Shanghai Night River Cruise with Xinjiang Dining

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Duration3h

GroupPrivate

LanguagesEN · CM

PickupAt your hotel

Huangpu River lights and Xinjiang lamb, not a tourist buffet

A 3-hour private night tour of Shanghai pairs a 60-minute Huangpu River cruise with Xinjiang halal dinner on Nanjing East Road. Your guide meets you at your hotel, takes you to the river terminal to see Oriental Pearl TV Tower, Shanghai Tower and the Bund's colonial buildings lit up after dark, then walks you to a local restaurant where you watch cultural and belly dancing between courses. Soft drink or beer is included; additional alcoholic drinks are available to purchase. The dinner is served in the restaurant, not on the boat.

Step-by-step itinerary

Night cruise and Xinjiang dinner

Meet guide and driver at hotel
Travel to Huangpu River Cruise Terminal
Enjoy 60-minute Huangpu River night cruise
Dine at Xinjiang style halal restaurant
Watch cultural and belly dancing
Return to hotel or chosen drop-off

The Experience

The evening starts at your hotel lobby, where your private guide and driver collect you and drive to the Huangpu River cruise terminal. Once on the top deck, the river opens up the two sides of Shanghai at once: to the west, the grand colonial Peace Hotel and Shanghai Pudong Development Bank line the Bund; to the east, the skyline rises—Oriental Pearl TV Tower, World Financial Center, Shanghai Tower (the second tallest building in the world). The 60-minute cruise moves slowly enough that the city's past and its bright future sit in the same frame. The Bund area in the evening is the most prosperous stretch of the river, and this is when you see it.

After the cruise, your guide leads you to a popular Xinjiang restaurant in Pudong New Area. Xinjiang cuisine is famous across China, and the menu here centers on what locals order: Dapanji (big plate chicken, flavored with light spices, potato and green pepper, usually served with hand-stretched noodles), lamb kebabs, Xinjiang yogurt and naan (a Xinjiang pancake). If lamb is not your preference, the restaurant offers chicken wings and other skewers. Between 6:30pm and 7:30pm, the restaurant hosts live cultural dancing and belly dancing; if the dancers invite you, you can join them. Soft drink or beer comes with the meal.

After dinner, your guide returns you to your hotel, or to another location in the city if you prefer—Xintiandi or elsewhere. The whole tour runs three hours from start to finish.

What’s included

Private transportation from your hotel to the river terminal and restaurant.
professional guide in English or Chinese.
60-minute Huangpu River cruise.
Xinjiang halal dinner including Dapanji, lamb kebabs, Xinjiang yogurt and naan.
soft drink or beer with the meal.
bottled water throughout the tour.

Good to know

Easy physical levelStroller friendlyPublic transport nearbyInfants must sit on laps

Operated by Amazing Shanghai Trip

Is this one for you?Pick the city hotel departure if you're staying downtown, or the outskirt option if you're based further out—the tour syncs your hotel location with the river cruise and dinner timing so everything flows without gaps.