07 May 2025
From everything I did in China this is the thing I regret the most.
I unfortunately booked this for our first day with no experience of the culture and went by the recommendations of the booking.
I am appalled they recommended you to give 10 Yuan each for a taxi driver for a tip and 100 Yuan each for the tour guide…
Just for context a taxi ride to Shanghai tower from my hotel is 16 Yuan and they recommend me to give 20 on top of that as a tip? Appalling.
The boat tour is 150 Yuan each.
So in total let’s say the taxis cost you 40 Yuan at a push, the boat 150 and the little train transfer is 10 Yuan that is 200 Yuan for this experience. When they ask for 600 Yuan for it and you to tip 100 per person more…. I will let travellers do the math themselves.
The tour guide was ok, but compared to all others we had on our trip even that fell short it just felt like we had to pull information out and it didn’t feel natural or enjoyable.
We did get some information about some of the buildings but we kind of expected a bit more for the big price tag and tip recommendations on top of that.