Yes, China Tours is more expensive, but every penny is worth it!. Imagine…. picked up at the airport by your private guide. Personal driver in nice car. No standing in line after line to get on/off the bus. No following someone you can’t hear holding up a stick with a flag. Imagine telling that guide things “on the side” you want to see and having that happen. Imagine being the only non-locals at restaurants rather than stock meals with 60 other white folk. Imagine not being dropped off at “mandatory” shopping areas. We went Beijing – Xi’an, -boat on Yangzte – Shanghai. Perfect! Thanks, especially to our guide in Beijing Jack. You are a rock star!
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Amazing Warriors, Walls, and City Lights
The trip exceeded our expectations. The country was beautiful and the history was fascinating. We were impressed with all of the accommodations on the trip. The tour was very informative and enjoyable with an outstanding knowledgeable guide who was #1. She knew about the history of Xi’an, both ancient and modern, and the Terra Cotta Warriors. She was helpful in directing us to specific locations we desired to go on our free time in the evening to connect with a friend, and even gave us her personal phone number so we could call in case we needed help during that time. She was a personable guide and enjoyable to talk to. We were glad to be met and dropped off at the train station, and hotel by all concerned staff. We felt secure in China as foreign travelers mostly due to our guide’s eagerness to make sure that we were well cared for in every aspect. Suggestions for restaurants and activities were useful to us. We enjoyed eating in the city with the local residents.
China Tours took us in an amazing 12 day trip that covered almost 4.000 km by train, cruise and air
The program schedule was well designed to give you a good knowledge of the cities and country side with a good cruise to see amazing sites and relax when needed.
The planned schedule was fully executed. Guides, drivers and hotels where as offered, most exceptional. Some took their off time to check on you.
China is a country that must be visited and China Tours small group policy and no shopping stops makes your visit go a long way.
The administrative personnel you never meet are permanently at your service. Good job John, Carrie and others that arranged my multiple requests so fast, making it almost a tailored trip.
My advice, try them. You can’t go wrong.
Daniel
Private three day tour shanghai,Suzhou & Tongli Water Town
Great private tour, very skilful driver and thoughtful guide. Day one picked up from International Cruise Terminal (Boashan), we saw the sights of Shanghai, the Bund, Nanjing Road, Peoples Park, shanghai museum, and acrobatic show. Day two, Suzhou, Master of the Nets Garden, and Tongli Water Town. John, our consultant, worked with us to organize the tours according to our needs, the driver was very skilled, the car clean and roomy, our tour guide Jacki made sure he accommodated all our needs, the sightseeing pace very easy. Day three we were driven to Shanghai Pudong Int. airport, where our guide stayed with us until all formalities were completed. Highly recommend China Tours.
Review for head office assistants and local tour guides in Chengdu, Zhangjiajie and Guilin
Here I want to give some credits to the office associates Martha and Carrie, and our tour guides for taking care of our family trip this time. Benny in Chengdu, Li-ping in Zhangjiajie and Tony in Guilin. Our family from San Francisco travelled to the above places for a week.
We stayed in Chengdu for a day only. The major task for Benny was to bring us to the panda base for that day. Benny was very knowledgeable and familiar with the panda base that we visited, so we could efficiently take short ways to visit more sites in couple hours. My son wanted to buy a Hwa-Wei new phone as a souvenir in China. Benny was very helpful to bring us to a nearby Hwa-Wei boutique, but the boutique sold out the newest model my son wanted. My son decided to buy a Xiao-Mi phone instead, so Benny brought us to a nearby Xiao-Mi boutique to get a phone my son wanted. Benny even reminded my son to get a screen protector, but the boutique sold out of it. Benny was again efficiently use our little time in Chengdu to bring us to buy a screen protector for my son’s new phone!
The guide in Zhangjiajie Li-Ping was great, too. Out of her own working hours, she brought us to visit Feng Huang Old Town night view. The night view of Feng Huang was one of the remarkable view I experienced so far! Li-Ping also explained very well for the Miao culture while we were in the tour van traveling to Feng Huang, so my son had great interests about the old town we were going to visit. On our request, Li-Ping brought us to two wonderful restaurants, which allowed our family to try many delicious local dishes in our short staying!
Tony’s a great tour guide, too. My daughter liked Tony the most because he spoke in a slower path of Chinese Mandarin, which allowed my daughter to understand better in the trip. My sister and husband are not fluent in English. My Children were born in the USA and we speak mainly Chinese Mandarin at home; therefore, their understanding about Chinese local culture is limited. My daughter specifically wanted to give extra credit to Tony because Tony’s bilingual explanation in the trip made her feel more motivated to learn about Chinese local culture.
The office associates Martha and Carrie were very kind whenever I contacted them. They would answer my questions in couple hours. In addition, because I am handicapped, they would try their best to plan a trip to accommodate my needs. For example, my needs to have hotel rooms close to the elevators, my needs to have bilingual tour guides, my needs to finish my trip in a week for traveling to many places our family members wanted to go….
Anyway, I just wanted to explain here why I rated ChinaTours 5-star. They provided excellent services to our journey! We will look for their further help for our future trips in China!
Johan Braet
Overall we can say that we had an excellent trip and that is for a big part because of ChinaTours. We travelled several times in Asia on the same concept (private tour driver/guide) and this was one of the best organised.
Ken And Colleen Green
We could not recommend China Tours highly enough, our drivers, guides and hotels were amazing. Our tours were very well planned and we were given ample free time to explore the wonderful sites we visited. Our guides were very knowledgeable and only too happy to help make our holiday very special.
We will never forget our wonderful China Tour and would like to thank Wynn, Sara, Summer and Warren for looking after us so well.
James McLean
We had such a great time in Xi’an – local food, knowledgeable guide, free time to explore, so many excellent experiences. I have no hesitation recommending ChinaTours to anyone looking to explore this awesome city.
Ms. Corinne Marshall
Helen has an obvious passion for what she does, is highly knowledgeable and knows how to take care of guests. Every aspect of this tour met or exceeded expectations. Travel with confidence!
Mr. Peter Mills
China Tours helped us plan and execute a private personalised 28 day tour across China. They were able to tailor the tour to our requests for several hiking trips during the 4 weeks.
They were very efficient and everything went as planned and promised. Had some lovely guides along the way.
Saw all the things we wanted to and managed to get away from the crowds some of the time.