Shanghai Private Tour: River Cruise, Shanghai Tower, and Authentic Dining Experience
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Shanghai
Experience the best of Shanghai on this 5-hour private tour. Enjoy a River Cruise, visit the Shanghai Tower, explore Yuyuan bazaar, and indulge in an authentic dining experience. Limited time, unlimited taste and views!
Duration: 5 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Yu Garden (Yuyuan) - 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 interests, 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 (Yuyuan garden close on Monday).
  • Pudong New Area - 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.
  • Shanghai Tower - 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.
  • Huangpu River Cruise - 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.
What's Included
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Professional guide
  • Huangpu River cruise ride
  • Shanghai Tower entrance fee
  • Shanghai-style lunch or dinner
  • Private air-conditioned transport
  • Airport drop-off (optional)
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • 5 USD/Person Entrance Fee for Yuyuan Garden( The Garden not open on Monday)
Additional Information

Taste Shanghai contains two meanings: first one is to taste the delicious Shanghai cuisine, and the second one is to overlook the entire city view of Shanghai. This 5-hour private tour is customized just for your party, which you can eat and see in this amazing city in your limited time. You will visit Shanghai Tower (the tallest building in China), Yuyuan bazaar and take the Huangpu River cruise. Besides sightseeing, you will enjoy a tasty lunch or dinner(depends on you choosing on the morning 10am or afternoon 2pm departure time) in Shanghai style.

  • 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
  • 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
Location
Yu Garden (Yuyuan)
No.218 Anren Street, Huangpu District
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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(22 Ratings)
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Geoffrey_l
May 21, 2024
Wonderful service - Before the tour even started, Alana, the tour coordinator, got in contact with us to check if we had any particular requests and to make sure the tour was perfectly adapted to our requirements. This was extremely thoughtful and helpful and after a short discussion we moved the tour start 1 hour earlier to make sure we could visit the yujuan garden, effectively increasing the tour time by 1 hour without any extra charge. Our taxi driver, Miss Cheng, was on time and lovely. Our guide, Charlie, was very knowledgeable and helpful. The tour was very interesting and well organised, with almost no waiting time inbetween activities. The food was lovely and there was more than enough to feed everyone despite some of us starving because of the jetlag. Beers were included. At the end we finished the day with a boat ride. The boat was crowded so the tour operator upgraded us to the VIP aera of the boat. This was a lovely touch to finish the day, the boat ride was wonderful and we now leave this place with beautiful pictures. The hotel pickup and drop-off was very important for us and we are glad they could provide it as our hotel was quite far out of town. 10/10, excellent day and excellent tour. Wonderful experience. We could have not experience as many things just by oursleves.
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Georgeleeseng
Apr 24, 2024
Excellent tour with our... - Excellent tour with our guide Charlie who was simply great. We visited many places + the lunch was so good.
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Kevin_t
Dec 29, 2023
Perfect Start to our Shanghai Trip! - Thanks to the great planning and coordination by Alana, and lovely personality of our guide Mary, the private tour for our family with young kids was such an enjoyable one!
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841radimp
Sep 10, 2020
Wonderful day in Shangai - We enjoyed this trip very much. The car was air-conditioned and comfortable to ride in, with a pleasant driver, who took us between the attractions. Our guide - Ms. Berlin - was wonderful! She tailored the experience to our needs (we are an older couple), took good care of us (she provided us with hand disinfection, face masks and refreshments along the way) and talked about Shangai most engagingly and with deep knowledge. Very professional behaviour and great English! The food we had at a modern Chinese restaurant was delicious. Everything was well planned and ran smoothly. We heartily recommend this tour and Ms. Berlin as guide!
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Rtr2018-1
Nov 9, 2019
Good Overview of Shanghai - We enjoyed the day with our guide Wilson. He was very knowledgeable and his English easy to understand. It was also great to have a driver who could negotiate the crazy traffic. We highly recommend this tour and guide.
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Moiz
Oct 31, 2019
Mr - Chloe was perfect . fantastic guide Good and clear English .Her professionalism and knowledge made our visit very pleasant.we would strongly recommend Chloe for any Shanghai visit Driver was also helpful and very polite
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Karlbi
Oct 27, 2019
perfect afternoon in shanghai - We are very satisfied with our guide Mrs. Lang and also the dricer! the car with the glass roof was perfect to view shanghai during the transfers. Mrs Lang our guide was perfect in english and she explained us so much about amazing Shanghai We will never forget all the nice pleaces and this afternoon. for us Shanghai-tower was the highlight! And also the late afternoon boat-trip on the river huang pu! The brand new light-show was so impressive! Moreover we had a delightious chineese dinner. Many Thanks to Mrs. Lang! K.Bickel
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Stephanb497
Oct 27, 2019
Try this - Tour was fabulous, Alana is a fantastic guide. Was great to see the comparison of the traditional old town & the skyscrapers of the bund!
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Yunlingf2019
Oct 22, 2019
Shanghai half day private tour - It is a very good tour for our first time in Shanghai, with our excellent guide Mary, we visited Yuyuan Market, old shanghai area , awesome view from Shanghai Tower, Hangpu River cruise and many more. Dinner was delicious too.
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Emmwardd
Oct 9, 2019
Best tour! - We had the most amazing day! Wilson was a great guide, and the day was packed full of things we would not have been able to do on our own. Thank you for an amazing time! We will definitely recommend and come back if we return to Shanghai.
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