China Tour Packages, Small Group Tours 2025/2026

It's time to plan your trip to China, and we've always been here! China Expedition Tours offers unique private tours of different types, which are all customizable for those who like to make their schedules and don’t wish to "follow the crowd." We believe that for travel, different strokes for different folks. Rather than saying we’ve got the “best China tours”, we’d like to say we can customize the most appropriate China tours for you, your family, and your friends’ group.

From our family tours, photo tours, and homestay tours to the students’ tours, each of our China tour packages is specially designed based on our repeated on-the-spot studies and optimized by years of practical operation experience. Our carefully selected high-quality local guides understand their cities so well that they can carry out our China tour packages with dedication and perfection. Our team knows where the most enriching places are, and when we should bring you there. The passion and enthusiasm of our guides and other ground service suppliers, who share a common value with us, ensure you an authentic China tour experience. By providing you with these experiences and participation, which can include even more detailed approaches in the China tour packages, we have the full confidence to say that we have the most unique private China tours with high value on the web. You don’t just take a tour with us, you experience it!

With its development and renovation for more than 10 years, China Expedition Tours has become one of the most successful and trustworthy China travel agencies. Well-trained and knowledgeable about our country, our team members are all experienced travel experts. We are not only committed to taking you to explore the most beautiful and unique landscape, but also to experience the most authentic local Chinese culture. Through making every tour unique and customized for you, we dare to innovate and constantly develop special themed tours. Our tour routes are integrated with the experience of our senior travel consultants to ensure you visit the most beautiful landscapes, experience the in-depth culture, and taste the most authentic food. While having a professional travel consultant team to meet your personalized needs, China Expedition Tours offers affordable China tour packages with high value. Moreover, when you encounter any dissatisfaction during your trip, we will deal with it timely and voluntary. China Expedition Tours takes the best experience of customers as its first goal, and every team member will provide our customers with the most detailed and thoughtful humanized service. Every team member of ours attaches great importance to integrity and customer satisfaction, and ensures that the commitment will be achieved.

Through continuous development, China Expedition Tours has won wide recognition from travelers from all over the world and the media by its healthy and sustainable development concept, innovative business model, and international operation and management ideas, and has become a commendable brand in China's tourism industry. Meanwhile, China Expedition Tours has been fulfilling its social responsibilities as much as possible, encouraging every team member to cultivate a kind spirit of caring for society, and actively participating in various public welfare activities in their spare time.

Okay, now here is what we have to offer--these China tour packages below are just our samples, and each one is customizable. Take a look through and choose one that meets your needs the most. Simply submit an inquiry in half a minute, and you will get a response within 12 hours. The rest work will be done one-on-one until you get your own satisfactory tour proposal from your professional China travel consultant. And this entire process is completely free!

Birds of a feather flock together, people with a common interest travel together. For a photographer, isn’t it nice to travel and share your ideas and skills with a photographers’ group? Foodies will for sure have a better appetite when enjoying a typical delicious Sichuan dish with some other gastronomes. Those who are keen on architectures will together gain inspirations by visiting dozens of China’s famous landmark buildings from ancient times to the modern period.

Being featured with a special interest, every type of our themed China tours is basically developed on our regular China tours. Themed tours can be aimed of delicate fine dining, photography, architecture, landscape, history, hiking or biking, culture-based destinations and attractions, or lock their audience to be a certain type of people, such as family, friends, school students, etc. Foreign travelers love themed vacations in China because they get to experience their passion in a different setting, while being surrounded by other travelers who also have the same interest. Themed tours usually have special guides who are experts in their field to give travelers more detailed information about the experience.

Below we’ve got more than 15 types of themed China tours for you to choose. And remember every tour is also customizable upon your requests.

Private Tours

Travel with family, friends or those who you wanna be with on your holiday, on your own departure date, in your own pace, to destinations you wanna go…

Private Tours

You can easily book a private tour with us by two ways. Everything can be customized. Travel China your way!

a.Choose a likely one from our off-the-peg tours categorized by theme, and tell us to customize it until it thoroughly meets all your requirements.

b.Fill in our “Tailor-made Tour” form, and a unique tour proposal will be created for you.

China Tour Packages

Join-in Tours

Simply adapt your time to our fixed departure dates. Meet and make new friends while touring China’s best destinations, culture and landscape in a small group.

Join-in Tours

We’ve prepared two types of join-in tours for you:

a.Long China tours you join in and follow from day 1 to the last day

b.Local one- or two-day tours in a certain city or area

Join-in China Tours

China Tours by Theme

We understand different people’s travel interests are various.

China Tours by Theme

Simply choose a tour according to your interests, needs and other relevant facts.

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What customers say about us?

We’re sure that our customers’ words talk louder than our own’s. We believe that hearing directly from those who've experienced our private China tours is the best way to understand what we’re doing. It's not just about seeing the sights and the tour itself; it's about the whole process, from planning to execution. We highly value all the feedbacks and make them to encourage us to constantly improve our services.

Derick Royaards Walker
the U. K

We heard of Alex through friends who had used him before. He organised an interesting two-week itinerary for us, combining traditional tourist attractions with some more individual activities. If you can, visit the Panda Breeding institute in Chengdu and the highlight of our tour was a home stay in an apartment with probably the finest rooftop views in Guilin. The three star hotels were all in perfect locations and far better facilities than we expected - apart from some of the breakfasts which can be an acquired taste. Our guides all spoke very good English and went out of their way to show us round street markets or recommend restaurants (A Sichuan Hotpot is a great experience). Using travel agents in another country can be a risk, but China Expedition Tours combined high levels of professionalism with great value for money. Many thanks to Alex and Team!

Date of experience: 07/05/2017-21/05/2017
Sherrie and Gary Blundell
the U.S

Dear Monica,

Thanks for an extremely well organised tour.It was fantastic to have somebody there to meet us at every airport and to have a seat as planned at every airport.

All our guides were very helpful and spoke good English.

Our favourite was Zoe from xi'an . She was very flexible and knowledgeable.

The best hotel was the new world hotel in Xi'an.

The homestay in Guilin was amazing, we couldn't believe the views. Guilin is a beautiful city and our hotel room provided views of the river. Unfortunately the hostess could not speak English and the host was away on business. Amber stayed with us until quite late to ensure we were comfortable. Amber spoke the best English of all our guides.

We saw an incredible acrobatic show in shanghai and would like to thank Tony for changing us to the Circus World show. We had wonderful seats in the middle of the stage. I think this was the best show we saw. The Yangshou river light show was good but 280yuan per person was a little expensive. It would be good to make you customers aware to the optional tours and how much they cost so that they can plan their time and budget appropriately.

The only disappointment was the Yangtse River Cruise. We paid for a room to accommodate 3 people. On arrival we were taken to the room and told that we could squeeze a bed into the room but we should upgrade. I had to agree, we could not fit into the room if we had another bed in there. A double room was not appropriate for a family of three. So we had no alternative to upgrade to an Executive room with plenty of room to accommodate 3people. This room was extremely comfortable but cost 990yuan extra. We would have preferred to have paid for the correct room first.

As we did not have accommodation vouchers we did not know what was booked so had to believe them that the booked room was inadequate. Lunch was not included on the last day of the cruise as indicated on the itinerary. The food and service on the cruise was not 5 star and they were regularly trying to upsell us. Morning Tea and afternoon tea were not included and coffee was extra except at breakfast. On a 5 star ship you would not have to pay for anything except alcoholic drinks.

Our room in Shanghai was too small to fit our luggage and 3 beds. Once again we could have upgraded for 100yuan a night. This is definitely something you should consider in the future. We would prefer to pay a little extra to be comfortable but would prefer to be offered this in advance, not on the day of arrival.

Regards

Sherrie and Gary Blundell

Date of experience: 23/09/2017-08/10/2017
Sarah & Gary
the U.S

Guilin is a perfect destination for a great time with my family. Nice van, perfect boat and friendly guide. We did enjoy our stay in Guilin with CET.

Date of experience: 29/03/2018-31/03/2018
Nick Dunn
British

We had a really good day, and enjoyed the tour. Our guide was friendly and knowledgeable. For me, the best part of the day was actually when we took a open sided car and drove around the countryside around Yangshou. It might be worth incorporating this into the tour? My only negative feedback was the food on the boat wasn’t great, although I know that your company don’t manage the boat directly. I don’t know if there are any boats that don’t have food, as it might be worth not eating, and letting people eat in the town when they arrive?

Anyway, in general the day was great. We all really enjoyed it.

Thanks,

Nick

Date of experience: 27/04/2017-27/04/2017
Mr. John Mayer
the U.S.

We booked three-day trekking on the Great Wall. It was far beyond our expectation. Hiking the Great Wall is the best option to get to know the history of the Wall and had the awesome view of it. The section we trekked are most unrecovered and remote part of the Great Wall. Our guide, Richard is very friendly and professional. We learnt a lot from him about the history of the Great Wall. And we were lucky enough to view beautiful sunrise and sunset. It is well worth the long hiking. We highly recommend the tour for anyone who want to visit the Great Wall.

Date of experience: 24/05/2018-26/05/2018
Richard and Sylvia
British

After looking at trip advisor, we picked 3 China based travel agencies who we thought might be able to plan a tour of the area around Beijing. One agency suggested factory tours from the outset whilst another was fairly insistent that we travel overnight by train, but Monica proved to be thoughtful and flexible.
We have friends in Beijing and so started and ended our trip with them.
She suggested a day trip to the Great Wall from Beijing plus a tour of Pingyao, Xi'an and Luoyang with 3 bullet train journeys and one plane flight.
We decided not to go with a couple of her suggestions, but she was comfortable with that and re-jigged the trips to suit.
The actual guides provided are generally contractors who can work for several agencies depending on the work available. But the choice of which guides to employ still falls on the travel agency (and availability).

We were also very happy with our guides "Nelson" in Pingyao/Taiyuan, "Grace" in Xi'an and "Frank" in Luoyang as well as the drivers. They all turned up flawlessly on time for every appointment, helped us order lunch and always seemed happy.

There appear to be one or two 'scams' running with guides taking commission on purchases made. But having ordered an evening dance show + meal at our hotel "Grand New World" our guide in Xi'an certainly earned what ever commission she got by making sure that my meal contained no sugar or MSG/Soy Sauce.

Chinese drivers seem to learn to all drive at the Kamikaze school of motoring, but the drivers in Pingyao, Xi'an and Luoyang (Frank did his own driving) (also contracted but independently of the guides) did a good job of not frightening us too much.

Chinese cyclists and motor cyclists don't even follow the correct direction of flow and often drive on the wrong side of the road. Chinese drivers hoot constantly if they want to overtake and can't quite squeeze by!

Coffee in China generally doesn't seem very good (apart from at the large American chains).

The Tian yuan kui hostel in Pingyao is an interesting mixture of traditional and modern. The staff were extremely lovely and the food was tasty. The hundreds of recommendations on A3 sheets on the wall in English, French, Italian, Spanish and other languages were also testament to that.

The Grand New World hotel in Xi'an was a slice of America transported to China. Service was slightly variable. E.g. I had to go to 3 receptionists in order to find the one who was allowed to do checkouts. English from staff was variable though usually adequate.

The Peony Hotel in Luoyang was also like a slice of America. Our safe would not work as it had no batteries in it. We struggled with language problems for about half an hour to get 4 new batteries to fit into it and then to get the Chinese maintenance lady to fit them right way round.

The manager agreed a special picnic lunch for our train journey, but I ended up having to explain to francophone Chinese tour guide in French what we needed! But I guess episodes like this make a tour more interesting.

Many thanks to Monica for arranging this memorable holiday.

Date of experience: 01/09/2017-13/09/2017

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