Dragon Well Tea (Longing Tea),the world famous Hangzhou Dragon Well Tea ( Longjing) is produced at this village for over 600 years. Produced mostly by hand and renowned for its high quality, earning its No.1 tea in China. A trip to Hangzhou is not complete without visiting the LongJing Tea Plantation. I will highly recommend Mei Jia Village. It is called Mei Jia as the family surname is Mei. A very beautiful scenic place. Many local traditional tea house worth a visit too.And there are many tea houses provide meals...

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We decided to go to Meijiawu Tea Village near Westlake in Hangzhou by ourselves. We took a taxi from our hotel nearby Longxiangqiao subway station to the Dragon well tea village(Meijiawu village) was about 41 yuan. We were lucky that it was a little overcast and cool as I believe it might get really hot in the summer. Meijiawu is a little village situated between beautiful mountains with lots of big old trees and tea plantations planted on terraces up the mountains.
Everywhere there are cement walkways that you can walk on and enjoy the beautiful view and scenery by yourself.The entrance is free. In town there are plenty of tea houses where you can enjoy a cup of the West Lake Dragon Well tea and have some fruit snacks. Prices vary.

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Overall was a great tour day for me as someone that really loves to drink tea. Bonnie and the driver came to hotel to pick me up in the morning and from the start Bonnie was quite warm and friendly. Bonnie is local from Hangzhou, so throughout the day she shared many facts and history about Hangzhou and longjing tea.
Of course it costs a bit more for a private vs a group tour, but i really enjoyed how it was more personal to what i wanted to see. You don't get the usual "hard sell" and brought to the pre-arranged places where they try to sell to you....to make up for the cheaper group tour costs (this is based on other group tours i've taken in the past).
The only time i was really sold anything was at the tea village (cultural tea center i think), but this was ok for me since I intended to buy tea anyways and the tea sample i got there tasted pretty good.

Reviewed to: Hangzhou Dragon Well Tea Village & Longjing Tea Plantation Day Tour

Fantastic hangzhou tea culture day tour thanks to David. There were a lot of negative things that I'm not gonna go into but, once we got to Hangzhou @12:30PM, it got better. Very simple lunch but everything we had were good. It was a miserable day because of the traffic and the rain. Our tour guide David was awesome. We got to Hangzhou later than usual for this tour but he never rush us. We got longjing tea that we wanted. We would love to go back to Hangzhou again. We'll make sure to stay there for more than a day next time..

Reviewed to: Hangzhou Dragon Well Tea Village & Longjing Tea Plantation Day Tour

We had mostly a great day, visiting the lake, tea village and tea museum, lunch at a tea farmer's house,testing the best green tea in china. Our guide, Bonnie was extremely knowledgeable, spoke excellent English, and was very informative answering lots of questions.Bonnie was very knowledgeable about the Longjing Tea Planation. It was very informative, the tea was delicious and many of us bought some to take home. A great day in Hangzhou for tea culture!

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Our day trip to Hangzhou from shanghai was definitely one of the highlights of our 8 day China trip. Davey (David) was extremely knowledgeable, funny, sincere, and helpful. The day could not have gone better. From West Park, to Farmer's House for lunch to the Dragon Well plantation, and Lingyen Temple, everything was perfect. Even the train station pickup and drop off was meticulously planned. However I cannot state enough how well David did on the tour. His knowledge of the history of Hangzhou made our trip very educational as well as relaxing. Highly, highly recommended.

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I was in Hangzhou last week and took a day tour around the City. The only problem i faced in Hangzhou was the communicating with the native people and with our guide, David, who was speaking fluent English, our outing turned out to be a great experience. He took us around the West lake area, boating in West lake, Bamboo forest, temples, tea estate and Hangzho's shopping area. He also had taken us for a nice lunch at the local farmer's house, Overall was a very great experience and I highly recommend David to be your guide if anybody travel to Hangzhou.

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Our Hangzhou Trip was very well organized, everything from reservation to the agenda was very smooth. They book the round way train tickets from shanghai to hangzhou and back online and we got the train tickets at the Shanghai train station. Our tour guide Bonnie met us at the hangzhou train station on time. Bonnie was friendly, informative and even brought fans to keep us cool. Overall it was an enjoyable experience. I would highly recommend it with family or with friends. Lunch at the local tea farmer's house was GREAT, Boat ride at west lake and tour to Lingyan temple were great !!!

Reviewed to: Hangzhou Essence Highlights Day Tour from Shanghai By High Speed Train

Our tour guide picked up us on time at our hotel lobby and drove us to the show. The lights and scenery are amazing, so if in Hangzhou you really should see this show. There will be loud conversations, people talking or watching videos on their phones during the show, and all manner of distractions, but we still recommend this. And we do recommend the VIP seats to stay a little bit away from the big group.

Reviewed to: Private Hangzhou Evening Street Food Walking and West Lake Impression Westlake Show

Had a wonderful day in Hangzhou with our tour guide Bonnie. She was very knowledgeable and friendly, and answered all my stupid questions :) it was a pleasure to be guided by her through the amazing city of Hangzhou. I was particularly impressed by the West Lake (it gave me such a peaceful sensation) and the Lingyin temple, an absolute gem! We had a great lunch at the farmers' house (I'd recommend trying the chicken cooked in green tea and the eggplants) and went for a walk in the old street. Our hangzhou trip was very well organized and everything went smoothly. I had such a great time that I won't forget.

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