Most propbably a repurposed Motel 168, and it still has some of that budget hotel DNA in it, and there’s the faint whiff of Chinese Hotel Room. That said, the lobby looks like a four-star hotel and they get points for having sometimes having a great English speaker on duty. The room is a boring hotel room in every sense of the word, but it’s clean and it’s comparatively big. It feels like a cross between a Chinese business hotel and a budget chain, and they clearly used all the investment in re-doing the lobby. The location is ambiguous. If you’re staying in the city, and have never been here before, the immediate neighborhood is boring and under construction – there’s a Metro station being pounded in one thud at a time as of 2017 – but you are less than a 15-minute walk from either Expat Pile in Jing’an: the one on Yanping Lu (restaurants, WeWork) and the on Wuding Lu (bars). It’ll make a good base if you want to get a feel for what it’s like to live in Shanghai, and it’s completely inoffensive, but it’s just not the first choice among budget hotels.