Premium Custom Shanghai — A Day with Your Local Companion & Car
- 8 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
A private car, two people serving you, a day built around your interests. Max 5 guests. Your English-fluent local companion and driver pick you up in a Buick GL8 for 8 fully customizable hours. Before you land, we send a guide covering Alipay, DiDi, VPN, eSIM — everything visitors find tricky. We're available before, during, and after your trip. We bring a menu: neighborhoods, markets, temples, restaurants, and local activities we love. Want to change plans halfway? That's the point. What sets us apart: Two people focused on you — one drives, one companion. No fixed script, no kickback stops, no rushing. We match your pace. Any local activity you dream up — tai chi, hanfu, Chinese medicine, dumpling-making, fake market haggling — just ask. Classic sights if you want, but we prefer the Shanghai we live in: design districts, temples beside art spaces, hidden lane houses, morning tai chi in the park. You experience Shanghai. You don't manage it.
Inclusions
What's included
- Pre-arrival setup guide (Alipay, DiDi, VPN, eSIM — we walk you through it)
- WiFi on board
- Air-conditioned vehicle
- Custom itinerary planning before arrival
- Fuel surcharge
- Private air-conditioned vehicle (Buick GL8 or above) with driver — 8 hours
- Parking Fees
What's not
- Meals, snacks & drinks (your companion recommends and helps book — you choose where and what to eat)
- Attraction admission fees (paid on site as you go, typically ¥30–200 per person)
- City outskirts — Suzhou, Zhujiajiao, Panlong Tiandi, etc. (contact us for pricing)
- Special activities — tai chi, cooking class, hanfu experience, Chinese medicine, etc. (contact us)
- Overtime (300 RMB / ~$40 per hour)
Itinerary
This is a fully customized experience — there is no fixed route. After booking, we'll ask what you care about: food, photography, history, architecture, shopping, local life, or something else entirely. We then build an itinerary around your interests. On the day itself, your companion can adapt in real time — stay longer at a place you love, skip something you're not feeling, or pivot to something completely different. Nothing is locked in.
Wander tree-lined Wukang Road and Anfu Road with your companion. 1920s lane houses, tucked-away coffee shops, historic mansions hidden behind ivy-covered walls. Your companion knows which doors lead to courtyard gardens and which alley has the best pour-over in the neighborhood.
Start at Shanghai's oldest temple — a working Buddhist site with a 1,700-year-old pagoda. Then cross into the West Bund, where contemporary art galleries and riverside walks sit right next to ancient history. Two Shanghais, side by side.
A 1920s expat club turned design district. Art deco architecture, indie bookstores, a stunning swimming pool-turned-event-space, and some of the city's best casual dining. A perfect wind-down spot that most visitors never find.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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Ratings come from 1 reviews collected by our booking partner. They are travellers' own words, in the order they were written — never reordered to flatter the experience.
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- If you do not need hotel pickup, we'll meet at People's Square area, easy to find, central location.
- Pickup
- Pickup is offered, or you can meet at the starting point.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- Shanghai Unlocked
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
How it compares in Shanghai
- Its from-price is 65% above the median of the 504 city tours we list in Shanghai.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- By number of reviews it ranks 168 of 504.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Shanghai
Shanghai is China's dazzling financial city on the Huangpu River, where a colonial-era waterfront faces a futuristic skyline and old lanes hide teahouses.
The Bund, a riverside promenade lined with grand banks and hotels from the early twentieth century, faces the towers of Pudong across the water, among them the Oriental Pearl Tower, the Jin Mao Tower and the twisting Shanghai Tower. The view is at its most dramatic after dark, when both banks light up and river boats glide between them.
Top-ranked sights in Shanghai: The Bund (Waitan), Yu Garden (Yuyuan), Shanghai French Concession.
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Was/now prices come from the operator, never from us.
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