Overview
What this journey is
Line B is the Shanghai that predates the skyline. Yu Garden is a Ming garden of the Jiangnan school, laid out under the Jiajing reign and now more than five hundred years old; the streets around it are the old walled city. The afternoon crosses into the former French Concession — Xintiandi is the shikumen block rebuilt as a pedestrian quarter — and finishes at the Jade Buddha Temple, founded 1882 around two Burmese jade figures. No tower, no cruise, no water town.
Day by day
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Day 1 — Yu Garden, the old town and the concession
Pick-up at your hotel · Yu Garden · the old town and the Chenghuangmiao streets · lunch at your own expense · Xintiandi, the restored shikumen quarter of the former French Concession · Jade Buddha Temple · 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 closes on Mondays. Do not schedule this line on a Monday — run Line A instead and swap the days.
- The Oriental Pearl and the Huangpu cruise are not on this line; they are Line A.
- Line C compresses A and B into a single day if the client only has one.
- 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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