Private Tour

Private Suzhou and Tongli Water Village Day Trip from Shanghai

Overview

Available languages

Chinese

English

9 hours

Mobile ticket

Explore beautiful Suzhou and the famous water village Tongli in this private day trip from Shanghai. Accompanied by your profession private guide, and visit the top attractions based on your interests in Suzhou such as Humble Administrator's Garden, historical Pingjiang Road and etc.. In addition, visit Tuisi Garden (Retreat & Reflection Garden) and enjoy a relaxing boat ride in Tongli water village.

Additional Info

Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Children must be accompanied by an adult

Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately

Please wear comfortable walking shoes

Please advise any specific dietary requirements at time of booking

Cancellation Policy

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

What‘s Included

Hotel pickup and drop-off in downtown shanghai

Boat ticket in Tongli Water Village

Entrance fees

Private guide

Local lunch

Transport by private vehicle

Gratuities

Meeting and Pickup

Pickup points

Select a pickup point

What To Expect

Humble Administrator's Garden

Meet up your friendly private guide in the morning, and depart from your Shanghai hotel in a comfortable, air-conditioned vehicle to start your wonderful day trip. Head up to beautiful Suzhou and visit to the famous Humble Administrator's Garden. Upon arrival, you will stroll around old houses, ponds, and walkways inside the garden. The garden is considered the model of the modern Chinese Garden. Sitting in the pavilion beside the pond, you will fell like stepping back in history.

1 hour • Admission Included

Pingjiang Road

From Humble Administrator's Garden, head up to famous Pingjiang Road, and visit either Hanshan Temple or Tiger Hill based on your interests.

1 hour • Admission Not Applicable

Options

Shanghai City Departure

Pickup from your centrally located hotel in Shanghai
Pickup included

Shanghai Outskirts Departure

Depart from outside of Shanghai city center, such as airport hotels, Shanghai Disneyland Hotel, Toy Story hotel, Cruise Port, Songjiang/Chuansha/Jinqiao area etc..
Pickup included

Reviews

5.00

8 reviews

Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor

Nice experience
Compass35914550942,
Dec 10, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
Everything was as offerred. They arrived on Mary the guide was very nice. The food was very tasty. A very nice experience.
😀
Alexey T,
Oct 31, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
Liked the trip. Bella showed us beautiful cities Tongli and Suzchou with peacefully gorgeous gardens. Took a boat trip along the channel and had a traditional lunch 🤤 Thanks Bella and the driver for the perfect day!
An outstanding day tour with an excellent guide!
Gary V,
Sep 25, 2024
- Review from Viator
5.00
Mary was a wonderful guide and shared her wealth of knowledge about Shanghai, the Tongli Water Village and Suzhou. We learned so much in one day!
Awesome Tour
Claire M,
Aug 24, 2024
- Review from Viator
5.00
We really enjoyed our tour with Berlin. She was engaging and knowledgeable. It was a great tour for our team and helped with jet lag for one team member as we had the various sites and van rides between activities. She took care of us with cool snacks since we were visiting when it was very warm as well as lunch. We are glad we took this tour!
Family trip to Suzhou and Tongli
Nanna Z,
May 3, 2024
- Review from Viator
5.00
We were a group of family members visiting shanghai and found this wonderful tour to Tongli and Suzhou. Our guide Xin was professional and skillful and had a lot of nice historical stories to tell about these historical places we visited. It felt like we learned a lot thing about this part of Chinese culture and history in addition to the beautiful scenes. The tour arrangement was great and the routes were excellent. Although there were many tourists around these tourist spots we almost always found us among ourselves in peaceful environments.
A must! It is worth each penny invested.
496mozartm,
Mar 20, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
I loved the trip to the cute Tongli water town. Full of history and interesting details about how the bureaucracy worked at the time. Then we went to Suzhou and got marvelled by the gardens and the old street. Our guide Mary was very knowledgeable and had always nice fun-facts about the place and the society of ancient China to spice up the tour. She was also kind and professional. Thanks Mary!
Suzhou and TongLi visit
Jeanine20191234,
Sep 16, 2019
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
Tongli was beautiful and authentic. The lunch in Suzhou was delicious and the humble administrators garden was breathtaking! I very much enjoyed my guide Daisy who was very generous with her time and advice! We fit in some shopping on the side as well!!
A great trip to see the ‘real’ China
stewartrimmer,
Aug 18, 2019
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00
This was our second trip with Daisy as our guide, she was very knowledgeable about all aspects of the trip. We’d chosen this following a city tour as a direct contrast to the experience of Shanghai and were not disappointed. First stop was Tongli where we explored the narrow streets, taking in the sights and smells from local restaurants and shops before a river cruise. We then headed to Suzhou town for a traditional lunch then to the UNESCO listed Humble Administrators Garden via rickshaw which the teenagers loved! It’s a full day trip from Shanghai taking around 2hrs in the car, both daisy and the driver made the day hassle free which was appreciated given the heat and thunderstorms on the return trip.