Shanghai, Zhouzhuang & Suzhou 5D4N — compact
- City break
- 5 days / 4 nights
- 3 places
- Quoted on brief
Overview
What this journey is
Identical to the standard five-day until the last morning, which stops being a transfer and becomes a half-day: Xintiandi, the Jade Buddha Temple, and an optional swap to the Shanghai Museum or to shopping before the airport. It carries an extra guide day and it is a genuinely full final day, so it needs a departure flight late enough to survive it. Sell it where five days has to cover both Shanghai lines plus Zhouzhuang and Suzhou.
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 — Shanghai to Zhouzhuang, on to Suzhou
Zhouzhuang water town: the Twin Bridges, Shen’s House, Zhang’s House and a paper-cutting workshop · lunch at your own expense · on to Suzhou for the night.
- 4
Day 4 — Suzhou, and back to Shanghai
Lingering Garden · Panmen scenic area · lunch at your own expense · Tiger Hill, the Yunyan pagoda and the Sword Pool · back to Shanghai for the night.
- 5
Day 5 — Shanghai, and departure
Xintiandi in the former French Concession · Jade Buddha Temple · optionally the Shanghai Museum or time for shopping instead · 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.
Suzhou city hotel
Quoted to your brief
We quote a ladder rather than a fixed property, so one routing sells at more than one price point.
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.
- The last day only works with an afternoon or evening departure. Send the flight number with the brief.
- Take the standard five-day instead if the client wants a slow last morning.
- 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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