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The
Shanghai YMCA Hotel was founded in 1900, with
the purpose of improving people with a balanced
development in body, mind, and spirit, and of
building a perfect society. To meet the demand
of the current society, the Shanghai YMCA, taking
the community development as the axle of it's
whole services, is engaging itself in four areas
- Education and vocational training, Social welfare
service for disadvantaged social groups, Healthy
recreations and wellness, and community service,
and in the programmes of international friendly
intercourse, membership activities, and a variety
of voluntary services.
Shanghai
YMCA Hotel has ten social service centres in different
areas of Shanghai. It offers a variety of services
to the people. They include social work course
and social sport course offered by the Shanghai
YMCA Advanced Vocational Training College, the
professional training for laid-off workers to
find new jobs, English, painting and computer
courses for teenagers, fitness centres for young
people, "the Paradise for the Aged"
- tea house for the elderly, various kinds of
service in community service centers, rehabilitation
and education for the disabled children and the
training for volunteers. The annual attendance
at the programmes has come up to 300,000.
These
exchanges represent a friendship that exists in
every corner of the world. People of different
colours, races and nationalities will appreciate
the friendship through the programme activities
by YMCAs and their members.
With
a super location right in the centre of the bustling
city Shanghai, the 3-star YMCA Hotel is a building
of 11-story, built in 1929, feature traditional
Chinese architectural style.
The
hotel is just 4-kilometers from the railway station
and 15-kilometers from the international airport.
The
hotel's shuttle bus schedule coming from Pudong
Airport:
8:00,
9:45, 11:30, 13:15, 15:00, 16:45, 17:30, 20:15
The hotel houses a total of 165 standard rooms
and duluxe suites, each of them well-appointed
with many thoughtful amenities including Satellite
TV, smoke detector and sprinkle system and modern
communication facilities.
The
hotel has delightful restaurants and banquet halls
on the 9th floor serving local Chinese food, and
the 24-hour lobby cafe offers Western dishes and
refreshments. It also features such facilities
as shopping mall, gymnasium (newly renovated in
2002), beauty saloon, massage room and karaoke
ballroom .
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