Booking Experience for Namibia Adventure
Just got back from china and couldn’t recommend the tour guides enough
Nov 01, 2025
Review for Wonders of China
From our arrival in Beijing to our departure from Shanghai this was an excellent holiday with our guide, Betty, going above and beyond to make sure we had a fabulous time.
There were quite a few early starts - this isn't a trip if your idea of a holiday is relaxing with a good book - but there was so much to see!
In Beijing we saw Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden Palace, the Temple of Heaven, the Summer Palace, the Great Wall and more.
We then took a bullet train to Xian (amazing experience - totally smooth journey travelling at up to 250mph). We explored the city including the Muslim food quarter and the restored city walls and then went to the Terracotta Warriors.
The next day we took an early flight to Yichang and made our way to Maoping docks near the Three Gorges on the Yangtze river where we boarded the almost brand new Victoria Isabella. The weather was dreadful for our 4 days on the boat but the facilities and staff were excellent and we did get a few excursions.
We left the boat at Chongqing and went to the zoo where we saw pandas (a real highlight) and many other animals. A second bullet train took us to Guilin where we spent a night in the Waterfall Hotel (at 2030 every day a massive waterfall cascades down the outside of the building).
The next day, the sun came out and we took a boat trip down the beautiful River Li to Yangshuo. After a night there, we made our way back through the countryside to Guilin, seeing local people and the rice harvest.
After a second night in Guilin (a small but beautiful city) we took a flight to Shanghai, arriving in the early evening. A boat trip on the river Huangpu lets you see the Bund area with the most amazing lights display.
Our final day was spent exploring the city of Shanghai including the beautiful Yu gardens.
China is spotlessly clean. There are reasonable, free public toilets everywhere and the people are friendly (several conversation attempts via Google translate). There are security cameras and police everywhere and you are constantly asked for your passport but it never felt oppressive.
Nov 01, 2025
Review for Gems of China
Excellent, extremely well organised tour with an exciting varied itinerary that covered many of China's iconic sights. Lovely group of people of varying ages, delicious meals and comfortable hotels. Jason, our national guide, was wonderful. He had a great sense of humour, was very knowledgeable and took great care of the group every step of the way. This was my first organised tour and I would thoroughly recommend Wendy Wu to anyone thinking of booking an adventure.
Nov 01, 2025
Booking Experience for Vietnam at a Glance
I've looked at many tour sites and found Wendy Wu's the clearest and most detailed.
Nov 01, 2025
Review for Portugal Uncovered
Beautiful country, excellent guide, friendly fellow travellers.
Oct 31, 2025
Review for Ultimate South America
Excellent trip with an excellent guide
Oct 31, 2025
Review for Tibetan Railroad
A great tour, everyone enjoyed it. And everyone worked as a team. We had our up,s and down,s , and coped with the train journey, and looked forward to our trip to Lhasa and Tibet. All accomodation was good, with a few hick-up.s over faulty rooms. But all sorted by the Tour Guide, who has done us proud. The tour was a bit challenging for the older folk, but we all managed to see an amazing amount of things. The highlight being Mt Everest and in awe of what we were seeing! The food was very good, as was the Local Tour Guides who showed us around. In all, very good.
The other Wendy groups that we bumped into were struggling after flying into Lhasa and not being aclimatised for touring!
But for me, a good trip.
Oct 31, 2025
Booking Experience for Grand Impressions of Mexico
Efficient and knowledgeable and will investigate and find out if they don’t know.
Very pleasant and helpful
Oct 31, 2025
Review for Treasures of Turkey
Excellent tour and fantastic guide. Wonderful country to visit particularly if you enjoy history and culture.
Oct 30, 2025
Review for Dreams of Egypt
I have run out of superlatives. The trip was outstanding from beginning to end: great organisation on the part of the tour manager; spectacular sights, and an extremely knowledgeable Egyptologist who made sense of the ancient texts and hieroglyphs for us. All involved were very warm and friendly, including the crew on the Nile cruise, which was just perfect. An unforgettable experience.
Oct 30, 2025
Review for China & Tibet Discovery
The organisation was excellant, our guide Jackie excellant, helpful, informative and very knowledgeable. The local guides were very good as well.
The trip covered a huge amount of terrain, different sites and whilst there was a lot of travel, it all worked very smoothly.
The hotels were, largely, good and we were offered lots of local experiences, including dance shows and local food.
Oct 30, 2025
Review for Wonders of China
I have recently returned from a Wendy Wu Wonders of China Tour (10-24 Oct) and wish to place on record how much I enjoyed the tour. That enjoyment stemmed not only from the comprehensive Itinerary and places visited but also to the highly knowledgeable, hard working, dedicated and caring Tour Guide 'Betty' (an English name given to herself to make it easier for us to address her). She spoke excellent English and led the tour with a smile and sense of humour but always ensured the group knew exactly where to be and at what time whilst giving us detailed information about the place(s) we were visiting and their history and heritage which, of course, enabled us to more fully understand the purposes of what we saw, the origins of what we saw and so much more. I cannot speak highly enough of this lady and if I were to visit China again, I would hope that 'Betty' would be my guide again.
The meals and wide range of Chinese cuisine we experienced were also first class with all tastes catered for.
Can I also add that the information and advice provided pre-tour by Wendy Wu Tours was excellent and ensured that I was fully prepared for this tour and helped ensure my enjoyment and fulfillment whilst on this tour. Thank you.
Peter Dymond OBE
Oct 30, 2025
Review for Jewels of Japan - HN
The holiday was packed with everything you could want to see in the time available
Our guide Naomi Tsuruoka was excellent putting in a lot of time and energy to make the holiday as good as it was
Oct 29, 2025
