China tours, from three-day stopovers to fifteen-day journeys

A private 8-day trip costs US$1,600–2,600 per person for two travellers, roughly US$200–325 per day, including hotels, guide, transport and most meals. A 14-day journey runs US$3,200–5,400. International flights are not included.

Included are 4- and 5-star hotels with breakfast, a private vehicle and driver, a licensed guide, all entrance tickets, domestic flights or high-speed rail, and one main meal daily. Not included are international flights, visas and drinks.

Our departures are private: just your party, usually 2 to 8 people, in a vehicle sized to fit. We never merge strangers into a group. Larger families of 9 to 16 travel in a minibus with a second guide from day four.

Yes; most itineraries absorb one extra city without changing shape, because high-speed rail covers Beijing–Xi'an in 4.5 hours and Shanghai–Hangzhou in 1 hour. Adding a city costs roughly US$220–380 per person per day.

Peak season is April–May and September–October; low season is January–February and late November. The same itinerary can differ by 15–25% between the two, almost entirely hotel rates. National holidays in early May and early October add 10–20%.

Most days involve 4 to 7 km of walking on flat, paved ground at your own pace. Two itineraries are genuinely strenuous: the Great Wall ridge walks and Zhangjiajie's 5- to 6-hour mountain days. We grade every route and offer a shorter alternative.

Breakfast is included daily; we arrange one main meal a day, chosen with you, and leave the rest open. Allergy and dietary notes go to the restaurant in Chinese before you sit down. Vegetarian, halal and gluten-free are all workable.

Yes. About one traveller in six is solo and pays the single supplement plus a solo rate roughly 30–40% above the per-person price for two. We never add strangers to your vehicle, your room or your restaurant table.