Overview
What this journey is
Zhujiajiao is the water town Shanghai keeps for itself — about an hour from the centre, and a market village from the Three Kingdoms period that became a trading town under the Ming. What survives is the fabric: Ming and Qing houses, arched stone bridges, flagstone lanes and the boats. Most Shanghai itineraries give it the middle of a day. This one gives it the whole of one, which is the difference between walking the town and photographing the first bridge.
Day by day
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Day 1 — Shanghai to Zhujiajiao and back
Pick-up at your hotel · about an hour to Zhujiajiao · the old town on foot, with the paid minor sites included · lunch at your own expense · about an hour back · drop-off at 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.
- The town itself can be walked without tickets, but the minor sites are most of what there is to see. We quote with them included; say if you want them out.
- Further afield than it looks on a map at weekends — Shanghai traffic, not distance, is what moves the return time.
- Zhouzhuang is the bigger, further version of the same day if the client wants the Shen and Zhang houses.
- 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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