Private tours of China,designed around you and your companions.
Specialists who design the trip and stay across it, first enquiry to last airport pickup. Visa-free for Australian passports through 31 December 2026, with the application handled for travel dates beyond. One figure, every leg in, no forced shopping written into your booking.
- Designed around your party
- Named specialist, 24-hour support
- No forced shopping, written in
Australians arrive in mainland China with a different shape of brief than most other travellers. The flight comes in late at Beijing or Shanghai after fourteen or fifteen hours in the air; the visa-free window opens at the gate and runs thirty days from the morning after entry; the home time zone sits two or three hours ahead, not the seven or eight a London-based traveller manages. The trip ahead has to be paced for that, not for the brochure.
Everonia designs private trips of China for travellers from Australia and their companions. The specialists are reachable in your time zone, not ours. The route you approve is the route we brief: hotels chosen with you, the guides and drivers from a network we have worked with for years, internal flights and high-speed rail booked under one quote, entrance times agreed at the sites where the timing carries the day. No forced shopping stops are placed into your itinerary. If a guide or driver suggests one, you have a named specialist to contact.
The brand launched with Australians as the priority audience, and most of the practical groundwork reflects that. The visa fact in the panel below is sourced from the Chinese embassy in Canberra and cross-checked against Smartraveller every month. The payment guidance is written around Australian-issued Visa and Mastercard credit cards, which have been linkable to Alipay and WeChat Pay since the 2024 policy update. Planning-call hours sit on Sydney and Melbourne first, with reply windows in those time zones. Travellers from the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and most of the European Union read the same page and are served by the same specialists, with the facts that bend by passport or insurer rewritten for the country you fly from.
China is not a difficult country to travel in. It is a country that runs on a different operating system from the one most first-timers know. Payments run inside two apps. The internet is reshaped on the way in and on the way out. The high-speed rail is faster, quieter, and more punctual than what most long-haul travellers are used to from home. Hotels at the top end are operationally superb and the staff English is excellent; in the middle band, the staff English thins quickly and the request goes through a translation app. The route ahead is paced around those facts, not against them.
What you are buying here is the planning load taken off you. A first-draft route lands in your inbox inside one business day of your enquiry, with hotels, internal flights, sample meals, and an honest all-inclusive figure. The figure on your quote is the figure on your card; optional extras are named and priced before you confirm. No deposit is requested until you have reviewed the first route, inclusions, exclusions, and cancellation terms. The trip you read is the trip you take.
Visa-free for ordinary Australian passports, confirmed through 31 December 2026.
Up to thirty days for tourism, family visits, transit, and short business visits, on entry. The window runs from the morning after you enter; re-entries reset the counter. Policy current as of June 2026 and verified with the Chinese embassy in Canberra every thirty days. If your travel dates fall after the visa-free window and the policy is not extended, we manage the visa application for you as part of your trip. Travellers from the United Kingdom and New Zealand qualify under the same scheme on similar terms; United States and Canadian passports require a tourist visa under current rules, and we handle the application end-to-end when asked.
Included
as standard.
What sits inside the figure on your quote, and what stays outside it. Written before booking.
Airport and scenic transfers
Pre-arranged airport meet on arrival. Door to door.
Private vehicle and driver
A car for your party alone. One driver across your land legs where the route allows.
Bilingual guide, English and Chinese
Accompanying you whenever needed.
Daily essentials, on board
First-aid, water, chargers, umbrellas. Restocked each morning.
24-hour support, in English and Chinese
A local specialist, at your service.
Tickets and reservations sorted
Stress-free entry. Sorted before you arrive.
Flights and gateways
Direct flights run from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Perth into Beijing, Shanghai Pudong, Guangzhou, and Hong Kong. Fourteen to fifteen hours in the air on the direct east-coast routes; less on the northern Asian carriers via Singapore or Hong Kong. We help you weigh airline, points programme, and entry city against the route the rest of the trip is built around.
Time-zone coordination
Mainland China runs one time zone, UTC+8, from Kashgar to Shanghai. Two hours behind Sydney in winter, three in summer. Planning calls sit in your time zone, replies inside one business day in yours. While you are travelling, the named specialist on your trip is reachable through the in-country 24-hour line.
Payments on the ground
Australian-issued Visa and Mastercard credit cards have linked to Alipay and WeChat Pay since the 2024 policy update; per-transaction and daily limits sit inside the apps and have been raised twice since launch. Cash works at 4-star and above hotels and at international airport currency desks. Small restaurants, taxis, and convenience stores expect digital. We brief you on the setup before you fly.
Connectivity and apps
An eSIM bought before you fly is the simplest path. We brief you on which providers route around the local internet restrictions for everyday messaging and email, and the practical apps go on your phone before you board: Alipay, WeChat, the Didi taxi app, and a translation app. Hotels have working Wi-Fi. Your guide carries a backup hotspot on travel days.
Travel insurance
Comprehensive travel insurance with medical evacuation is recommended, not optional. Australians under the visa-free scheme are not covered by Medicare or any reciprocal agreement in mainland China. We do not sell insurance and we take no commission on it. You arrange it through your usual insurer or broker before you confirm; we tell you what the policy needs to cover.
Quoting and paying for the trip
A first-draft route and an honest all-inclusive figure land in your inbox inside one business day of your enquiry. The figure on your quote is the figure on your card; optional extras are named and priced before you confirm. No deposit until you have reviewed the route, inclusions, exclusions, cancellation terms, and price. Card payments accepted, with the chargeback rights that come with them.
Routes others
have asked us for.
Beijing, Xi'an & Shanghai
10 days
The Great Wall, the Terracotta Warriors, the Bund.
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Beijing, Xi'an, the Yangtze & Shanghai
14 days
The classic route, with three nights on the river.
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Chengdu Pandas & Ancient Xi'an
9 days
Giant pandas, the Terracotta Warriors, Sichuan hot pot.
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The promises that
travel with you.
Real reviews land after the first delivered trips. Until then, these are the commitments that travel with every itinerary, written before you confirm.
The route you approve is the route we brief.
Accountability standard
No forced shopping stops, written into your booking. If a guide or driver suggests one, you have a named specialist to contact.
No-shopping promise
No deposit until you have reviewed the route, inclusions, exclusions, cancellation terms, and price.
Confirmation standard
What travellers from
your part of the world ask.
What about a visa?
Ordinary Australian passports have up to thirty days visa-free entry to mainland China for tourism, family visits, transit, and short business visits, confirmed through 31 December 2026. The broader scheme covers many other nationalities on similar terms; the live list is published by the Chinese embassy in each country. If your travel dates fall after the current window and the policy is not extended, we manage the visa application for you as part of your trip.
How do payments work on the ground?
Australian-issued Visa and Mastercard credit cards can be linked to Alipay and WeChat Pay since the 2024 policy update, and the same flow works for most overseas cards. Per-transaction limits apply inside each app and have been raised twice since launch, so we check the live figure before you fly. Cash is the fallback at 4-star and above hotels and at international airport currency desks; smaller restaurants, taxis, and convenience stores expect digital.
What does the price cover?
Private guides and drivers, the hotels you approve, internal flights and high-speed rail between cities, entrance tickets at the agreed sites, daily breakfast, and any meal we have written into the itinerary. International flights sit outside the figure so you can use your preferred airline and points programme. The figure on your quote is the figure you pay. Optional extras are named and priced before you confirm.
What about phones, data, and the internet?
An eSIM bought before you fly is the simplest option. We brief you on which providers route around the local internet restrictions for everyday messaging and email, and we set up the practical apps before you leave: Alipay, WeChat, the Didi taxi app, and a translation app. Hotels have working Wi-Fi. Your guide carries a backup hotspot on travel days, set to the home network of the country you flew from.
Do I need travel insurance?
Comprehensive travel insurance with medical evacuation is recommended, not optional. Australians travelling under the visa-free scheme are not covered by Medicare or any reciprocal agreement in mainland China, and the same gap applies to most overseas visitors. We do not sell insurance and we take no commission on it. You arrange it through your usual insurer or broker before you confirm the trip; we tell you what the policy needs to cover.
Is this a private trip or a group tour?
Every Everonia trip is private. You travel with your own companions, your own guide, and your own driver, on the dates you choose, paced to your group. We do not run coach-led group departures, and we do not combine separate bookings to fill a vehicle. A single booking typically carries two to six companions; larger family or multi-generational groups are handled with a second vehicle and a second guide on the long-walk legs.
When is the best time to travel?
Spring (late March to mid-May) and autumn (mid-September to early November) are the country's two clearest seasons, dry, bright, and warm enough for early-morning sites. Summer is the school-holiday window and runs hot and humid in the south and centre. Winter is cold but quiet, with the imperial cities at their most photogenic. The route is paced around the season you pick, not the other way around.
How far in advance should I be in touch?
Three to nine months before travel is the dependable window for spring and autumn trips, four to twelve months for Chinese New Year or Golden Week dates. We accept shorter lead times when hotel and high-speed-rail inventory allow, and we tell you honestly when they do not. A first-draft route and an honest all-inclusive figure usually land in your inbox inside one business day of your enquiry.
Is China safe right now?
Smartraveller is the Australian government source we re-read every month; its current advice for mainland China is to exercise normal safety precautions, the same level it sets for most of Europe. Comparable guidance is published by the UK Foreign Office, the US State Department, and the Canadian and New Zealand foreign ministries. We cross-check the live wording before every trip we send, and we brief you on anything specific to your route.
Does this work for families and multi-generational travel?
Yes. The pace shifts around the youngest and the oldest companion in the group: meal stops sit closer together, the long-walk days at heritage sites pair with a shorter alternative, and the day starts later when the night before earned it. Hotels we work with hold connecting rooms and family rooms when we ask. Groups of five and above run on a seven-seater vehicle, with a second guide on the long-walk legs.
Hand us the dream,
we carry it through.
Tell us when you want to travel and a little about your party. A first-draft route and an honest all-inclusive price will land in your inbox by reply.
Design your trip
Start with your preferences. We'll craft a private itinerary that fits how you like to travel.
Jack Guo
Your travel specialist
Jack has spent ten years working with the guides, drivers and hoteliers across China. He'll be your contact from first enquiry to final airport pickup.