A small team of Chinese trip designers, guides and drivers. We think a country makes more sense when the person explaining it grew up there.
ChinaTravelGuide.eu began in 2016, when our founder — a Beijing guide — kept meeting travellers who had seen everything and met nobody. Walked past the Forbidden City at speed, photographed at the Wall, sent home without one story worth retelling. The fix looked obvious: the person first, the itinerary second.
So we flipped the model. Instead of selling routes and assigning whichever guide is free, you browse real guides — their homes, their obsessions, their reviews — and we build the journey around the one you choose. A car and driver, tickets and tables: arranged around them.
A decade later we work with 120+ guides across 40+ cities. None of them read from a plaque.
Every guide grew up in the city they show you. No certificate talk — roots, stories and a childhood spent where you are standing.
Hotels, tickets, trains: we book them at cost and show every receipt. Our fee is the guide and the car — transparent daily prices, nothing hiding in “service fees”.
A free video call with your guide before money changes hands. No chemistry? We introduce another. You only confirm what feels right.
Tell us where you’d like to go — and we’ll introduce your guide within 24 hours.
Start planning — it’s free