Oct 22,2009

Dear Travel China Guide.

I had a wonderful time in China with Travel China Guide as my host. I traveled in China for 10 days on a standard Shanghai - Xian - Beijing package.

All my guides were punctual, polite and extremely helpful. Their English was good too. Whilst I usually do not like to point out individuals, I would just like to say thank you to Sean my guide in Shanghai for amending my itinerary according to to my requests to include activities and sites that were not in my original itinerary.

I enjoyed all the meals and the local restaurants the guides took me to. It was nice to dine in restaurants where there also local people eating too, which made it feel like I was having authentic food. The variety of food was good and the guides were helpful with choosing the dishes according to my requirements.

All the drivers were good and vehicles I traveled in were tidy.

The only unfortunate incident on my trip was at my Hotel in Beijing where I was given fake RMB notes (chinese bank notes) when I exchanged money at the reception desk. Fortunately I did not lose a significant amount of money. I must emphasis that this was NOT the fault of Travel China Guide. I would urge all others travelers to use a special hole in the wall foreign exchange vending machine to avoid falling into this trap. Some of the the larger hotels such as Holiday Inn in Beijing where I stayed, should have one. I wish I had used this instead of asking the staff at the reception to do it for me. However, throughout my trip exchanging money at the reception desk was not a problem. This only happened in Beijing. Please be extremely vigilant and double check any RMB notes that you receive, either at a bank or at the hotel front desk, by asking them to run it through an electronic money counter because there are a lot fakes notes in circulation. Whilst I did not get my money back as the hotel denied it was their fault, I would like to note that my guide Linda in Beijing was extremely helpful in trying to assist me with this problem and did all she could to help me.

Overall I had a great time and would recommend Travel China Guide to my friends.

Rakesh Mistry

Oct 19,2009

The best dinner by far was Dynasty Dinner at Theatre Restaurant in Xian and also the show. Food and service were excellent.
In our opinion, there was too much food during the whole tour, lunch was offered too early when we were not hungry. Our suggestion would be to have a very light lunch and then a nice dinner.

We had four different guides and they all had a good attitude, although two were really outstanding: Michael in Guilin and the best was Tina in Beijing. Julia in Xian is very professional. We did not had any special feeling for Chang our guide in Shanghai, he only did his job. We communicate well with them, although Julia was outstanding. They were very professional and information given by them was full of details. All of them had a very good attitude and were very polite. The one in Beijing was outstanding as he had the best car, new and clean. They all did an excellent job.

As we mention above the guides form Guilin and Beijing (Micheal and Tina) were the best and made everything nice and easy, they are great persons who made our tour much pleasant.

We would like to express our thanks to your company and all the people involved in the organization of our tour in China.. We had a beautiful trip, very relaxing and had no problems anywhere. We enjoyed specially Guilin, Xian and the best was Beijing. We had very relaxing massages in Guilin and Xian and enjoyed shopping at Guilin street near the hotel. We appreciate the visit in Xian to a local family, very charming people.

In Beijing all the places were worthwhile to visit except for the Ming tomb, we would suggest instead a tour to the olympic stadium and water cube. Our stay at Holiday Inn hotel was pleasant.

We found China full of new experiences and extraordinary places to visit and the tour is so well organized you can see many things in very little time, although you don't get tired as it is very comfortable. Perhaps we missed to have some free time to get into the subway and have more contact with chinese everyday's life.

We would highly recommend your tour to our friends in Colombia. Thank you for everything.