Travel to Shanghai on a limited budget of 18,000

Shanghai Trip with a Budget of 18,000 THB + Disney 🇨🇳 Shanghai! Date: Sat, Oct 11, 2025 - Oct 13, 2025 💸: 18,000 THB +/person Flight Ticket: 10,725 THB (Full Service) Hotel: 1,295 THB /person (2 nights) E-SIM: 26 THB /person Insurance: 24 THB /person Disney: 2,134 THB /person Disney Shuttle: 420 THB /2 = 210 THB Metro: 20 THB = 14,862 THB ————————— Save the Top Highlights Check-in Attraction: 📌The Bun 📌The Bun Bull 📌Oriental Pearl Tower Photo Spot 📌Shanghai Natural History Museum 📌 Wukang Road 📌 Xintiandi 📌 Tian An 1000 Trees 📌 Shanghai Disney Resort Food 📌 New Sukiyaki 📌 CHAGEE 📌 Jai Jai Tang Bao 📌 13DE Marzo 📌 New York Begleous Museum ———————— I'm here to tell you📣 Shanghai travel tips for those with limited friends, time, and budget!! (This trip, I went with one other friend = the whole trip will be split in half.) 5 Days 2 Nights. Confused? Let's start!! I started by buying a full-service flight, but my connecting flight was in Kunming. My return flight was a direct flight. We flew on Friday night and arrived Saturday morning (so, I ended up staying for one night, lol). Day 1: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM. Then, I took the free bus to Joyful Yard, a popular Thai hotel. I can confirm it's great and awesome!! 💅👍🏼 The hotel also allows early check-in. My friends and I took a shower and changed clothes to get ready for our serious trip. 1:00 PM: First time taking Didi. Of course, ❌I marked everything wrong!! But this app is great. We can inform the driver to change it. The app will recalculate the fare and we reached the correct destination. 24.14¥110.6฿ (We told them to go to Lingkong Station, so they marked it for us). We bought a 3-day pass for 45¥=207฿. We took the metro into the city for about 50 minutes (I missed the stop because I fell asleep). We arrived at Nanjing East Road around 3:00 PM. Then we walked along Nanjing Road to find a popular hot pot restaurant in Thailand. New Sukiyaki for 179¥850฿ was our favorite. We loved it! But!! We had to wait in line for the 4:30 PM bus ride! We walked around the mall because we waited until around 4:00 PM to get a ticket. There were a lot of Thais waiting. After an army marches on its stomach, let's walk along Nanjing Road at night by walking. His house is a nice place to walk around, very beautiful. We planned to go to The Bund Bull to pray for good fortune and good luck. Then the lights at the Pearl Tower started turning on, so we took some photos. We walked for a long time, and the front of the building was beautiful and refreshing. Then we stopped for CHAGEE (฿97) and bought souvenirs at Hotmax. We used the Metro (฿111+513) to get to the Lingkong MRT and then took a taxi back to the hotel late at night, which was a total of ฿30/138.25. 📜Day 1 Expenses Didi 248.85/2 people = ฿124.425 Food 🥘=฿850 Tea 🧋=฿97 =฿124+850+97=฿1,071 Don't worry about souvenirs, it's up to you to decide what you want to buy. Day 2 Take the Didi for 16.10 yen (74/2 = 37 baht) to the same station to enter the city. Swipe your Metro card! Then, we went to Jai Jai Tang Bao for crab fat noodles. It was so delicious! I absolutely loved the crab fat xiaolongbao 👍🏼🍜🥟 and was so full! I spent 75.50 baht (376 baht) on the Metro. Then, I took the Metro to the Shanghai Natural History Museum. The entrance fee was 138 baht per person. It was tiring and worth it, as there were so many floors. It was so much fun. Afterwards, I took the Didi to Wukang Road. It cost 82/2 = 41 baht. It's always crowded at any time, making it hard to find a good spot to take photos. Almost every restaurant was full, so I couldn't resist. I walked to the Metro and went to Xintiandi. This area is so huge! We spent 3 hours there, lol. But what I really stopped to buy was the 🧋13DE Marzo. The taste was not to my liking at all. The cuteness of the glass was the main draw. 134฿ per glass. Then we continued to the New York Begleous Museum. We ordered both sweet and savory drinks. 🥯They were all delicious!! I was stunned. It cost 442/2 = 221฿. But we couldn't finish it and secretly wrapped it up to eat in the room. Then we continued on the Metro again, lol. We were going to Tian An 1000 Trees and arrived around 5:30 PM. The light was so beautiful. We took a few photos and then turned on the lights. We got 2 moods. It was beautiful. At 6:30 PM, we went back to the room and paid Didi 83/2 = 41.5. If you think today is over, no. We went for a walk around the hotel because we had a glass of Haytea 🧋. Following the reviews, the grape tea was really delicious. 85฿. Day 2 Expenses Didi 240/2 people = 120฿ Food 🥘 = 597฿ Tea 🧋 = 219฿ = 120+597+219= 936฿ Day 3 We had breakfast at the hotel. We had to try it. It lived up to its reputation. The food lineup was extensive: bread, fried dough sticks 🍞🥖, rice porridge, chicken sausage, cereal, milk, tea, coffee. Wow, it was amazing! We took the free bus from the hotel to Disney. It was a great way to save money in the morning, lol. Today, we were exploring Disneyland all day!! We left 3 bags at Disneyland for 1,140/2 = 570฿. (Normally, Disney charges 80¥ per bag. I calculated it for 2 bags before going.) But my wallet grew, lol. Then we hit the road! The whole day was so much fun it would be too long to describe. For lunch, we ordered two sets of fried food and curry rice. The taste wasn't bad, and it was quick and easy to eat. It cost 612/2 = 306 baht. But because we bought Disney tickets, we also got a 100 yen discount on food, so it was only this much per person. It was amazing! We then played until we saw the parade. At 8:00 PM, we boarded the reserved shuttle to the airport. For dinner, we ate at a ramen restaurant in the airport. The large set meal cost another 406 baht. We had a night flight, arriving in Thailand the morning. 📜Day 3 Expenses Luggage storage = 570 baht Food 🥘 = 712 baht = 570 + 712 = 1,282 baht 3-day expenses = 3,289 baht Total = 18,151 baht #TravelChina #Shanghai #ShanghaiDisneyland