China Tour Reviews from Italy Customers

Mrs. Beatrice's China Tour Review

Photo of Lijiang - taken by our client

Dear Ivy,

It’s my pleasure to write this email and thanks again for the wonderful trip you organized for us. I wish you all the best, and who knows may be one day we will come back to visit Tibet!!

All the vehicles were clean and they all had air-condition, that however we never used since was never really necessary. We had no problem, everything went smooth as planned. All the drivers are politely and everything was all right with them.

The guide spoke all well enough English, some more and some less, but we did not have any problem due to language.

The free mineral water was really great and unexpected! We highly appreciated it!

Some hotel were better than other, but in total were OK. In details: The hotel in Dali: great location, nice room, but please ask them to better clean the breakfast tables even though the food itself was Ok. The best hotel for position and design was the one in Dali (apart from the tables breakfast)They were definitely all clean.

Hotel in Chengdu: definitely the best one, but the position not good: too far to the city center. For both the hotels in Beijing and Chengdu we would recommend a location really close to the tourist area, since there were free evenings planned in our itinerary.

The best restaurants were in Xi’an (both of them: Dumpling dinner and hotpot), and the one in Guillin were we had lunch. In Beijing none of the two were really good, and the dinner in Lijiang (before the Dongba show), was also not really delicious. All the other ones were definitely OK!

Well, almost with each guide we had at least one shopping stores/factories. However, this has almost never bothered us. Some guides asked us before whether we were interested, some did not. They let us stroll around in the shops by ourselves and when we wanted to leave, they took us to the next stop of our itinerary.

In Beijing, we highly appreciate the fact that our guide was able to organize a visit to a Beijing opera for us - at quite short notice! Another thing we would like to mention is that our second train (Yichang - Xi’an), was by far lowest quality in comparison to the other two. In the program it was written train number XY around 15, but we caught the train YZ around 13, which arrived half an hour early in Xi’an. I don’t know if the one we took was the one planned for us or not, since especially the one from Xi’an to Beijing was of considerably better quality! Anyway, we safely arrived at our destination, which was the most important point for us.

I want to stress the thing that we were/are perfectly happy about our trip, about your organization and how the things went. As said before everything went smooth and was perfectly organized.

We will surely contact you again, in case we will have the possibility to come back, maybe the next time for Tibet!

Best wishes for you too
Beatrice and Christian

Customer's information:
Name: Mrs. Beatrice
Nationality: Italy
Itinerary: 21 Days China Highlights of Hong Kong/Guilin/Yangshuo/Kunming/Dali/

Updated: Friday,Apr 23,2010