Great - wonderfully professional, cost effective and enjoyable tour company
My wife and I booked an 8 night, 3 city tour of Guilin, Xi'an and Beijing after a 5 day business trip ending in Guangzhou with China Culture Tour after reading online reviews and investigating other tour companies specializing in China. We booked our flights to and from China from Boston. Our requirements were that we wanted only 5 star hotels, all transfers and transportation within China included, breakfasts and lunches included, and non-smoking rooms, transportation and guides. China Culture tour was not the most or least expensive and we picked them based on the quality of the hotels that they proposed. Lydia of China Culture Tour was efficient and responded quickly to a number of changes in our plans due to last minute changes in our business travel. She picked the hotels and arranged the train and plane travel between the three cities - other than a flight from Guilin to Xi'an, we wanted to travel by the Chinese high speed trains. Her hotel selections were superb and perfectly located. She also selected the guides and drivers. Nancy who we met briefly for the transfer from our hotel to the train station in Guangzhou was enthusiastic and very helpful. Mike, our guide in Guilin, was great and very knowledgeable and accommodating; he also helped us make great lunch food selections. Sarah, our guide in Xi'an, was excellent and very enthusiastic about her city. Jen, our guide in Beijing, was superb and like a historian about the great sites in Beijing. He also made some great recommendations about restaurants in Beijing for our evening dinners. All the drivers, Mr. Lai in Guilin, Mr. Young in Xi'an and Mr, Wu in Beijing were competent and courteous. Considering the quality of the hotels, the competence of the guides and drivers, the fact that all admission tickets and intercity transportation were included and that all breakfasts and lunches were included and very good, the value was outstanding. We highly recommend China Culture Tour