Booking Experience for China & Tibet Discovery
Have only just booked our tour, but so far the responses and service has been excellent. I hope and expect that the next contacts will be as good.
Apr 30, 2025
Review for Ancient China
Astonishing sights; great guide.
Apr 29, 2025
Review for Gems of China
What an amazing holiday and Hoffman our guide is a man who loves his country/job and the company he work for he gave %110 in everything he did. Please do no miss out on the shows as they are amazing pictures or words do not do The Three KIngdoms and the fairy Fox we done every one on the Wendy Wu team.
Apr 29, 2025
Booking Experience for China Delights
The booking form is clear and helpful. The online brochures are excellent and gave me all the information I needed to decide which tour would be the most suitable.
Apr 29, 2025
Review for Gems of China
It surpassed my expectations. Everything happened exactly as it was outlined in my initial itinerary and very well organised.
No time wasted as there was so much to see and do. Our National ****** Jacky (Chan!) was superb in his professionalism, knowledge of his country as indeed were the local ******* especially Amanda in Zhangjiajie.
A magnificent experience from start to finish!
Apr 28, 2025
Review for In Pursuit of Pandas
This was a great tour, and I cannot recommend it enough. It was my first time on a tour, and I am so glad that I chose Wendy Wu. Everyone was looked after so well on the tour from start to finish by our tour tour guide, Alison. I got to see all the great sites of China with a fantastic group of people and made many great memories that will last a lifetime…
Apr 27, 2025
Review for Gems of China
Excellent tour with Wendy Wu. Saw so much and went to so many places. Was busy!!! Fabulous trip, especially pandas at Chengdu and Zhangjiajie
Tour guide was excellent too, well organised , fun and looked after us all from start to finish.
Looking forward to my next trip
Apr 27, 2025
Review for Wonders of China
This was a faultless tour, superbly organised by Wendy Wu, with excellent tour leaders and itinerary.
I would unhesitatingly recommend this tour to anyone wishing to experience some of China's most iconic sights in a comfortable and stress-free way in the company of like-minded people.
Apr 26, 2025
Review for Journey through Japan - HN
Well organised journey with wide ranging itinerary covering natural, traditional, cultural and modern sites. Guides were great and handled mishaps like weather cancellations well. Accommodation was faultless, but there could have been more diversity in food. Japan is not really set up for vegetarians or people who don't like sashimi. Will travel Wendy Wu again... maybe China with George!
Apr 25, 2025
Review for Gems of China
Another great tour with Wendy Wu from start to finish. The tour shows a lot of the best parts of China from the Great Wall to the mountains of Zhangjiajie and as much in between as possible. The national guide Jacky was on hand 24/7 and delivered an excellent tour with his knowledge and experience. The local guides on the way were also knowledgeable and friendly. Various local cuisine all tasted good, I’m did like the Peking Duck 😊, and the hotels were of a high standard. Nice size group of 18.
The pandas were fun to watch as well.
All in all a great tour, fantastic people and amazing time 😊
Apr 22, 2025
Review for Natural Treasures of China
This Wendy Wu trip was a wonderful mix of experiencing both some of the most amazing natural scenery in the World and the hustle and bustle of Chinese city life.
Our prime reason for booking this tour was to visit places like Zhangjiajie and Jiuzhaigou and these places were indeed AMAZING! For us, however, we found that the two weeks were extremely "full-on", action packed with one visit after another after another, with very little opportunity to come up for air. We would have loved a little more down-time, with opportunities for us to opt out of some of the city visits to go and explore a little more for ourselves. For example, squeezing in visits to some of the extremely crowded places like Hongyu Dong in Chongqing after a long day was not a lot of fun.
We have come home with fantastic memories and photos, but also really exhausted, far more so than after our previous Wendy Wu "China Delights" holiday in October 2019.
The highlights:
1) EVERYTHING in Zhangjiajie, from the National Forest Park to the Glass Bridge and especially the visit to Tianmen Mountain - just breathtaking! LJ, our local guide was exemplary, guiding us as best he could through the crowds and queues around for the Qingming Festival. He was so informative, a great communicator and a real "people person", an absolute gem.
2) the visit and walk in the Black Mountain Valley was an unexpected delight. So tranquil and picturesque - a perfect day!
3) The simple breathtaking visit up to the astonishing Huanglong area, so high up in the mountains and just the most amazing sight to behold - and such a sense of achievement ascending to 3500 metres altitude!
4) The Dazu Rock Carvings were so interesting and awe-inspiring! I now need to read up on all the history and origins.
5) Inevitably, the pandas in Chengdu were just a joy to see.
6) All the meals were excellent (except the Farewell HotPot dinner in Chongqing which was arranged for 4:30 pm, far far too early to enjoy, particularly as we had tucked into a good lunch just a few hours before with no knowlege that dinner would be so early! Such a shame, as we would have loved to indulge fully in this special meal).
We also particularly enjoyed the odd occasions where we had time to go off and explore by ourselves, away from the organised schedule and experience the sights and sounds in our own time, in a more relaxed manner. These included:
- travelling on the subway over to Orange Island in Changsha, and then trying some of the street food
- our scheduled free evening in Chengdu after the panda visit, strolling along the riverside and trying food at one of the street food restaurants.
- an early morning hour's stroll around the little city park below our hotel in Chongqing, at Louis' suggestion. Such a peaceful start to the day, watching groups and individuals doing their early morning exercise, inspiring us to do some of our own stretching exercises by the lily ponds!
- The scheduled free evening stroll around Fenghuang, taking in all the beautiful illuminated sights and sounds along the river. A really vibrant and colourful scene.
- it was just great fun interacting with Chinese people, trying to talk some mandarin with them, and enjoying their requests to have photos taken with us westerners! We found them so helpful and friendly when trying to master Alipay, or buy tickets for the metro or select food in the street food restaurants.
The downsides:
We felt that the tour was just a bit too relentless, with too much being squeezed into absolutely every day. There were moments when we were too exhausted to appreciate everything. It would have been preferable to have some of the visits, particularly in the cities, as optional extras that you could either partake in or opt out of. Being jostled by crowds and crowds of people, trying to "follow the flag" and not lose the group were not our idea of fun, or time well spent. Maybe the tour could be a extended by a couple of days to allow for a bit of "recovery time" between places and activities.
Specific suggestions:
- maybe have an opportunity to see the night life of Chongqing from a river boat cruise (rather like the experience in Shanghai), rather than in the thick of the crowds?
- maybe in the Nine Villages Valley have a private shuttle bus for the Wendy Wu Group to take us from lake to lake, rather than having to join the manic jostling for a place on the shuttle buses with everyone else. This was exhausting! A private mini-bus would also give us more flexibility on timings and walks we could do between lakes?
Finally, a word for Louis, our Wendy Wu national ******. He was wonderful, quietly efficient and friendly and patient and very very knowledgeable. Our group of travelling companions were great fun. A group of strong and very individual personalities who all gelled very well together right from the start.
Thank you Wendy Wu for such a wonderful trip. Now the task of sorting through all the photos ....
Apr 22, 2025
Review for Natural Treasures of China
An excellent itinerary packed with breathtaking scenery and magical places. Our national ******, Louis and the local guides, LJ, Viola and David were all fantastic to run the tour, very knowledge and well organised.
A huge thank you to Louis who went extra miles to show us more beautiful landmarks in his home city, Chongqing.
Hotels were all excellent except the ones in Fenghuang and Nine Villages Valley. Our farewell dinner Hot pot was so much fun!
Food was mostly very good.
Physical level for this tour should be 5 not 2! Most days involve walking 4-5 hours. In Nine Villages Valley the public shuttle buses should be replaced by private mini buses. The days are long enough and involve lots of long hours walking so waiting in long queues for public buses make days more tiring....
In Zhangjiajie, VIP services should be used all the way to avoid waiting in long queues.....
Dazu Rock Carvings on the last day of the tour should be an optional excursion to give chance for some to have free time to spend in Chongqing.
Airchina was not aware of our special meal request.
The optional show in Zhangjiaije was an amazing performance. Must see!
I highly recommend this tour. Every day of this tour was a highlight from the spectacular national parks to vibrant cities and of course adorable panda. All superbly organised!!
Thank you so much Wendy Wu and the team for giving us such a memorable fabulous holiday!🥰
Apr 21, 2025
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