Originally Posted by
Deltahater
Meaning I don't want to fly to PEK for $400 for the day to see the Great wall, but we can get to Guilin easy and cheaply or something like that, we would be open to that.
Guilin from Shanghai is going to be just as expensive if not more than PEK. You can get some great deals a couple days out for flights to PEK (~75-100 US$ OW)
As for suggestions for day trips out of SHA, I always send my guests to Nanjing and Hangzhou. Using the always efficient D trains these are easily done in a day.
I did the watertowns a couple times but was never that impressed with them, a little too commercialized for my liking.