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Beijing, Xian
Guilin Shanghai Tour Package
Dear Esther
It's about two weeks, that we return from Hong Kong.
The trip to South China was great, but short. Everything was real
good managed and I want to thank you vor everything.
Next year we will come to Hong Kong and we pretend to realise again
a trip to China. We would like to visit :
Beijing, a Yangtze ship cruise and Tibet
I believe the stay everywhere must be 4-5 days, because if each trip
is only 3 days, realy we don't have time to see enough.
We will come on October beginning and we can beginn the trip in
Beijing about October 15.
If you have time you can make me a offer for this, but presently
it's only an idea.
My best regards to you
Antonio Camilo
Mr. Wu:
I want to thank you for a wonderfull
vacation in China. The people were great and all arrangements
were timely and and we met a bunch of were nice and interesting
drivers and guides.
I will certainly recommend you
agency to anyone planning a trip to China.
Walter
Wolczek
Dear Esther ,
Just a short message to say thank you for arranging our
visit to Mainland China.Everything was entirely to our satisfaction,
and we are so happy with all we have seen.Thank you again
!
Best Regards,
Jan
Dear Esther;
Thank you for this message which I only
received today because we had already left on our trip on September
30 and arrived home last night. Never mind. Our tickets were waiting
for us when we arrived in Hong Kong. We appreciated that
courtesy.
I would like to thank Oriental Travel for arranging
our trip into China for us. We had a wonderful time and our Hotels,
Guides, drivers and all arrangements were top quality and we really
enjoyed all we did and saw.
I would be pleased if you would
pass on to CYTS in China our sincere thanks and especially that our
guides, Amelia in Beijing, Cici in Zi’an and Lucy in Guilin were
absolutely first class. All three drivers were excellent and very
careful on the extremely busy roads and that made us feel very safe
and confident when we were out driving.
We were very
impressed with the knowledge and the history that the 3 guides
passed on to us when we were visiting the various sites and this
helped us understand everything so much better. You should be very
proud that guides of such high standard are available to visitors to
China.
Again, sincere thanks for organizing such a wonderful
trip for us. We really appreciate all you did for us.
Kind
regards and sincere thanks. Joan and Ian Henderson, Melbourne,
Australia
Dear
Esther,
We have just returned from our China trip and we
thoroughly enjoyed the many experiences we had in each of the
destinations. Thank you for all of your help in this
regard.
We especially want to recognize our Guilin tour guide
Mr. John Wu for his outstanding service. John was raised in the
Guilin area and has been a guide for many years. He shared with us a
wealth of information about China and Guilin. During our Li River
cruise, we spent most of the time with John on the open upper deck
of the boat. As he pointed out each feature and scenic setting, a
number of visitors from other tours would gather around the three of
us to listen to John's commentary. They also joined in asking John
questions about Guilin and the Li River. John was polite in his
responses and he received many thanks at the end of the
cruise.
We enjoyed our time with each of the guides in
Shanghai, Xian, and Beijing, but John We clearly stands out as an
outstanding person and a new friend.
Thanks again for all
your assistance in making our China trip a very special
event.
Deanna and Larry Helber
Thank you
for helping to make this trip a very enjoyable
experience.
The guides
were terrific. David, in Beijing was attentive and
knowlegable, Shirley, in Xian, was very capable, and Christina, in
Shanghai, was delightful.
We
will highly recommend your services.
Many
thanks,
Barbara
Meyers
Hi Yao Hong,
I wanted to report back to you on our recent tour from
Beijing - Xian - Guilin - Hong Kong, beginning 27 November.
The
tour was wonderful. Everything happened as planned and we had
a wonderful time. We were lucky that the weather was still
warm. The guides were very nice and very helpful.
We look
forward to another trip to China some time in the future.
Thank
you for all of your assistance and
patience.
Regards,
Dennis
Kitty,
First, thanks to Oriental travel for a very
enjoyable trip. All of the arrangements worked out well, although we
would have liked more time in almost every place we
visited!
The guides and drivers were all very good, and were
very helpful and informative. The hotels were consistently good,
with clean and comfortable rooms and good service. We had enough
time to enjoy each of the sites we visited, and overall we were left
with a great appreciation of the history, culture and size and
diversity of this amazing country.
There were a few specific
points that I would like to make that could perhaps help in
improving the tour for others.
First, we did have some
problems with the foods arrangements. We found that there was little
variety, with the some of the same dishes often presented at both
Lunch and Dinner. Your tour guides did a great job in helping us to
accommodate the fact that my wife is a vegetarian, however it was
disappointing that there was no choice of menu, nor was there any
flexibility to choose either the style of restaurant or the time of
eating.
I understand that such flexibility is difficult,
especially as we had pre-paid for all of our meals. However, the
fact that we had specifically paid for a personalized tour was not
reflected in the food arrangements, where we often found ourselves
sharing a restaurant with other much larger tour groups. It also
meant that we were not able to enjoy the great diversity and range
of Chinese food that I know is available in the different regions we
visited.
One suggestion might be to offer a range of
different restaurant styles for the clients to select, and to give
the option to choose from a menu, paying any additional costs over
and above the costs agreed between the tour company and the
restaurant. This may be particularly suitable for travellers on the
individual tours where I suspect costs are less of a
concern.
Second, the train journey from Beijing to Xian was
an interesting and enjoyable experience. However, we were surprised
to find that we were sharing a four berth cabin. This is not usual
for travellers in the west, and perhaps you should point out this
fact in the tour description. You should also provide a warning
about the length of the journey, we were a little taken aback when
we found that we would spend 14 hours on the train!
Also, I
think you need to provide more information in preparation for the
actual train journey. The tour guide made sure we were on the
correct train, but we had no information with respect to meal
arrangements, access to hot drinks or refreshments, or toilet and
washing facilities. Whilst these did not present any specific
problems, other travellers might find it more of a problem. I am
also glad we were not undertaking the journey in the summer - I
could not see much evidence of air-conditioning!
It was
disappointing that the journey was undertaken completely during the
hours of darkness. One of the attractions of a train journey is the
ability to view the scenery as we pass by, but travelling in the
hours of darkness made this impossible. Overall, perhaps it would be
more appropriate to offer this journey as an option, with the
appropriate information to allow the traveller to choose between the
train or an airline flight.
Lastly, it was disappointing that
the Li river cruise was cut short. Whilst I understand that this was
the dry season and thus the river was running very low, this fact
was not informed to us until we arrived in Guilin. Some kind of
warning in the tour description would have at least prepared us for
the disappointment that the boat trip was not as
described.
In closing I do want to state that the points
above in no way detracted from our enjoyment of the overall tour,
and we shall certainly consider making use of your services again in
the future. I would also have no hesitation in recommending your
services to friends and colleagues.
Thanks again for all your
help, including finding the hotel in Hong Kong and with the visa
application for my wife.
Best Regards,
Paul
Smith
United Kingdom
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