Kind attn. Ms. Cynthia & Emma,


Dear Cynthia & Emma,

First of all I and my friends wish to thank you both for having arranged such wonderful program for us to visit Tibet and Sichuan Province.

Not with standing the high attitude problem, we enjoy so much our stay in Lhasa where can experience the Tibetian culture and receive the kind hospitality of the Tibetian people.
In Chengdu we have the opportunity to visit Panda reservation, the biggest in the world, the master piece of irrigation built in the old days as well as the famous Sichuan opera with the changing faces. And of course not to forget the “Hot Pot” Sichuan food.

Last but not least the visit to Huanglong and Jiuzhaigou is unforgettable I and my friends never have seen such beautiful and natural sceneries. Waterfall, colorful lakes and trees with so many color, really it is trees with so many colors, really it is fantastique. I hope can be able to come back once again.

Yours sincerely,
Aswin Aditiawan

Jakarta, 2006

  Hello Jessica,

Overall, we were very pleased with the service provided by Tibettrip. Everything worked out exactly as promised. All of the guides were very friendly and helpful.

Some of our family had more difficulty adjusting to the altitude in Tibet than we expected. In retrospect, we should have included an extra full rest day in Lhasa. If we had had more time, we also might have considered whitewater rafting in Tibet (once we had adjusted to the altitude). Xian was very interesting. We could have added an extra day there as well.


Thanks and best regards,

Jim Findley

  Hello Emma & Ellie,

As promised here is a link to our pictures of our wonderful 12 day Private Tour of China. We have been telling all our friends and family what a great job Tibettrip did for us - as we always say about Tibettrip "over and above our expectations".

Our guides Coco in Shanghai, Laura in Guilin/Yangshuo, Cindy in Xi'an and Hua in Beijing where outstanding. What impressed us the most was how knowledgeable and friendly our guides were and there English was really good. China is really an amazing place and all the arrangements that Tibettrip did for us were first class. Our hotels, our meals and our entertainment were all wonderful. A special thanks to our drivers that were always courteous, on time and wonderful drivers, we always felt safe.

I think you will see from our pictures how much fun we had and we would, of course, recommend your company to anyone that is interested in going to China.

Here is the link to our website - there are 4 folders - Shanghai/Guilin/Xian/Beijing

http://community.webshots.com/user/louisehuot

If you can, we would really appreciate if you could contact our guides and tell them that our pictures are on our website.

Thank you.

  Dear Vicky Dong/Sally Si:

We were most pleased and satisfied with our recent tour with Tibettrip.com. We would not hesitate to recommend your company for anyone traveling to China. The hotels were of the highest quality; the food was, by and large, excellent; the guides were knowledgeable, informative, and helpful and we were delighted to be able to design a flexible program to suit our tastes. We expect to use your agency again on our future trips to China.

We would be happy to have this description included in your web site.

In particular we would like to point out some details of concern:

Guides: Maggie and Chris were exceptional guides, knowledgeable, informative, and helpful with an excellent command of English. They were attentive to the group's wishes and made meaningful changes to the program as needed. We came away from their portion of the tour really understanding China, it's heritage and what it is like to live there.

FOOD: Hotel breakfasts were consistently very good. The restaurant food for lunch and dinner in Xi'an and Guilin was excellent, mainly because we were permitted to select from the menus with the guides' help. This should be your standard method in future tours not set meals with a standard menu. In Shanghai, the food was of comparatively low quality. We were always served tourist menus consisting of tasteless dishes. We were even told that they knew what westerners liked. In Suzhou, where we were on our own for two meals and the guide recommended a restaurant where we ordered from the menu, the food was excellent. The best meal we had in China was a dinner at JESSE in Shanhai, that we paid for on our own.

MISCELLANEOUS: The drivers were very good, the vans were comfortable, and water was always available. We did not enjoy the evening opera in Beijing as we thought it was too western, similar to the glamour presentations at Las Vegas - too "touristy" and of little relationship to real China culture. In contrast, the river front show in Yungshou was spectacular, thoroughly enjoyable, and clearly representative of the best in present day Chinese theater. You definitely should make this a regular feature of your trips. We think that if you arranged for evening lectures from specialists in such fields as archeology, history, architecture, art, food, agriculture, etc. (instead of tourist shows) it would add significant depth to our China experience.

Stanley and Laurie Maurer

New York, NY

  Vicky & Lynne,

Firstly; thank you for our tour. We thought it was very well organised, that you chose your hotels very well and that, overall, it represented good value for money. The guides, without exception, spoke excellent English and had a wealth of historical and geographical knowledge at their disposal. The choice of destinations for excursions gave us many of the grand sights of China and a sense of the history and achievements of the region. There were times, particularly in museums and the forbidden city, that I would have preferred the option to explore myself at leisure and rejoin the group a little later, though some guides accommodated this request, not all did.

The Great Wall was stunning, though I would very much have liked to visit one of the original sections, either in addition to, or instead of, Badaling. We were fortunate to have some time in Beijing on our own before joining the tour, and I'm very glad we did. It was a great shame that the others on the tour did not get experience the city centre, with it's cosmopolitan High Street, fascinating night market and the lively, and fun, Silk Market. We also enjoyed the Lama Temple and the Confucius temple, which provided a welcome contrast to the other hectic tourist areas! We also felt that, in cities, we spent a lot of time on a bus travelling a very short distance, sometimes taking an hour to do what you could walk in 15 minutes. Other than the architecture and history, we thought the Three Gorges were fantastic and especially the drag boat ride in the minor Gorges.

Water was always available to us and the choice of restaurants was good, especially for the Duck meal. I think it would have been good if we could have ordered some of our own food as, often, a number of the group did not enjoy the more 'adventurous' dishes, meaning the favourites were very thinly spread. As mentioned, the choice of accommodation was excellent. The problem was that when on the cruise, our excursion tour groups were much larger, though this to some extent was true in the first instance, with a group of 18, when we had expected 11. This detracted from some venues as it was hard to hear the guide or made the trip fragmented as the group moved at different speeds.

Overall though, we had a very positive experience and have recommended your company to our friends, and are already considering our next trip! Please pass my thanks on to our guides.

Thanks and Best Regards,

Tom Jenkins

  Christine and the driver were wonderful - very patient, always on time, took very good care of us!

Thank you!