Escorted Tours To China: Browse Our 2025/2026 Private Guided China Tours

As we’re sure you’re aware, China is huge! It’s the fourth-largest country in the world, has a population in excess of 1.4 billion, and is growing in popularity annually among foreigners as a must-see destination. Guided holidays to China have risen in popularity throughout the years and offer the perfect way to navigate such a vast country and see the countless spectacular sights. If you were to book a regular vacation to China, you’ll more than likely book tours to several famous destinations, such as the Great Wall, The Terra Cotta Warriors, the Temple of Heaven, or Tiananmen Square. These are incredibly special and must be visited, but avoiding crowds and being rushed is essential to enjoying the experience. China private tours will take you to the country’s finest must-see places but offer you the opportunity to immerse yourself fully without being rushed. There are so many advantages to booking privately guided holidays to China. It is a far more personal and rewarding experience when seeing the Red Dragon as part of a private tour, making guided China tour packages the ultimate way to see this exceptional Asian treasure.

Our guided tours of China from the UK are an incredibly popular option for travellers heading to the Far East for an adventure. We don’t think that anyone in China will be expecting any tourists to be speaking Mandarin on our escorted tours in China, and the tour guides that would be provided as part of our Chinese escorted tours have a good level of English so communication isn’t an issue. That being said, learning a few simple words in Mandarin can go a long way when taking private tours in China. Learning to say thank you, hello, goodbye, and where is the toilet would be great, but certainly, nobody is expecting to communicate in Mandarin during escorted tours of China.

This is entirely subjective, and it depends on what you want to get from a China guided tour. Our China escorted tours start from a little over £2000 and go up to just under £10000. Each of our China guided tours begins in Beijing and can visit multiple destinations nationwide. If you are looking for a China escorted tour that will take you to some of the country’s most famous landmarks, then the 11-night Essential China tour is fantastic. After arriving in Beijing, you’ll travel to Xian, Chengdu, Guilin, Yangshuo, and Hong Kong. This China private tour will take you to Beijing’s Great Wall, Tiananmen Square, and Forbidden City before travelling on the bullet train to Xian, where you’ll experience the Terra Cotta Warriors. If budget and time allow, the China Top Ten is probably the most spectacular of our China private tours. These 23-night escorted tours to China from the UK travel to Xian, Lhasa, Chengdu, Yangtze, Shanghai, Huangshan, Hangzhou, Guilin, Yangshuo, and then Hong Kong. As China escorted tour holidays go, they don’t get better than this, and you’ll visit countless famous landmarks and cultural icons along the way. Regardless of your budget for a China private tour, you’ll find experiences and make memories you won’t get anywhere else that last a lifetime.

The best travel itineraries for escorted tours of China are the ones that include the things you want to do. One of the significant benefits of being able to tailor your private tours in China with The China Travel Company is that you can visit the destinations that excite you when you want to see them and stay for as long as you wish. The itineraries that we have designed in the 15 pre-designed China escorted holidays give travellers a fantastic opportunity to visit many of the country’s true wonders, but sometimes there may be destinations that you’d like to change. With us, that’s not a problem at all, and we can help you design an itinerary that gives you everything you want from guided China tour packages. Our flexibility and personal experience of travelling and living in the country give us a unique advantage when designing itineraries, and that helps us to provide the best guided tours of China.

We offer a wide selection of China escorted tours that cover a wide range of budgets and vacation lengths. You can take a 7-night China guided tour for a little over £2000, an 11-night China private tour will cost you around £3450, and the 23-night China Top Ten private China tours come in at under £10000. The China Travel Company offer guided trips to China that can be tailored to your needs and requirements. We offer 15 different private tours to China, and each one can be bespoke with destinations, accommodations, and activities changed to suit your travel plans and budget.

The China Travel Company wants all of its customers to have the best possible experience when visiting the divine state. For many people, that means choosing one of our pre-designed guided China tour packages. At present, we offer 15 different escorted tours to China that include multiple destinations and experiences, but we do appreciate that many travellers want to add a destination or change transport methods or experiences. What we do here is provide a service where you can create a totally bespoke guided tour of China itinerary. You can collaborate with us and use our intimate knowledge of the country to design your ultimate escorted China tour that will present you with the experience you want.

April and May, as well as September to October, are generally considered to be the best times to take escorted tours. China is such a vast country though that the weather could be greatly different in different regions at the same time of year. Also, there are many destinations in our China guided tour itineraries that will benefit from slightly inclement weather. If you have a definite list of places that you’d like to visit on an escorted China tour and you aren’t sure what time of year is best to book, call our expert team for advice. We have been travelling there for more than 25 years and have even lived in China, so it would be fair to say that we have some inside knowledge of when to take escorted tours in China.

China guided tours are very closely related to escorted tours in China. Escorted China tours are organised group tours with a tour guide or group leader responsible for the entire trip. Guided or private tours in China will involve a local expert guiding you and your party around local attractions, and when you are not at those attractions, you are free to move around as you wish.

Every tourist that wishes to enter the country for China escorted tour holidays will require a Chinese tourist visa. The China Travel Company has been affiliated with CIBT VisaCentral for several years. CIBT VisaCentral is a specialist visa agency that provides visas for China and many other countries. You can apply for a Chinese tourist visa up to 3 months before you depart for our guided holidays to China. You will also require the correct documentation if you want to travel to Tibet or Nepal while taking escorted tours to China from the UK. For Tibet, you need a special travel permit which we can help you obtain when booking escorted tours of China. To enter Nepal, you must apply for a Nepalese visa at the Nepalese embassy, CIBT VisaCentral, the Kathmandu airport or the China-Tibet land border crossing.

China is generally very safe for those taking escorted tours to China from the UK. You’ll want to stick by a few basics to ensure you don’t get scammed by unscrupulous characters. Try and pay for anything you buy in markets in cash, and don’t hand over credit card details. Try to avoid people wanting to practice speaking English with you, try to be your guide, invite you to a tea ceremony, or take you to an art gallery. Avoid talking to locals about politics on Chinese escorted tours and don’t raise your voice and cause anyone to be embarrassed or lose face. Try to be very diplomatic when faced with an issue, as any aggression will be met by nothing getting done at all. Besides these few things that apply in many foreign countries, an escorted China tour is very safe, and you’ll have a wonderful time.

All internal transport is included in our guided China tour packages. Depending on which guided trips to China you opt for, you will either have internal transfers using the bullet train or flights. When you book one of the best guided tours of China with The China Travel Company, it’s important to note that the price of our private China tours does not include your international flights from your home country.

If you are already on your private China tour and wish to make an adjustment to your itinerary, it may be possible to do so. It can be challenging to change accommodation or internal travel plans at short notice due to availability, but we will do our absolute best to make the required adjustments to your guided tour of China.

To put it simply, we offer the best escorted tours to China available anywhere in the United Kingdom. The China Travel Company is a family-owned and run business, and we have extensive experience in visiting many of the destinations and attractions available on our China private tours. We have been passionate about private tours to China for over two decades, and we inject that passion into each of our China escorted holidays to ensure our customers get a once-in-a-lifetime experience. All of our Chinese escorted tours are ATOL protected, and we are members of ABTA.