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Shanghai Private Tour with River Cruise, Shanghai Tower, and Lunch or Dinner
5 h
Private
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About this activity
Your local guide will pick up you from your hotel lobby at your desired time in the morning. Then you will follow BBC Rick Stein’s footsteps to taste Shanghai.
First, you will go to the Yuyuan bazaar, which is the old Ming and Qing dynasty architecture market, with various of souvenir shops and restaurants where you can enjoy your time there shopping and taking photos. You will have chance to taste some of the famous snack in the markets if you are intrests, such as the spring roll, Big soup dumplings. Famous Yu Garden is just right next to the bazaar, if you want to have a visit, please let your guide know (entrance tickets will be on your own).
After your morning tour, your guide will take you to a nice local restaurant where you can enjoy some well-known local food, such as Xiao Long Bao (soup dumpling) and Chairman Mao's favorite dish Hong Shao Rou (Braised pork in brown sauce). Xiao Long Bao is a characteristic of Shanghai cuisine, with over hundred years of history. Pork minced “Xiao Longs” are the most classical ones and once it comes to right season, you can also try the crab-meat one.
In the afternoon, you will visit Shanghai Tower the tallest building in China (the 2nd tallest in the world). The observatory of “Shanghai Tower” is with the height of 632 meters, and you can have a panoramic view of the whole city with 360 degrees dimension at the “airborne city “and “city’s smart eyes”. It is really unique experience on the top and is the best choice for enjoying damper, the high-tech achievement.
After that, you will you will enjoy a relaxing river cruise ride on the mother river of Shanghai - Huangpu River. You will have a glimpse of Shanghai’s past and look into the bright future of the city from Riverside Promenade area. Your cruise offers a great view of the grand colonial buildings along west side of the Bund, such as the famous Peace hotel, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank and etc.. Turn towards east side, you will see the skyscrapers of shanghai, like Oriental Pearl TV Tower, World Financial Center, and Shanghai Tower. If you choose the afternoon departure,you will enjoy the prosperous lights, which will lights up your whole trip.
If you have visit some of those places before, you can choose the place from the following based on your interests.
• Shanghai museum
• Jade Buddha temple
• Tianzifang/Former French concession
• TV Tower/Jinmao Tower/World financial center
• Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art CenterAfter the tour ends, your guide will send you back to the hotel.
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First, you will go to the Yuyuan bazaar, which is the old Ming and Qing dynasty architecture market, with various of souvenir shops and restaurants where you can enjoy your time there shopping and taking photos. You will have chance to taste some of the famous snack in the markets if you are intrests, such as the spring roll, Big soup dumplings. Famous Yu Garden is just right next to the bazaar, if you want to have a visit, please let your guide know (entrance tickets will be on your own).
After your morning tour, your guide will take you to a nice local restaurant where you can enjoy some well-known local food, such as Xiao Long Bao (soup dumpling) and Chairman Mao's favorite dish Hong Shao Rou (Braised pork in brown sauce). Xiao Long Bao is a characteristic of Shanghai cuisine, with over hundred years of history. Pork minced “Xiao Longs” are the most classical ones and once it comes to right season, you can also try the crab-meat one.
In the afternoon, you will visit Shanghai Tower the tallest building in China (the 2nd tallest in the world). The observatory of “Shanghai Tower” is with the height of 632 meters, and you can have a panoramic view of the whole city with 360 degrees dimension at the “airborne city “and “city’s smart eyes”. It is really unique experience on the top and is the best choice for enjoying damper, the high-tech achievement.
After that, you will you will enjoy a relaxing river cruise ride on the mother river of Shanghai - Huangpu River. You will have a glimpse of Shanghai’s past and look into the bright future of the city from Riverside Promenade area. Your cruise offers a great view of the grand colonial buildings along west side of the Bund, such as the famous Peace hotel, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank and etc.. Turn towards east side, you will see the skyscrapers of shanghai, like Oriental Pearl TV Tower, World Financial Center, and Shanghai Tower. If you choose the afternoon departure,you will enjoy the prosperous lights, which will lights up your whole trip.
If you have visit some of those places before, you can choose the place from the following based on your interests.
• Shanghai museum
• Jade Buddha temple
• Tianzifang/Former French concession
• TV Tower/Jinmao Tower/World financial center
• Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art CenterAfter the tour ends, your guide will send you back to the hotel.
Included
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Transport by private air-conditioned vehicle
- Professional guide
- Shanghai-style lunch (morning tour 10:00am) or dinner (afternoon tour 2:00pm)
- Pudong International Airport drop-off (depending on selected tour option)
- Shanghai Tower entrance fee
- Huangpu River curise ride
Not included
- Entrance fees to Yu Garden and other attractions
- Gratuities
Additional
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
- Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
- Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
- Please wear comfortable shoes
- Please advise your preferred tour start time upon booking (10am or 2pm)
- If you want to be dropped off at Pudong International Airport after your tour, please select the PVG Airport drop-off tour option when you book
- This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
Features
Tourism
95%
Cultural
65%
Nightlife
45%
Original
35%
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My son and I had a BLAST with Caroline!! We were able to go to places we wanted to visit. Caroline was very friendly, kind, knowledgeable and speaks fluent English and she’s also a foodie. We enjoyed and learned a lot from the tour. Thank you! I highly recommend this tour. Caroline has been punctual, flexible, and eager to make us feel comfortable while touring around: a very pleasant companion!! She has always been competent and helpful, informative in a fun/interesting way.
We had a really good day today with Snow! It was easy from the beginning with Alana to schedule and update the tour up to our expectations showing great flexibility.Despite the pick up point was difficult to reach, it happened punctual.The driver behavior, driving and the cleaning of the van were perfect, with no delays at all!The visits and the explanations were amazing. We do appreciate the whole team for the effort as we had a great time and will recommend the tour to our colleagues!
From start to finish this tour is exceptional. We visited Yu Gardens, Shanghai Tower followed by dinner (excellent quality local cuisine) and then a River Cruise. The content of the tour is top notch and the attention and organisation we received from Queena was simply outstanding. Queena's enthusiastic and friendly nature ensured a seamless and thoroughly enjoyable experience for our entire group of fifteen people. Totally recommended ! Thank you Queena.
Wilson is an excellent guide! He was flexible about what we wanted to do and is knowledgeable, friendly and insightful. The tours were informative and fun and the lunch was really outstanding (Wilson made some great recommendations, too!). He made every effort to make our time informative, fun and stress free. Highly recommend!
Wilson my guide and my tour were OUTSTANDING. The day was planned perfectly and the sites we visited were interesting and very well explained. The time spent on Shanghai's best attractions and even in the car, explaining and pointing out the highlights of the city were clear, precise and exciting. I highly recommend this tour.
We had our reservations confirmed when we arrived at our room. Next day our guide Daisy arrived on time with our driver. Great guidance through all the tours and help with dinner ordering, getting a fork and everything. Dinner was great my favorite was the dumpings filled with broth. Daisy delivered us to the hotel safe and sound.
The Shanghai Tower was excellent and the Huangpu River was sensational. Our tour also included the Yu Gardens and Dinner. Alana and her driver provided us with an exceptional experience.
Great tour! I was on trip with 92 year old father - he's in great shape, but he is 92. The trip was a lot of work, the cabs, figuring out how to to get around, what to see, figuring out WHAT were were seeing, etc, etc. I finally decided to just splurge and get the private tour with private driver. Really great experience! If I had it to do again, I'd do it sooner and more often. Such a luxury to just be picked up at our hotel and be dropped off there at the end of the evening. Mary was not only prompt, she was early. I had warned them that some walking was fine, steps not good. Our tour guide Mary was very solicitous and the whole thing was planned perfectly. The weather was taken into account. We did the major outside portion in the beginning, then indoor portions later in the day when it was raining. We did have some minimal waiting time for driver, but nothing like trying to hail a cab, especially in the rain. Shanghai traffic. Dad really enjoyed the Shanghai Tower and all the comparisons, displays, etc. Not really my thing, but it was fine and he really enjoyed it. The elevator/lift is REALLY fast. Shrug. Again, not my thing, but Dad got a kick out of it. Meal at Paradise Dynasty was delicious and filing - lots of variety. Really enjoyed the whole tour - Shanghai Tower, the Yu Gardens, the marketplace, river cruise - All were great. My favorite part of the afternoon was the Yu Gardens and the marketplace. Fun walk and we actually knew what we were seeing since we had a guide. Mary is very knowledgeable, friendly and helpful. She answered all our questions. She was reading useful. English although not her first language - is EXCELLENT. This tour really was a highlight of our two weeks in China. Everything was not perfect. It rained. And the big bright lights in the boat made photography at night .... Difficult. And Mary's navy blue coat was not always easy to spot when she was a couple of steps ahead of us. So, REALLY minor complaints. Not cheap, but worth it.