上海一日游
One full day that covers the old city, a canal town, and the Bund at dusk — English-guided, published price, meeting at a hotel gate in the centre. Book it as a traveller, or take it at net as an agent.
Join-in departures
Guided in English, with a published price you can quote straight to a client and a fixed meeting point in the centre.
One product, deliberately. Shanghai supports a dozen half-day permutations, and most of them are the same three hours rearranged. This is the version we would put a client on: the water town gets the middle of the day instead of a photo stop, and the loop ends on the Bund when it is lit rather than doubling back to where it started.
Planning notes
The things that decide whether a day works, written for whoever is building the itinerary rather than for a brochure.
Pick-up is at the gate of the Renaissance Shanghai Yu Garden Hotel — Metro Line 10 or 14 to Yuyuan Garden, Exit 3, then cross the street. The day finishes on the Bund rather than back at the hotel, which suits a central hotel and works badly from an airport one. Worth checking before you confirm a room for a client.
That is built into the eight hours, and it is the reason the day is eight hours rather than five. A Shanghai itinerary that promises a water town inside a half day is either visiting a reconstructed one inside the ring road or spending forty minutes there.
Shanghai is one of the ports where the 240-hour transit visa-free window applies, which is why it shows up so often as the first or last city on a multi-country routing. Eligibility runs by nationality and by port, and the onward-ticket condition catches people out — the rules are set out on our transit page.
PVG and SHA make Shanghai the standard east-coast gateway, and the high-speed network puts Hangzhou and Suzhou within a comfortable day of it. Most of our multi-day programs either open or close here for exactly that reason.
Gateway airports: PVG / SHA. Entry rules — full visa, visa-free, or the 240-hour transit window — are set out on our visa pages.
Meeting points
Copy the Chinese text and show it to a taxi driver if you are not taking the metro.
| Meeting point | 中文 | Getting there | Used by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gate of Renaissance Shanghai Yu Garden Hotel | 上海豫园万丽酒店门口 | Metro Line 10 or Line 14 to Yuyuan Garden Station | Yu Garden, Zhujiajiao Water Town & The Bund |
Multi-day
These start and finish here — the city is the trip, not a leg of one.
Day trip · Full day
Shanghai
The new-Shanghai day: the glass floor on the Oriental Pearl, the city history museum underneath it, a daytime river cruise, then the Bund from the other bank.
Day by day →Day trip · Full day
Shanghai
The old-city day: Yu Garden and the lanes around it, the former French Concession at Xintiandi, closing at the Jade Buddha Temple.
Day by day →Day trip · Full day
Shanghai
Lines A and B compressed into one day for a client who only has one — tower and museum, Yu Garden and the old town, closing on the Bund.
Day by day →City break · 3 days / 2 nights
Shanghai
Arrive, one full day on the city’s headline sights, fly out — the module that drops into a transit stop or a conference week.
Day by day →City break · 3 days / 2 nights
Shanghai
Both Shanghai lines in three days by starting on the arrival day — the river cruise stays in, and the last day is the flight.
Day by day →City break · 4 days / 3 nights
Shanghai
Shanghai and nothing else: an arrival day, then Pudong and the old town on two separate days, then the flight.
Day by day →Multi-day
Shanghai is one stop on these. The line under each name shows everywhere else the routing reaches.
Day trip · Full day
Shanghai·Zhujiajiao
Shanghai's own canal town, an hour each way, with the whole day in it rather than the four hours a combined city tour can spare.
Day by day →Day trip · Full day
Shanghai·Zhouzhuang
The water town the genre is named after — the Twin Bridges, the Shen and Zhang houses, and a paper-cutting workshop, out and back from Shanghai.
Day by day →Day trip · Full day
Shanghai·Wuzhen
Zhejiang's best-preserved canal town in a single day from Shanghai — East Gate on the standard build, West Gate on request.
Day by day →Day trip · Full day
Shanghai·Suzhou
Three Suzhou headline sights in one day out of Shanghai — the Lingering Garden, the Panmen water gate, and Tiger Hill.
Day by day →Day trip · Full day
Shanghai·Hangzhou
West Lake by boat, Lingyin Temple and Feilai Feng, and a Longjing tea village — Hangzhou out and back from Shanghai in a day.
Day by day →Day trip · Full day
Shanghai·Wuxi
The 88-metre bronze Buddha at Lingshan and the Zen resort town beside it — a Wuxi day that can start from Shanghai, Suzhou or Wuxi.
Day by day →Add-on module · 2 days / 1 night
Shanghai·Zhouzhuang·Suzhou
Zhouzhuang on the way out and a night in Suzhou, so the water town is not a race and the gardens get a whole day.
Day by day →Add-on module · 2 days / 1 night
Shanghai·Wuzhen·Hangzhou
Wuzhen East Gate on the way down, a night in Hangzhou, then West Lake, Lingyin and the tea terraces before the drive back.
Day by day →City break · 3 days / 2 nights
Shanghai·Zhujiajiao
Three days that carry both Shanghai lines and a water town, by starting sightseeing on the arrival day and finishing it on the departure one.
Day by day →City break · 4 days / 3 nights
Shanghai·Zhujiajiao
Shanghai in one day and Zhujiajiao in another, which is the swap most four-day clients actually want.
Day by day →City break · 4 days / 3 nights
Shanghai·Zhouzhuang
Shanghai in one day and Zhouzhuang in another — the same shape as the Zhujiajiao four-day, with the further, better-known town.
Day by day →City break · 5 days / 4 nights
Shanghai·Zhouzhuang
Shanghai over two full days, a water town on the third, one hotel the whole way.
Day by day →City break · 5 days / 4 nights
Shanghai·Wuzhen
The same two Shanghai days, with Wuzhen East Gate as the day out instead of Zhouzhuang — a longer drive for a better-preserved town.
Day by day →City break · 5 days / 4 nights
Shanghai·Zhouzhuang·Suzhou
City, water town and gardens in five days, with one night in Suzhou so the second city is not a day trip.
Day by day →City break · 5 days / 4 nights
Shanghai·Zhouzhuang·Suzhou
The same five days with the departure morning put to work — Xintiandi and the Jade Buddha Temple before the transfer out.
Day by day →Theme journey · 8 days / 7 nights
Beijing·Shanghai·Hangzhou·Shenzhen
The China nobody's brochure covers — cashless hutongs, robotaxis, drone delivery and maglev, with an optional corporate-visit day for delegations.
Day by day →Theme journey · 12 days / 11 nights
Beijing·Chengdu·Hangzhou·Shanghai
Four cities, four cuisines — imperial Beijing, Sichuan heat, Jiangnan refinement and Shanghai's own school, with cooking classes and market visits carrying the narrative.
Day by day →Grand tour · 6 days / 5 nights
Shanghai·Zhouzhuang·Suzhou
The five-day with Shanghai given back its second day — Pudong and the old town separate again, then Zhouzhuang and a Suzhou night.
Day by day →Grand tour · 6 days / 5 nights
Shanghai·Zhouzhuang·Suzhou·Hangzhou
All four Jiangnan destinations in six days, paid for by compressing Shanghai into one day rather than by dropping a city.
Day by day →Grand tour · 7 days / 6 nights
Shanghai·Zhouzhuang·Suzhou·Hangzhou
The full Jiangnan circuit: two unhurried days in Shanghai, a water town, the Suzhou gardens and the Hangzhou lake, all by private vehicle with no rail leg to catch.
Day by day →Grand tour · 9 days / 8 nights
Shanghai·Zhouzhuang·Suzhou·Wuxi·Hangzhou
The longest programme on this shelf: two Shanghai days, a water town, two days in Suzhou, two in Wuxi, and Hangzhou before the flight home.
Day by day →Grand tour · 12 days / 11 nights
Beijing·Chengdu·Lijiang·Shanghai
Three headline cities plus one minority-culture destination — the first-timer backbone with a Yunnan chapter that stops it reading like every other Golden Triangle brochure.
Day by day →Beyond the shelf
What we publish is a fraction of what we operate. Most of it is briefed.
Same sites, your own vehicle and guide, paced to your client rather than to a coach timetable.
Brief a private day →Shanghai as one leg of a multi-city program, white-labelled under your brand with net rates.
Agent services →Airport meets, venue shuttles, and culture blocks layered onto a conference or incentive shell.
MICE delivery →Send your market and monthly volume — we return net rates, allotment terms, and white-label vouchers.
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