Practical China travel guidance
Your First Trip to China, Sorted.
Plan the essentials with clear, firsthand guidance for staying connected, paying, booking transport, and checking in.
Free planning tools
Turn the guides into a trip-ready plan
2-minute check
China Trip Readiness Checker
Answer nine practical questions and get a prioritized action list for your trip.
Check my trip readiness →Interactive checklist
First-Trip Checklist
Work through the essential entry, internet, payment, hotel, train, and app tasks.
Open the checklist →Printable pack
First 72 Hours Offline Pack
Keep arrival essentials, backup steps, and useful details available without internet.
Get the offline pack →Prepare your trip
Four steps before arrival
Essential China travel guides
Start with the decisions that affect day one
First-trip planning
China first-trip checklist
A focused sequence for documents, connectivity, payments, transport, and arrival preparation.
Reviewed August 2026.
Connectivity
Internet access in China for tourists
Compare practical ways to get online and prepare a fallback before relying on travel apps.
Reviewed August 2026.
Payments
How foreigners can pay in China
Understand common mobile payment setup, everyday use, and sensible backup options.
Reviewed August 2026.
Your first 72 hours
Follow one clear arrival sequence
Use the complete arrival guide for internet, payments, airport transport, hotel check-in, and your first onward journey.
Latest Updates
Recently published and updated travel guides.
Best Things to Do in Shenzhen for First-Time Visitors
Plan a first Shenzhen sightseeing trip by area, with practical attraction choices, metro guidance, reservation checks and realistic one- to three-day itineraries.
What to Eat in Shenzhen: A First-Time Visitor’s Food Guide
A practical first-time guide to Shenzhen food, dining areas, ordering, payments, dietary needs and safer restaurant choices.
How to Book Attraction Tickets in China as a Foreigner (2026)
Learn how to use official attraction channels, enter passport details correctly, save confirmations offline, and find a documented fallback when a website…
From Shenzhen
Tested locally. Built for first-time visitors.
China Travel Toolkit tests common visitor tasks from Shenzhen, records what worked, and explains usable fallbacks when a service or app does not.
- Firsthand testing
- Recently reviewed
- Practical fallbacks
First-trip checklist
Take your first 72 hours offline
Receive the printable 4-page arrival pack by email, with a bilingual hotel address card, airport transport checks, payment and internet backups, emergency numbers and a notes section.
Prefer to read online? Open the complete first-trip checklist.