Travel China Guide Tours Reviews 

I have used Travel China Guide Tours services two summers in a row and i have been impressed with the competence and expertise of the guides, but also with the guides' eagerness to teach their clients about China. I am a professional educator -- I teach history on a number of levels. So I am always looking to learn things that I can teach in turn. My two tours and my two tour guides gave me plenty of stories and insights that I use in my own classroom presentations. I listened to my guides and wondered just how many long hours of previous training and on-the-job experience were behind the seamless flow of knowledge and detail they offered. I have used Travel China Guide Tours in only one city, but should I get the opportunity to travel to China again, I am quite certain I will seek to use their services again.

Our trip was really great. Our experience before, during and even after the trip was most satisfying. Communication of all we wanted know such as itinerary, other internal travel and even electric fittings was efficiently handled. We were greeted on arrival at the airport and helped to secure our bullet train option to get back to Beijing from Xián. We found our two guides helpful and prepared to do extra (even wrote out some helpful Chinese for us) and were patient with our varied tour group. We were very comfortable with our dining and accommodation. The tour buses were comfortable and the drivers unintrusive.There were some surprises including the chair lift to the Great Wall and the Kung Fu Show. A nice "surprise" in Xián was the Tang dynasty music and dance show after a dumpling meal! Tai Chi and other activities in the City Wall Park were wonderful.I'll have to go back as I didn't quite master the use of chopsticks but we foreigners were usually provided with forks. When it came time to say Goodbye we were taken to a convenient spot for transport to the train station. Thank you Travel China Guide Tours for everything.
PS Our Guides even e mailed us some special photos after the trip.

We spent a month traveling with Travel China Guide Tours and found all our guides to be knowledgeable, polite, and professional. All our drivers were courteous, patient, and safe. Travel China Guide Tours did a fantastic job organizing our itinerary, transportation, meals, and lodging. We were 100% satisfied and no doubt we will travel with them again.

Booking with Travel China Guide Tours was fantastic. I learned about the city beforehand through their website, and was interested in the various tours they offered. Our consultant, Emily, made it very easy and comforting to book a day trip during our short stay in Beijing. Our tour guide, Kitty, was very helpful in guiding us through Beijing. She picked us up straight from the hotel, took us to the Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, the Olympic Park, and the Mutianyu Great Wall, all the while explaining the wonderful sights we were seeing. We definitely couldn't have done it ourselves! I would absolutely book with them for another tour China tour. Thank you once again Emily and Kitty from Travel China Guide Tours!

Communication was always prompt and informative before the trip. Payment process easy and convenient. Guide was great, tour as advertised. No shopping or other unnecessary things. 100% recommendation.

Excellent service and our travel group had a fantastic time. We were a family group of 7 aged from 7 - 67 yrs.
Our nine day tour was done as we requested so saw what we wanted to see and the your guides we had all spoken great English so there was no language problems. They also answered all our questions and went out off their way to help us.
If I had to do another tour of China I would rebook with them.
Thank you again Emily Xin from Travel China Guide Tours

We had the most amazing time in China! It was totally a bucket list dream experience! Our tour guide was tremendous- King Kong- and so lively and informative! He became such a part of our group we have many pictures of him! We saw the amazing sights but in an informed way so they took on meaning and the meals were wonderful. The schedule allowed time to browse and walk and talk and explore. We definitely will use this tour group and King Kong in the future!

I used TravelChina Guide for both my train tickets and a day trip to the Great Wall. Both experiences were perfect. The tickets arrived at my hotel exactly as described. The day trip to the Great Wall was the highlight of a great trip.

I think the best part was being able to use these services a la carte is that I felt I was able to get to the flow of being in China vs following around a big group. Having a provider that you can trust like TravelChina makes that possible.

Other than flight details, we relied entirely on Travel China Guide Tours to arrange all the details of a complex overland tour that included Xi’an, Lhasa and overland across the Himalayas to Kathmandu, Nepal. Our guides were knowledgeable, friendly and flexible when we requested almost daily modifications to our itinerary to reflect changing interests. The vehicles were reliable and the drivers safe and professional. Accommodations were top notch as were meals along the way. There are a number of tour companies offering overland tours across the Himalayas but we consider ourselves really fortunate for having selected Travel China Guide Tours for this once in a lifetime trip.

This was our first experience holidaying in Asia and Travel China Guide Tours was there for us every step of the way. Right for the start the holiday was tailor made for us and we had the same rep helping us along the way, she was extremely helpful, replying to any questions or queries we had almost immediately, which was most impressive taking into account the time difference between England and China. The holiday lived up to our expectations and probably exceeded them, I was quite nervous visiting this part of the world but going as part of a guided tour was great. The hotels and restaurants were great, the tour guides looked after us well and were all very knowledgeable. I would certainly recommend them and would certainly book with them again.

Our visit to Bejing and the Chinese wall was perfectly organized. We were picked up in the morning by our guide (picked up 3 other people in other hotels). After that we visited Tienanmen Square and Forbidden city and then drove to the Great Wall. Had lunch there and then walked all the way up. On the way back we stopped at the Bird's nest and got dropped of at our hotel. Everything was perfectly organized!

When we first thought of going to China we realized that to get the most out of it we would need an organised tour. After much research we decided to use China Guide Tours, we were a little nervous of dealing with a company we had never heard of before, however we had one of the best holidays ever. China Tours organisation, friendliness, the hotels and restaurants they chose, the places they took us to were brilliant. We were concerned how being with a group of strangers would work, however once again I would say the group made the holiday very special, they were from all over the world and of all ages and we are still in contact with some. When we go back to the Far East China Guide Tours will be the first place we look.

Travel China Guide was very helpful when planning our trip to China, their customer service is great and pretty efficient. I hired a tour of Xi'an from one day to another and they were able to set everything up without any problem.
Would definitely use them again when back in China.

Travel China Guide Tours provided an exceptional service for me while touring Xian. The online registration process was smooth from the start. The pricing was the best thing of all the tour companies I surveyed and the guide was most helpful. Your made my trip memorable and I want to thank you. All the way from South Africa.

Pitso

My grandson was studying for a semester at Seoul National university and suggested that we tour for sometime before returning to Canada. I came across Xi'an Marco polo International Travel service Co. Ltd. when exploring the website of CVAC (China Visa application center) in Toronto. As neither of us had travelled in the "Far East" before, had little knowledge of China, and did not speak Mandarin, we thought it sensible to have tour guides from a company familiar with the country I am glad we did! Our itinerary was carefully planned, and went fully according to plan. Our tour coordinator, Vera Yu, assisted us with the itinerary, paperwork and documentation for arrival in Beijing, and even arranged to meet us in Xi'an.
The tour was magnificent,although strenuous for me as a senior,and covered many of the sites and cities we had heard of over the years. Hotels were beyond our expectations, and cheap, from what we experienced in North America. Hotel meals were generally excellent but we preferred to eat in local cafes; this was much cheaper and not at all difficult as most cafes had pictures of their menus posted outside, and staff were always helpful. In fact we were sometimes overwhelmed with how friendly and helpful Chinese people are.
On the Yangste cruise, where we were the only Westerners, several crew members spoke some English, and the public announcements were often repeated in English or the benefit of non-Mandarin speakers.This cruise was spectacular giving much insight into daily life in China, and culminating in the magnificent 3-Gorges Dam.
In Shanghai we went on our own with a bus tour of the city, a river cruise, and walking.I must add that I felt safer walking a night in Shanghai than I have felt in many North American cities. The Shanghai Bund (river walk), night lights on the Huangou river, and the Shanghai tower should be on everyone's bucket list.

I just wish we had more time available!

I used Travel China Guide for the first time last summer, to help organizing our 2 week trip to China. I chose the itinerary and booked the hotels myself but used them to book train and plane tickets, as well as tours. I am extremely pleased with the service provided. They were very helpful, always quick to answer my questions, and the whole trip went very smoothly. Highly recommended!

The information was accurate and very helpfull

We used Travel China Guide to book many of our experiences in China. We used them to our tour to the terra cotta warriors in Xi'an, to pick us up at the airport for the day tour, to book trains to and from yangshuo and guilin, and our tickets to the forbidden city. They were very helpful and provided great service!

Our group of 6 from Australia had a fabulous time touring China and were able to see some wonderful "tick the box" places, people and pandas.
From the start our trip to China was well organised, on time and met all our expectations. Shanghai was a very cosmopolitan city, the Terracotta warriors amazing, the Yangtze interesting and the doing the walk along the Great Wall a highlight and great finale to our trip.
Kelly and her band of helpers were friendly, knowledgeable and always helpful. Having someone to pick us up, meeting us, then dropping us off at different cities, airports, train stations and to our Yangtze river cruise made for getting around a breeze. All our tour ladies were lovely, easy to talk to, understand and answer many of our questions. Would highly recommend this tour group. Deb

I was a bit nervous about booking a tour in China as I had read some pretty negative reviews about folk being hassled to buy things and generally being underwhelmed by the experience. I did some research and discovered Travel China Guide Tours. We booked a mini group tour to the Terracotta Warriors and were delighted to find ourselves the only 2 folk on the tour that morning. Tracy, our guide, was excellent. Informative and chatty when needed but unobtrusive otherwise. No hard sell or pressure so highly recommend.