2023 Customer Reviews

Jacky was very knowledgeable of all the sites and the city history and very accommodating to everyone’s needs. We have an elderly traveler with us who just arrived in China that wasn’t able to go to all of the sites or necessarily stay at each one for the entire planned duration, but Jacky was fully understanding of her needs. The private tour was well worth it to get ahead of the large crowds at the Terra-cotta museum.

We were picked up by our travel guide, Celine Yang and driver, Mr. Jiang at Courtyard Marriott at 730am Thursday, 22 June 2023. It was a Dragon Boat Festival holiday, so our travel agent expects a busy travel week. The vehicle, a Buick mini van is clean and comfortable. The weather that day was at high of 35 deg C, plenty of bottled waters provided and the car air conditioner is cold enough to withstand the heat. The time from hotel to the Terracotta Museum was a bit over an hour. The early pick up actually had avoided us the traffic jam and arriving museum just in time of the opening. On the road, Celine gave us a short introduction to Xi'an and the historical narration on Emperor Qin's reign so we can better appreciate and understand those relics at the museum. The warriors are actually facing the east perimeter of the museum of which our early arrival privileged us to get a good front row of the viewing at the mezzanine. Celine briefed us on the formation of the statues and their groupings in each chambers and then we progresses towards the west exit by walking through the southern perimeter. Half way of the site is lesser of the statue formation but more visibly the continuous excavation and plenty of newly unearthed statues in restoration process. Celine would pinpoint to us from time to time details that we should take notice of, like the underground entrance and some residue of dye painted on the statues and explained to us of its relevance. Not included in our package is the audio/visual presentation located at building three. Tickets are sold at RMB68.00, the presentation though is in Mandarin so the museum staffs allowed Celine to walked in with us and she would do a simultaneous translation of the presentation. After the Terracotta tour, Celine walked us to a pick up point of which a bus would transfer us to Emperor Qin's tomb. No way to really get to the actual tomb but rather a view of the hill believed to be where his body was laid. But this site offers another excavation showing statues of perhaps of ancient performers. The highlight though are two bronze charriots of which constructed in utmost details. Celine pinpointed to us those accessories of ancient siren and those angle turning umbrellas.

It was past lunch already when we get done with the exhibit. Celine and driver Jiang took us to a good local Biang Biang noodle eatery. The breaded chicken is also good, just perfectly marinated to the taste.

We then headed back to the city to the Small Goose Pagoda. There was a musical show of traditional instrument. After the show, we started strolling the pagoda's courtyard. Celine explained to us the significance of the bell and drum towers and the came about of this structure of which several characters of the past had their role of offers and blessings. Celine walked us to a certain location of the courtyard where you get the most beautiful photo spot of the pagoda.

We then proceeded to the city wall and take a quick photo of the gate and bell tower. Last part of the tour, we strolled the Muslim Pedestrain street and got a taste of Xi'an version's of stinky tofu and backyard snack food made from corn grits. It was already 5pm that we called it a day and we were driven back to our hotel.

I have been in several parts of China, but I think this one so far is most that I am impressed. Celine definitely made us appreciate the whole thing and no doubt making it so easy for us. 加油 Celine!

Excellent tour, perfectly adapted to our needs after request.
Brian was a very kind guide, helping us a lot with special needs.
Fully recommended.

Great service, everything was on time. We enjoyed every moment of this trip. Our guide Aygül showed us many details and had a great knowledge of history and culture.

All of our guides and drivers were excellent. We enjoyed driving across Borneo with Syahfil and Limin. Syahfil was attentive to what we wanted to see and changed the itinerary accordingly. We could not ask for a better team to see us to Sepilok. In Sepilok we met Jassie, our driver and Vincent, our guide. They took us to the rehabilitation center and then onto The Sukau Rainforest Lodge, our favorite location. There Vincent continued to guide us along the river. He was an excellent spotter. From there we were driven over rough roads to the Borneo Rainforest Lodge. A beautiful lodge, owned by the government, located in the Danum Valley Conservation area. The lodge and food were great, the hikes were at times difficult and hot. The only thing I would do differently (it was my choice to have our itinerary this way) would be to only do 2 days in the Danum Valley and add a third night at Sakau. Travel China Guide was there from day one to day 10. They were perfect.

The itinerary was well designed to meet our needs by our travel consultant, Vera Yu. The hotel picks were all top notch & in best locations, very convenient for our free time in the evening to walk around the area. The tour guides & drivers provided were all very good as well, very punctual & knowleadgeable about the areas visited so the time was well spent. I especially like how well Vera coordinated the guides as we transferred to 4 different cities.
Very memorable trip indeed. Definitely worth the money

Without the help of travelChinaguide, our tour of China wouldn’t have been successful. We appreciated their help in booking the train tickets and setting up the one day tour of Beijing. The tour guide was amazing and quite knowledgeable.

The tour arrangements were excellent. The guides were all punctual and accommodating. They were always OK to change the itinerary if the plan did not suit us. I want to give our guides 5 stars for the work they did to make our trip great.

The meals were good and if we preferred to eat other meals than suggested that was an option for us. We took a lot of different modes of transportation, trains, cars, buses which suited our vacation location. We would have preferred to have received a message for pick up time through the hotel, rather than by email with regards to transport time to the airport as we did not have access to our email.

I would highly recommend this company for anybody's travels and plan to use the company for future trips.

The tour was very well organised and we had enjoyable look at a wide variety of landscapes and history of the Vietnamese people. We would recommend the tour which Agate Travel (TravelChinaGuide) arranged for us.

We had a good time with the entire tour, the driver, Yasser, the places visited and the hotel stay except for the first day. The hotel on day 1 was pathetic with all broken down equipments and furniture. Please avoid the same while packaging such tours