China trip planning · 2026
Travel to China, planned day by day.
Tell us your dates, your budget and what you actually want to see. You get a day-by-day China itinerary written by someone who lives here, the 2026 entry rules checked for your passport — visa-free or 240-hour transit — and a booking list you can work through on your own.
Plans from 49 US dollars, delivered in three to seven days. No account needed.
Why a written itinerary works
Clear
A day-by-day plan, not a list of sights: which gate, which train, what time, what it costs.
Current
Every plan is dated and re-checked before you fly — ticket windows, entry rules, seasonal closures.
Good value
Priced by the work, not by your budget. No commission on hotels, no markup on tickets.
Matched to you
Built around your dates, your pace, your budget and who is coming — a baby, a child, or a group of eight.
What you receive: itinerary, entry check, booking list
- 01
The itinerary
Day by day, with the order, the transport and the walking time between stops.
- 02
The entry check
Visa-free, transit visa-free or visa — decided for your passport and your route, with the date it was verified.
- 03
The booking list
Every train and ticket in the order you need them, the site to buy each, and how far ahead it opens.
China itineraries, as they were written
Same structure, different trips. Yours is rebuilt for your dates, your pace and your budget.
Shanghai in five days, without the queue
Two adults, five days, a hotel already booked in Jing'an — and one request that decided the whole week: no tour groups.
- Land, ride Line 2, walk to the river
- The Bund at seven, then the ferry
- Suzhou, one hour each way
Beijing in seven days, the wall nobody restored
Two travellers, seven days and one non-negotiable: the wall with nobody else standing on it.
- Land, hutong, an early night
- Forbidden City, then Jingshan
- Temple of Heaven at six, hutongs after lunch
Chengdu and west Sichuan in ten days
Two travellers, ten days, and a route where the hard part is not the driving — it is that the best of it sits higher than most visitors are ready for on day two.
- Chengdu: pandas, tea, and a room worth the money
- Chengdu to Siguniang, up to 3,200
- Siguniang valley, then down to Danba
These three are examples, not the catalogue. Everywhere in China works the same way:
- Shanghai and the delta
- Beijing and the north
- Sichuan and Yunnan
- The Silk Road
- Guilin and the south
- Harbin in winter
What a China trip plan costs
Three tiers, each one including the one before it. You pay for depth, not for what the trip costs.
Essential
$49
One route, planned end to end.
- Day by day: order, transport, walking time
- Stay, eat, move — picked for your dates and budget
- Entry rules, tickets and booking windows, each with its date
- Three working days, one round of changes
Standard
$99
The same route, with every city filled in.
- Everything in Essential
- Neighbourhood and restaurant notes for each city
- Which area to stay in, and what it costs that week
- Five working days, two rounds of changes
Deep
$199
The route, plus someone on the other end.
- Everything in Standard
- A 30-minute call before you fly
- Questions answered for the whole trip
- Seven working days, three rounds of changes
Medical travel
Medical travel to China: treatment in Shanghai, start to finish
Shanghai, and no other city, on purpose: the widest choice of specialist hospitals in the country, international departments that answer in English, and direct flights home. We are not a hospital; we arrange everything around the appointment.
Six steps, in the order they happen
Records
They arrive as files, not as a parcel. We take them in and translate the pages the department reads first.
Shortlist
Two or three hospitals and departments that treat this case, and why each one is on the list.
Appointment
We write, we chase, and the date comes back confirmed in writing — the letter the visa is then checked against.
Admission
Registration, the deposit, and the consent form translated line by line before anything is signed.
The ward
The eight o'clock round, the medication changes, the discharge instructions — quoted per patient, per stay.
Home
Itemised bill, stamped certificate, an English summary that evening, fit-to-fly, and a number for thirty days.
Money and insurance, before you book
Deposit
50–100% of the estimate on admission; the rest is settled at discharge, line by line.
Paying
RMB only. Cards work at the international department; a wire before you fly beats the airport rate.
Insurance
Most insurers do not pay a Chinese hospital directly. Assume you pay, then claim: keep the itemised bill and a stamped diagnosis.
Cover
An ordinary travel policy excludes planned surgery. A medical-travel policy, 150–800 USD, covers complications, a longer stay and evacuation.
We also check accreditation when shortlisting — JCI, or DNV's DIAS with its annual audit — because an insurer abroad can verify that.
Medical packages
Priced by the arranging, never by the treatment. Three packages, each one including the one before it.
Records and shortlist
$79
For a second opinion or a check-up, before anything is booked.
- Two or three matching hospitals and departments, with the channel to reach each
- Records and scans collected here as files, and put to the department by us
- The questions to put to the doctor, written before the trip
- Three working days, one round of changes
Treatment trip
$169
The appointment booked, and the week arranged around it.
- Everything in Records and shortlist
- The appointment booked with the hospital and confirmed in writing
- Day by day around it — buffer, consult, tests, follow-up — and where to stay nearby
- Visa route checked and dated; five working days, two rounds
Full support
$299
Someone on the other end while you are here.
- Everything in Treatment trip
- An interpreter at the consultation; the answers typed up in English that day
- A call before you fly; a written plan for staying longer — visa, prescriptions, insurance
- Messages answered through the stay; seven working days, three rounds
What people come for
- Annual health check · 2 days
- Dental work · 4 days
- Second opinion on a scan · records only, no travel yet
- Heart surgery and recovery · 3 weeks
- Orthopaedic surgery and rehabilitation · 3 weeks
- Rehabilitation and traditional medicine · 1–2 weeks
All of them in Shanghai, and every one starts with a hospital that has to agree to see you first.
Read the full case: a heart operation in Shanghai, day by dayWhere our part ends
We do not diagnose, read your scans or recommend a treatment — that is a doctor's call. We take no commission from any hospital, and no share of its bill. We cannot promise an appointment, a visa or an outcome. What we do not take on: surrogacy, organ transplantation, clinical trials and unapproved drugs, and anything a Chinese hospital will not admit a foreign patient for.
Medical travel questions
Do I need a medical visa for China?
There is no separate medical visa. Treatment of up to 180 days is applied for as an S2 private-affairs visa, with an invitation letter from the Chinese hospital and proof you can pay; longer stays use S1. Visa-free entry and 240-hour transit are enough for a check-up or a consultation, not for an operation and the recovery after it. The consulate decides, not us.
Can a foreigner be treated in a Chinese hospital?
Yes, at the international department of a public Grade 3A hospital or at a private international hospital. You cannot land and be admitted: the department reads your records first, then offers a date. Finding that department is what the first package does.
Is treatment in China safe for foreigners?
The big hospitals that take foreign patients are accredited — JCI, or DNV's DIAS with a yearly audit — and accreditation is the one thing you can check from home. The friction is language and paperwork, not the theatre: consent forms, bills and discharge notes arrive in Chinese.
Plan a medical tripPackages 79–299 US dollars; in-hospital coordination quoted per patient. Nothing is charged before the scope is agreed.
How it works: from your dates to a finished itinerary
- 1
Tell us the trip
Dates, places, how many of you, who is coming, budget. One form, no account.
- 2
We answer within a day
An honest answer on whether that trip works at that budget — before you pay anything.
- 3
You approve, then pay
By bank transfer or in USDC once the scope is agreed, so the price is not a guess.
- 4
The plan arrives
A document you keep, in English, with every booking window named and every entry rule dated.
What we do not do
We do not book or pay for flights, hotels or tickets, and we do not hold passport numbers. Everything is bought by you, in your own name, on the official site, which is also what keeps a refund yours. What you buy from us is the plan and the answers: what to book, in what order, by when, and who replies when a date moves.
China travel questions, answered
Do I need a visa to travel to China in 2026?
It depends on your passport and your route, and the two rules people mix up really are different: visa-free entry does not care where you fly next, transit visa-free does. As of 2026, China has opened unilateral visa-free entry for many passports and extended the 240-hour (10-day) visa-free transit window. Tell us both and the entry check decides it for your case, with the source and the date.
Can you book the hotels and trains?
No, deliberately. A booking in your own name is refundable to you, and nobody has to hand a stranger a passport number. The plan says exactly what to book, where, and how far ahead.
What if the rules change after I book?
They do change. Every entry check is dated and names the announcement it came from, and we ask you to verify once more within two weeks of flying.
How much detail is in a day?
Enough to follow without asking anyone — the order, the transport, the opening time, the booking deadline, a rough cost. Not a minute-by-minute script.
Can you plan Japan or Thailand?
Not yet. China is open, anywhere in it; Japan, Korea and Thailand are next. The form takes the request and we write back when they open.
Can I use my card and phone in China?
Mostly yes, with a little setup before you fly. Alipay and WeChat Pay both have tourist versions that bind an international card, and major merchants, metros and attractions take them. Carry some cash and tell your bank you are travelling so a card is not blocked. None of this is something we book for you — the plan tells you what to install and when.
Is China safe and can I get online?
China is safe for tourists, with low violent crime and busy, well-patrolled public spaces. For the internet, install a roaming plan, an eSIM, or a travel VPN before you leave — many apps and sites used elsewhere do not open there. Major hotels and stations have Wi-Fi; the plan lists which one you will need each day.
Tell us about the trip
A short form. We reply within a day.