I’m heading to Shanghai next week for work and a few off us are staying on for the weekend. Anyone have any tips of places to eat, good bars/night life, places to make clothes, places to visit. We’re not going to join any tours and happy to jump on trains and buses to get around too. Thanks in advance.
Shanghai for The Weekend, Any Tips?
Zippy135 on 13/10/2018 - 11:54
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dont breathe the air
not part of the experience?
i don't miss that feeling of someone pushing down on my chest as i'm trying to breathe.
Get your drink/feed on in the French Concession, Jing'an or Xintiandi areas. Plenty of good bars and restaurants in those areas to suit most tastes and budgets. If you want to live it up a bit, there's a few places down at the Bund that are worth your time.
For clothes, the normal Western shops, mixed in with local offerings are around the Nanjing Xi Lu area, especially in the blocks surrounding the intersection with Shaanxi Lu. If you want to get stuff made, head down to the fabric markets ("South Bund Fabric Market"), although if you are literally just there for the weekend it might be too tight. You can pick up "original copy" clothes and other items at the fake markets. You'll need to look up where these are these days as the one I used to go as been shut down.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_marriage_market
My son and I were perplexed for a while about what it was when we wandered through. At first the sad looking parents and bits of the descriptions I could read in English I thought they were for missing people! Female 167cm 50kg dob 1996 etc.
Might have to check it out just for the experience 😃
Asking for a friend.
Just accept an offer from one of the 4 thousand pimps handing out flyers.
Seriously though the only thing I regret is not catching the world's fastest train from the airport to the city.
Go on a river cruise / ferry at night
Definately go up the Shanghai tower
Stroll the bund
Go to 50 Mogashan Rd art district
Go to a Xiaomi store
In Shanghai now, ooh great idea to check out the xiaomi store! Thanks
Places organised from what I'd visit first:
Xintiandi for fancy foods and luxury shopping as well as European architecture (very Instagram worthy).
The Bund and Nanjing road for touristy shopping (like pitt street and George street in Sydney, but 10x better) and for river views.
Lujiazui for the financial district, very clean and nice riverside walk to haagen dazs.
The Captain Bar for classy speakeasy rooftop bar vibes on the riverside.