Published: November 2026 — prices and itinerary reviewed on this date; later updates are shown in the revision note below.
Please read the notes before you book. The program runs on the group's own dates and adapts to the school's curriculum units - we ask for the teachers' topic list at quotation so the worksheets align. Ratios are set at one guide per ten students with a minimum of two guides per group. The hotel floors are blocked for supervision and the teachers' rooms sit on the same floors as the students'. Ferry, museum and tulou entries are all pre-booked; nothing on the program queues.
Q: What age group is this program built for?
A: Secondary school, roughly 12 to 18, as written; the survey units run real measurement and document-reading tasks. Upper primary groups from about 9 up travel the same route with the worksheets simplified to observation and sketch tasks - the price is the same and the adaptation is included. Tell us the year group at quotation and the materials arrive matched.
Q: How is safety handled for a school group?
A: By the standard that makes school travel approvable: one guide per ten students, minimum two guides, with the supervising teachers always in addition; hotel floors blocked with the teachers' rooms on the same floors; checkpoint protocol at every sector gate and vehicle boarding; the daily journal doubling as the roll call. The route itself is low-risk by design - flat walking sectors, no water activities beyond the ferry crossings, and medical access at both bases.
Q: What do the worksheets actually cover?
A: Three linked units. Gulangyu runs an architecture survey - datable styles, building functions, the treaty-port timeline the facades document. The tulou day runs the engineering case: wall sections, spans, the fire-defense and water systems, and a geometry survey the students measure themselves. Quanzhou runs the economics: what a port needs, what the customs gate taxed, and the museum's shipwreck cargo as the primary source. Each unit closes with a journal session structured for the teachers' assessment format.
Q: Can the program link to our school's existing curriculum?
A: Yes, and it works better when it does. At quotation we ask the teachers for the topic list - history units on trade or empire, geography on coasts and settlement, design on structures - and the worksheets are aligned to it before departure. Schools running IB MYP or IGCSE humanities have used the route for coursework fieldwork; we can structure the survey outputs to match.
Q: What are the accommodation and meal standards?
A: Campus-standard hotels: clean three-to-four star properties with blocked floors and restaurant breakfasts, chosen for supervision logistics rather than facilities. Meals are set menus built for teenage appetites - the regional canon in its mild register, with western fallback dishes at dinner and fruit at every meal. Allergies and dietary requirements are collected at booking and carried by every guide on the route.
Q: How is the pricing structured for study groups?
A: Quotations are issued for 16, 20 and 30 students, per student, with two teacher places included free and their cost shared across the student price - the standard LinkedTours study-group structure. Teachers beyond two travel at the adult rate. Flights, the school's insurance and personal spending money sit outside the quotation. The price shown includes the service fee, 6 per cent VAT and the exchange-rate assumption, and is held for seven days.
Q: Do I need a visa for this trip?
A: Most travelers do not. China's unilateral visa-free scheme covers 50 countries for stays of up to 30 days, and the 240-hour visa-free transit scheme covers travelers from 57 countries entering through 65 designated ports - Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport is one of them, which makes a Fujian trip workable on transit status alone if your routing qualifies. Both schemes are reviewed periodically, so we check your nationality and entry port against the current National Immigration Administration list before you book flights.
