Yong She Shanghai: The 60 sqm Open-Plan Room
Shanghai's Yong She (镛舍) has a 60-square-metre open-plan room — a studio layout where the sleeping area, seating and bathroom sit in one continuous space rather than being walled off from each other. It is the kind of room you book for the floor plan as much as the address.
One visitor who filmed it focused on exactly that: the way the space is divided without partitions, and how the interior styling holds up when you are actually living in the room rather than looking at it in photographs.
If a split-room layout is what you want, check what you are actually booking first — "open plan" and "suite" are not interchangeable, and the room size is the number that tells you which one you are getting.
Hotel rates shift by date and by how far ahead you book; checking a few sites side by side is the quickest way to see where the real difference is.
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