Third Time Is The Charm!

Prior to coming with us, in the recent months DH has gone to Shanghai twice. First, some months ago, he went with his mom and in the Summer, he, flew there, again with the Princess, Miss P. He asked both of them to go up to the 101-storey tower, Shanghai World Financial Centre. Both of them declined, likely to be out of fear over, what I think, was slightly over-exaggerated description of the place. I heard about the glass floor and the intimidating lift rides.

Third is the charm for him, he brought along two gutsier kids with more curiosity. And a wife who is always indifferent about many things, including of whether to go up 474 meters above the ground to see the view of Shanghai or simply stay on the ground level of the earth. The building in the above picture is the one that we were about to enter. 60 minutes were the estimated waiting time. There was a visibly reasonable length of people lining up outside and we knew there were more inside.

There was nothing much interesting to see while waiting. The weather was fine, there was a tiny baby being carried on the line, I am not sure if the end, this baby really went up. There seemed to be some tour groups, but they had different lines. There were a couple of people that jumped the queue and grinned happily for their accomplishment. I told DH that we could not live in Shanghai as we will be very unhappy and angry people seeing people cutting the lines, pushing, shoving and doing things that we do not approve of. He agreed.

We paid RMB150 per person to go to the three available floors for viewing the city from the building's three different floors.

The view? I was not too impressed. First of all, the sky was not that clear, the view, therefore, was not very clear too. Second, there were sooooo.... many people. All the windows were covered by people in one to two layers. It was difficult to look out, it was even harder to take pictures. Moreover to enjoy and appreciate things over there. I managed to get some lousy pictures there. Then quit. See below.

We decided to go down after spending around 30 minutes there, we had to join the queue again to get the lift down, some 15-20 minutes again before getting to the lift. That's all. Bye view, bye RMB600.

Here is a picture of the building:



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