Your digital tour guide · China

A digital tour guide
for China.

All the local knowledge of a tour guide — what to eat, where to go, reservations, translation, fixes on the ground — by text, your whole trip. A fraction of the price of an in-person guide, and there only when you want it.

Real people, not just AI We don't sell hotels or tickets Money-back if it didn't help
A private guide ≈ $150 / day ChinaPal — $39, your whole trip
The honest comparison

A guide's help, without a guide's price or leash.

A private guide is wonderful — and expensive, fixed, and right next to you all day. Here's the same local knowledge, made cheap and flexible.

Private guide
ChinaPal
≈ $100–200 a day
$39 — your whole trip
Locked to fixed hours
On call anytime, your pace
By your side all day
There only when you want
Takes commission on your bookings
Earns nothing on your bookings
Translates one language
Translates menus, signs & drivers — live
Re-book & re-pay to change plans
Change plans with one text
Sticks to the set route
Go anywhere, ask anything
The cheaper part

Same local knowledge. A fraction of the cost.

$700–1,400
A week with a private guide
$39
A week — or a month — with ChinaPal

Put the difference toward the trip itself — the meals, the train upgrade, the extra city.

The flexible part

A guide you carry in your pocket.

No umbrella to follow, no clock to keep. Pull them out the second you need them — and put them away when you don't.

Only when you need it

No one shadowing you all day. Text the second something comes up — and travel on your own the rest of the time.

Change plans on the fly

Rain, a closed site, a long lie-in. Just text. No re-booking a guide, no cancellation fee, no awkward conversation.

Off the tourist script

Locals' picks and timing — the back-street hotpot, the 9:30 cave, the left-side train window — not the standard coach loop.

Your hours, your pace

Dawn market or 11pm street food — a local's awake for it. No guide's 9-to-5, no rushing to the next stop.

One flat fee · your whole trip

Less than one day with a guide.

A private guide is gone after a day. This stays with you the whole trip — for the price of a single airport taxi.

Most popular
ChinaPal Pass
$397 days of local text help

Text a real local team for 7 days. Planning, food, shopping, routes, ticket guidance, translation, and “what should we do next?” moments.

Best for independent travelers. Multi-city, large groups, or full detailed planning? Ask us for a custom quote.

Get 7 days of local help

Want to try it first? Ask a local free →

Before you ask

The honest answers.

Is this a real guide or an AI bot? +
Real people. The $39 Pass is a local team in China answering by text — reserving, translating, recommending, and fixing things in real time. (We also have a free AI planner if you want a quick draft itinerary — but the paid part is human.)
Is it really as good as an in-person guide? +
For the moments that actually matter — what to eat, what to skip, reservations no English line will take, reading a menu, fixing a rained-out day — yes, and for a fraction of the price. What we don't do is walk beside you for eight hours. Most travelers find that's exactly what they didn't want anyway.
What if I want a guide in person for one day? +
Tell us and we'll line up a vetted local guide for that specific day. The Pass covers everything around it — planning, food, translation, and on-the-ground help — for your whole trip.
Do I have to book hotels and tickets through you? +
No, and we'd rather you didn't. Book on Trip.com or wherever's cheapest. We make zero money on your bookings — so unlike a commission-paid guide, we have no reason to ever steer you wrong.
How fast does a real person reply? +
Usually within the hour, and fast when you're mid-problem. It's a considered, in-language, on-the-ground answer — the thing you're actually paying a local for.

Skip the $150-a-day guide.
Keep the local.

The same local knowledge, the whole trip, for the price of one airport taxi — and only when you want it.

Get a local for the whole trip — $39