China Tour Reviews

During our trip we have been very surprised by the low number of French tourists visiting China, and especially of individual tourists. All our guides noticed that and were very worried about this situation. Also, as we would be very glad to share our experience with anyone (French-speaking) who wants to visit China through the ChinaTour360 help, hereafter we add a message that should appear in the testimonial as the first written in French!

Mon epouse et moi revenons dun voyage de deux semaines en Chine, entierement organise par lAgence ChinaTour360 localisee ŕ XiAn, Chine. Il sagissait dun voyage individuel (a deux) ou, a chaque etape, ChinaTour360 sest chargee de fournir, outre les prestations hotelieres de tres bon niveau (3-4 etoiles) et un certain nombre de repas, laccompagnement a chaque etape par un guide parlant francais et une voiture avec chauffeur. Cela a donne une grande flexibilite dans les visites (meme si la plupart de celles-ci étaient planifiees a lavance au moment de la definition du voyage) et nous a permis de nouer des contacts extremement enrichissants avec les guides/interpretes, de grande qualite, tres devoue(e)s et parfaitement competent(e)s, y compris dans laide apportee au moment des divers transferts aeriens, bateau ou train. Notre tour comprenait aussi une croisiere sur le Yangtze qui restera un grand souvenir (ayant beneficie dun temps superbe pour la saison). Le bateau (5 etoiles), le service et les excursions offertes etaient de tres grande qualité et les paysages traverses (en dépit de la montee du niveau du Yangtze depuis 2003) demeurent superbes. De retour de ce voyage en Chine, un pays extraordinaire qui merite la visite, nous sommes totalement satisfaits des prestations offertes par ChinaTour360, et sommes persuades quil sagit la dune offre de voyages extremement concurrentielle en termes de rapport qualite/prix. Une connaissance elementaire de langlais est recommandee pour les echanges avec le staff de ChinaTour360 pendant la definition du voyage et, eventuellement, pendant la croisiere sur le Yangtze. Les lecteurs interesses par des renseignements complementaires peuvent nous envoyer un message.

English version of my testimonial

Back to France after our 2-week wonderful tour in your marvelous country, we would like to thank you for your excellent and really professional organization and services. We are really glad you arranged so perfectly our individual tour, directly in China. Our first and most sincere acknowledgments are for Ms. Sally Si (ChinaTour360 staff in XiAn) who organized so friendly and perfectly our tour. We would like also to transmit our best regards to the ChinaTour360 staff members who received us (on Sunday!) in their office during our visit in XiAn.

All of our guides were French-speaking guides and we would like to thanks ChinaTour360 for providing so thoughtful attention to us, French tourists. We add all of them were perfect and so kind, very fluent in French, really efficient and we learned us a lot of interesting information or anecdotal insights about dynasties paving the complex imperial China history. We are grateful to them, Ms. "FanFan" Liu Fang in Beijing, Mrs. "FanFan" Zhang in XiAn, "Brigitte" Cui Xin Jing in Shanghai, and Mr. Qu in Suzhou. We thank Mr. Hu Zuo Qiang in Chongqing and Mrs. Qu Ping in Wuhan for their ability to manage short transfers and changes in the program induced by delayed flights (or boat) in Chongqing and Wuhan. We add a special mention for "FanFan" in XiAn: we really appreciated her comments during the Terracotta Warriors, Forest of Stone Steles, Great Mosque and museum visits. She enlivened our car transfers with anecdotes about the life of Empress Wu ZeTian. Our guides have done a wonderful job, they love France and French culture, and we hope more French tourists will visit China and highlight their competence.

All the cars (or minivans) were in perfect state, and all our drivers were perfectly courteous and professional and, in spite of a charged traffic, everywhere skillfully drove us in secure conditions.

Our Yangtze River cruise on the very comfortable Princess Sheena boat was outstanding and will remain an unforgettable souvenir. We were the unique French among 14 individual foreign travelers (on a total of 50 non-Chinese passengers), but we received all during the cruise a personal, courteous and delightful attention from all the ship staff. Excursions, specially the Shennong Stream cruise and the visit to the Pharaonic 3-Gorge dam, were very enjoyable.

We make some minor comments concerning the detailed organization. The chosen hotels (3 or 4 stars) were all very comfortable and breakfast buffets were great. We especially enjoyed two evening events, the performance of Opera in Beijing and Acrobatic Show in Shanghai, but less the too tourist Dynasty show in XiAn, except the great Pans pipes player. We also enjoyed most of the restaurants (excepted the lunch in Suzhou in the silk factory). On an other hand the set up individual program (with many free dinners) offered us the opportunity to taste by ourselves the local delicious "cuisine" served by Chinese restaurants.

So, we greatly enjoyed our tour and, above all, your so dynamic country impressed us, as well as your lovely people that, without forgetting its millennial culture, construct the future China. We would certainly recommend your reputed services to anyone wishing to visit your beautiful country.