4-Hour Private Customized Shanghai City Tour: Personalized Sightseeing and Cultural Experience
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72 Ratings
Shanghai
Experience the best of Shanghai with a personalized 4-hour city tour. Explore top attractions, learn about the city's history, culture, and art, and create lasting memories with a friendly guide.
Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • The Bund (Wai Tan) - Meet your local professional guide at your hotel lobby at 8:30, 13:00 or 18:30 ( Or your preferred departure time ). Since this is a fully private customized tour based on your own interests, please choose 3 top attractions that you want to visit the most, or feel free to discuss your preference with your guide upon meeting. Typically, you will visit The Bund first, to see the amazing skyscrapers along the Huangpu River.

  • Yu Garden (Yuyuan) - If you like, you can choose to visit the most famous classic Yu Garden. Your guide will share with you the Chinese garden art, and give you an overview of high official’s garden life in the history.

  • Jade Buddha Temple - You can also choose to visit one of the most famous Buddhist temple “Jade Buddha Temple”. Your guide will not only point out all the details but explain you the history of Buddhism and wisdom of Buddhism philosophy.

  • Former French Concession - Another good choice is to visit Former French Concession, where is full of trendy bars and clubs. The area still holds something of the alluring mix of scrappy Shanghainese street life and shopworn European colonial charm. Your guide will show you the most interesting area in the Former French Concession according to your preference.

  • Shanghai Tower - Your final stop can be at Shanghai Tower, you can take the fastest elevator ( 18m/s ) in the world to 119F to have a wonderful view of Shanghai. Your guide will point out all the important places and explain you all the stories behind it.

If you wish to do something else, such as food tasting, body massage, or visit other attractions, such as Shanghai Propaganda Museum, Shanghai Museum and etc, please feel free to let your guide know.

What's Included
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Private transfer included with select tours
  • Expert guidance from a private professional guide
What's Not Included
  • All Entrance fees
  • Transportation (if Tour Only Option is selected)
  • Personal expense
  • Food and drinks
  • Airport pickup and drop-off service
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

The agenda for this half-day, private Shanghai city jaunt can be wholly personalized according to your preferences. Whether your interests lie in exploring the city’s popular landmarks or diving into a comprehensive learning about Shanghai’s history, culture, art and so forth, your hospitable guide will provide an exceptional display of this spectacular metropolis.

  • Please wear comfortable walking shoes
  • Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
  • For the Pudong airport layover travelers, please meet up either at Maglev Train Longyang Rd Station ( You can easily take Maglev train from Pudong airport to Longyang Rd Station in 7 minutes ), Or Pudong airport with extra pick-up charges applied.
  • If hotel is located at outskirt of Shanghai, please meet up either at Fairmont Peace Hotel ( the concierge area ) or your hotel with extra pick-up charges applied.
Location
The Bund (Wai Tan)
Zhongshan East 1st Road,
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Paul_s
Feb 7, 2024
MS. PENNY IS PERFECT - My best friend and I were blessed to have Ms. Penny as our guide. From start to finish she asked me about my tour preferences and what I was most interested in. She also helped me at the markets, suggested local eateries, and was extremely informative on the history of China 🇨🇳 and Shanghai. I will be forever grateful for you Penny, and consider you a lifelong friend. I hope to see you again, many blessings your way. 💖
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C3210jbdougl
Dec 29, 2023
Short of time in Shanghai? This tour is a must! - The tour with Penny, our guide, was amazing! She showed up a few minutes' early at our designated meeting spot near our hotel and took us on a 4-hour+ walking & taxi tour of the Yu Gardens and the Bund area. We spent a lot more time at the Yu Gardens, exploring everything that it had to offer including sampling the delirious Xiao Long Bao (soup dumplings). Penny was a walking encyclopedia, giving us facts about China, the Gardens and Chinese culture in general. She was super patient, allowing us to meander at our own pace, and explaining everything around wherever we were. This tour a a definite "must" if you have a limited time in Shanghai and want to see specific things. It is a custom-designed tour, so read up a bit about Shanghai so that you can decide where you want Penny to take you. If we had more time, we would have hired her again to see the other parts of Shanghai we missed. 5 stars for thsi one!
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Ronald
Nov 26, 2023
Great tour, highly recommended. - We were picked up at the hotel. Kelly, our good English speaking guide, showed us the Bund, the Yu Gardens and the French Quarter. You can indicate in advance what you want to see. Friendly guide, knows something about everything and let us taste delicious snacks. We wanted to stay at the Bund until the lights came on, but she arranged for us to return to the hotel afterwards. Highly recommended.
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Ailoony
Oct 27, 2023
Most Enlightening Tour! - We had an excellent tour with Penny from Shanghai Melody. Penny was very knowledgeable about the history of Shanghai and was able to provide a good overview within the few hours of our tour. We were able to get a better perspective of Shanghai and indirectly the Chinese culture through snippets shared by Penny. We will definitely recommend this tour as an excellent introduction to Shanghai.
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Curiosity428987
Sep 13, 2023
Lights and History of Shanghai - Excellent tour made special by the historical information supplied by our tour guide Penny. We enjoyed a boat trip seeing the spectacular light display illuminate the old and new sights of Shanghai and walked around Yu Gardens trying some of the local cuisine while learning of the history of the city. We chose to have our tour start at 18.30 but would recommend an earlier start to enjoy some of the sights in daylight. Overall a very good experience.
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Ap3d
Jan 25, 2020
Great day trip in Shanghai! - I had a 9 hour layover in Shanghai, and decided to do a day trip to see as much of the city as I could. My guide Sophie Lee was great! I asked to see what the locals do on a Sunday. Sophie took me to various parks where the locals dance, Tai Chi, gather for gossip, and even match making. Of course I got to see the Shanghai Tower and checked out the view from the second tallest building in the world. I had a great time and look forward to visiting Shanghai again, but for more than just a day.
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The_travelling_heels
Jan 9, 2020
Excellent Communication and Representation - From the offset Kelly was excellent in communication. She was very patient with my questions and adaptable to what I needed to arrange. On the day Penny was the guide and she was amazing. She was professional, knew the local area and was also adaptable. The company went the extra mile and I highly recommend them. I will be using them again.
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Poobs12
Jan 9, 2020
Great time - Ms Kelly was lovely and the personalised tour was both insightful and exciting. P.S Would recommend the scallion noodles :)
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Expedition827538
Jan 4, 2020
Lost Plate culinary tour - Had a great time and my husband was excited to get a chance to make soup dumplings with an expert at one of our stops. Guides were fun and helpful. Would definitely recommend.
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Jsberlin
Dec 29, 2019
Awesome Half day tour in Shanghai - We had very long stopover in Shanghai and decided to make the best of it and leave the airport for some sightseeing. Conveniently you can get nowadays a 24 h visa on arrival without any fees. We contacted Shanghai Melody a couple of days in advance. Kelly was very responsive and arranged a pick up at the Maglev station Longyang Road. Penny was taking good care of us.
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