Suzhou City Tour: Explore Canals, Gardens, Pagodas

Discover Suzhou’s ancient charm with a flexible private tour. Explore UNESCO sites, winding canals, and classic gardens with a local guide.

Duration: 8 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • The Classical Gardens of Suzhou - Your local great guide and the driver will meet you at your place in Suzhou (Your Suzhou Hotel or Suzhou train station if you travel by train). Start to design your own private day with your interests in mind. Following is the sample itinerary, you are welcome to tell your guide if need make any changes during the…
What's Included
  • Local tasty lunch (If Tour with Lunch Option booked)
  • Bottled water
  • Great local guide
  • Experienced driver with comfortable car
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Entrance fees if apply
  • Local lunch( Pay as actual own your own if “ Tour with lunch option” not booked)
  • Pick up&drop off in outskirts as Kunshan, Dianshan Lake, Fenghuetc can be arranged at surcharge.
Additional Information

This one-of-a-kind Suzhou city tour offers complete flexibility, enabling you to explore magnificent landmarks in Suzhou with a local expert guide accompanying you. Witness the charm of meandering canals, historic edifices, ancient pagodas and traditional gardens. Enjoy the option of visiting UNESCO-designated sites like the renowned Humble…

Location
The Classical Gardens of Suzhou
No.12 Gongyuan Road, Canglang District,
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Pamela_p
Aug 3, 2024
Beautiful gardens - Lulu was a great tour guide and made accommodations for our request to go to 2 silk museums and an opera show! Her food recommendations and insights to each place made the day feel special.
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Edward_c
Jun 2, 2024
Thoroughly enjoyed site seeing in Suzhou - Our guide Judy, a Suzhou local, was a great guide. She planned our itinerary very well and told many interesting stories about the sites we visited today.
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Tammy_t
Apr 8, 2024
Awesome experience - Lulu is a good guide. Brought us to different places and recommend us what to buy. She is lovable guide to be with. Would highly recommend her to choose as your guide.
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Oscar_c
Feb 9, 2024
Suzhou Experience - Michelle Zhang is a passionate, flexible tour guide. Recommends places to visit, knows her way around Suzhou. Highly recommended to have her.
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Boonkian_c
Dec 28, 2023
Remarkable guiding by Lulu - The tour was truly flexible, with us requesting to visit Humble Administrator's Garden, Tiger Hill (see from afar) and Hanshan Temple. Lulu was an amazing guide who could make the stories of these places accessible to us, in both English and Chinese (we had requested for her to go bilingual). She also made great recommendations to us and also patiently answered all our questions regarding Suzhou today. We left the tour feeling we know Suzhou and China much better and also made a new local friend!
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Eehsiungt
Dec 19, 2023
SUNNY TOUR - The tour was executed as plan and everything was punctual. The knowledge and explanation from Sunny was excellent. Will use them again.
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Patrickmu9442xg
Nov 22, 2023
A lovely day tour in beautiful Suzhou - It was a beautiful tour, taking in the canals, temples and gardens of old Suzhou on a lovely Autumn day. My guide, Lulu, was knowledgeable and charming as well as open and flexible. She hosted an excellent lunch, providing warm company. I can certainly recommend.
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Sickert
Sep 17, 2023
Unforgettable experience! - This private tour is highly recommended. I was picked up on time from the train station in Suzhou and received a very friendly welcome. Sunny then asked me about my personal wishes. After a short exchange, it was quickly decided what we would visit. The TOUR began in one of the classic gardens of Suzhou. I was explained many historical and interesting details that I probably wouldn't have noticed on my own. We then crossed the canals in a typical boat. This is definitely something you should do. We then strolled through the old town. It was well worth seeing. Everything was colorful, there were lots of shops and it smelled of good food. All in all, it was a really nice day trip with very nice company.
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292trangt
May 2, 2024
Not worth it - The tour is overpriced, they charge 443$ for a group of 5 for a city tour which we could have done ourselves for much much cheaper. We thought this tour is to zhouzhuang and other areas, that’s why we booked it but it turned out to be a city tour only. They should have named it flexible suzhou CITY TOUR instead of suzhou flexible private day tour. The name is misleading to start with. The included lunch was NOT great, the food was not tasty and the owner of the tour even got angry with us after the bad review saying the lunch was expensive. We’ve been travelling in China and we know the price and the lunch wasn’t worth that much. Save yourself hundreds of dollars and explore the city by yourself. The tour is NOT worth it.
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Trang_t
May 1, 2024
Overpriced tour, not worth it - We booked the tour without even realizing this is just a city tour. It’s our fault not to read the description but they should have said so on the title of the tour as well. We were 5 people and paid 443$ for a city tour which we could have done ourselves. The tour is incredibly overpriced and totally not worth it. It was such a ripoff. The included lunch was very disappointing and didnt even taste good. DO NOT book this tour.
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