This was a great trip!!
This was a great trip--especially for the price we paid. I was skeptical at first that we might be in dump hotels and somehow get cheated because we were paying only $599 per person for airfare, hotels, breakfast buffet every day, entrance to the main sites (The Great Wall, The Forbidden City, The Bund, etc.), two+ cities (Beijing, Shanghai and areas near there) and English-speaking tour guides. Well, this was no scam. Everything was exactly as advertised, with some extras thrown in. We stayed in very nice hotels, were transported on clean comfortable busses and got to see a lot of China. Our guides were very knowledgeable, quite personable and very helpful. My only complaint is that the food on some of the included lunches and dinners was not very good. That's why I rated the trip four stars instead of five. So if you take this trip, buy some snacks for your hotel room. Other than that I highly recommend this trip and the ChinaTour Company.