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A guide who works this city daily and orders the stops by traffic and opening hours.
China · Shanghai
Private Guide & Car Hire in Shanghai
Made to order Guide · Escort · Car · Translation · Transfers Chinese · English · Korean
Theme
- The Bund at Night
- Yu Garden
- Wukang Road
- Lujiazui
- Shanghainese Food
- Pudong Cruise
Licensed local guideItinerary before paymentNo shopping stops
Ground services in Shanghai
Guide, escort, car, translation, transfers, family and photo — book one or combine them.
- Best months
- March–May, October–November
- Days needed
- 2 days, 3 with a water town
- Arriving
- Pudong 45 min by maglev + metro, Hongqiao 40 min
- Typical day
- CNY 800–1,100 (≈US$111–153) car + guide
Quotes are in CNY; US$ figures are indicative at about CNY 7.2 = US$1 and move with the daily rate. Final price is confirmed by our team before you pay.
Local escort
No rushing, no pushing sales. Point ordering, photos and looking after the kids, half or full day.
Private car & driver
5 to 19 seats, priced per day with fuel and tolls included. The driver knows the coach parks.
Translation
English, Japanese and Korean available; good for business visits and independent travellers.
Airport & rail transfers
Name-board pickup, 60 minutes free waiting when a flight is delayed.
Family & school trips
Museums and ruins explained by age, with breaks and meal time kept in the plan.
Photo session
Half a day of shooting, 20–30 retouched photos, shot along the same route as the sightseeing.
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01What to see
Shanghai: the four places that matter
Ordered the way you should actually visit them, not by fame.
1.5 km of 1920s banks facing Pudong. Best at 6:30 before the crowds and at night from the other side.
A Ming scholar’s garden in the old town; go at opening, 90 minutes.
Plane trees, 1930s villas, Wukang Road and Anfu Road for coffee and shops.
Shanghai Tower observatory or a river ferry for a tenth of the price.
02Two-day plan
How we would plan your two days
Built around opening times and traffic, not around a list of attractions.
Day 1 · River and old town
Bund at dawn, ferry across to Pudong for the skyline, back for Yu Garden at 13:00, old town streets, river lights at night.
Day 2 · Concession and museums
Wukang Road and the Concession on foot, lunch in a lane house, Shanghai Museum or the Power Station of Art in the afternoon.
Local notes
- The Bund is unbearable after 10:00 on weekends; go at dawn and again at 21:00.
- Skip the 100-yuan "river cruise" touts; the public ferry costs ¥2 and crosses in eight minutes.
- Yu Garden is closed Mondays; the surrounding bazaar is open but not the garden.
03Where to stay
Pick the area first, the hotel second
The wrong district costs you an hour a day in traffic.
The Bund / Huangpu
Historic hotels, walk to everything on the river.
Former French Concession
Quieter, better cafés, 15 minutes by metro to the Bund.
04What to eat
Two things you should not leave without trying
Shengjian baoPan-fried pork buns, ¥12–20 for four; the queue is the quality signal.
Benbang cuisineSweet-savoury Shanghainese cooking — braised pork, drunken chicken, ¥80–150 a head.
05What goes wrong
Three things that catch first-time visitors
- The Bund is unbearable after 10:00 on weekends; go at dawn and again at 21:00.
- Skip the 100-yuan "river cruise" touts; the public ferry costs ¥2 and crosses in eight minutes.
- Yu Garden is closed Mondays; the surrounding bazaar is open but not the garden.
06Questions
Shanghai: questions travellers actually ask
How many days for Shanghai?
Two for the city, three if you add Suzhou or a water town.
Is the maglev worth it?
Only for the 430 km/h experience; the metro is nearly as fast to the city.
What should I skip?
The Bund sightseeing tunnel and most "observation deck + cruise" packages.
The full guide runs to four pages — in Chinese
Tickets, opening hours, hour-by-hour itineraries and eighteen local questions. Machine translation handles these pages well; send us a screenshot if anything is unclear.
How booking Shanghai works — three steps, itinerary before price
No deposit to get a plan, and nothing is locked in before you agree to it.
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Send the brief
Dates, party size, how you arrive and what you want to see. Tell us the working language you need and whether anyone has trouble with stairs.
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Get a route and a price
We order the stops by location and traffic, then quote per car per day with fuel, tolls and the driver included. Ask for changes as often as you need — it costs nothing.
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Confirm and travel
Only after you accept the route and the price do we assign the car and guide. You get their contact details before pickup, so you are never handed off to a stranger.
Combine it with
Cities usually combined with Shanghai on the same trip.
