HANG ZHOU, SU ZHOU & SHANGHAI TRIP ♡

Hello lovely people!

Been receiving a lot of DMs via Instagram about my recent trip to China.

Finally done sorting out all the bits and bobs for this trip and 

I've also included my itinerary at the end of this blog post for you guys to download it.

It's a lil messy to be honest, but it's good enough for guidelines,

so you'll need to rearrange it again for your personal preference / route that you prefer!

HANG ZHOU 

西湖 花港观鱼

SU ZHOU

 周庄 中国第一水乡

 

Our hotel stay in 周庄

SHANGHAI 

Here concludes my trip!
I din't actually take much pictures about the scenery pictures throughout this trip,
cause you need to come here to feel how amazing the surrounding and scenery are!


Before I end my post, here's all the important tips that I've summarized for you:-
A P P S  /  D O W N L O A D
I've decided to include the Apps that I've used while travelling to China,
TBH that all these apps are really useful and I've also filter the unnecessary ones,
so these are the Apps that I've used:

百度地图

Is basically like our google map. You can navigate to see your direction easily via this apps.

艺龙旅行

Great deals for ticket and performance you can get via here. 

You can check out the entrance price if you're planning to go anywhere in the next few days.

大众点评

A lil unsure about the food / restaurant rating that you wish to try during the trip?

You can check out the rating of the food / restaurant if you're planning to dine in the place!

马蜂窝旅行

Basically all my itinerary and research about places is from 马蜂窝 official website,

I really love how it is super details about the business hour, address, entrance fees and more!

You can check how how amazing is the apps.

铁路12306

For subway in china.

You can know the price and best route of the subway trip from your location to another location. 

VPN

This is the only VPN apps that works after downloading so many other VPN apps.
It works perfectly during this entire trip, but you need to reconnect again after sometimes.
But overall the user experience is great!

Disneyland Shanghai Resort
Is a necessary if you're going to Shanghai Disneyland cause you can only booked your
Free Fast Pass via this apps only! Besides, you can know the waiting time for each adventures,
show time and etc. So is really useful apps.
https://www.shanghaidisneyresort.com/en/download-shanghai-disney-mobile-app/

DiDi
One of the apps we use the most, is like Uber & Grab service in China.
Unfortunately we don't have any Alipay account so the only choices we have is tie up
with our credit card, you need to discuss with your friends about the daily currency conversion rate
if you use DiDi service to travel in China.

W I F I  /  I N T E R N E T 
It's really a troublesome for us while we are travelling to China.
We landed on Hangzhou and there's no telco service provided for traveller.
As all their telco package need to sign for long term and there will be monthly charges every month.
You need to come back to the same place to terminate your line if you applied your sim card here.
It's impossible for us to came back to the same shop to terminate our line.
So the only choices that we have is Internet Roaming & Pocket Wifi rental in Malaysia.

If you landed in Shanghai, there will be no problem as there's traveller internet roaming packaging available in the airport, so remember to get everything done before leaving the airport.
I'm using Samurai Pocket Wifi for this whole trip,
You can check more of their package via Samurai Pocket Wifi

 H O T E L  /  A I R B N B 
Hang Zhou Hotel:
Hangzhou Bokai Westlake Hotel
(Good Stay and location, one street away from West Lake)

Su Zhou Airbnb :
Jason's Home - 金鸡湖地铁一号线时代广场博览中心诚品书店
(Super recommended! Cozy home and stay.)

Su Zhou 周庄 Hotel:
Show Year Reminiscence Hotel
(Walking Distance is a lil far from entrance and need to pay for 周庄 entrance fees cause it located in-front of the entrance counter of 周庄, but overall the surrounding and stay is awesome)

Shanghai Airbnb:
Jill's Studio 精致装修酒店式公寓
Is a lil distance from city center by subway, but 2 minutes walking distance to subway station.
Airbnb downstair is shopping mall and there's lots of good food and famous小杨生煎包 too!
Stay is super cozy, lovely and amazing!

 I T I N E R A R Y
You may click this the following link to download my itinerary:
CARMEN LAYRYNN (HZ SZ SHANGHAI 2018 ITINERARY)

Remember to comment down below if you've download my itinerary!
Let me know if you love this post too.

Till next time,
xoxo.