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China · Chengdu
Private Guide & Car Hire in Chengdu
Made to order Guide · Escort · Car · Translation · Transfers Chinese · English · Korean
Theme
- Panda Base
- Wide and Narrow Lanes
- Wuhou Shrine
- Dujiangyan
- Sichuan Opera
- Hotpot Nights
Licensed local guideItinerary before paymentNo shopping stops
Ground services in Chengdu
Guide, escort, car, translation, transfers, family and photo — book one or combine them.
- Best months
- March–May, September–November
- Days needed
- 3 days, 4 with Leshan
- Arriving
- Tianfu 50 min, Shuangliu 30 min, East Station 25 min
- Typical day
- CNY 800–1,000 (≈US$111–139) car + guide
Quotes are in CNY; US$ figures are indicative at about CNY 7.2 = US$1 and move with the daily rate. Final price is confirmed by our team before you pay.
Local escort
No rushing, no pushing sales. Point ordering, photos and looking after the kids, half or full day.
Private car & driver
5 to 19 seats, priced per day with fuel and tolls included. The driver knows the coach parks.
Translation
English, Japanese and Korean available; good for business visits and independent travellers.
Airport & rail transfers
Name-board pickup, 60 minutes free waiting when a flight is delayed.
Family & school trips
Museums and ruins explained by age, with breaks and meal time kept in the plan.
Photo session
Half a day of shooting, 20–30 retouched photos, shot along the same route as the sightseeing.
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01What to see
Chengdu: the four places that matter
Ordered the way you should actually visit them, not by fame.
The reason to wake at 6:30. Cubs are fed and playful from 8:00 to 9:30; after 11:00 they sleep.
Zhuge Liang’s memorial next to a rebuilt Qing street; do the shrine first, then eat.
Bamboo teahouses, ear cleaners, mahjong. Order jasmine tea and stay an hour.
A 71-metre Tang carving in a river cliff, two hours by train; a full day.
02Two-day plan
How we would plan your two days
Built around opening times and traffic, not around a list of attractions.
Day 1 · Pandas and the city
Panda base at 7:30, back for lunch, Wuhou Shrine and Jinli in the afternoon, hotpot at 20:00.
Day 2 · Teahouse day
People’s Park in the morning, Wide and Narrow Alleys for architecture (not food), Sichuan opera face-changing in the evening.
Day 3 · Leshan or Mount Qingcheng
Leshan for the Buddha, or Qingcheng Mountain and Dujiangyan for Taoist temples and the 2,200-year-old irrigation works.
Local notes
- Pandas: arrive at opening, go straight to the nursery, and leave by 11:00.
- A "mild" hotpot in Chengdu is still hot; ask for a divided pot with a clear broth side.
- Do not buy tour packages to Leshan that include three shopping stops — take the train and hire a local guide.
03Where to stay
Pick the area first, the hotel second
The wrong district costs you an hour a day in traffic.
Chunxi Road
Central, walkable to everything, noisy at night.
Wenshu / Kuanzhai
Quieter lanes, courtyard hotels, good breakfast noodles.
04What to eat
Two things you should not leave without trying
Sichuan hotpotBeef tallow broth, tripe and duck intestine; CNY 100–150 (≈US$14–21) a head, and ask for wei-la (mild).
Mapo tofuThe real version is numbing, not just hot, ¥25–35.
05What goes wrong
Three things that catch first-time visitors
- Pandas: arrive at opening, go straight to the nursery, and leave by 11:00.
- A "mild" hotpot in Chengdu is still hot; ask for a divided pot with a clear broth side.
- Do not buy tour packages to Leshan that include three shopping stops — take the train and hire a local guide.
06Questions
Chengdu: questions travellers actually ask
When is the best time to see pandas?
8:00–9:30, right after the morning feeding. Later they sleep in the shade.
How many days for Chengdu?
Three, including one day trip. Two if you skip Leshan.
Is Chengdu good for families?
Very — pandas, easy food, short drives, and teahouses where children are welcome.
The full guide runs to four pages — in Chinese
Tickets, opening hours, hour-by-hour itineraries and eighteen local questions. Machine translation handles these pages well; send us a screenshot if anything is unclear.
How booking Chengdu works — three steps, itinerary before price
No deposit to get a plan, and nothing is locked in before you agree to it.
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Send the brief
Dates, party size, how you arrive and what you want to see. Tell us the working language you need and whether anyone has trouble with stairs.
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Get a route and a price
We order the stops by location and traffic, then quote per car per day with fuel, tolls and the driver included. Ask for changes as often as you need — it costs nothing.
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Confirm and travel
Only after you accept the route and the price do we assign the car and guide. You get their contact details before pickup, so you are never handed off to a stranger.
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