Private Shanghai Night River Cruise and Hot Pot Dining Experience
Overview
Available languages
Mobile ticket
Enjoy a fun and romantic night outing by seeing the city’s amazing lights lit up while sitting in the VIP area of the cruise boat. Savor a delightful hot pot dinner in a local well selected restaurant. No matter you are first time hot pot eater or the foodie, your guide will help you enjoy the most popular and traditional “pot” dining experience. Also known as Japan’s shabu-shabu, Thailand's suki, or Fondue in some other area.
Additional Info
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Public transportation options are available nearby
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking
What To Expect
Huangpu River
Your local friendly guide and the driver will pick up you at your Shanghai hotel. Follow your guide and start your wonderful night experience. First start the relaxing night river cruise along Huangpu River, capture the best and spectacular city skylines while you sit in your VIP seating of the boat. Immerse yourself in the breathtaking view of the illuminated lights on the famous buildings such as Oriental Pearl TV Tower, Shanghai Tower, Shanghai World Financial, glittering lights on the Bund colonial architecture while learning the interesting history and stories from your guide.
Pudong New Area
After the wonderful river cruise, follow your guide to the local hot pot restaurant, enjoy a delightful dinner that allow you to fully experience one of the most popular Chinese dinning cultures, your guide will help you choose from assorted meats, seafood, vegetables, mushrooms, dumplings, and more base on your own dietary requests ,and enjoy dipping them into the tasty hot pot stock. After dinner you will get dropped back to your hotel.
Options
Private Night Tour
Great guide ,driver with car ,tasty dinner, VIP seated river cruise ticket are all included. Pickup included
What‘s Included
Hotel pickup and drop-off (Only for hotels located in downtown area. Pickup does not include hotels in the outskirts such as Jiading, Songjiang, Qingpu,Jinqiao, and Chuansha in Pudong areas. If your hotel is not in the downtown area, your guide will give you instructions to the meeting point downtown.
Hot Pot Dinner
Huangpu River cruise ticket VIP seating
Professional private guide
Private driver and car
Gratuities
Outkirst area pick up& drop off( Pudong /Hongqiao airport,Disneyland area, Songjiang Qingpu etc)
Pickup points
Select a pickup point
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Reviews
16 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Great time and well organize
Andrew N,May 2, 2026
- Review from Viator
5.00Outstanding experience. Our guide Annie was personable, friendly, and incredibly knowledgeable — she walked us through Shanghai’s history as she showed us around the city, and her enthusiasm was contagious. The night river cruise delivered stunning skyline views, and the hot pot dinner afterward was a real cultural highlight. Annie encouraged us to try dishes outside our comfort zone, which turned into one of the most memorable parts of the night. Service was quick and efficient throughout. A genuinely well-run, well-curated experience, highly recommend, especially if you can book with Annie.
Must do!
Shaun B,Jan 24, 2026
- Review from Viator
5.00We had a lovely time on this tour. Hot pot is definitely something you should experience whilst in China and the cruise was absolutely beautiful. Our guide Michael was friendly, funny and very knowledgable!
Great experience
Danielle M,May 19, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Really great experience , the light show is definitely something you want to see. We had Lilly as our tour guide. Great English speaking. Very delicious Hot Pot.
Best way to experience...
Bennett R,Apr 21, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Best way to experience the magic of the Bund. VIP seats were a must during this busy time of year. Wonderful tour
Shanghai night cruise
46milosp,Jan 14, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Amazing cruise with great views. Kelvin, the guide was helpful and informative. I would recommend him to other travellers.
Good and well organised.
low j,Oct 20, 2024
- Review from Viator
5.00We had a very good tour guide, Kelvin with us. He came to our hotel and fetched us and we went into a mini bus as there were 7 of us. Kelvin did all the necessary and we got the VIP floor . Everything was perfect. The hotpot dinner was so good and held in a popular hotpot shop. Food was so much that we couldn't finish them. Kelvin is a very good and acknowledgeable guide. He spoke both in English and Mandarin very well. Strongly recommend this tour otherwise you can't take good pictures at night . Really worth it !
Great cultural experience 💫
Olga D,Aug 25, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00The excursion was prepared in a very short period of time on Saturday evening, which is great)) Extremely friendly guide Jessica gave us so much information about the city and culture. The driver was very polite and was right on time to pick us up and to bring back very comfortably. Sunny was very quick with communication and very clear with all the instruction. Highly recommend this tour and will be happy to take another tours next time I’m in Shanghai 💫
Shanghái night views & dinner
Ana P,Jul 8, 2024
- Review from Viator
5.00Fantastic views! Excellent tour with a perfect setting. The hot pot was extraordinary. Our guide, Sunny, also a gift. Unforgettable.
Worth the money and the duck blood
elisechristinlindh,Jul 1, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00We had the the great experience of booking this guided tour with Sunny on a Saturday afternoon. Both the cruise along the Bund and the Hot Pot was well worth it! In short: Number of people one the group: 2 First time in China: yes About the guide: Sunny was wonderful and answered whatever questions we had Would I recommend it? yes 1. Could we have booked tickets for the cruise ourselves? Yes, but we would then have been standing on an overcrowded deck with very loud Chinese and other tourist groups with a poor view of the Bund. With Sunny, our guide, we got seats at the upper front deck, with the best view of the Bund and much calmer surroundings! Sunny provided us with nice facts of Shanghai and the Bund and offered to take photos of us - which we highly appreciated :) 2. Could we have brought a hot pot experience ourselves? Also yes, but as we don't speak Chinese we would not have known what to ask for, what to do or what we where eating. With Sunny, we where in very good hands! She picked items that would suit our tastes, as well as include some more special items such as duck blood! Without this guided tour, I would never have tasted duck blood. I might not do it again, but it's really cool to have been able to try it. And honestly, it wasn't that bad - almost good. 3. Private driver between the events (cruise + hot pot) was really convenient! The driver didn't speak much English, but it wasn't a problem as Sunny either where with us or provided him with the address for our destinations. All in all, a wonderful experience and the highlight of our Shanghai stay :)
Great tour!
B5627XPmelissaf,Jun 21, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00The boat was great!! We sat in the VIP area and were able to see all the beautiful buildings and lights. The guide gave a lot of information about the buildings. The dinner was fun!! Highly recommend.
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