Testimonial

Virginia

I can tell you that we thoroughly recommend China Highlights, We could not fault your service, and all requests for changes made as our tour progressed were met unfailingly and promptly. Tour guides met us punctually at each airport with large signs which we could not miss. Guides were helpful and drivers safe, although I must say driving in China is quite crazy!

We asked for de luxe hotels, and they certainly were!  My wife is quite insistent on high standard hotels, and she had no criticism.

With respect to food, the Chinese lunches are quite enormous - we found we had hardly any appetite for an evening meal most of the time!Guides asked us for our preferences, and most took us to excellent local restaurants where we were able to try loacl dishes chosen to our preferences. Really very good.

We enjoed the standard tourist spots such as the Forbidden Palace and the Terra Cotta Warriors, but, for us, Yunnan Province and, in particular, Lijiang was the star.If tourits are going to Lijiang, ask for Janice as your guide - half Tibetan, she is a sensitive and informative guide.

We enjoy China!

Best regards,

Alastair

Dear Michael Hu,

Andy and I had a wonderful vacation in China. I definitely want to go back and see more of China. Thank you for making it a memorable time.

The Great Wall at Jingsaling was the most memorable attraction we visited and Pingyao came in second.

Henry and Lois, our tour guides were both very good. They were professional, knowledgeable of the historical sites and accommodating.

Regards to hotels, Shanxi World Trade Hotel and Sofitel in Xi'an, we enjoyed the most, they had the nicest accommodations. We did enjoy our stay at the Pingyao Interantional Financiers' Club. It felt like we went back in time.

Thanks for everything!

Best Regards.

Kim

Good afternoon Virginia:

Thank you for making my visit to Beijing so special.  It was a wonderful trip.

Please pass on my special appreciation to Cobing Chen.Cobing was an excellent guide. He provided in depth knowledge of the sites visited, made my lunches special and handled my special requests with ease.

Please pass on my thank you to Mr. Wang Baoming, our driver. I was always comfortable with him driving.

Dale

Dear Carol

My husband and I want to thank you very much for the excellent work that you did in organizing our visit to China.  We were especially impressed with the two guides that you provided for us, Rainy in Shanghai, and Claire in Guilin.  Their English was excellent, they were knowledgeable and they had excellent attitudes. 

Again, thank you!

Mary

Hi Carol,

I am happy to report that my friends and I had a wonderful time on our tour of Xian & Beijing. Thanks to China Highlights we had wonderful guides who provided us with excellent service throughout the trip.

My most memorable attraction was Hanyangling Museum outside of Xian. We added it to our itinerary for the morning we went to the airport. What was great was the way the museum was constructed so that visitors could get a great view of the artifacts as they are discovered in the excavations. Very interesting and fascinating after seeing the Terracotta Warrior museum.

Echo in Xian was an outstanding tour guide. Her English skills are the best I have ever heard in a guide in all our travels in Asia, she has an extremely pleasant personality and exhibits the utmost professionalism. Although we had a problem at the Bell Tower Hotel she was most effective in solving the problem.

Our best meal on the Xi'an tour was the lunch at the bottom of Huashan. In Beijing our best lunch was on the last day near the Olympic venues at a local restaurant, not the Courtyard 7 as originally planned. We appreciate local Chinese food .

Thank you for a wonderful trip and I will be contacting you in the future when planning other tours. I'm glad that after our difficulties last August that we could have a very positive experience with many happy memories.

Best Regards,

Carol

Hi Carol,

We would like to thank you for coordinating a wonderful Beijing tour for us.The guides were very knowledgeable and informative. Please look at the attached photo and also please forward them to our tour guide Jonathan.

Kind regards

Florencia

Hi Grace,

We have just returned to Brisbane Tuesday of this week after a fantastic trip.  Please see my detailed comments below.  In summary, we are very pleased with the China Highlights package that you put together for us – everything happened as planned and without any problems at all. Thank you particularly for arranging our 2-berth compartments on the Beijing-Xian overnight train, which we much enjoyed. We were the envy of other travellers we met on the train, who simply couldn’t get such a compartment.

Great Wall at Mutianyu; Forbidden City are the most memorable attractiond we visited. Wallace in Xian was the most outstanding tour guide. Wallace has excellent English and really went beyond what might be expected to provide a very high level of professional service. He is in our view the best of your guides that we experienced. We also most enjoyed the Xian Citylion International.

There are lots of WOWs in our tour. The Great Wall (of course!); The Lesser Three Gorges tour (transfer to smaller vessel from Yangtze Cruise ship) – the river here is much cleaner and the scenery more spectacular than on the Yangtze itself.

An evening at the Beijing Opera is not to be missed. The Xian City Wall tour was a complete and pleasant surprise for its size and construction features. A tour of the Forbidden City is not to be missed (Western clients should first see the movie “The Last Emperor” for a useful background).

Thank you very much. I would be pleased to recommend you and China Highlights as a reliable and professional tour operator.

Cheers,

David Baker, Brisbane, Australia.

Hi Rebecca,

We've finally made it back home.  First day of work starts today. 

We had a wonderful China trip. Yellow Mountain is the highlights. I think we all loved its natural beauty. The Great Wall would be a close second.

Our guide Nancy in Beijing did a great job, because her English was very good, she had the most agreeable disposition, and was highly flexible.  

Most of the hotels and meals were up to standard, the best being the Bund Hotel in Shanghai.

Definitely the light show in Yangshuo is a WOW factory for all of us.  This is NOT to be missed!

Here are my suggestions about China trip: 1) Do not travel to more than 4 cities in a two week time period.  You miss some good things, and rushing about between attractions will make you more tired..  2) Beware the pollution in cities like Beijing and Xi'an.  Wear a mask.  3) Definitely see the Yellow Mountain.  The natural beauty is astounding.

Absolutely, we would like to recommend your company.  I already have done that, in fact.

Thanks for everything!

Earnest

Dear Michael,

Thank you four your service. It was a very well organised tour and we highly appreciated your service. Please see requested feedback below.

Guide in Xi'an who did the best: We got stuck in Xian airport as the flight, booked by China Highlights was canceled and thousands of people were standed at the aiport. We had to fear that we would not make it to Beijing. Only through is energy and commitment we manged to got on board another plane and we flew to Beijing with a 3.5 hours delay only. Well job done!

Pan XiaoYi, the tour guide in Shanghai -> Outstanding English, very customer and job focused, very flexible.

All the restaurants and meals were up to standard. The best food had the restaurant in Xian (but place of heavy smokers), the best place was the restaurant in Shanghai in Yu Garden (non smoking room, nice view, nice room)

when traveling beginning of November to Xian be prepared to get snow and cold weather = long underware, cap, scarve and gloves as well as boots are a must!

Regards from a typical autumn day in Switzerland (windy, rainy, 11°C)

Claudia & Michael

Hi Candy,

When we first made the decision to travel to China during our 4 week holiday we spent many hours researching and asking advice from people who had already been on holiday in this area. As we heard some of the stories about getting lost, language barrier problems and problems with incorrect information received we became increasingly interested in an organized tour. China Highlights seemed to stand out from other enquiries that we made via the Internet.

In particular we were impressed with your prompt replies every time we emailed. Nothing was a problem and they were flexible on the arrangements we wanted to make. Our holiday went well from the moment we arrived in the great city of Beijing and were greeted by our first tour guide Johnny.

Every city we visited holds a special memory for us. Standing on The Great Wall of China was a dream come true. As we began to realise the sheer size of China, the immense population, and the language barrier we became very grateful that there was always someone in control of our arrangements. We believe it enabled us to relax and enjoy every special moment without any stress. By the time we left Shanghai 14 days later we felt very satisfied that we had managed to see all of the main tourist attractions that time allowed on the tour that we had chosen. Every detail of our tour went without a single hitch. We would not hesitate to recommend China Highlights for anyone wishing to travel through China. Their attention to detail is outstanding and the guides in each city are well trained and informative. Happy travels and good luck.

David