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1 Day Suzhou & Zhou Zhuang Tour from Shanghai

Tour Route: Shanghai, Suzhou, Zhouzhuang

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Group Tour
Day 1 Shanghai to Suzhou to Zhouzhuang to Shanghai

"Above is Heaven, below is Suzhou"describes the glamorous city of Suzhou. Today, people have more to say"in the middle is Zhouzhuang". This tour will take you to the both! The Suzhou gardens are very famous, which have been listeed into the category of the world cultural heritage.

Zhouzhuang is an ancient water town with over 900 years where rivers and lakes abound. The typical style and features of the water town and even its inbabitants' way of life remains unchanged.

Lion Forest Garden
Built in 1342 during the Yuan dynasty, the garden once served as a popular place for scholars at Suzhou to write poems and paint pictures. The garden is famous for its rockworks resembling lions with different and striking poses.

Suzhou Folk Custom Museum
The Museum introduces the cultural relics of the folk custom highlighting the season's folk customs, auspicious folk customs and the folk custom of cultivating children. The world famous architect I.M.Pei had lived here during his childhood in 1920's.

Grand Canal
The ancient Grand Canal ran its way from Beijing to Hangzhou. Suzhou is one of the important busy ports.

Zhou Zhuang Water Village
Zhou Zhuang is pround to be "China No.1 Water Village", about 45 minutes driving away from Suzhou. The tour is highlighted by a boating tour on the ancient waterway running through the old stone houses and arched bridges.

Route: Boarding-Lion Forest Garden-Suzhou Folk Custom Museum- Pass by Grand Canal-No.1 Silk Factory-Lunch-Zhou Zhuang Water Village-Boating on waterways-Back

Meals: Lunch
Travel Period 2-5 travelers 6-9 travelers
Dec.1- Feb.28 US$127 US$127
Mar.1- Nov.30 US$127 US$127

1.All transfers and city transportation for Group Tour
2.Entrance fees and meals as mentioned
3.Coach with English speaking guide

Tips to your tour guide and driver

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It is flexible to change the duration, attractions, starting and ending cities according to your interests. Also the tour can be extended or shorten as your preference, just let your trip consultant know.
All of the tour packages exclude the international airfares. We suggest you can book it one your own. You can compare the price between OTAs (Expedia, Priceline, Sky scanner...) and the airlines. When you have a confirmed date, set alarm and compare it always.
As the China Visa, we cannot apply for you as we are an China inbound travel company. However, we can send you our invitation letter with our company's official seal to you after you booked the tour from us, which could assist you to get China Visa from China embassy easily. Usually, we suggest you to apply the visa about one month or one month and a half before your travel date.
For the breakfast, it is offered by the hotel you stay, usually Chinese and Western buffet breakfast. As for the lunch, we offer 80RMB per person for a standard Chinese meal at a nice tourist restaurant. If you want to order other kind of meals, such as vegetarian, Muslim meals, Indian Meals, please let your trip consultant know. Dinner usually will be left for you to choose the food you prefer. Our guide will help you to balance each meal such as your taboo, your preference and avoid repeated food. You have to pay for the extra cost if you want to take better or more. The meals on Yangtze Cruise are fixed Chinese and Western Buffet.
All the hotels can be replaced by your favorite ones or you can book your own hotels. And the hotel room we offered here usually is standard with twin beds. If you want to have king-size bed room or suite, please let your trip advisor know. Besides, all the accommodation are quoted on two persons sharing one room. The room supplement must be paid if you want to have a single room.
* Most hotels we offered in our tour package have WIFI in the lobby, and some of which have WIFI in hotel rooms. If you need the WIFI in your room, please make sure with your trip advisor.
We have non-shopping private tour and tour with carefully selected shops. For tour with shops, the price will be lower, and you will enter one or two shops in every tourist city. The shops could be jade, silk, pearl, Chinese tea etc., all of which have strong China's character and is worthy to buy. Each shop will take you around 45 minutes. We promise there is no compulsory consumption at all. You get the situation in your hands.
* Department stores, supermarkets, boutiques, hotel and restaurants in most cities of China do accept the credit card with the sigh of MasterCard, VISA and JCB. However, it does generate commission charge. Please check the regulations with your bank manager.
All domestic flight we offered is the economic class, which you can carry one hand-on luggage no more than 5 kg for free. The total of free registered luggage is no more than 20kg. Excess luggage will charge you some extra fees, be aware of that. The free registered luggage allowance in China domestic train is 20kg.
The insurance provided by us is called Travel Agencies' Liability Insurance, which covers accidents occurring during the activities arranged by travel agency. It does not cover mishaps or physical problems occurring outside the guided tour period or caused by clients themsevles, so we highly suggest you purchase the full coverage travel insurance from your country of origin.
For group of 1-4 passengers, recommend US$ 4-8 per tourist per day for guide, and US$ 2-5 per tourist per day for guide; for group of 5 and above, recommend US$ 2-5 per tourist per day for guide, and US$2-4 per tourist per day for driver. Besides, we highly recommend you to tip every day to encourage better service from them in the next coming days. However, if you have genuine reason not to tip, don't.
Usually, the deposit of tour package accounts for 30% of the total quotation, and the balance should be paid 30 days before your tour date. Payment methods we accept include Bank Transfer and PayPal, Credit Card and so on. More details you can check the Payment Guide page. Moreover, Children who are less than 12 y/o have their own discounts, please contact with your trip advisor.

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