New Star

This is one of the nicest-for-the-money bathhouses in Shanghai. Korean style, you get to strip and splash around in hot rooms and cold pools (sex segregated) and then move upstairs where there are huge rooms of armchairs to relax, plus these little heated igloos to kick back in. Add a good Korean restaurant and the good draft beer served in iced mugs and you could easily kill a whole day in here. It’s open very late, too. Outdoor pool entrance fee is 98rmb, plus 20rmb if you didn’t bring your own (mandatory) swim cap. Also has a kid’s water playground, so that’s nice. Highly recommended on a cold, grey day.