Amazing Shanghai Trip · Shanghai city or airport
You pick two or three sights, and a private guide and driver take you there while the car waits. Pick it if you want Yu Garden plus one other part of the city, even straight from the airport or the cruise port.
Amazing Shanghai Trip, the company behind the Zhujiajiao day, sends a guide and a driver for four hours. The listing gives four sample stops: the Bund (40 minutes), the Jade Buddha Temple (60), Yu Garden (60) and the Former French Concession (30). You choose two or three, or take the suggested route; the overview also mentions the Binjiang riverside promenade. Guests report dumpling stops and a bit of shopping fitted in.
Tickets are extra: Yu Garden costs 40 RMB per person in peak season and 30 RMB from December to March, and the Jade Buddha Temple ticket is on you too. City Departure covers hotel pickup. Outskirt Departure adds pickup at an airport or the cruise port. Layover travellers can also meet at the Fairmont Peace Hotel or the Maglev station to avoid the extra pickup charge. Unusually, the listing marks the tour wheelchair and stroller accessible, transport included. Yu Garden itself has steps and rockery paths, so ask the guide which parts work.
The $115 is per person for the largest group tier; one or two people pay more each. Watch the evening departure. Yu Garden closes at 16:30 (last entry 16:00) and all day on Mondays except public holidays, so an evening or Monday tour means the bazaar outside the gate, not the garden.
From your hotel (City Departure), or an airport, train station or the cruise port (Outskirt Departure). Layover guests can meet at the Fairmont Peace Hotel or the Maglev station.
The waterfront promenade and the skyline across the river.
A working Buddhist temple and its jade Buddhas; ticket extra.
Rockeries, ponds and halls in the Ming garden; pay 30 to 40 RMB at the gate.
Plane-tree streets and old villas.
Back to your hotel, or on to the airport or your evening plans.
★★★★★I spent a half-day tour with Kalvin visiting some of the top sites in Shanghai: the Jade Buddhist Temple, Yu Gardens, Bund, and French concession. [...] He is a native Shanghai resident and it was great to hear directly from him about how the city has changed and grown during his lifetime.
★★★★★We had an afternoon during a 24 hour layover in Shanghai and wanted an introduction to the city focused on architecture and history. [...] The driver was also great--met us at the airport and dropped us off at our evening destination while we stored our bags securely in the vehicle.
★★★★★Also loved that it was a private tour because it was comfortable for ourselves and our almost 3 year old twin toddlers. Our guide Xin was super kind, helpful and informative - she would often take the helm and push one stroller for us.
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The listing names the Bund, the Jade Buddha Temple, Yu Garden and the Former French Concession, and mentions the Binjiang riverside promenade. You choose two or three within four hours, or take the suggested route.
No. All attraction entrance fees are excluded. The garden is 40 RMB per person in peak season and 30 RMB from December to March.
Yes, on the Outskirt Departure option, which covers airport or cruise port pickup and drop-off. Otherwise you can meet at the Fairmont Peace Hotel or the Maglev station.
No. The garden's last entry is 16:00 and it closes at 16:30; it is also closed on Mondays except public holidays. In the evening you see the free bazaar and the lit Huxinting teahouse from outside.
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Pick two or three sights, Yu Garden among them, with a private guide, car and driver for four hours.
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