Paul H
UK
- Reviewed on December 28, 2023
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Very good tour, and China Discovery's communication (before, during, and after the trip) was very good.
We researched many tour providers and (despite a negative review for China Discovery that we saw, which criticised the individual guides rather than the company) went ahead with China Discovery as this tour fitted with our specific needs (starting in HK, and not including flights to/from UK). The trip was a customised 15 day tour to Guilin, Chengdu, Lhasa, Xi'an and Beijing, so if you need something different they should be able to customise. Highlights were:
- Guilin, River Cruise through the Limestone Karst mountains to Yangshuo where we saw a fantastic evening show that was directed by Mr Zhang (director of Beijing Olympics opening ceremony).
- Chengdu, Giant Panda Research Centre, evening show with face-changing.
- Lhasa (Tibet), Potala Palace and monasteries, plus the scenery. This was supposed to be a group tour, but the group was just us!
- Xi'an, Terracotta Warriors, City Walls, Bell and Drum Towers
- Beijing, Great Wall, Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, Temple of Heaven, Olympic Park.
By the end of the tour we felt a bit overwhelmed, which was not surprising given the amount packed in!
Our experience of guides was very good, we had a different guide in each city and all were knowledgeable, friendly, and easy to understand. If anything was not clear they would repeat and clarify anything we asked them, they never pressed us to go anywhere we did not want (e.g. shops/side tours/etc.), and the only "complaint" that we had was that at times we felt they walked a bit fast (but never excessively).
As we travelled in the low season (and had to deal with 30C in HK down to -1C in Beijing... -12C with wind chill) all the sights were quite free of tourists which we had not expected from what we had heard of other's experiences touring China.
We would recommend China Discovery (although we think that this could easily depend on whether the individual guides were as good as ours).
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