Private Shanghai City and Zhujiajiao Combo Tour with Boating, Tea Tasting, Lunch


Description
For this full day private tour takes you to see both Shanghai City major attractions and a beautiful Chinese water town. During this tour, you will have a chance to visit Xintiandi, Tianzifang, Shanghai Old Town and Zhujiajiao water village. Besides city tour, you will enjoy relaxing boat ride and tea tasting in Zhujiajiao. It's absolutely an wonderful experience to see Shanghai in very different way. If you are a tea lover, you surely don't want to miss this opportunity! A local lunch is also inclusive.
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Itinerary
Shanghai China's Old Town is called Nanshi. It can be found directly southwest of the Bund. Among the attractions in this area are the Huxinting Teahouse and the City God Temple.
Yuyuan Bazaar, also known as Yuyuan Market, is outside the Yu Garden, in the heart of Old Shanghai City, and close to the Old City God Temple. There are many traditional Chinese buildings, which nowadays are used as commercial stores to sell local products, snacks, jewelry, souvenirs, antiques and so on.
In the afternoon, you will start your city tours in Shanghai, and your first stop is Tianzifang Art Creative Park where you can find many unique shops owned by young Chinese artists in a narrow alley.
Meet up with your friendly private guide and driver in your hotel lobby at 8:30am, and head up to Zhujiaojiao Water Village (50 minutes driving time), and your guide will share some interesting local information and history about Shanghai along the way. Upon arrival, visit a local private garden where you will find some amazing artwork collections from 2000 years ago till the 19th century. Stroll around in the village and take a Chinese style Gondola boat ride in the canals. Then, visit a local tea house by the canal for lovely tea tasting. Your lunch will be served in a local restaurant.
Meet up with your friendly private guide and driver in your hotel lobby at 8:30am, and head up to Zhujiaojiao Water Village (50 minutes driving time), and your guide will share some interesting local information and history about Shanghai along the way. Upon arrival, visit a local private garden where you will find some amazing artwork collections from 2000 years ago till the 19th century. Stroll around in the village and take a Chinese style Gondola boat ride in the canals. Then, visit a local tea house by the canal for lovely tea tasting. Your lunch will be served in a local restaurant. In the afternoon, you will start your city tours in Shanghai, and your first stop is Tianzifang Art Creative Park where you can find many unique shops owned by young Chinese artists in a narrow alley. Then, exploring a nearby local wet market if you are interested in. You last stop is the Shanghai Old Town, and you will be able to visit Yu Garden Bazaar and some off the beaten paths. Walk into the Shanghai old neighborhood is a great way to get a better picture of the locals' real life. Due to the on-going urban renewal project, these old buildings might be gone in a few years. When your tour is finished, you will be transferred back to your hotel.
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Your centrally located hotel in Shanghai
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Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Please wear comfortable walking shoes
- Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
- Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
Reviews(16)
Excellent experience from start to finish. fast communication, very knowledgeable guide, perfectly organized tour, and an unforgettable visit to Wuzhen. Highly recommended
We had a wonderful time with Lisa. She is very knowledgeable about the history, people and places we went to. Lisa is very helpful and thoughtful about what was suitable for our family of a tween and teenagers. Highly recommend Lisa for a memorable holiday!
Wow! What a great time we had!!! Lei (Lisa) is FANTASTIC!! You contact her and she usually contacts you back within minutes! I contacted her at 5:00 AM her time, and by 5:04 AM she had responded! She met us at the cruise port promptly, took us on a whirlwind tour of Shanghai (had a relaxing tea service, visited the Watertown, saw the Bond…. Did everything offered by the cruise ship in one excursion, compared to the Ships 4 or 5 excursions offered separately at separate prices). She is excellent with everything. Knows her stuff, goes well way and beyond, friendly, personable, easily understood, gives the extra mile at every turn and accommodating to your every whim! I cannot offer her any other high praise, because she is truly a professional that you wish you could encounter everywhere. Truly a warm, wonderful person - enjoyed her guiding skills and truly just enjoyed her company. HIGHEST RECOMMENDATIONS!!!!
Lisa was a valuable ally in the discovery of Shanghai and its surroundings. It is very helpful and adapts to every need of the group. He speaks very good English and knows very well the history of China and the city of Shanghai. We highly recommend it!
Water town Zhujiajiao Tour with Lisa was fabulous! Lisa has organized everything including lot of relaxation. After waking around the Water town on a very hot day we had an amazing tea time on a relaxing terrace with the great view of the channel and a relaxing Chinese cuisine lunch. Lisa sheared interesting information about China history and culture. Transportation was well organized too. Overall the entire tour was an amazing experience. We highly recommend Lisa if you want really to maximize and enjoy your time in Shanghai without rush and stress.
Dear Irina, Thank you so much for posting us such a nice review, we are really appreciated!Truly It was a very hot and humid day but the boat ride,tea tasting with snanks and our conversation made the rest of the day! How was your trip in Xi'an and Zhangjiajie? I wish you a wonderful time in China! Warmest regards, Lisa
I have been all over the world and had many guides during these travels. Lisa is an elite guide. We contracted with her for a 4-day tour of Shanghai highlights, water villages (Zhujiajiao and Xitang), great food and nightlife. She also linked us to Beijing to visit the Great Wall. Lisa was simply fantastic. She is very knowledgeable, funny, charming, and insightful, and she tailored our tour to our specific interests in creative ways. She took us to private gardens, buddhist temples and on boat rides, dazzled us with the history and culture of each area, and slipped us into back-alleys and unique food experiences (dumplings, noodles, snails and smoking bananas). She arranged complete transportation around the Shanghai area and to and from both airports. She is multilingual, including excellent English, and she and my son, who knows some Mandarin, had fun conversing with shop and restaurant owners, and dealing with mothers and grandmothers in the People's Park, who tried to hook up my son with their daughters and granddaughters (this was exactly as funny as it sounds). If you are going to Shanghai, or the surrounding area, you have to have Lisa as your guide. You will have the best experience possible.
Dear Bill and Alex , Thank you so much for your kind review and we are very much appreciated it! I hope you had great time with us in Shanghai ! Like you said it was a great fun communicated with the local mothers in the matchmaking -marriage market in People's Park in Shanghai and the 2 ladies were very enthusiastic introduced their daughters to Alex and they phoned me after we done the tour on the day. The other nice thing happened to us it was dinning in the Seven Tables Restaurant in Xitang Water Village and the owner of the restaurant was veey nice to serve us good food like the smoking bananas , snails and sweet soup .( no charge off course ) The last fun thing it was our driver taught Alex how to speak Shanghai dialect and it was great fun and we all laughed , it obviously to say that Alex good for learning languages . Thanks again and hope you come to visit China again in the future! Best regards, Lisa Zhang
It was an amazing unforgettable experience. Our tourguide, Julie was thoughtful, experienced, kind and made sure we enjoyed each step of the way. She was extreamly helpful and looked after us while providing an unforgetable experience. We would defenitly recommend her to anyone. Thank you for the amazing trip, and thank you for helping us to create new memories.
I was in Shanghai for Mid-Autumn. Jenny warned me that traffic in and out of town will be heavier than usual. In discussion, she made it possible to start the tour a little earlier to minimize the time on the road. My guide, Ella was wonderful. Because this was a private tour, she was very flexible with the itinerary and allowed me to slowly meandered through the alleyways of Zhujiajiao and ask 1001 questions about things I have never seen before. Upon my request we even stopped to try a tang hulu (candied hawthorn on a stick.... just like the ones on costume dramas.) I was surprised that one of my favorite parts was touring the historical home. Unlike Yu Garden, in Shanghai, the house was full of beautiful antiques and I can view them up close. The garden and pond wasn't as big as Yu Garden, but it was way better maintained. The place felt more like walking though a lovely home than going through a museum. Ella was very accommodating to my dietary restrictions. I got to taste local specialties, like pearl clams with tofu and braised pork belly bound in bamboo leaves, while looking over one of the canals. This tour was definitely one of the highlights while visiting Shanghai.
I thoroughly enjoyed my time in Shanghai. Lisa was a brilliant tour guide and took me all around the city. She was very friendly, very helpful and very knowledgeable. I am a wheelchair user and Lisa made sure that everything was accessible for me. The Bund, the Old Town and People's Park were my favourite. Highly recommend this tour and would love to return to the city some day.
Lisa sent me a text within 30 minutes of booking to make sure we were in contact. She arrived on time with a very nice car and driver. Her English was excellent and she was extremely knowledgeable in all aspects of Chinese history and culture. We saw some fabulous places many of which you might not get on a regular tour. Lisa's cheerful disposition made my wife and I feel we were with a dear friend showing us around this wonderful city. 5 stars are too few - we had a wonderfully and would highly recommend.



