Testimonial

Dear Eva,
We had a marvellous and impressive trip through China!! Lots of thanks to you and China Highlights for the excellent service that you've offered us. We will for sure recommend China Highlights to other potential travellers in our surrounding!!

The guide,Jack, in Hong Kong was modern, dynamic and very enthusiast. The others where also very nice. The hotel in Shanghai was the best one. Very nice rooms.

With kind regards
Marleen van Giesen

Hi Candy:

Well we are back from our trip to China. It was great!!! All of our guides and drivers were excellent. We were met promptly, treated very well and enjoyed all the attractions we went to. Sheryl in Xian  was very efficient, knew the history and just did everything we needed without being asked. She was great. Eddie in Beijing, Sheryl in Xian and Vilvaldi in Shanghai made our trip one for the memory books. When we were in Shanghai, we just ran out of steam and passed on the Museum. We did take the bullet train to the airport instead of the car and driver. That was a great experience also. I think Sheryl in Xian was our most favorite guide, she really made our trip great!!!

We had a great time, would do it again, and would highly recommend China Highlight tours to our friends and anyone else who would be interested in hearing about our experiences in China. If you have an online survey or anything else you need us to complete, please let me know.

Brandee Meissner

Dear Elaine,
We had a wonderful time and would recommend you company to friends without hesitation.

The Great wall was the most memorable trip attraction. The walk is very steep and clients must think carefully about their state of health and fitness at each stage of the ascent. In warm weather plenty of water is needed.

We only had one guide, Sam, and he did his job very well. The Hotel was very good and excellent value. Hotel food was very good. Restaurant food was good.  I felt the trip was excellent value for money. many thanks for all your hard work.

John Lane

Dear Eva,
 First of all thanks for this beautiful trip in China for my wife, daughter, her boyfriend and myself. Answers to your questions:

Sights: Visiting Lhasa was the most memorable attraction, but the cruise in the evening on the lake in Guilin was also perfect
 
Guides: Lois in Guilin was real outstanding. His attitude to inform about everything, not only culture but also the way of live, He was very attend for everything. Safety, food, drinks.

Hotels and meals: All the hotels were very good. The Hyatt in Beijing was perfect;

We will definitely recommend your company to friends or colleagues.

Greatings
Willy

Dear Eva,
Thank you for our wonderful time in China. I listened to a number of your competition's guides talking with their groups and China Highlights was the best of all. A pair of Americans who overheard our guide speaking with us, came over and asked for the name of your company saying their guide could barely speak English. 

Attractions: The Museum in Xian nwas the best.

Guides:  Chris in Xian was the best. Her personality is wonderful. Her English sounds great to the American ear. She seemed to be the most knowledgeable of the guides, not just about China, but about the World in general. She doesn't lecture, she speaks in a conversational tone of voice and I think I learned more from her than any of the other guides. However, all the guides were more than satisfactory. I have no complaints about any of your guides. 

Hotels and meals: The Xian Prince International was by far the most exceptional hotel we stayed in. The Guangzhou Hotel in Beijing was satisfactory. 

We will abosutely recommend your company to others.

Hello Morgen
Thank you for your note following our return from China. Sorry for the delay in replying. Firstly, whatever other comments I want to make, I must thank you for all your help in arranging every detail of a fabulous holiday. We had a wonderful time, and every aspect of our holiday worked smoothly and efficiently. We would have no hesitation in recommending China Highlights, and you personally, to any of our friends who might contemplate a visit to China (and there may be some when I tell them what a good time we had!)
 
Answers to your questions:
Best thing about the trip - I think the huge variety of places that we visited, every one of which was so interesting. 
Hotels-they were both superb 
Suggestions:We enjoyed the Muslim quarter very much, and also the"Ancient-styled Folk House at No 144 of Bei-Yuan-Men, Xi'an", which we found once our guide had left us, and visited on our own - well worth including in any tour of Xi'an. We also went to the Peking Opera as well as the KungFu show (I thought we had asked for this to be included, but possibly it never quite made it into the final itinerary)

 Overall, we were impressed with the attention to detail on all aspects of our trip, and the informative and caring services of most of the guides and drivers. The standard of accommodation was uniformly high, and everything worked "like clockwork" as we say in England!

Dear Morgan, Firstly thank YOU for all your excellent bookings for our tour they were first class. Answers to your questionnaire Sight: Great Wall in Beijing and Terra Cotta Warriors in Xian were the best. Guide: All were excellent ,their English was very good. Karen in Beijing was a great help on arrival at the Marco Polo/Mecure who wanted Vouchers she managed to sort that out for us.All three had great knowledge of Chinese history. Hote:Shangri-La in Xian fantastic. Thank you again Mr Michael Bonney & Mrs Sonia Bonney

Hi Karen, The China trip was quite good. We enjoyed trips to the great wall, Terra Cotta Warriors, Li River cruise and biking in Yangshuo. I think the last two are most memorable for our family. The best tour guide is Rebecca of Guilin and Yangshuo. Jeffery in Shanghai is close second. Jeffery is more experienced. Rebecca is more personable and she really know how to get kids involved and interested. Rebecca also went extra miles to find kids bike for my younger son. Unfortunately, it did not work. We were still able to bike in Yangshuo because Rebecca found a guide to ride a tandem with my wife while I took my son. In comparison to this good experience, we had to give up biking on the City Wall of Xi'an which would have been a highlight of the tour also. The hotels are generally good. The kids like the Paradiso hotel of Yangshuo the best. The best meal is Peking roasted duck. We were surprised by the good quality of it. You can only get this quality in Beijing. The one in Los Angeles is far worse even if the name of the restaurant is the same. The other food everyone should really try to have is Guilin rice noodle. We can fully understand why folks from Guilin always miss their rice noodle back home. I think I do not have to advertise for the great wall and Terra Cotta warriors. They are too famous for anyone to omit. The Li River cruise is a must for people going to Guilin. Actually, Guilin and Yangshuo are the places we would consider visiting again in the future. Biking in Yangshuo is very enjoyable especially for kids. We regretted that we did not have enough time to spend in Shanghai museum. The self guided audio tour is very good. The whole family enjoyed it and learned a lot from it. The quality of shows in China is amazingly good. The KungFu show in Beijing, acrobat show in Shanghai and Tang Dynasty dance and music in Xi'an are all very good and worth going. We think the Impression of Liusanje is over-rated. Admittedly, there are some novelty in using river as a stage. We had no choice but to travel during the summer vacation. I would recommend tourists to avoid this time to travel to China. It is hot and humid. It is also high season for Chinese to travel. You would encounter many big Chinese groups with guide using loud speakers. The volume is so high that it would blast your ear drums when they pass by. You would not enjoy pushing and shoving within sea of people just to get a glimpse of what you are supposed to see. We would recommend China Highlights to anyone who is planning a trip to China. There are many cheaper options you can find in the market. But, you have to prepare to sacrifice the quality. We have heard of many horror stories about traveling to China from friends and relatives before our trip. Our parents strongly advised against traveling to China before we went. The experience with China Highlights proved them wrong. Chenduen

Dear Elaine, I am writing to thank you and your colleagues at China Highlights, for providing my father and I with such excellent service in China. Every tour guide tried his/her best to meet our requirements, and every transfer went very smoothly. I will obviously be recommending China Highlights to all of my friends and look forward to travelling with you again. Many thanks

Dear Cheryl, let me first express my regret that we haven't met while we were in Guilin. I really would have liked to thank You personally for the excellent organization of our trip. My job has brought me in the last 3 1/2 years 15 times to China with stays from 5 days to 18 days and all I had seen were airports, offices, hotels and factories. So I told myself that this should not continue like this and I started to plan a holiday together with my lady in order to see those places where professional life would never bring me: isn't it a shame to have benn so often in Your country without ever having seen the Great Wall, the Forbidden Palace, the Three Gorges etc.etc.? And here enters Your organization in the game: I had asked my people in Shanghai to recommend me the best local organization in this field and they pointed out CITS. That's how I got in contact with You. A perfect, punctual and failure-less organization of the complete trip. Really splendid. Everything worked like the famous "Swiss clock". We have seen beautiful and mystic places which will stick in our memory for ever.If it is so well organized China becomes even for the unexperienced, timid and anxious traveller an extremely easy holiday-country. I have seen this with my lady: well, while travelling she trusts me but just to a certain extent, but I have found her calm and relaxed during all the journey and this certainly was due to the excellent organization and care which has given her trust and confidence. I have found all Your personnel well prepared with a surprisingly good knowledge of the English language and very dedicated. Nevertheless I would like to mention especially Sissi in Guilin and the trainee (Vee?) who have taken care of us with great dedication and warmth as if we were 2 babies. Please give my special regards and thanks to them. My best regards Wolfhart Schmitz-Meimbresse