Overview
What this journey is
Identical in shape to the Zhouzhuang version and different in character. Wuzhen is in Zhejiang rather than Jiangsu, the drive is longer, and East Gate is the tighter, older half of the town. Shanghai still gets its two full days and the client still sleeps in the same bed for four nights. Choose this one when the buyer’s market knows Wuzhen by name, or when a previous trip already used Zhouzhuang.
Day by day
- 1
Day 1 — Arrival in Shanghai
Your driver meets you with a name board and transfers you to your hotel. Nothing else is scheduled — the day belongs to the flight.
- 2
Day 2 — Shanghai: Pudong and the river
Oriental Pearl TV Tower with the transparent gallery on the second sphere · Shanghai History Museum at the foot of the tower · lunch at your own expense · Huangpu River cruise in daylight · the Bund · Nanjing Road pedestrian street.
- 3
Day 3 — Shanghai: the old town and the concession
Yu Garden · the old walled city around Chenghuangmiao · lunch at your own expense · Xintiandi in the former French Concession · Jade Buddha Temple.
- 4
Day 4 — Shanghai to Wuzhen and back
Wuzhen East Gate: the Ming and Qing waterfront, stone bridges and canal lanes · lunch at your own expense · back to your Shanghai hotel for the night.
- 5
Day 5 — Departure
Hotel pick-up at a time set by your flight, and transfer to the airport or the station.
Accommodation
We quote a hotel ladder rather than a fixed list, so the same itinerary can be sold at more than one price point.
Shanghai city hotel
Quoted to your brief
Central is worth paying for on this shelf: every day starts and ends at the hotel door.
What’s included
- Private vehicle and driver for the whole programme
- Licensed English-speaking guide
- Entrance tickets to every sight named in the day plan
- Guide and driver meal allowance, plus their rooms on any night away from Shanghai
- Hotel pick-up and drop-off — no fixed meeting point to find
Not included
- Hotels — quoted against your room-type brief
- Lunches and dinners — quoted against your meal standard
- Gratuities for the guide and driver
- Travel and medical insurance
- Bottled water and anything not itemised
- International flights and associated taxes
- China visa — required for most passports
Operational notes
The things worth raising before you quote it, not after.
- Yu Garden closes on Mondays. Tell us the arrival date and we will move the Shanghai days around it rather than dropping the garden.
- Client hotels are quoted separately, against your room-type brief.
- This build uses East Gate. West Gate is the evening half and needs its own night to be worth the ticket.
- The Wuzhen day is the longest in the programme — roughly nine to ten hours door to door.
- Rates do not apply over the China International Import Expo or Chinese New Year. Other major trade fairs are usually fine at more than a month's notice.
- Booked inside a fair week, vehicles and guides get scarce and pricing moves with the market.
- Large groups may need a luggage vehicle, which is quoted on top.
- An evening meal or an evening activity adds a guide and vehicle surcharge.
5D / 4NQuoted on brief
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