This was an amazing experience, so much so that I requested to extend the booking for a few more hours. Luke was a wonderful guide, he picked me up from the station and made sure every minute counted with history, facts, interesting videos, and amazing pictures. He was so helpful in finding a Halal restaurant and gave me the best options to try the local cuisine! Would totally recommend booking the full day tour with Luke!
About Activity
What's Included
Includes
- Private Vehicle: Spacious, air-conditioned with windows to enjoy scenic view throughout your journey
- Hotel and railway station pickup and drop-off in Hangzhou downtown
- Tea Village Tasting: Visit a historic tea plantation, savor authentic Longjing tea
- Expert Guide: Aknowledgeable local expert dedicated to crafting a personalized journey just for you
- Unlimited Refreshments: Bottled water provided throughout your journey
- Culinary Delights Authentic Local Lunch Handpicked restaurant featuring genuine Hangzhou cuisine
- All Entrance Fees: Admission to all attractions listed are included — no waiting, no hassle
Excludes
- Gratuities
Departure & Return
Departure Point
- Traveler pick up offered
Itinerary
Pick up service can be arranged at your hotel lobby in Hangzhou downtown or Hangzhou train station, you will find a welcome signage. Half day Hangzhou tour includes the following attractions. Upon arrival, start your trip with a boat ride on tranquil West Lake, the landmark of Hangzhou. Relax amid enchanting scenery as your guide points our historic pagodas, Chinese-style arched bridges, tree-lined walkways, green islands and lush gardens.
After that, you'll visit Meijiawu Tea Village, is a origin of the best green tea in China, Longjing. Longjing Tea is produced by hand and has been renowed for its high quality, earning the China Famous Tea title. Here you are in an original natural environment, just relax your feelings and enjoy the special tea culture, taste the fragrant tea while appreciating the beautiful village scenery. And our guide or Tea Farmer will show you how to pick the leaves, how to fry the leaves and how to drink the best tea in China.
The last stop is the Song Dynasty Imperial Street. Has been renamed Zhongshanlu Beiduan, but still leads to the Palace of the Northern Song dynasty. You'll find numerous of snack bars that offer local delicacies and shops that sell antiques, embroidered items and silks among others. Your tour ends with drop-off at your Hangzhou downtown hotel or Hangzhou train station.
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It’s a tour with a pretty well-rounded itinerary where we were able to visit the famous Hangzhou West Lake, take a ferry boat, visit the longjing (dragon well tea) plantation and walk along what was formerly the Song Imperial Street. Leo was an attentive tour guide and did his best to share history, culture and legends to make our tour more enjoyable and educational. Would recommend this tour if you want something of a slower pace. Suitable for elderly travelers.
Great way to see Hangzhou in half a day. All stops where worthwhile. Fanzhi, our guide, was splendid and definitely highly recommend this tour.
we were in Hangzhou for only a few days and wanted to make the most of our brief time in this beautiful city. Leo was a tremendous tour guide, so full of knowledge, we learned so much in addition to seeing many beautiful sights. We can highly recommend Leo, he is one of the nest guides we have had. thanks Leo!!!
I had a wonderful day with my tour guide Lulu. She amplified my experience even more. Really enjoyed her accompany.
Booked this tour with hotel concierge, Tommy was good tour guide, flexible schedule. The pick up was 9am, where we went straight to west lake, then I asked for the special arrangement to lingyin temple, we had dimsum then completed the tour w tea plantation and bamboo It was nice time that we had last glimps of foliage West lake and temple were a bit of walk but super nice ! Highly recommended
After a call on Sundaymorning we were able to go on tour with our guide Sharon. Picking us up at Hangzhou trainstation the driver brought us to one of the nicer entrances of the West Lake. Good explanation of Sharon and a boat trip to the other side of te lake, the driver picked us up again to bring us to the tea village of Meijiawu. Nice views and beautifull pictures ! On our way back to the train station, Sharon showed us an old market street where we also tasted different street food. We liked it a lot !
We booked at the very last minute (the night before) for the experience but everything still went perfectly. The tour was just as how we expected it to be with timely pick-up, knowledgeable and friendly guide, customized to our interests, private car with AC (perfect for a very hot day); AND even exceeded our expectations when we thought the tour already ended but David and the driver was so nice to wait for us until later of the night to drop us off at the station because our train was not until 9PM. Highly recommended.
David, our guide was very friendly, sociable. I have to been to China for many times already and have joined a lot of tours over there, so far, David is the one who I can said speaks very fluent English. He toured us around Hangzhou city, gave us some love stories surrounding the West Lake. We had a great boat ride going under canals which reminded us of Venice. We also went to a Tea plantations where they produced the best tea in China. He made sure that we were comfortable and not overly rushed throughout our tour.The highlight of the day's tour was lunch at a seafood market inside a supermarket owned by Jack Ma where we went and bought Live seafoods and have them cooked there. The cooking of the food was so delicious and cheap too. We were really happy that David was our guide. He is such a great guide, we would love to have him again in our future tour in Hangzhou.
Whilst my partner was attending a conference, I decided to book this tour to occupy my time and learn more about Hangzhou. It turned out to be a really eye opening experience for me! The car and driver were a very comfortable and time saving experience. Bonnie was a very competent guide who could answer all my questions and carried out the tour with enthusiasm and competence from begging to end. The West Lake tour, tea plantation and temples were total highlights! Many thanks again to Bonnie and China tours! I highly recommend anyone visiting the area to take this tour!
We had half a day to spare so we booked this trip. Bonnie was an excellent guide, the car was comfortable and the timing worked beautifully, Thoroughly enjoyed the stroll around, the boat trip, the visit to the tea area and the souvenir shopping. Happy to recommend.
We had an afternoon flight out after a couple of days on business. We were picked up at 9am on the dot and returned to our hotel at 2pm perfectly on schedule to head to the airport. Very much enjoyed our walk around the gardens and boat tour of the lake, visit to the tea farm and leisurely stroll around around the old shopping street. Bonnie was an excellent guide and made our trip relaxed and very enjoyable.
This tour was fantastic and more then anticipated. The car was comfortable, air conditioned, water provided. Lunch at a local farmers home was delicious and really good value. Having the tea picking / drying processes described to us in English made the process very interesting. We booked the tour as per the web site description however David our English speaking guide allowed us to mix things up a little. David's knowledge of the area and also the history of Hangzhou added to the overall experience of the tour. I thoroughly recommend this tour and David as your guide.
<p>This tour was fantastic and more then anticipated. The car was comfortable, air conditioned, water provided. Lunch at a local farmers home was delicious and really good value. Having the tea picking / drying processes described to us in English made the process very interesting. We booked the tour as per the web site description however David our English speaking guide allowed us to mix things up a little. David's knowledge of the area and also the history of Hangzhou added to the overall experience of the tour. I thoroughly recommend this tour and David as your guide.</p>
We were picked-up at hour hotel's reception by the sympathic Dave and an airconditioned car (it was really hot outside). Dave spoke perfect English, and was very knowledgeable about all he showed us, but we also had quite some fun chit-chatting about daily life, and our chinese adventure so far. The visit to the tea-factory and the explanations given by Davy was a true highlight of the tour. If you have only limited time at Hangzhou, I can recommend this tour truthfully !
Bonnie was very informative and helpful throughout with consideration to our timings and making things easy with a child in tow. Tea country, west lake boat ride, cultural sites such as the gardens and the old market road were very interesting and very glad we did this half day tour. Compact information but able to enjoy the sites.
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