6-Day Shanghai Health Screening & Suzhou Gardens Wellness

Afternoon — Arrival in Shanghai
Arrive at Shanghai Pudong International Airport, where your English-speaking guide and vehicle welcome you. You are transferred to your hotel for check-in and a chance to freshen up.

Evening — Settle In
Enjoy free time to rest and acclimate to Shanghai at your own pace after the journey.

Accommodation
Your hotel in Shanghai.

Morning — the appointment
Shanghai's international medical departments were set up for the foreign community that has worked in the city for three decades, and they run on appointment systems rather than walk-in queues, with English-speaking staff at registration and in the imaging suites. You fast from the previous evening and arrive early; the morning covers the package you chose in advance, which for most guests means blood and urine panels, abdominal and thyroid ultrasound, an electrocardiogram and chest imaging, with a physician's consultation at the end. Everything on the list is set by the hospital, and we will send you their current options before you book so that you, or your own doctor, can decide what you want.

Late morning — interpretation and results
Your guide and the hospital coordinator are both present throughout, so nothing is lost in translation and nothing needs to be repeated. Results are issued in Chinese and are explained to you on the day where the hospital can, with written reports generally following within a few days; we can arrange translation of the full report and a review appointment with an interpreter. To be clear about what we are and are not: LinkedTours arranges the appointment, the transport, the interpretation and the follow-up logistics. We do not give medical advice, recommend treatments, or interpret results ourselves, and any decision about your health belongs with you and your own physician.

Lunch
A light lunch - soup, rice, steamed vegetables - either at the hospital or back at the hotel, whichever your energy allows. Most people want nothing more than a bowl of congee after a fasting morning, and the hotel kitchen will bring it to the room. Your guide orders ahead so that it arrives when you do. There is no rush back to the room afterwards: your guide will settle the bill and collect the paperwork, and will not knock on your door until you have had a chance to sleep. If you would prefer to eat nothing at all, say so and the room will simply be left quiet.

Afternoon — rest in Shanghai
The afternoon is free and the vehicle stays available. Sleep, or take a short, level walk in Fuxing Park, the former French Concession garden a few blocks from most central hotels, where plane trees, a rose garden and a pond make for an easy half hour on flat ground. If energy permits, an early evening drive along the Bund gives you the river and the Pudong skyline without any walking at all beyond a few hundred metres. Fuxing Park has been the French Concession's public garden since 1909; there are benches under the plane trees, a small lake, and a corner where retired couples dance in the late afternoon, which is worth watching for ten minutes on the way through.

Evening — dinner and an early night
Shanghai cooking is sweet and light by Chinese standards, which suits a day like this: steamed fish, drunken chicken, greens in stock, and a bowl of rice. Ask your guide to keep the meal simple and low in oil. An early night; the next two days are quiet ones. If you would rather stay in, most central hotels will deliver a plain meal to the room, and there is no obligation to go out at all on this day. Anything heavy in sugar, oil or salt is worth avoiding tonight; tell the restaurant in advance and the kitchen will cook to that instruction without any fuss.

Meals
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation
In Shanghai.

Morning — Depart Shanghai for Suzhou
Depart Shanghai and travel to Suzhou, the historic canal city renowned across China for its classical gardens. Begin with the Humble Administrator's Garden, one of the most famous classical gardens in Suzhou, laid out in the 16th century during the Ming Dynasty. It is admired for its graceful water features, rockeries, and pavilions, and for the harmonious balance of nature and architecture that defines the Chinese garden tradition.

Lunch — Local Restaurant in Suzhou
Enjoy a meal at a local restaurant in Suzhou before continuing your exploration of the city.

Afternoon — Pingjiang Road & Lingering Garden
Stroll along Pingjiang Road, a historic lane that preserves the traditional architecture and culture of Suzhou and is lined with canals, stone bridges, and small shops. Afterward, explore the Lingering Garden, a compact and delicate classical garden known for its sequence of interconnected halls, pavilions, and courtyards, each with its own distinctive charm.

Evening — Return to Shanghai
Take the high-speed train back to Shanghai, concluding your day trip to Suzhou. Your guide sees you back to your hotel.

Morning — Zhujiajiao Water Town
Depart Shanghai for Zhujiajiao (about 1 hour) and take a guided walking tour through narrow ancient streets, stone bridges, and old merchant houses. Visit Kezhi Garden and local museums, then enjoy a relaxing rowboat ride through the canals beneath ancient bridges.

Afternoon — Lunch & Leisurely Exploration
Enjoy lunch at a local restaurant featuring fresh river food and regional dishes. Continue exploring at a leisurely pace: visit handicraft shops, watch local artisans, and taste specialties such as green bean cake and candied fruit; stroll the lakefront for peaceful scenery.

Evening — Return to Shanghai
Return to Shanghai, ending your serene day trip to the water town.

Morning — a licensed TCM clinic in Shanghai
Shanghai has both the large public hospitals of Chinese medicine and smaller licensed private clinics, and for this appointment we use one of the latter, where a practitioner can give you an hour rather than fifteen minutes. The consultation is the classical one: pulse at three positions on each wrist, examination of the tongue, and a long set of questions about sleep, digestion, appetite, temperature preference and energy. What comes out of it is a body-constitution assessment against the nine standard types, explained to you as a description rather than a diagnosis, with the working vocabulary of the tradition - qi, blood, cold and heat, dampness - set out plainly so that the conversation makes sense.

Late morning — one session of treatment
You then have one session, of the kind you chose when booking: tuina massage, acupuncture, moxibustion, cupping, or a herbal foot soak. A single session is a treatment experience, not a course, and nobody should expect anything from it other than a sense of relaxation and an understanding of what the technique does. Needles are sterile and single-use; if you take blood-thinning medication or are pregnant, tell us in advance and we will arrange a session without acupuncture. Practitioners here hold a national licence, and no advice will be given about changing any medicine prescribed to you by your own doctor.

Lunch
A mild Shanghai lunch near the clinic: steamed or poached fish, a clear soup, a plate of greens in stock, and rice. Shanghai cooking is sweet and light by Chinese standards, which suits a day like this, and the kitchen will reduce both the sugar and the oil if you ask. If you would rather eat after the session than before it, your guide will simply reverse the order; the clinic is a ten-minute drive from most central hotels. Most guests ask for the meal after the consultation rather than before, and the clinic is used to that. There is a small tea room on the ground floor where you can wait with a cup of chrysanthemum tea if you arrive early.

Afternoon — the plane trees
The former French Concession is the easiest part of Shanghai to walk slowly in: broad pavements, tall plane trees, low garden walls and lane houses, Wukang Road and the streets around it. Your guide will set a short route of perhaps an hour with two cafe stops, and the vehicle follows a few minutes behind so that you can stop whenever you like. Tianzifang, a block of 1930s lane houses converted into studios and small shops, is worth thirty minutes if you want to see how the city reuses its old residential fabric. The architecture is the point: 1920s apartment blocks, the odd Art Deco corner, and walled gardens that give the streets a quiet you would not expect a kilometre from the ring road.

Evening — the Bund, then dinner
Finish the day with a short drive along the Bund and a walk of a few hundred metres on the promenade if the weather is kind; the Pudong skyline opposite is lit until about ten. Dinner nearby, and an early night before the departure day. The restaurants along the Bund's side streets are better value than the ones facing the river, and your guide will steer you to them. The promenade itself is wide and level with a bench every few hundred metres, so the walk can be cut to five minutes if you would rather look at the river from the car.

Meals
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Accommodation
In Shanghai.

Morning — Departure from Shanghai
Enjoy a leisurely breakfast at your hotel before your guide assists with checkout. A private vehicle then transfers you to Shanghai Pudong International Airport for your onward journey. As you depart, you carry not only business contacts and market insights but a deeper understanding of China's cultural foundations and the confidence to navigate its business landscape with cultural intelligence.

Meals
Breakfast.