Recommended Family Road Trip Destinations Around Suzhou

There are many great places to get close to nature around Suzhou, perfect for road trips with family and friends. The Dragon Boat Festival is just around the corner, so it’s the perfect time to go on a road trip. Let’s take a look at some great road trip destinations around Suzhou.

1、Fuchun River National Forest Park, Zhejiang Province

Live in the real scenery of “Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains”

Recommendation: This place is very scholarly, suitable for families seeking a quiet and peaceful vacation.

Suitable for: 2, 3, or 4 families together. The villas are divided into 2-room, 3-room, and 4-room options.

Address: Fuchun River National Forest Park, Zhejiang Province. The resort is located in the area where Huang Gongwang lived in his later years (sounds very attractive, doesn’t it?).

You can only reach the hotel by boat, and the scenery on both sides is the original landscape of “Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains”.

Maybe many children can’t appreciate the deep and vast landscape of “Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains”, but being able to reach the hotel by boat itself is like a slowly unfolding picture game. Moreover, the scenery on both sides is the original landscape of “Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains”. A vacation to Fuchun Juxhe is full of scholarly atmosphere.

5 Anhui-style villas, 1 Ming-style academy, 1 150-year-old house. Cycle during the day, practice calligraphy by the river at night. The scholarly atmosphere is very strong. You can choose according to the size of your family. Each villa has a private courtyard, with lush trees close up and distant views of the river with mountains in the distance. During the day, you can take your kids for a boat ride on the river, or cycle along the ancient mountain path, or practice calligraphy by the river, using ink to feel the atmosphere in front of you.

Fishing by the river, playing golf, visiting Longmen Ancient Town, and you can also go to the cultural village to experience papermaking and printing in person.

Dads can take their kids fishing by the river, or compete on the only 18-hole, 72-par golf course in Asia, themed around hills and tea gardens. The activities nearby are also very cultural. You can go to Longmen Ancient Town, where the houses and corridors are connected, like a maze for kids, perfect for playing hide-and-seek. You can also go to the papermaking and printing cultural village and make your own paper and experience ancient printing techniques.

At night, gather around the fire in the mountains, talk and relax~

At night, after the kids are asleep, brew a pot of good tea, or choose a good wine from the hotel (the hotel’s wine collection is carefully selected and very reasonably priced), on a moonless night, a few adults can chat leisurely in this quiet space surrounded by mountains, a very, very relaxing holiday.

2、Yangzhou Xiaopangu Valley Club

Live in the most authentic aristocratic mansion

Recommendation: Experience the “elegant style of the great families” that is almost extinct in this era.

Suitable for: Several families who love Jiangnan gardens to go on a trip.

Address: No. 42 Dasu Lane, Dingjiawan, Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province

Take your children to experience the aristocratic atmosphere of Jiangnan gardens

If it weren’t for this big mansion, we wouldn’t have thought of bringing our kids to Yangzhou. We’ve always wanted to take our kids to the gardens in Jiangnan to experience the delicate beauty, but the gardens in Suzhou and Yangzhou seem to be still there, but they lack a certain “atmosphere”.

It used to be the private mansion of Zhou Fu, a high-ranking official during the Qing Dynasty

The alleyway in front of the hotel is deep, narrow, and quiet, of course, it is completely inaccessible to cars. When the kids step into the alley, their chatter becomes quieter. During the day, watching the kids playing in the courtyard, they are full of curiosity about all kinds of garden plants, touching here and there.

At night, when the moon is high, sit in the spacious courtyard with friends, brew a pot of tea, play a game of chess, and tell stories about the past while surrounded by red wood carvings, a truly elegant pastime!

3、Anji Old Tree Forest Resort Villa

Escape to the deep, deep mountains

Recommendation: Go deep into the canyon and old forest, and have a “mountain dwelling” group trip where you see green when you open your eyes and see stars when you look up.

Suitable for: 4, 5, or even 12 families to travel together. The number of rooms in each villa of Song, Mei, Lan, and Zhu is different.

Address: Zheshiling Natural Village, Chuancun Village, Shanchuan Township, Anji County, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province

The resort occupies the entire mountain forest

The mountain road is not easy to find. It wasn’t until we saw the old tree forest, those simple houses standing alone on the mountainside, and the entire resort sitting on the entire mountain forest like a fan, that we were finally amazed.

Mountain view terrace, close to nature.

The Old Tree Forest resort villa is a kind of simplicity after “seeing all the glory,” the mountain view terrace is an irresistible blend of natural beauty, and the best part is that the entire terrace can be connected to form a 15-meter long terrace!

An infinity pool on the mountainside, rafting, picking tea, walking in the bamboo forest…a great place to breathe fresh air and purify your lungs

When several families go together, the kids run and play on the rattan chairs, with mist swirling in their field of vision, adults can chat about everything under the sun, truly a happy experience for people of all ages. The infinity pool here is completely suspended on the mountainside, and the water in the pool flows down from the thousand-meter-high mountain, filling up and then overflowing from the infinity pool to continue flowing downwards, so it is a living mountain spring pool.

In summer, there are many activities suitable for children, such as rafting, picking tea, and walking in the bamboo forest. Of course, it’s already very enjoyable to just be in the middle of a sea of green in the hotel.

4、Demaotang

A big villa with mountains behind and water in front

Recommendation: Feel the sense of mountain dwelling embraced by the mountain breeze on the edge of Fengle Lake at the foot of Huangshan Mountain. There are also many parent-child mountain dwelling activities.

Suitable for: 2-3 families who love mountains and water to stay, one villa has 2-3 rooms.

Address: Laoliangshang, Chengkan Town, Huizhou District, Anhui Province

At the foot of Huangshan Mountain, backed by Fengle Lake, meeting the needs of different families

Demaotang is a typical Huizhou architectural hotel style. Located at the foot of the scenic Huangshan Mountain, backed by Fengle Lake, Demaotang is a perfect choice for several families to go on a trip, meeting the needs of “the benevolent loves mountains, the wise loves water.”

There are many large villas, perfect for groups of 4-8 families to travel together

I strongly recommend staying at Demaotang for at least two nights. There are many large villas in Demaotang, perfect for groups of 4-8 families to travel together. The Eighteen Scholars, which can accommodate 8 people, the Rongcheng Sendai Modern Huizhou Residence, which can accommodate 6 people, and the Churen Hall – Renli, which is suitable for 2 families to travel together. Just listening to the names of these villas, they are full of poetic beauty and cultural elegance.

Picking grapes, making wine, making water lanterns, boating on Fengle Lake… full of cultural charm

Traditional Huizhou architecture, white brick and tile houses, with gray eaves, and inside, you can see the winter melon beams that support the entire house, which is very interesting. The day trip here is also full of cultural charm. After waking up naturally on the second day, you can participate in Demaotang’s 24 solar terms rural travel activities, pick grapes in the garden, make wine by hand, make water lanterns, watch the old house, take a boat trip on Fengle Lake, etc. On a clear day, you can sit on the balcony, the starry sky here is beautiful, and if you are lucky, you can even see shooting stars.

5、Suzhou Wanghu Garden

Enjoy a paradise in a house on the top of Taihu Lake

Recommendation: Occupying the mountaintop garden of Qionglong Mountain, let the children run wild.

Suitable for: 2-3 families to stay, one villa has 2-3 rooms.

Address: Qionglong Mountain, Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province

Occupying the mountaintop garden of Qionglong Mountain, covering an area of 60 mu

Wanghu Garden villa has an enviable paradise landscape. Wanghu Garden occupies the mountaintop garden of Qionglong Mountain, covering an area of 60 mu. It is said that Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty made six trips to Jiangnan, and every time he came to Qionglong Mountain, he would come here to look out at Taihu Lake and admire the scenery, hence the name “Wanghu Garden”.

11 villas, all with 2 or 3 bedrooms, suitable for several families to travel together

The most notable thing is that there are 11 villas in the garden, each hidden among the flowers and trees in the south, each villa has a very poetic name, such as Zizhu, Haitang, Jasmine, Zitan, Dangui, Hongfeng, walking into your own private villa, it’s like walking into the private mansion in “Orange Red”, 2 or 3 bedroom villas, suitable for several families to travel together, walk in the bamboo forest, climb the green hills, listen to pingtan, and be subtly influenced by Jiangnan culture.

Life in Wanghu Garden is very simple, perfect for running wild with the kids on the mountainside, breathing fresh air, getting close to nature and learning about the mountains and forests with the kids; you can also let the kids play hide-and-seek in the bamboo forest, while the parents sit in the “Quiet Garden” and drink tea, watching the kids happily frolicking under their watchful eyes; when you get tired, you can hold the kids and enjoy tea while listening to Suzhou pingtan in the “Huantui Tower”, subtly being influenced by Jiangnan culture.

6、Tonglu ShiShe Xiangzhang Campsite Homestay

Experience a real-life “Dad, Where Are We Going?” in the mountains and waters

Recommendation: Mountains behind, water in front, blend into nature.

Suitable for: Multiple nature-loving families to stay, you can even have a group camping trip.

Address: Luzhicun Village, Tonglu County, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province

10 campsites, bamboo rafting, watching camphor trees, swimming in the open-air pool, let the children’s nature run wild.

In summer, walk into the Xiangzhang camp in the deep mountains, a dozen or so small houses built in a “campsite” style on the pebble beach by the stream. 10 campsites stretch all the way into the mountains. Stay here, you can just daze off, or you can go bamboo rafting, watch camphor trees, swim in the open-air pool, in such a beautiful mountain and clear water, if the children are full of nature and want to dive into the stream, don’t stop them, let them play as wild as you did when you were a kid!

Each campsite has its own independent barbecue area, wooden house, simple bathroom system, and space for 3-5 tents.

Adults take the kids to the shallows, fish, catch shrimp, and grill the food they catch at night; as the sun sets, the kids can run around between campsites, which are only a few minutes away, chat, and experience the long-lost feeling of returning to nature under the starry sky.