violates chinese law! Taiwan and Japan were excellent. China sucks!!! The security leaving China was just as bad as entering. Be ready to show your passport and boarding pass and have your bags x-rayed several times before they let you leave. For some reason they dont like it when you leave your umbrella in your carry on bag before it gets scanned. They damaged my zipper when they opened up my bag. A guy in front of me was scolded by security because he didnt have a departure card properly filled out. When it was my turn i wanted to push that red blinking smiley face with the frown to indicate that the procedure took too long and that I wasn't happy with the service. But there was a fear that it might signal a response team to question me in a back room somewhere. I just wanted to leave asap. The Wi-Fi here does not work and the airport staff are some of the unfriendliest people that i have ever encountered. Some of the passengers gave the finger to pudong as we were taking off. NEVER AGAIN