Chinese budget hotel brand Hanting Inns & Hotels has announced in Shanghai that its sub-brand Hanting Inn has now entered Shanghai and that the company plans to change its name from Hanting Inn to Haiyou Inn in the near future.

Haiyou Inn is located beside Nanpu Bridge and the average area of its guest rooms is about 10 square meters while room rates range from RMB79 to RMB159. Haiyou Inn also has landscape suites and three-bedroom, one-bathroom suites.

Targeting young people as its major clients, Haiyou Inn puts an emphasis on entertainment. Besides facilities such as billiards, X-Box and home theater, the whole hotel is covered by wireless Internet access network as well as two free Internet zones on the first floor.

Hanting Inns & Hotels now has three brands, Hanting Hotels, Hanting Express, and Haiyou Inn. According to Zhang Tuo, the CEO of Hanting by the end of 2010, Hanting Inn is expected to have ten hotels in Shanghai.

(China Hospitality News September 25, 2009)