Overview
What this journey is
Four days, one hotel, and the city compressed into a single day so the water town can have a whole one. Day two is the combined Shanghai build — tower, museum, Yu Garden, the old town, the Bund and Nanjing Road, without the river cruise. Day three is Zhujiajiao with its paid minor sites, which is what makes the town worth the hour’s drive. The trade against the four-day Shanghai-only programme is a canal day in exchange for the cruise and the Jade Buddha Temple.
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 in one day
Oriental Pearl TV Tower and the transparent gallery · Shanghai History Museum · Yu Garden and the old town · lunch at your own expense · the Bund · Nanjing Road. No river cruise on this build.
- 3
Day 3 — Zhujiajiao water town
About an hour out to Zhujiajiao · the old town on foot with the paid minor sites included · lunch at your own expense · about an hour back to your Shanghai hotel.
- 4
Day 4 — 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.
- No Huangpu cruise and no Jade Buddha Temple on this build — the city day is compressed to free up day three.
- Zhujiajiao without the minor sites is free to enter and has very little to see. We quote with them in.
- 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.
4D / 3NQuoted on brief
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