China was a new experience for us!

Name: Emily Kaelyn & Beth

Nationality: USA

Date: Nov 27, 2012

OP: Wenny

Wenny,
 
Thank you so much for being so patient with me over the last few months with making all the changes to our trip.  China was a new experience for us! A whole new culture.  We had a great time on our trip! Though a few of the attractions that were included on our itinerary were closed while we were there, seeing the Great Wall and Terra Cotta Warriors made the trip for us! 

Our hotel rooms in Xian at the Mercure were much nicer than our rooms in Beijing at the Paragon. 

Our tour guide, Tony in Beijing was fantastic! He was friendly, intelligent, delightful to be around, and very involved with helping us at the airport and hotel and the culture and language, etc.  The driver was also very friendly and great driver.  In Xian, our tour guide, Siber was a little different.  He was very nice, soft spoken, and knowledgable, but the whole Xian trip was very rushed.  He would overload us with a ton of information at the beginning of each attraction, and then walk way ahead of us. We were almost running to stay caught up with him.  We would be rushed through an attraction and then told we have 2 hours to kill, so we didn't understand why he would rush us if we ended up with extra time.  Our dinner in Xian was not upgraded as promised on our itinerary and 2 of the attractions were closed, so we did not get to see them.  He did not offer any other areas in place of them to see that would be included in our trip.  Instead, he offered other places that we would have to pay for ourselves. Overall, it was a fantastic trip and we had an awesome experience!
 
Thank you,
Emily Kaelyn & Beth
From Okinawa