Private Custom Hangzhou Day Tour with Shanghai Pickup Option

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Features

Free cancellation available
8h
Mobile voucher
Instant confirmation
Selective hotel pickup
Multiple languages

Overview

Hangzhou in one day, your way. This custom private day tour is built around what interests you — plan your own itinerary with your guide: a hand-rowed boat on West Lake, the incense-filled halls of Lingyin Temple, a tasting at a tea farmer's home in the Longjing (Dragon Well) tea fields, historic Hefang Street, or the quiet waterways of Xixi Wetland. Visiting from Shanghai? We'll time your pickup to your bullet train for an easy, seamless day trip. You'll travel with your own English-speaking local guide and private vehicle — just your group, at your pace — with entrance tickets included and no factory or shopping-stop detours: your hours are spent seeing Hangzhou, not showrooms. Perfect for first-time visitors, families, and anyone who wants the city's highlights without the tour-bus crowds.

Activity location

Westlake Hangzhou
- Hangzhou Shi, Zhejiang Dist
- Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Meeting/Redemption Point

West Lake Pleasure Boat
- Nan Shan Lu
- 310002, Hang Zhou Shi, Zhe Jiang Sheng, China

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Dates

Travellers

Private Custom Hangzhou Tour in Multilingual

8h
Opening hours: Thu 8:00 am-7:30 pm
English

Pickup included

Languages available

Price details

NZ$283.67 x 1 AdultNZ$283.67

Total

What's included, what's not

Interactive cultural discovery
Lunch
Local expert guide

Know before you book

- Public transport options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Travellers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

Activity itinerary

Westlake Hangzhou

1h
Admission ticket not included

Glide through the quiet waterways of Wugui Tan by traditional hand-row boat. Surrounded by reeds, low bridges, and tree-lined banks, this hidden section of West Lake offers a calm, intimate atmosphere far from the main tourist routes, revealing a more local and tranquil side of the landscape.

Lingyin Temple

1h
Admission ticket included

A top pick for culture lovers. Your private guide leads you through Lingyin Temple (the "Temple of the Soul's Retreat"), one of China's oldest and most revered Buddhist monasteries, founded in 326 AD. Wander incense-filled courtyards and grand halls, then explore the Feilaifeng grottoes facing the temple, where hundreds of Buddhist rock carvings — some over 1,000 years old — line the cliffs and caves. Your guide brings the history and living traditions to life, handles the two-part entry for you (both tickets included), and times the visit to dodge the biggest crowds.

Longjing tea fields

2h
Admission ticket included

Walk the terraced tea fields of Longjing (Dragon Well) Village, home of China's most celebrated green tea. Stroll the plantation paths between the tea bushes — in spring you may see pickers at work on the hillsides — then sit down in a local tea farmer's home for a tasting of authentic Longjing, brewed the traditional way. Your guide explains how the leaves are picked, hand-roasted in woks, and graded, and translates as you chat with your hosts about village life. Buying tea afterwards is entirely optional — no shopping pressure, ever. A peaceful countryside contrast to West Lake, only 20 minutes from city centre.

Hefang Street

1h
Admission ticket included

Finish with a stroll down Hefang Street, Hangzhou's historic walking street at the foot of Wu Hill, where the Southern Song dynasty's old merchant quarter lives on. Browse stalls of silk, fans, and calligraphy brushes, watch sugar-painters and craftsmen at work, and sample local street snacks — dragon's beard sweets, dingsheng cake — with your guide steering you to the stalls worth trying. Duck into Huqingyu Tang, the 150-year-old traditional Chinese medicine pharmacy still dispensing today. A lively, easygoing end to the day, with photo moments and souvenir shopping everywhere.

Xixi Wetland Park

1h
Admission ticket not included

The choice for nature lovers: Xixi National Wetland Park, China's first national wetland park — a maze of quiet waterways, reed marshes, and persimmon groves just minutes from city centre. Glide through the channels by electric boat, watching for egrets and kingfishers, and step off at preserved waterside villages where old fishing and silk-farming traditions live on. Your guide knows the calmest corners and each season's highlight — plum blossoms in early spring, white reed flowers in autumn. The peaceful, big-sky counterpart to a morning in the city; best as the centrepiece of a full-day itinerary.

Location

Activity location

Westlake Hangzhou
- Hangzhou Shi, Zhejiang Dist
- Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Meeting/Redemption Point

West Lake Pleasure Boat
- Nan Shan Lu
- 310002, Hang Zhou Shi, Zhe Jiang Sheng, China

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