Travelling to China in end of May/June for 10 days, what should I be looking budget wise/daily budget including hotel? Also recommend any tips/visa requirements to China etc?
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Shanghai for 10 Days - Budget?
HereYeeHereYee on 15/03/2025 - 17:46
Last edited 15/03/2025 - 19:47 by 1 other user
Last edited 15/03/2025 - 19:47 by 1 other user
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$200 aud a day, would that be enough?
What did ChatGPT say?
$200/day per person? out of that, how much is allocated for the hotel? Did you do any homework on standard room rates via booking.com or something?
About $8 a day
That's what we spent in China in the 90s. But even then, Shanghai cost a lot more.
Visa free up to 30 days for Australian passport holders, recommend you set up either alipay or wechat pay before you go, for data you can get an e-sim with global data (this allows you to bypass china's internet restrictions/ alternatively you can use a VPN).
You'd want to either use apple maps or "Amap" aka Gaode for navigation.
Check out some prices on trip.com or Ctrip app. Shanghai can be as affordable or expensive as you like.
May/June will be "plum rain" season expect a lot of rain and 90%+ humidity.
depends
do u like to live in hilton hotel or hilton motel
5 star resturant or street food
taxi or walk from airport
fly to china or swim to china?
karaoke or busk on the street for moneyi like both :)
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how long is a piece of string? you can get by spending $50aud a day, or blow $1000 a day without putting in too much effort and the price of some of the 5 star hotels alone.
if you want a clean, comfortable 4 star hotel + eating out / sightsee on an "average tourist itinerary" about $2-300 should be plenty.
as a guide, depending on whether you want to stay in CBD (which I don't recommend as metro is so easy for access, so somewhere 10-15min out, at one of the stations that connects a few metro lines is a better option, preferably in direction of the airport) $200 per night will get you a mid-tier fancy/nice hotel, $100 will get you something that's clean and tidy. there will be budget ones in the $50-60 range but not many of them will take foreignersWas in Shanghai the last 4 days. Just left a couple of hours ago.
10 days seems a lot just for here unless you're planning some long day trips or relos etc
Did the river cruise and the fake markets and some work meetings of course.
No visa needed for 30 days
Setup WeChat pay and Alipay.. easy without doing any ID check, up to 15000RMB
You can do cheap or expensive. 20-50RMB per person for breakfast and lunch, add a bit more for dinner.
We stayed at the Grand Hyatt and Amex gave us free breakfast buffet.
10 days isn’t too much, we did 12 days with 2 kids and only saw a fraction of what’s to offer.
Been using Alipay and WeChat pay both, no issues no ID check.
Hotels etc take my Aussie cards so no issues.
Whats your budget?