Excellent 2 weeks in China
I worked with Nora for several weeks getting our itinerary perfectly planned. We (my wife and I with our 23 year old son) went to Beijing, Xi'an, Lhasa, Chengdu, and Shanghai on a 14-day tour. It was very easy to work with Nora and she customized everything we asked for. She was fast with her responses. In fact we reversed the order of the cities traveling 30 days before travel date because of cheaper international fares. She re-did the whole itinerary again without any fuss. She was in touch with us throughout the tour on wechat. When our son got sick in Lhasa and could not join tours for a day Nora made arrangements to refund his attraction fees for the day even without asking. She also made arrangements to get us a gift. Then when our flight from Chengdu to Shanghai got delayed by 4 hours due to bad weather, she worked with the Shanghai agency to re-arrange our itinerary so that we won’t miss anything in Shanghai. Keep up the great work, Nora! It was a very exciting trip with excellent itinerary customized to our interests. Hotels were great with good breakfast. Guides took good care of our lunches, especially two of us being vegetarians. Good choice of restaurants. Guides, Michael in Beijing, Bing in Xian, Tenwong in Lhasa, Kevin in Chengdu and Fei in Shanghai, were great. They were very knowledgeable and with a good command of English. Drivers were also good with comfortable Buick minivans in most places. Our trip included a bullet train from Beijing to Xian and flights from Xian to Lhasa to Chengdu to Shanghai. Surprisingly (for us in North America), even a two hour flight comes with a hot meal! Nora has ordered vegetarian meals for us. Michael in Beijing helped me to purchase a Local SIM card for my phone at the airport (100 Yuan package included 25 GB (in Beijing)/12 GB elsewhere with 60 min of local calling. I was able to send international text. No Google in China, used Bing instead. FB/WhatsApp/Viber doesn’t work but Skype works) We highly recommend China Culture Tours and Nora for private tours in China.