China Rail
Not a review about a Tour, but our experience with Travel
China Guide, in relation to our Chinese rail journeys. This
was our first trip to China, and we were getting confused
particularly in the big cities (Chengdu, XiAn, Beijing,
Shanghai) which station we depart from on a journey and which
station we'd arrive at. A mail sent to TCG resolved the
situation, I let them know where we were staying, the date and
times we wanted to travel and where our destination was to be.
They responded quickly with our ideal itinerary with
alternatives. Rather than wait until the 14 day window opens
for ticket purchase we decided to book direct through TCG, we
had two First Class and a Business Class journey. The details
of our trains arrived by email in plenty of time with guides
on how to negotiate security and what to expect in the
stations. It was all perfect, and though we are well
travelled, took a lot of the stress of finding routes and
stations away from us, allowing us to prepare and plan for our
trip safe in the knowledge we were going to get between
cities. On each journey day, everything worked like a dream,
access to the stations, passports, etc etc we 'd been well
briefed on what to expect so the trips were easy. I guess you
'could' do all the work yourself but allowing TCG to do it for
us made the holiday that much easier. A special thanks to
Maria who responded to my queries quickly, precisely and with
good humour.