Why China Travel Club ⭐

Most AI trip planners give you generic, Western-biased recommendations for China. They pull from Google Places — which has 5 to 50 reviews per venue here — and end up sending you to the same tourist traps everyone else visits.

Chinese locals don't use Google. They use Dianping (the Chinese Yelp, with millions of reviews per city) and Xiaohongshu (the trending lifestyle platform where locals share their favorite spots). That's where the real picks live — the hole-in-the-wall xiaolongbao spot, the speakeasy hidden behind a fake supply shop, the water town that hasn't been ruined by tour buses.

China Travel Club bridges that gap. We combine real data from Chinese review platforms with our team's hands-on curation to build every itinerary. The AI arranges your trip — but every place in it has been vetted by people who actually live and travel here.

Built by China Insider

We're the team behind @chinainsider and @chinatravel.club — combined 1.5M+ followers across social media, sharing real China travel content since 2015.

We're a team of China-based travelers who are obsessed with finding the best experiences this country has to offer. Your time in China is limited — we want to make sure every meal, every neighborhood walk, every day trip is worth it. Every place that ends up in this planner is somewhere we'd send a friend.

What's different

• Curated from real local reviews. Our recommendations are sourced from Dianping, Xiaohongshu (RedNote), and other Chinese platforms where millions of locals share honest reviews — then hand-picked by our team to make sure they're worth your time.
• We understand the pain of traveling in China as a foreigner. Metro lines, payment tips, language notes, navigation that actually works. We focus on the practical details that other planners skip.
• No tourist trap padding. We deliberately leave out places that get bad local reviews, even if they're famous abroad. If locals don't go there, neither should you.