Private Tour
Shanghai Top 5 Highlights All Inclusive Private Day Tour
Overview
Available languages
9 hours
Mobile ticket
This full day non-factory shopping private tour will immerse you into Shanghai’s top 5 highlights, such as Yu Garden and Bazaar and Jade Buddha Temple, and Shanghai Tower, the Bund, the Former French Concession. All entrance tickets, delicious dumpling lunch, private guide and driver, whole day transfer service are all included in this 9-hour tour.
Additional Info
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Children must be accompanied by an adult
Infant (1-3 years old) are free providing they do not occupy a seat
Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
Comfortable walking shoes are recommended
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What To Expect
Shanghai Tower
First visit will be Shanghai Tower the highest building in China for bird view of Shanghai.
Yu Garden
Visit famous Yu Yuan Garden and Bazaar - Yu Yuan Garden is the largest and best known of the historic gardens of Shanghai (Built in 1559), while the bazaar is a market with lots of small shops / vendors selling souvenirs, hand-made crafts, folk crafts, packed snacks.
What‘s Included
Lunch: shanghai local Shengjian dumpling
Private transfer if your booking with private vehicle
Private English/Spanish/German/Italian/French speaking guide
Entrance ticket fees
Dinner
Gratitude (Recommended)
Pickup points
Select a pickup point
Options
transfer with private vehicle
Pickup included
Transfer with subway
Private guide, entrance tickets, local lunch, subway or metro tickets are all inclusive.
Pickup included
Reviews
18 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Great tour. Great value
Mikewheeler1962,Mar 20, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00This was a great all day tour to some fabulous locations. The tour guide, Summer, was amazing. Definitely put a great deal of effort into making the four of us on the tour happy. She even had to cope with me being a vegetarian, which she did very well. Can’t recommend this tour highly enough. Superb.
Shanghai Top 5 & Shopping with Sophie
Travel688467,Mar 13, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00We made arrangements for this tour with Catherine Lu Tours. Sophie was assigned to us and met us at our Shanghai on the Bund hotel lobby. From that moment we experienced four top sights plus shopping and lunch (total 6 sites). Sophie is smart, personable and knowledgeable. And, she is nice to look at :) Sophie wasted zero of our energy and got us from our hotel to six different locations in one day. We experienced Shanghai's ride share and the subway. For us, the highlight of our sights was the Shanghai Tower (3rd highest in the world) and the Jade Temple (3 solid jade Buddhas). I was most happy finding ginseng oolong Chinese tea and 100 percent mulberry silk comforter, available for purchase, all at a discount from USA prices. Sophie is equally competent as a tour guide and a shopping price negotiator. Thank you, Sophie. If I could, I would give you more than 5 stars. I highly recommend Catherine Lu Tours and ask for Sophie C. You will not regret.
Great Private Tour of Shanghai with Sophie
irishforevermom,Feb 26, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00We had an amazing private tour of Shanghai with Sophie! We arranged for a pickup at the Baoshan Ceuise Terminal, and met up with Sophie in downtown Shanghai at the Jade Temple. Each spot was incredible, and Sophie fully explained what we were seeing. She was fun and personable, great conversation throughout the day, and answered any questions we had! It was especially nice to go to a wonderful restaurant and have her order delicious food, based on our preferences! Even though the day was rainy, we had an incredible tour!!
I love Shanghai thank you so much Luisa
lauradN2121UA,Feb 4, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Our experience with Luisa our Italian language guide was fantastic. Very kind and prepared accompanied us and followed in every detail. We discovered ancient and modern places really unique, we tasted specialties in original places, all accompanied by an organized Transfer service
Shanghai for the holidays
N3880HXoliviaa,Jan 4, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00We had an incredible experience with Henry who was our guide in Shanghai from Catherine Lu tours, we was an excellent tour guide and gave us a cultural and historical immersion on our days with him. We visited the the Buddhist Jade temple, Bund, the French concession and had perfect photos in the new and old parts of the city, he brought us to a fun place for lunch and we ended our day at the new Shanghai museum. It’s was really a fascinating day. He was so kind and friendly we felt part of the community. We’d highly recommend his tour through Catherine Lu Tours, which we used all throughout our trip in China with great enthusiasm and support for our personal requests. She and her team created a unique e experience for our family.
One day in Shanghai with Cathy
lucieellal,Oct 29, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00We spent the day with our tour guide Cathy. She was very kind, knowledgeable and spoke good English. Overall we had a great time and would definitely recommend her!:)
Wonderful tour of Shanghai highlights!!!
Grant L,Apr 7, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00The experience with Catherine Li was outstanding. Our tour guide Ruby was wonderful. She spoke outstanding English. She had tremendous knowledge of all the sites that we were visiting. She was very patient and allowed us to move at our pace. This was a thoroughly enjoyable tour. It's wonderful when you get a tour guide that is as educated knowledgeable and speak speaks the language to make it very easy for us to have an outstanding tour. We would do the same tour over again with Ruby just to get a secondhand view of everything we saw it was so special. Strongly recommend this tour. Grant & Judy
Xangai linda
anacarolinasB7811OV,Jan 27, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Shanghai is beautiful! The night then ...!! Tours, restaurants, hotels... Shanghai the night and another! Whatever you do with outdoor walks, make the night!
Shanghia, the Chinese NY city!
andreauD6266EN,Dec 27, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Shanghai is beautiful, modern and cosmpolitan city where history and tradition perfectly combine with tall skyscrapers and tall towers. It's plenty of green spaces and it has a very efficient subway system. My tourist guide, Cecilia, beyond her fluent English, was really helpfull and gave me a lot of tips to take most profit of the city. Excellent experience!!
Highly recommended Shanghai experience with Catherine Lu tours!!
isabeld686,Sep 9, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Our Shanghai tour included 4 days within which we went to Disney one day!! They got us everything, the entrance tickets the train tickets, our henri and ruby guides were excellent and very coordial. August is a very hot time in Shanghai. But very hot! It was still worth it, the places that took us very nice.. an amazing experience. We would definitely require your services again or recommend them to family or friends!!! It was a great help to have them as guides for us who traveled from Mexico and had many doubts about the country. They helped us with everything!!
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