Manchester to Shanghai, China from £553

This deal vs. typical deal price for this route — verified 24 May 2026 at 13:09 UTC

Bag Type	Dimensions / Weight	Included
👜 Personal Item	Small bag / laptop	✅ Yes
🎒 Cabin Bag	8 kg	✅ Yes
🧳 Checked Bag	1 × 23 kg	✅ Yes

🌍 About Shanghai

Shanghai is the great east-meets-west city — 25 million people split between Puxi's tree-lined French Concession lanes and Pudong's futuristic skyline, the two sides facing each other across the Huangpu River. The Bund, the colonial-era waterfront, is the city's most photographed walk — art deco bank facades on one side, the Shanghai Tower (the world's second-tallest building, at 632 metres) lit up on the other; the evening light show across Pudong is the tourist moment everyone has on their phone. Yu Garden in the old city walls is a Ming-dynasty classical garden, and the surrounding bazaar makes some of the best xiaolongbao soup dumplings in China — Din Tai Fung built its empire on this dish. The French Concession is where most travellers end up wandering: plane-tree streets, small jazz bars, restored shikumen lane houses around Xintiandi and Tianzifang. The maglev train from Pudong airport runs at 431 km/h into town and costs less than a coffee. UK and EU passports get 30 days visa-free entry to China as of 2025, which has reopened Shanghai as an easy long-weekend or stopover…