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Reviews of Magnificent International Hotel

3 out of 5
Magnificent International Hotel
381 Xizang South Road, Shanghai, Shanghai

Reviews

6.2
Rating 10 - Excellent. 42 out of 361 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 97 out of 361 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 115 out of 361 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 63 out of 361 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 44 out of 361 reviews" "

6.0/10

Cleanliness

6.0/10

Staff & service

7.2/10

Amenities

5.6/10

Property conditions & facilities

8.4/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

Xiaolin

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Location is good. The room is clean. Washroom is a kind of old.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024
Response from Hotel on 4 May 2024
Dear guests, thank you for your support and give the hotel good praise. We are very happy that the comfortable bed in the hotel can satisfy you! We will continue to strive to provide better quality and thoughtful service. Waiting for your coming again.Thanks!

10/10 Excellent

Grant

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
For the price it was excellent
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2024
Response from hotel on 5 Apr 2024
Dear guests, thank you for your support and give the hotel good praise. We are very happy that the comfortable bed in the hotel can satisfy you! We will continue to strive to provide better quality and thoughtful service. Waiting for your coming again.Thanks!

10/10 Excellent

Natalia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great hotel, overall. Amazing location, friendly staff, very clean, good breakfast. My room had an amazing view of the Shanghai Tower :)
Stayed 5 nights in Mar 2024
Response from hotel on 4 Apr 2024
Dear guests, thank you for your support and give the hotel good praise. We are very happy that the comfortable bed in the hotel can satisfy you! We will continue to strive to provide better quality and thoughtful service. Waiting for your coming again.Thanks!

10/10 Excellent

Micolle

Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024
Response from Hotel on 22 Apr 2024
Dear guests, thank you for your support and give the hotel good praise. We are very happy that the comfortable bed in the hotel can satisfy you! We will continue to strive to provide better quality and thoughtful service. Waiting for your coming again.Thanks!

4/10 Poor

Luoding

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Nice lobby and entrance though the many stairs are not friendly to my elderly parents. The building hardware has some issues: hot water is brown -- it is visible when collected in the tub. Windows can't be closed completely to shut out the noise from around the building -- seems there is construction 24/7 there when I was there. The booking price shows all inclusive with tax and fees but the actual charge more in the name of tax and fees.
Stayed 11 nights in Mar 2024
Response from hotel on 27 Mar 2024
We regret that your stay did not meet your expectations and would like to extend our sincerest apologies. It is because of guests like you who give us suggestions that we become better and better. Look forward to you to verify the effect of our rectification, and wish you a happy life

10/10 Excellent

Douglas

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Nice
Stayed 13 nights in Feb 2024
Response from hotel on 21 Mar 2024
Dear guests, thank you for your support and give the hotel good praise. We are very happy that the comfortable bed in the hotel can satisfy you! We will continue to strive to provide better quality and thoughtful service. Waiting for your coming again.Thanks!

10/10 Excellent

HONGQUAN

Liked: Amenities
Worthy for money
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024
Response from hotel on 9 Mar 2024
Dear guests, thank you for your support and give the hotel good praise. We are very happy that the comfortable bed in the hotel can satisfy you! We will continue to strive to provide better quality and thoughtful service. Waiting for your coming again.Thanks!

8/10 Good

Francis

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Hotel is good and clean. Nice staff , speaks a bit of English. Walkable and very accessible to Laoximen Metro Train station. A lot of nearby attractions .
Stayed 4 nights in Jan 2024
Response from hotel on 8 Feb 2024
Dear guests, thank you for your support and give the hotel good praise. We are very happy that the comfortable bed in the hotel can satisfy you! We will continue to strive to provide better quality and thoughtful service. Waiting for your coming again.Thanks!

8/10 Good

PIERRE

Stayed 10 nights in Dec 2023
Response from hotel on 28 Dec 2023
Dear guests, thank you for your support and give the hotel good praise. We are very happy that the comfortable bed in the hotel can satisfy you! We will continue to strive to provide better quality and thoughtful service. Waiting for your coming again.Thanks!

8/10 Good

Bee Yian

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Construction sites opposite the hotel.
Stayed 6 nights in Nov 2023
Response from hotel on 28 Dec 2023
We regret that your stay did not meet your expectations and would like to extend our sincerest apologies. It is because of guests like you who give us suggestions that we become better and better., and wish you a happy life

6/10 Okay

Qing, Richmond

Liked: Cleanliness, amenities
Location is very good.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2023
Response from hotel on 28 Dec 2023
Thank you for your stay and praise, we will try to do better! Look forward to your visit again, wish you a happy life

10/10 Excellent

Jamie

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
My stay here is amazing! The staffs are very nice. The place recently renovated. The rooms are clean. Well done to the housekeepers for keeping the 12th floor rooms clean! Location wise is perfect. Will stay again.
Stayed 4 nights in Nov 2023
Response from Rose on 9 Nov 2023
Dear guests, thank you for your support and give the hotel full praise. We are very happy that the comfortable bed in the hotel can satisfy you! We will continue to strive to provide better quality and thoughtful service. Waiting for your coming again.Thanks!

6/10 Okay

shangguan

Stayed 1 night in Oct 2023
Response from Rose on 13 Nov 2023
Dear guests, thank you for your support and give the hotel full praise. We are very happy that the comfortable bed in the hotel can satisfy you! We will continue to strive to provide better quality and thoughtful service. Waiting for your coming again.Thanks!

10/10 Excellent

Benedict

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Best hotel for the price in central Shanghai
Perfectly good hotel in central Shanghai. Very good price for the location and offers large rooms. The hotel itself is old and a somewhat shabby but clean and pleasant. The staff are extremely friendly and helpful. They don’t speak much English but this is China and one wouldn’t expect them too. Overall a great option to stay when in Shanghai and I stay here regularly without any issues.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2021
Response from Sales on 18 Jan 2021
尊敬的宾客，非常感谢您对我们酒店的好评，我们会再接再厉不辜负您的好评。再次感谢您对酒店的肯定，期待再次光临，祝旅途愉快！

10/10 Excellent

kin kwong

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2019

8/10 Good

Tourist, SG

Travelled with family and small children
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Easy access to MRT and near tourist spot. Furniture a bit old. Construction nearby the hotel seem to work 24 hrs including weekend.
Stayed 4 nights in Dec 2019
Response from Sales on 19 Dec 2019
尊敬的宾客，非常感谢您对我们酒店的好评，我们会再接再厉不辜负您的好评。再次感谢您对酒店的肯定，期待再次光临，祝旅途愉快！

8/10 Good

Rahul

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2019
Response from Sales on 6 Dec 2019
尊敬的宾客，非常感谢您对我们酒店的好评，我们会再接再厉不辜负您的好评。再次感谢您对酒店的肯定，期待再次光临，祝旅途愉快！

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Stayed 4 nights in Nov 2019
Response from Sales on 24 Nov 2019
尊敬的宾客，感谢您对酒店的点评！对于您在酒店入住期间的经历，我们深表遗憾。您的宝贵意见对我们非常重要，我们会将意见告知相关部门以提高服务质量。若您下次至此，希望能再次预订本酒店，给我们一个机会致歉。期待再次光临！

2/10 Terrible

Vaideesh

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019
Response from Sales on 21 Nov 2019
尊敬的宾客，感谢您对酒店的点评！对于您在酒店入住期间的经历，我们深表遗憾。您的宝贵意见对我们非常重要，我们会将意见告知相关部门以提高服务质量。若您下次至此，希望能再次预订本酒店，给我们一个机会致歉。期待再次光临！

8/10 Good

Susan, Iran

Business traveller, Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness
Disliked: Staff & service
I booked a room for 5 nights at this hotel. When we arrived at the hotel we were told that the reservation was canceled via the site and we could not give you room. After 30 minutes we were finally able to book a room. The hotel building was old. Our room was on the 14th floor and we had trouble using the elevator because it was too old. The hotel staff were not friendly.the Safe was broken. Breakfast could not be eaten. But the room was very comfortable and large and clean. The view of the room was very beautiful. The city is spectacular.The hotel location is good. about 20 minutes away from the People square and 5 minutes away from Laoximen metro station (line 8).
Stayed 5 nights in Sep 2019
Response from Sales on 2 Oct 2019
尊敬的顾客您好！谢谢您的宝贵意见！我们一定检讨自己做的不足的地方并积极改正。尽量达到您的满意，欢迎监督！谢谢！

4/10 Poor

Shangrila888

Business traveller
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Construction noise spoils the good view and location
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2019
Response from Sales on 2 Oct 2019
尊敬的顾客您好！谢谢您的宝贵意见！我们一定检讨自己做的不足的地方并积极改正。尽量达到您的满意，欢迎监督！谢谢！

8/10 Good

Cynthia

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
everything is great
nice location and easy to locate.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2019
Response from Sales on 19 Sept 2019
尊敬的顾客您好！谢谢您的宝贵意见！我们一定检讨自己做的不足的地方并积极改正。尽量达到您的满意，欢迎监督！谢谢！

8/10 Good

SoyomboG, Ulaanbaatar

Travelled with family, Travelled with family and small children, Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
little bit far away from city center. but close enough. hotel is clean and staff are friendly.
Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2019
Response from Sales on 30 Jun 2019
尊敬的宾客您好！非常感谢您选择入住我们酒店并对我们酒店做出评价，有您的鼓励我们会做的更好，期待您的下次光临！

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Great location and friendly staff. Breakfast is very good. Amenities need to be refurbished. It’s an older hotel. Would rate this hotel a 3.5 star hotel at best.
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2019
Response from Sales on 28 Jun 2019
尊敬的顾客您好！谢谢您的宝贵意见！我们一定检讨自己做的不足的地方并积极改正。尽量达到您的满意，欢迎监督！谢谢！

4/10 Poor

Matthew

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Adequate hotle would be an exaggeration
This place was terrible, seriously, it is so bad thinking about it 3 days after I checked out still makes me cringe, I'm so glad it's over. The most unfriendly staff you'll ever come across. Out of the roughly 30 times I walked in and out I was greeted once, I tried making a call back home on my room phone, followed the instructions to the letter, couldn't get through, asked receptionist, shrugged her shoulders, not her problem. No WiFi, told the receptionist, shrugged her shoulders, not her problem. Free breakfast? No thanks, I'd rather starve. Seriously I'm a frequent traveller, I've stayed in over 200 hotels in the last 5 years and this wins hands down worst hotel I've ever stayed at award. Do yourself a favour and find somewhere else. I wouldn't stay here again if they paid me.
Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2019
Response from Sales on 25 Jun 2019
尊敬的顾客您好！谢谢您的宝贵意见！我们一定检讨自己做的不足的地方并积极改正。尽量达到您的满意，欢迎监督！谢谢！

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities
Close to city centre, nearby railway station, it was an old property but very clean.
Stayed 5 nights in May 2019
Response from Sales on 23 Jun 2019
尊敬的顾客您好！谢谢您的宝贵意见！我们一定检讨自己做的不足的地方并积极改正。尽量达到您的满意，欢迎监督！谢谢！

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Dirty and old hotel. One of the guest in next room smoke .
Stayed 4 nights in May 2019
Response from Sales on 23 Jun 2019
尊敬的顾客您好！谢谢您的宝贵意见！我们一定检讨自己做的不足的地方并积极改正。尽量达到您的满意，欢迎监督！谢谢！

4/10 Poor

Johnsen

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Unpleasant stay
Bad experience, the receptionist that is wearing spectacle should not be a receptionist! Rude and cold. Luckily the security guy have a pleasant personality and was very helpful. Room is dirty, bed is extremely hard, my wife is getting lice on her hair, yucckk!! Breakfast could be better. The only savior of this hotel is its location and the nice security guard.
Stayed 2 nights in May 2019
Response from Sales on 23 Jun 2019
尊敬的顾客您好！谢谢您的宝贵意见！我们一定检讨自己做的不足的地方并积极改正。尽量达到您的满意，欢迎监督！谢谢！

8/10 Good

SMc

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very nice hotel, comfortable, located in a nice normal and very Chinese area. I really appreciated the included breakfast buffet which I managed to take advantage of twice. There is an interesting little place to go look through right nextdoor, a Pet and Flower market. Only a few minor criticisms - the air-con was not working well in our room, the facade on the wall behind the beds blocked two draws in the wardrobe from opening. The first should be an easy fix but I understand the latter is not. Complaints from other reviews mentioned smelling a lot of tobacco smoke even on the non-smoking floor, but we had not problems with that. Other complaints accused the hotel of not being clean, we found it exemplary in cleanliness. We rented a simple 3-star room and got a very nice room with good service.
Stayed 9 nights in Apr 2019
Response from Sales on 23 Jun 2019
尊敬的顾客您好！谢谢您的宝贵意见！我们一定检讨自己做的不足的地方并积极改正。尽量达到您的满意，欢迎监督！谢谢！

6/10 Okay

Kierra

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
Central location
Room was ok, breakfast underwhelming, the room was comfortable but the bathroom could use some work. Near tourists spots and an easy didi ride to the club areas.
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2019

6/10 Okay

Melissa

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Room comfort
It was decent and a close walk to things. No heat, just a space heater. Maybe that’s how it is in China?
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2019

6/10 Okay

GORDON KEE KEONG

Liked: Cleanliness
Local Chinese Hotel
Every local Chinese hotel. Not much of service. Location was not too bad, a little walk from the metro and mall. And food places around it.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
This prooerty closed to the train station, and wakkable to many attractions area.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2019

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Stayed 1 night in Feb 2019

6/10 Okay

Jatin

Liked: Cleanliness
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2019

4/10 Poor

Taslima

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Essentially a motel
The pictures look a lot better than the actual hotel
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2018

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Travelled with group
Disliked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
How regrettable that this well-situated, imposing property offers so little to the international traveler. For starters, hardly anybody among the staff speaks much English. And, as other guests have noted, what one finds in the rooms and dining area, for instance, does not match the pictures (boiled eggs only for breakfast every single day!! what bellboy?). Front desk staff is generally rude and inefficient, rooms not well-cleaned, and the hotel as a whole appears not to have been remodeled in decades. What a shame as, if well cared for and services improved, this could be a very nice mid-range hotel.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2018

8/10 Good

Kevin

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2018

10/10 Excellent

Matthew

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great piece of history in great location.
Awesome location right in the heart of down town with easy access to the entire city. Walking distance from Xin Tian di. Excellent views of the city, although most of what I saw was construction. Best of all, I got the feeling it was built before the 1990s. When China was less open to the public. It reminded me of the hotel I stayed in, in Prague after the fall of the Soviet Union. There aren't many hotels that give you that pre-captialist feel which I find historical fascinating and consider part of the hotels charm. Having said that, the gym was incredibly communist! They had a weight bench, with no weights, they had a treadmill which was broken, an elliptical which was also broken, and an exercise bike that could barely support my weight, 5'10 180lbs. Would absolutely stay here again!
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2018

8/10 Good

Louis, Singapore

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Is good enough for a short stay. Breakfast don be bother to go. There’s good food down the street.
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Great breakfast and location is perfect. Older building with issues: avoided the shower otherwise it was fantastic!
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2018

6/10 Okay

Tom, Teaneck, N J

Does not like this property. Guests were to noisy at night.
Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2018

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Staff & service
It can’t be true that a hotel can’t get a taxi to take us to the airport - and therefor we had to walk a while to get to a taxi stop with all our luggage :(
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2018

6/10 Okay

Dayne

Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Tired
This is a tired hotel in need of a facelift. Great location to many of the local attractions. Rooms have old worn carpeting not very clean. Baseboard and door trim crumbling in places. Bedding and mattress acceptable but old as well. Minimal English spoken by the Chinese staff which made it difficult to communicate concerns. Breakfast was very basic.

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very old and dirty
Room is way too old. Terrible toilet with stain and blocked sewage. Will never stay there again!
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2018

4/10 Poor

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Smoky and disgusting
The hotel is super out dated and gross. As soon as you walk in the door, it smells like cigarettes. Even though the rooms are supposed to be non-smoking, it was super smoky. The carpet looked like it had not been vacuumed ever. I was told our room was a luxury family room that was “updated recently”, it was neither updated nor luxurious. There was mold everywhere in the bathroom. The only decent thing was the view (when it wasn’t smoggy out) and the location was relatively convenient, close (3 blocks) to the subway. The staff was friendly but not worth the money.

4/10 Poor

Aseem

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very ordinary hotel with stinking Carpet. Breakfast was very bad. No one should stay in this hotel till they renovate the rooms.

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Disliked: Room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2017

2/10 Terrible

Dee

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Avoid booking this hotel!
Terrible hotel, run down and dirty. The staff is probably the worst I've ever come across.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2017

6/10 Okay

Xueping

Not international standard at all
within 7 minutes walk to #10 subway station LaoXiMen (Exit 5) and 15-20 minutes to People's square in the opposite direction. A food street two blocks away. Convenient place for not very high price.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2017