Testimonials 2008

Hi Sunny!
Sorry for the delay in replying - I hope you didn’t think we weren’t going to! Right at the very end of our trip I got sick, and spent a miserable week when we got back. All OK now, but we’ve been trying to catch up with work etc. and are desperately busy. I’ll try to answer your questions, but they are surprisingly difficult to give precise answers to. This is really because the whole trip was absolutely fantastic, and there were SO many wonderful things to see an do, SO many wonderful people we met (including all the guides), that it is very hard to say which was the best. I’d rather just comment generally. And Pam may have different opinions from mine, so I won’t send this on till she has had a chance to comment also. As a first general comment (which we have made to the many friends who have asked), we would say that “Everything worked as planned”. Every guide met us as promised. Every transport worked on time, as booked. Every hotel was ...more

• Booking code: 80927-N80530004
• Client's information: Pamela Judith Lamb, New Zealand
• Tour Starting Date: September 27, 2008
• Tour Itinerary: 14 Days Hong Kong, Guilin, Yangshuo, Chongqing, Yangtze, Yichang, Xian, Beijing Tour
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Hello Sunny,
I hope you are well, too. We are doing fine; we loved our trip to China.We really liked most of the places we visited. Certainly the Wall is really impressive, and the Forbidden City. We also liked the Lama Temple, which we visited during our free time in Beijing. And of course the Warriors are stunning. Most outstanding tour guide? All were very good. Hotels and meals? All were fine. We liked the Day's Inn Forbidden City the best. New Henderson Hotel had poor service, not customer friendly, especially the food and beverage manager. Exceptionally good food! We felt a bit pressured, but only a bit, to see shows in which we had no interest, especially in Xian. Your company and all its representatives were very, very helpful and kind during Jan's illness and hospitalization. Thanks to all of you; you really made a huge difference.
Thank you very much for all your help, Sunny! Beverly Diane Kirk

• Booking code: 80926-N80831011
• Client's information: Beverly Diane, Kuwait
• Tour Starting Date: September 26, 2008
• Tour Itinerary: 9 day River & Rail Tour
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Good morning Eva,
We returned to the cold UK on Sunday morning and we would like to thank you for organising our holiday so well. We have had a wonderful time, especially in Lijiang where the sights are amazing. We were really impressed with the people who transported us from the airports to the hotels. They were well informed and helpful and were so welcoming. Thank you once again for all your help.
Eunice & Brian Holmes

• Booking code: 80923-H80325001
• Client's information: Eunice, United Kingdom
• Tour Starting Date: September 23, 2008
• Tour Itinerary: 19 Days Shanghai, Suzhou, Lijiang, Kunming, Hong Kong Tour
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Dear Sunny,
We very much enjoyed the tour you put together for us. Sorry you weren't able to do the same for our friends from America. They tried to contact you t go ahead with the tour you arrange but the emails kept bouncing back. In any case they had major problems as a result of the hurricane which hit Houston. We did meet up for one day aided by your superb guide in Guilin.  Hard to say as we enjoyed everything but if pushed the river cruise from Guilin was probably the most memorable. Foster (Liu) in Guilin was the best because he was so happy and clearly loved his job. He was also very flexible and extremely helpful. That being said all your guides were very good in different ways. The hotel in Kunming was a bit substandard compared to the rest with a poor breakfast and rather dirty carpets in the dining room. The staff were lovely and the location was good so it was probably a trade-off between convenience and affordable quality. The meals, especially the lunches arranged by the guides ...more

• Booking code: 80922-N80703010
• Client's information: David Alexander, United Kingdom
• Tour Starting Date: September 22, 2008
• Tour Itinerary: 10 Days Shanghai, Guangzhou, Guilin, Yangshuo, Kunming, Dali, Lijiang Tour

Dear Grace,

We all had an absolutely wonderful time with Doris at Yellow Mountain.Please thank her again on our behalf.I will send to you a two pictures taken during our trip in another email. After our time with Doris we flew to Beijing and then joined another tour organised by an Australian company.This tour was also good although both Steve and I commented on how wonderful it was to experience a tour which was totally Chinese as we did with your company. Our Australian tour was with 4 Australian families and hence, much more western. Whilst our tour guide for this second trip was Chinese she did not know nearly as much about the Chinese culture, language and history as Doris did. Our two sons, Nicholas and Peter, along with myself, really enjoyed learning Mandarin from Doris - she taught us to count to 5 which was a considerabel achievement given we had no idea how to use our toungue to make the sounds.

Finally - I am sorry we both were not fully well. I had collected an upset stomach ...more

• Booking code: 80917-W80708017
• Client's information: Philippa Joan, Australia
• Tour Starting Date: September 16, 2008
• Tour Itinerary: 4 Days Shanghai, Yellow Mountain, Beijing Tour