Hangzhou 3-Day Journey

Hangzhou Slow Living — The Retreat

Package E from our Signature Experiences — Five Unforgettable Journeys series. Three unhurried days, designed for the rare luxury of having nothing to rush toward.

“You’re not visiting Hangzhou — you’re living in a 1930s poem.”

The Journey at a Glance

This three-day immersion is the antidote to rushed sightseeing. From the moment your clients sink into a first-class seat in Shanghai and watch the city give way to terraced tea hills, the pace shifts. There is no checklist of monuments to conquer here — only a quiet succession of moments meant to be lingered over: water and willow, ink and stone, incense and steam. Every element of the itinerary is engineered for depth over speed, intimacy over scale. A private vehicle and a dedicated guide accompany you throughout, so the only decision left to make is how slowly to breathe.

Accommodation — Sisan Hupao 1934

Your home for two nights is the Sisan Hupao 1934 — a boutique heritage hotel that quietly folds guests into another era. Built in 1934 and set against the storied Hupao (Tiger Spring) hillside, the property is where history and hospitality merge without seam or pretense. Behind its understated façade, polished wood, soft lamplight, and the patina of nearly a century give every room its own character. Each one tells a story, and each morning begins the same unforgettable way — with mist rising slowly off the ancient gardens, and the day arriving on its own gentle terms.

Day 1: Arrival & West Lake

First Class Rail · Private Boat

The journey opens with premium high-speed rail from Shanghai, where a private vehicle is already waiting at Hangzhou East Station to spirit you lakeward. Lunch is a first taste of the region — seasonal Hangzhou cuisine served beside the water, the menu shaped by whatever the season has made freshest. Then the afternoon’s centerpiece: your own private boat on West Lake, China’s most celebrated and most painted body of water. With no crowds and no fixed route, you glide past the Broken Bridge, drift toward the three small stone pagodas of Three Pools Mirroring the Moon, and trace the willow-lined sweep of the legendary Su Causeway as the light softens over the hills. By evening you settle into Sisan Hupao 1934, where dinner is served within the hotel’s own walls.

Day 2: Art & Performance

Seal Carving · Refined Lunch · Live Theater

The morning belongs to a hands-on Seal Carving Workshop, guided by a master craftsman — three millennia of Chinese artistic tradition distilled into a single, deeply personal object you carve and carry home. Lunch follows at Han She Chinese Restaurant, where refined Hangzhou flavors are presented in an elegant, unmistakably traditional setting. The afternoon surrenders to spectacle: the Songcheng “Romantic Show,” ranked among China’s top three live performances — a soaring, theatrical voyage through a thousand years of Hangzhou’s history, told in light, water, and motion. The day closes with contemporary Chinese dining at Moon.Ya Restaurant, set within the hotel grounds.

Day 3: Zen & Return

Ancient Temple · Tea Origin · Farewell

The final morning carries you out to Jingshan Temple — more than 1,200 years of Tang Dynasty heritage and the very place from which the Japanese tea ceremony first drew breath. Here, beneath old eaves and rising incense, calm settles deep and unbothered. Lunch is simple and honest: countryside cuisine at a farmhouse at the foot of the temple mountain, the perfect grace note to three days of refinement. Then a private transfer to the station, and first-class rail back to Shanghai — the poem closing as quietly as it began.

Exquisite Local Cuisine

Food is not an afterthought on this journey but one of its narrative threads — each meal chosen to mark a particular mood, from lakeside spring flavors to refined banquet dining to honest mountain fare:

• Day 1: Lunch + Dinner
• Day 2: Lunch + Dinner
• Day 3: Lunch only (dinner on own)

Pricing

• USD $1,867 / RMB ¥12,882 per person (premium)
• USD $1,389 / RMB ¥9,582 per person (standard)

This is the journey that transforms how your clients experience China — not as a place to be seen, but as a place to be felt.