1-Day Private Shanghai City Tour to See Its Past, Present and Future | La Vacanza Travel

1-Day Private Shanghai City Tour to See Its Past, Present and Future

Duration: 9 hours
Destination: China, Shanghai Region, Shanghai
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  • 9 hours
  • Shanghai
  • E-Voucher
  • Lowest Price
  • Not-Cancellable

Overview

Shanghai is a huge international metropolis with a long history. This private full-day city tour is designed for people who are interested in Shanghai’s past, present and future. It starts with a visit to the galleries in the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall. Stroll through the lovely Yu Gardens and purchase lunch in the nearby Yu Bazaar, then take a walk along the Bund. Head to the Shanghai World Financial Center for an aerial perspective on the city, then see shops and Shikumen-style architecture along the atmospheric alleyways of Tianzifang, located in the old French Concession. Your tour includes entrance fees, and hotel pickup and drop-off. No shopping detours, factory stores, tea ceremony or shopping site restaurant to take up your valuable time at attraction sites, so you will have a pure sightseeing experience.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall, No.100 Renmin Main Street, Huangpu District, Shanghai 200003 China

Your tour guide and driver will pick you up from your hotel and drive you to the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall. There, you can view many textual and graphic files and architectural models, which will help you get an overall understanding of the development of Shanghai.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Yu Garden (Yuyuan), No.218 Anren Street, Huangpu District, Shanghai 200010 China

Then, your guide will accompany you to the Yu Garden. Renowned as a shinning jewel among classical gardens in southern Yangtze River of China, it mainly features waterside pavilions, artistic stone carvings and wood engravings.

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Stop At: Yuyuan Bazar, No.269 Fangbang Middle Road, Huangpu District, Shanghai 200010 China

After leaving the garden, you will be guided to the nearby Yuyuan market to take a leisurely walk along the bustling pedestrian street. The pseudo-classic architectures lie along ancient streets to form a market selling souvenirs and snacks. You may have lunch here on your own choices.

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Stop At: The Bund, The Bund, Shanghai

Next, your trip will continue to the lively Bund Area to admire its essential part - the architectural complex of 52 exotic and glorious buildings. Take a leisure walk on the Bund and enjoy the spectacular view of the Huangpu River.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Shanghai World Financial Center, Building 1, No.100 Century Ave, Pudong New Area, Shanghai China

After that, you will ascend the World Financial Center, a skyscraper takeing the unique shape of a beer bottle-opene, with a height of 492 meters (1,600 feet). Here you will have a fantastic bird's eye view of the whole city. Take photos from the spectacular perspective of the city.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Tianzifang, Tianzifang, Shanghai

This Shanghai one day tour will conclude at Tianzifang, an old-style cultural block featuring distinctive Shikumen buildings with art studios, themed cafés and bars, and handicraft workshops. After that, your guide will escort you back to your hotel.

Duration: 1 hour

Inclusions
  • Centrally located hotel pick-up and drop-off
  • Private English Speaking guide
  • Complimentary bottled water with unlimited supplies
  • Umbrellas are provided for free use
  • Air conditioned car with chauffeur
  • Entry/Admission - Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall
  • Entry/Admission - Shanghai World Financial Center
  • Entry/Admission - Yu Garden (Yuyuan)

Exclusions
  • Meals
  • Gratuities
  • Infant seats available
  • Near public transportation
  • Stroller accessible
  • Surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Most travelers can participate
  • Transportation is wheelchair accessible
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Pick-up from hotels within the Middle Ring Road of Shanghai. An additional transfer fee will be incurred if your hotel is outside the above mentioned area.
  • Please wear comfortable walking shoes.
  • This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Departure Point

Traveler pickup is offered
Pick-up from hotels within the Middle Ring Road of Shanghai


Departure Time

09:00 AM

Voucher info

You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.

Duration

9 hours


User's Reviews

AndyW3359

15 Jan, 2024

Excellent tour of Shanghai with tour guide Ryan. The tour covered the history, architecture, culture and food of Shanghai. Highly recommend.

stephenwK7728AD

07 Nov, 2023

Very enjoyable tour of Shanghai with Eileen. She looked after us very well, was very knowledgeable and spoke excellent English.

paulj92029

28 Oct, 2023

Ryan is an amazing tour guide! He is super knowledgeable regarding all of the best places to visit in Shanghai, he had an extensive knowledge of Shanghai's history, geographics, and architecture. His command of the English language was excellent, especially his vocabulary which is better than most native speakers. He took great care of us. We especially enjoyed the Yu Gardens and seeing the awesome skyline from various parts of the city and the river. The driver was also excellent, caring, and very safe. He arrived an hour early to make sure he was on time. (Sorry I don't remember his name, he's also a German tour guide.) Traveling throughout China with Travel China Guide (Marco Polo), Ryan was our 5th Travel China Guide tour guide, and his driver was our 9th driver with the various transfers, they are all dedicated professionals each having worked for 10 to 15 years in their field, we were very, very impressed by their professionalism, care and compassion. Dinner at the top (45th floor) of the Radisson (not included in the tour) in the rotating restaurant provided great sights and a fun time. It was a first class meal, but was a little pricey.

Vacation604414

27 Nov, 2019

Our one day tour of Shanghai as part of Travel China Guide's 14 day package was derailed because Macron and Xi were meeting in Shanghai. Security was pervasive and really restricted our movements and the locations we could visit. Because we couldn't take the river tour of the Bund in the day time, we took it by night. Bonanza! Don't take the tour except at night. The buildings along the Bund put on a really spectacular light show which is not to be missed. Our guide, Sophie Lee, was the most knowledgeable and English-fluent guide we had at any time in the tour. (All the guides have good comprehension, good reading and writing skills and large vocabularies. What they lack is speaking skills because they very apparently haven't spent enough time conversing with and listening to native English speakers. As a result their pronunciation is very difficult to understand.) Sophie also took us to a restaurant that had the best food we ate in China. If you go to China, spend at least three days in Shanghai. It's an enormous city with lots to offer including the best food in China. The Travel China Guide tour put us on an 8 hour train trip to Shanghai followed by a two hour bus ride from the train station to our hotel, arriving after midnight. If you have the option of adjusting parts of your tour, try to avoid the long train ride, the late arrival and the bus. The MagLev train goes from the train station to the Bund in a few minutes and is a thrill all by itself at 300 miles an hour.

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