Overview
What this journey is
Line A is the half of Shanghai that faces the water. It starts in Pudong on the Oriental Pearl’s transparent gallery — the glass floor is on the second sphere, and the museum at the foot of the tower carries the city from treaty port to 1949 in about an hour. The Huangpu cruise runs in daylight rather than after dark, which is the version that shows you both banks properly, and the day closes on the Bund and Nanjing Road. It is private and hotel-to-hotel, so it can start when your client is awake rather than at a coach’s departure time.
Day by day
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Day 1 — Pudong, the river and the Bund
Pick-up at your hotel · Oriental Pearl TV Tower, including 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 · back to your hotel.
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, the Jade Buddha Temple and Xintiandi are not on this line — that is Line B, or Line C if you only have one day.
- Monday closes Yu Garden, which does not affect this line at all.
- The day ends back at your hotel rather than on the Bund, which suits a client who wants to go out again afterwards.
- 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.
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