Free China travel tools

Nine free interactive tools that answer the questions you actually ask before booking — visa, budget, trains, the Wall, payments. No sign-up, no app install, no tracking.

Plan & budget

Answer the booking questions first: can I go visa-free, what will it cost, and is my window a mistake.

Visa checker
Pick your passport and see whether you enter visa-free, for how long, or need to apply in advance.
Cost calculator
Daily budget by city and travel style — backpacker to luxury, hotels, food and tickets itemised.
Real trip budget
What real travellers actually spent, day by day, with the receipt-level breakdown and international flights.
Holiday checker
Golden Week and public-holiday crowd windows — check whether your dates collide with peak travel weeks.

Build the itinerary

Turn the route into day-by-day plans and check the trains between cities.

Plan my China trip
Answer five questions — dates, pace, interests — and get a day-by-day route matched to the right cities.
HSR route planner
High-speed rail routes, durations and fares between major cities, with the stations you will actually use.
Great Wall picker
Mutianyu, Badaling or Jinshanling — compare crowds, transport and cost for every Wall section worth visiting.

Money & on the ground

The two setups that make or break the trip — payments and your phone — plus the translation layer.

Alipay wizard
Set up Alipay with a foreign passport and card in six steps — registration, top-up limits and the QR flows.
Bilingual translators
The translation apps that actually work in China, configured for menus, signs and conversations.