Do you need to book Shengsi Islands island-hopping in advance?

Yes — Shengsi Islands island-hopping in Zhoushan runs on real-name advance reservation. Release rule: No park gate to pre-book, but the ferries out are the bottleneck — real-name with your passport and often sold out on summer weekends and holidays, so secure boat tickets ahead. A foreign passport works as the real-name ID. No linkable official booking page is recorded. Our record names “booking apps” as a booking route.

Verified 2026-06-13 · rules change; confirm on the official channel before you travel

The booking rule, in detail

Reservation
Required in advance
Tickets release
No park gate to pre-book, but the ferries out are the bottleneck — real-name with your passport and often sold out on summer weekends and holidays, so secure boat tickets ahead
Foreign passport
A foreign passport works as the real-name ID.
Official channel
No linkable official booking page is recorded. Our record names “booking apps” as a booking route.

How a foreign visitor actually books it

There is no single 'attraction ticket' — the experience is getting out to the islands and wandering. The gating factor is the ferry: most travellers sail from the Xiaoyang (小洋山) pier south-east of Shanghai, reached across the East Sea Bridge from the Luchaogang (芦潮港) metro area, or from docks on the Zhoushan side. Boats are real-name, so bring your passport; book ahead in summer. Once on Gouqi/Shengshan you get around by taxi or rented bike (no real bus network). The famous green abandoned village on Shengshan is reached by local boat or guide from Gouqi.

What else to know

We link no official booking page here — ferry tickets are sold through the operators' own real-name channels and the usual OTAs/ferry-booking apps, with no single clean official ticketing domain we could verify for a foreign visitor — book the boat, not a 'park'. Indicative ferry fares from the Shanghai side have long run roughly ¥80 on the slow boat (about 4 hours) and around ¥104 on the fast boat (about 2.5 hours), but these are dated and weather can suspend sailings outright, so treat them as a ballpark and reconfirm on the day. The draw here is the clearest water in the Zhoushan group, real beaches, mussel-farm bays, and the 'green village' — an abandoned fishing settlement on Shengshan whose stone houses have been swallowed by vines, now a viral photo spot reached on foot from a viewpoint. Manage expectations on the swimming: the main DaWang Beach on Gouqi is guarded, fenced and closes in the late afternoon, and lifeguards keep swimmers within a few metres of shore.

If the official channel does not work

Do not assume an unrecorded booking route is available. Recheck the operator’s current instructions; where the interface itself is the obstacle, the practical mechanics are in buying tickets the official way and booking without WeChat.

Other Zhoushan sights and their booking rules

Full city context, hotels that register foreigners, and what to eat: Zhoushan guide. Release times across every city we track are in Reservation Radar.