Family with Kids Reviews - What Our Customers Say about Family Tours in China with Kids

Rita,

The trip to Xi’an was incredible. The activities were perfect and the guide was great and knowledgeable. His English was very good. We had a wonderful driver who stayed with us and had a very nice and comfortable car.

I will definitely contact you for my next trip. Thank you again for the flexibility in changing plans a few times.

Adrienne

Rita,

Things are great! things are slower when traveling with a baby. lol but John and the driver are so understanding.

It's really great everything being private. especially because of the baby. and he has his own schedule and it doesn't always work with the tour schedule. it's nice that it's okay and we don't have to make other people wait for us or rush from one place to another. we went on the silk Road tour last summer. and it was great but such a strict schedule. and other people so we can't be late or take our time at certain places. we actually think we want to travel again in August before our holiday is over.

Rachel

Good Morning Wonder,

Our trip in Huangshan mountain was amazing. My little baby was so happy. our guide was very good. We enjoyed a lot to see the sunset and sunrise.

Ana

Hi Rita,

Tenzin is awesome. We are so happy with out trip so far. Thanks for organising it.

Richard

Hi Wonder,

enzin is awesome. We are so happy with out trip so far. Thanks for organising it.

Sarah

Hi Wonder,

here is a quick review of our tour on Victory Jenna.

Firstly, I would like to thank you for your time and effort in selecting and booking the most appropriate tour, then cancelling due to schedule issues, rebooking, then cancelling and rebooking due to COVID issues! You also alerted us to the need for province-specific health codes and pre-embarkation testing, and kept in touch during the cruise.

On arrival, we decided to upgrade our cabins to the 5th floor suites. We also upgraded our meals to the 6th floor dining room. As a result, we had a genuinely 5-star cruise experience. The staff and crew were welcoming and friendly, most of them spoke English, and the service was impeccable. The food was varied and delicious. The standard of cleanliness and hygiene in all areas was very high.

The included excursion to the Three Gorges Dam was not very interesting for me, although the optional trip in the ship lift was a great experience. We all enjoyed the ferry trip up the shennong stream. Unfortunately, foreigners could not join any other optional excursions because they needed a COVID test within 24 hours, which was impossible once on the boat. This meant more time spent on a stationary ship than I would have chosen.

The evening entertainment program was just the staff and crew having to get on stage after a long day's work. They did a great job, and it was fun, but I think the evening program is very much oversold.

I would say early in the season, with 50% occupancy and the option of cheap upgrades, this can be 5 stars. In a regular room on a full ship, probably 3 stars.

Best wishes

Mark

Wonder,

The tour was great. Lee was terrific!

Kelly

Tracy,

The trip was lovely although a lot of travelling and so quite tiring. The guide and driver were exceptional, very attentive and upbeat. All the arrangements were in place. We enjoyed all aspects of the trip.

Deborah

Wonder,

I wanted to say the experience was absolutely exceptional. However, Nancy our tour guide made the service 100% better. She was dedicated to ensuring Kevin and I had the best experience. She is by far the best tour guide we ever had in China. We will recommend her to all our friends and would like for her to be our guide on our next adventure. Thank you for helping us in planning our trip and I look forward to working with your company again.

Kevin

Rita,

We are so grateful for our time in Western China with you guys. was an incredible experience. Thank you. I will let you know! my friend and I really like red wine. Maybe a tour of some wineries outside Inner Mongolia in the fall.

Patrice

Wonder,

We are on the way to our home now. Thanks for again very good tour. You were assisting very well.

Tamer

Good morning Wonder,

Your trip was very good. All my family enjoyed a lot. Guilin is a beautiful place. the guide and the driver were very nice too.

Ana

Hi Wonder,

Our trip to Chengdu was lovely. We had a great day with Jane visiting the pandas.

Kirsty

Hi Tracy,

Our tour is really great ! So many nice moments.

Neubert

Hi Riley,

Thank you for planning our trip so well

I wanted to let you know that our first driver was really excellent. Because we didn’t have a guide, he took care of our check ins at the hotels and also purchased our entrance tickets. We all really appreciated his hard work and patience.

Thank you!

Ruth

Hi Vivien,

Ok, just double checking. Also thank you again for the driver yesterday. We had a blast. I wouldn't have been able to find my hotel with out him. He even contacted me this morning.

Elicia

Hi Leo,

The driver was great. On time and very helpful. He also had good local knowledge as I had some time before going to the airport so we stopped at two local sigthseeing destinations. All in all, I am very happy with the arrangement

Therese

Hi Rita,

It was really nice and thanks for the perfect organization.

Hans

Hi Riley,

Thanks so much for organising our trip. I’ve wanted to visit this mountain region for years and you helped make it possible.

The mountain and volcanic crater are stunning.

The hotels, particularly the Park Hyatt, were first class.

The staff were extremely helpful and friendly.

The biggest challenge we had was finding somewhere to walk. So much space and no long walks. Everything seems to be arranged around shipping visitors to the scenic spots, enabling them to take some selfies and then shipping them to the next place. And all without any walking in between. The sense is of arranging everything for a spectacular social media photo opportunity rather than enabling people to get, exercise and feel nature.

Thanks for having arranged the walk in the river valley. That was a very pleasant hour‘s stroll along a beautiful and quaint little stream.

We were also a bit unlucky. The few paths at the north gate that normally allow a few minutes extra daunder were even shut for repair.

No worries. We enjoyed it.

Thanks again. We very much appreciate the care and effort that you invest in these trips.

Andrew

Hi Riley,

The driver was very very good. Your help was excellent.

Herve

Hi Riley,

We really enjoyed the trip. Actually Steven gave us a feedback form when we were still in Yangshuo.

Atyasa

Hi Leo,

Thanks for your excellent performance, fast responses, anwerst to all questions. The arrangement was excellent although we asked the tour arrangement in a short notice, and the trip was very nice and relax.

Ira

Hi Aleia,

Hey wonder, sorry for the late reply but the trip was awesome for us! I think we both had a good time. The only thing I wish that maybe was different was the grasslands, we thought we’d see more sparse land rather than an organized villa kind of thing. Otherwise the rest of the trip was great, our driver was awesome and timely and Herry was also super sweet and got everything organized perfectly for us! We really got to know him. Thanks!

Aleia

Hey Wonder,

Everything was very good, yes. Thank you for that. I am also happy to provide recommendation on TripAdvisor.

Eleni

Hello Vivien,

Thank you for helping to arrange our trip. We had a great time!

Can you please send through the fapiao?

Kind Regards,

Jonathan

Hey Zeva,

My trip to Napa Lake today very nice, driver very nice.

Sam

Hey Zeva,

Everything is fine, we had a good time and saw a lot of new areas.

Claire

Hi Vivien,

The trip is very good we like it very much.

Ljiljana

Hello Vivien,

All good. Thank you for organizing the trip. It was fantastic.

Natalia

Hi Vivien,

Thanks for you help. We had a great time. A very different type of trip. Saw some interesting sites.

Stuart

Hi Vivien,

Very nice trip. Thanks.

Ashley

Hi Vivien,

赵先生很周到。 (Driver in Chengdu)

May was a great guide. She got us incredible access to the pandas, she was flexible in accommodating our wishes, she chose a perfect place to eat on the last day, and she was very enthusiastic about Buddhism.

We'll send you our full feedback on Guilin as soon as we get to Zhangjiajie. So far, the Li An hotel, and especially the Caledon room, was SPECTACULAR!

感谢您帮我们安排这次去旅游！回家了我们继续想到那些好日子，好玩的时刻。

Adam

Hello Vivien,

Going very well. Thanks!

Jeremy

Dear Echo,

Peter! Thanks for an amazing tour in Dunhuang/Jiayuguan and Zhangye! We had a great time. Appreciate your planning and coordination over the last 5 days…

Hi @Peter 张  Thank you for a wonderful trip in Gansu. You helped us keep to the schedule and ensured we enjoyed sunsets at the sand dunes and also at Danxia. You also helped us understand and appreciate the culture and history of the places we visited. We enjoyed local food and sightseeing. The car ride was comfortable too. Thank you once again! Rajshri, Vinay and Kabir

The hotel at Jiayuguan was a good one - very spacious, clean, comfortable and good breakfast too. The hotel at Dunhuang was a little dusty and view was not great - breakfast was good though.

Thank you so much for an amazing 2 days in Qinghai! We loved the stops around Qinghai lake. It was simply amazing

Qinghai lake area was beautiful, biking and some walks / picnic around. Amazing!

Vinay

Hi Leo,

Overall Experience:

Overall we had a fantastic trip! While we have always been more independent travelers, the changing status of restrictions due to COVID made us reluctant to book our own trip – we wanted to have someone we could call and/or have by our sides to help address any concerns, at least someone with a better fluency than ours. We loved everything about Ping’an and hope to return to see the terraces in a different season. We loved the Yangshou and hope to return there – it’s an easy train ride from Shenzhen.

Transportation:

The train was super comfortable, all pick-ups and drop-offs were good, the van was comfortable and the driver was safe.

Lodging:

We loved the atmosphere, the room, the people, and the food at Longji One Art Hotel. One of our favorite places, we hope to return and stay there. The Family Room had ventilation issues upstairs in the loft, but the room A/C was awesome.

The Shangri-La in Guilin was our least favorite. The room was stuffy and hot, and even with a fan that we requested, it was uncomfortable to sleep. The theme was amusing – as a family room, it had a tent, but the bathroom accessories were for an infant, not an 11-year old. We would not stay there again, nor recommend it to friends.

The Bamboo Leaf outside Yangshou was really great. By fate, we knew a fair amount of people staying there, from Guangzhou and Shenzhen. The food there was FANTASTIC! We definitely plan to return to Yangshou and would stay at the Bamboo Leaf. We would go just for the dinner!

Sights:

Longji Rice Terraces – incredible beauty! So few people were there, we had the whole area to ourselves. We would like to return to see the terraces in a different season. It FAR exceeded our expectations!

Guilin – we live in a big city, so seeing another city is less than a thrill. Reed Flute Cave and Xiangbishan were cool, but not awesome.

Li River – we were the only boat on the river – the sights were amazing, well worth the trip. The provided lunch was actually quite good.

Yulong River / bamboo raft – we liked the more intimate setting, some great pictures.

Comments:

I would recommend you and the tour company to others - everything worked as planned and promised. We appreciate your help, and had the comfort knowing that if the situation changed due to travel restrictions, etc., we had someone to help us. It was a curious time to travel, as cases were picking up in other areas.

Small Things:

It would have been better to know about packing ONE bag to take up to Ping’an. While it wasn’t a terrible inconvenience to unpack/re-pack in a parking lot, I wish we had known.

Peter did a nice job. He wasn’t the best guide we ever had, but he was OK. Very friendly and polite, his English was fantastic, and he shared a lot of his knowledge. However, I would prefer not to use him again.

Leo, if we need help with another guided tour the Fall, I will reach out to you!

Many Thanks.

James

Hi Rita,

Yes. It's going very well, thank you.

Theresa

Hi Rita,

Sorry for the delay in responding. Yes, I really enjoyed the cruise! Thank you for your help in arranging!

Cliodhna

Hi Tracy,

Having a great time

Nicholas

Hi Wonder,

The cruise was excellent thanks. We had a great time!

Michael

Hi Wonder,

This was a very good hotel. Other guests might like it. Right on the water edge, it is quiet and can hear the lake sounds in the room. Easy to walk into the town.

This one is called Fancy's Little Kitchen, and is Naxi cooking. It is in English, French or Chinese and is in a nice kitchen. Some of your future guests might enjoy. We really liked both cooking experiences. Our son loved cooking in the Bai house and learning about the three teas.

Stephen

Hi Johnson,

Our five families had a superb trip! The incredible sites we visited such as the 'Great wall' and the 'Terracotta warriors' will stay in our memories forever! Our guides took us to some superb restaurants where we really enjoyed the local food. The Peking duck for me was a favourite. Your organization and that of our local guides was excellent! Our guides knowledge of the places we visited was in-depth and really added to the interest in what we were seeing. I will highly recommend your tour to other teachers at my school and friends and family back in New Zealand.

Things to improve upon:

I think when travelling with younger children we found it's better sometimes to do 1 or 2 things a day rather than try and fit everything in on the itinerary especially when it was hot and there was lot's of walking to do. I think the guides were good at realizing this and were flexible when there were things we cut out of the daily itinerary. Having a pool at the end of the day was great for tired kids.

Perhaps next time with families try and have them stay not underneath the bar on the boat as it got a bit noisy. Although the people on the boat were really good when we said something about this on the first night. We also thought there could have been a bit more for children to do on the boat and we put that in our comments at the end of the trip.

That's all I can really think of as there was not really anything wrong with the trip. Thanks again Johnson, let me know if you want me to add any more detail in recommending the trip to others.

Regards.

Cameron

Thanks Jo. You too and thanks for amazing memories!! We are on the way home ready for bed!!

Beatriz

Us too! Adding our thanks for letting us join you. It was a great trip and fun to spend time with you all. Thanks to Johnson for all of his efforts and planning!

Lisa

Fantastic trip y’all! Thanks for all the memories! I’ll try and get photos from everyone and get some out together in the next week or so.

Matthew

Yes fantastic trip thanks everyone! We’ll get some feedback to you soon Johnson.

Cameron

We must have already been asleep when these messages came through. We have had a wonderful time. Thanks Johnson and Cam. Great to tick off so many must-sees in China ! Let’s have a post holiday debrief at our new apartment once we have unpacked!

Kylie

Hi Johnson, I know this is a bit late telling you. But our family had a lovely time on the trip you organised for us. We got to see so much of China! We feel very lucky. We are spending a week in Sanya. China is so beautiful!

Tessa

Hi Zeva,

Greetings from a warm Yangzhou. We have had another wonderful day and said our goodbyes to wonderful guide Alice and great driver Mr. Fu. Mr. Fu drove us safe around and always very helpful. We have been very happy with Alice who have guided us through a lot of lovely sceneries, showing us great places around Guilin and Yangzhou. Finding great food for us and meeting every one of our needs during our holiday. She did her guiding, so we felt very relaxed but still got a lot of information. We would give her our best recommendations. She had forgotten the paper for us to fill in today - therefor this long chat.

We are looking forward to staying here the next three days. Thank you so much for your help - you have been great. We will be ready in the lobby Monday morning at 11 o’clock to leave for the airport. We are - again - super happy to travel with China discovery.

Christina

Hi Zeva,

Good morning Zeva. Kai has been a wonderful guide while we have been in Beijing. Who will be our guide in Xi'an?

We had a great trip! Thanks for all your work on this.

Tiffany

Hi Wonder,

Despite bad experience which we had on arriving yichang but the cruise was perfect and the people are so nice on board of vessel, they are very kind and helpful and thanks for your arranging such nice experience for us however let us forget about flight cancellation which was beyond our control.

Please send our grateful message to ship owner for having such a honorable staff/officers on board of vessel, I have traveled lots of part of the world with different nationalities and 5 star hotels but these people service and being kind is memorable.

Hassan

Hi Wonder,

Yes it was great … we had a camel ride in the evening and enjoyed the Sunset on a big dune … had a good sleep and climbed the Mountain to see the sunrise this morning ! Was a Good decision to change the hotel …. More convenient ;) we are back in the Little town and wait for our driver to Zhangye to get our rental car … Thnx!

The transfer to Zhangye is not so great … better I would have taken the rental car and go on y own … the driver in the desert was very Good!

Oliver

Hello Zeva,

Morning!! We’re having a great start to our trip- thank you- everything has been perfect! Can I ask your advice on tipping David and our driver? How much per day is appropriate? Thank you.

We all good here thanks and looking forward to the next leg of our journey!!

Thanks so much - William is well on the way to recovery now!! Have a good day.x

We are on our way now- thank you for organizing an excellent tour. We found the whole experience completely stress free and that was the main purpose of using a tour company! Everything was organized so professionally- we will definitely recommend you to our friends.

Thanks so much!

Katherine

Hi Wonder,

We are having a great time. Steven is very helpful with everything! We loved the monkeys and are happy to see Tiger Leaping Gorge tomorrow.

Regina

Hi Wonder,

The trip to Xiamen was very good. We are planning another trip to to Fujian. Could you help us to arrange it?

Markus

Hi Wonder,

Good afternoon. We are at the Dali train station now. We just wanted to share with you that our driver for our trip was amazing! We highly recommend her. She went above and beyond to help us.

Timothy

Dear Tracy,

We came back from our wonderful Yunnan trip yesterday, so I thought I would just give you some detailed feedback. My expectation is to use you whenever we go travelling in China as long as your prices are competitive, so I think it will benefit us both to give you feedback each time.

First of all I would like to say, that this is one of the best trips we ever had as a family - we really enjoyed it.

Dali

Nancy is the best guide we have had in China so far - she is so sweet and really good in explaning our different sightseeing options and telling relevant interesting stories. She also gives advice to us on the day we did not have anything scheduled.

The hotel in Dali was nice, ok breakfast and pool - although a little cold.

We enjoyed both the cycling trip and the Cangshan Mountain. The trip to Shibao Mountain we felt was a little rushed. We would have preferred to have more time here and done some hiking in the beautiful surroundings. It felt like a lot of transportation for a very short walk.

Shaxi

This city is fantastic - and we loved the hotel. The breakfast was perfect, the best breakfast we had at any hotel in China.

Lijiang

Evan was ok as a guide. I wrote to him to get a restaurant recommendation before coming to Lijiang, and his first question was which hotel we stay at. On the day we were going to the Tiger Leaping Gorge hike, he was not really informed about our programme it seemed, and wanted to cut two hours of the hike. I really appreciate when the guides know our itinerary, so we do not have to give him information.

As our first two days in Lijiang was on out own, it would have been nice with just a 2 minutes introduction from his side, when we met at the hotel. For example that there are both a Shuhe old town and a Lijiang Old Town. No one at the hotel spoke a word English, so it was difficult for us to figure out how to best spend the days.

The day in the snow mountain was fantastic - but I had to ask for the yak meadow. I would have liked him to explain to me the options at the snow mountain, so I could make a decision based on that, not my own research. Our friends who came two days later, also travelling with China Discovery, went all the way to the gletcher. We did not even know that was an option.

The hotel in Lijiang was the best on our trip - nice rooms, pool and gym. And I have to say their service is AMAZING! I got the wechat of one of the staff, and he helped us with everything, I do not have his English name, but can send his Chinese to you on WeChat. He should really be recognized for his efforts! The only thing about this hotel was, that their breakfast is really bad. It seemed strange because this hotel is so beautiful and amazing, but their breakfast seems to belong to a one star hotel. I have to say again, that their service is really good - so when we complained they made scramble eggs for us and something that resembled bacon. So the staff did everything they could. But a hotel like that should have better breakfast - maybe they should visit the hotel in Shaxi.

Tiger Leaping Gorge

So everything on this trip was amazing!!!!! We loved the hike and the hotel was like a small piece of paradise. The room, the pool the spa - it was just perfect. Also we really liked Pema, our guide.

One comment is that our friends, who did the hike two days later, had their suitcases brought all the way to this hotel. Why were we not offered this? I know we have paid the same price for the trip.

Shangri-La

The two hikes and visit to the monestary was very good, Pema had a good feeling of what our family liked and he was very sweet to our kids.

We did not really like the hotel that much. Actually I prefer the often much more charming boutique hotels. You properly chose it because of the pool, which I know I wanted. But the water at the pool was 13 degrees - so not really something we could use.

So that was all the feedback I had. I hope it is useful to you! I will send you the name of the employee at the Lijiang hotel, he deserves extra credit.

Kind regards.

Signe

Hi Johnson,

Very satisfied really enjoying Lijiang. Sunny has been a fantastic guide!!!

Cameron

Hi Lyn,

Sorry for my super late reply, but tomorrow we are leaving again, so I was and I am busy unpacking and repacking. Our trip in Inner Mongolia went very well and we are satisfied of the service provided.

The driver and the guide were kind and professional. For us it was the first time we travelled with an organised tour and a tour guide and the experience has been very positive. So, for sure we'll do it again in the future.

Thank you for your support and have a nice weekend!

Sara

Hi Rita,

Yes, we are safely back. Thank you. Thank you so much for all your help in arranging everything. We had a wonderful time. We already miss Inner Mongolia. It was a pleasure to work with you to make the holiday a memorable one. Thank you, we have taken a lot of precautions and should be safe. I will be happy to leave a review.

We have already decided that once the borders open, we will book another trip for our parents to Inner Mongolia again with you.

Elana

Hi Lyn,

We appreciated very much our tour. Accommodation was very comfy and well located. The second hotel in zhangjiajie was a bit less convenient due to reduced restaurant service, but otherwise it was a great hotel. All guides were great though we didn't spend much time with Fay.

Elodie

Hi Riley,

And I like our guide and driver so much. Very nice, helpful and cool people.

And by the way – we have the best guides and driver! The most important part is not only that they conduct themselves professionally, but as very kind human beings.

David

Hi Riley,

Sorry for taking so long to get back to you. We had a wonderful time in Inner Mongolia. Our tour guide, Lisa, was fantastic and really helpful. The tour was really well-organised whilst also being flexible according to our preferences. The driver was also very good. The hotels were very nice. The only feedback on hotels is that the first one we stayed in Hailar, the Holiday Inn, was very busy, which meant a lot of the breakfast options at the breakfast buffet finished really quickly, so there wasn't a lot of choice. It also meant that we really struggled trying to get on an elevator to get downstairs in the morning - we ended up having to carry our suitcases down 8 flights of stairs! However, the room itself had a nice view of the train station and was fine. We really enjoyed the whole trip, and it went very smoothly!

Many thanks,

Sarah

Hi Tracy,

Yes, we had a wonderful time. The guides were amazing. I recommended the agency and the trip to several friends. You have been amazing!

Martine

Hi Tracy,

Yes, well arrived this afternoon. May was good, she listened to our needs and did her best to accommodate our expectations. She was very patient and helpful. Thanks for the panda gift, kids love them!

Aline

Hi Rosalyn,

We enjoy our trip. The boat is very clean, the food is good and the staff nice and helpful. We enjoyed vey much the scenery from the boat. However, the includes visits were a bit disappointing.  Moreover, we could not go to Chongming because of the navigation. We are globally satisfied with our stay.

Hi Riley

Thanks again for your help with booking our trip to Chengdu, we had a lovely time!

Everything was very well organised. The airport transfers and drivers for the rest of the weekend were always punctual and helpful. 

The hotel was comfortable and although not super modern, the room was plenty big enough and catered for our needs. The kitchen was also useful. Breakfast at the hotel was good with enough choice and staff were quite helpful. The location of the hotel worked pretty well for us too.

Our tour guide Jane was lovely. She was very patient and helpful with our two young daughters, particularly the older one who asked her lots of questions! She was helpful in buying our tickets and ensuring that we were able to navigate the city and its sights. 

All in all we had a very good trip and would recommend China Discovery to others.

Thanks and hope this helps

Lindsay

Hey Rita, it was a great trip. Many memories.

Hi Riley,

We are back in Shanghai. Everything good thanks. David is a good guide

Dear Rita, thanks for your update. The driver will do the transportation from the airport to the hotel and the hotel to the airport again. Am I correct? Today was a beautiful day in Jiuzhaigou. I hope that tomorrow we will have one more time luck with the weather.

Dear Rita,

Dessert trip is finished.

Driver very nice and professional! Amazing views.

Thanks Leo for organising this trip. We had good time;

Huangshan: we loved the place but felt sad that this was not the right season for it.. So while booking you can just inform us on the same.. I had checked the weather before going, I knew it was raining but I thought it like shenyang rain.. Light.. Not that heavy.. So if possible just give an info on that to people..

Driver and vehicle: good

Guide: very good

Hangzhou: good place.

Driver: very rude. Not even accommodating a small requirement of stopping at a supermarket.

Guide:Very good.

Shanghai and around: good

Driver: Kind and helpful.

Guide: very friendly, helpful and good.. Appreciate that she helped us for booking food online..

Guides were supportive at all places.. Thank you!! But again a feedback for your company: Try being little flexible when you are doing a customized trip. Customized trip is not just booking hotels or car. Clients need more flexibility in terms of everything when we know we are paying more than just for the trip expense

Hi Tracy,

We are back comfortably. Thankyou for organising the nice trip.

Hi Lyn,

The trip was very nice. The places are amazing. Food wise some of it was good, but some hotels had a difficult time with meals (example Heshe where we had to order meituan as there was no open kitchen).

Car is a little uncomfortable for adults. The space between seats is a little tight. Another version of van would be more suitable for long travel.

Would better to sleep 2 nights in Yangshou.

Steven and He were very nice and accommodating.

My wife and daughters really enjoyed the trip. Other than the food (we don’t eat fast food, and we are all vegetarian, so sometimes it’s a little tough to find healthier foods, or not so fried) but we loved it.

I added some activities which you can put into your schedule for sure (the cable car and the glass bridge for example), so in general an amazing trip.

Hi Tracy,

It was good. Bruce was knowledgeable and helpful. Car was good and the driver was driving safe. Terracotta Army was a great experience. We also went to the Han yangling. That was ok but no must-see. Thanks

Good morning Jack,

Lee was excellent. Very personable, very professional. Your drivers were very good. The pace of the trip was good. We enjoyed seeing both reconstructed and old wall. It gave us a much better appreciation of the work to not only to build but to maintain as well .We would caution that knowing in advance what sections of the wall are closed would be helpful. The second day it seemed we spent more time hiking in the brush than visiting the wall itself. Plenty of water and bathroom breaks were offered. Li was very knowledgeable about the wall and history. He gave us information in the van and allowed us to enjoy the wall without interruptions. Great job on his part The water town hotel was very enjoyable. The room was clean, air conditioner, and felt traditional but clean and new. Li did a great job of preparing us and getting us through the security points at the square. The local farmhouse restaurants were decent and the people very kind.

Xi'An: Tomi was good. He had a less engaging tour so our interaction with him was less but still enjoyable. He accommodated our request to spend time with friends that were in the area as well.Muslim street was very small and not as unique as I thought it would be.The bike ride along the city wall enjoyable. Better first thing in the morning or late afternoon. It would have been too hot for a mid-day visit.We stayed at the W in Xi'An. Great place to stay. I would visit that property again. We ate dinner at a new Turkish restaurant called The Chill right outside the hotel. Would recommend.Warriors was amazing. Tomi's knowledge very much appreciated. We were two and half hours early to the airport so timing was a bit off.All said, we would definitely use China Discovery again.

We all enjoyed our stay. Our two girls all loved it. Would like longer.

Dear Zeva,

Everything went smoothly.

Thanks for your help.

Kind regards

Gudrun

Vivien,

We have arrived in Sanya and are on the way to our resort.  Thank you for arranging the very helpful guide and driver this morning. They were professional and prompt.  

Do you have a feedback form that I should complete or would you like me to write something in my own words?

I must tell you, the cruise was amazing!  I have never felt so much like a queen as I did on the cruise.  The staff was unbelievable, the accommodations were excellent by my western-standards, and the activities were splendid! Nobody wanted to leave the cruise!!  

The two boys enjoyed the unlimited “mocktails” drink package and flying kites on the sundeck.  The two girls enjoyed the “mocktails” and the variety of relaxing spaces on the ship.  Sometimes they wanted to relax in the Executive Lounge, sometimes they wanted to do karaoke.  It was wonderful that the children had easy access to any place in board that they might have an interest.

As you know, we already recommended you to my friend Sylbeth. We will continue to recommend your services.  If we have time for one more vacation before leaving China, we will definitely arrange it through you.

Thank you,

Wendy

Thanks Wonder for checking.

All was good.

Dear Lyn,

we had a wonderful trip and are very happy altogether. Everything worked out very well.

In Zhangjiajie we were a little bit unlucky with the weather (no one can change that) and with the masses travelling (also something that cannot be changed). Because of the latter I am very glad that you suggested to visit the Gorge on arrival day already, we would never have made it on the second day (and it would have been in pouring rain).

The river cruise was excellent; although it being pretty expensive we most certainly appreciated the special treatment we received due to booking “executive”.

So I have already recommended this trip to colleagues and friends.

Thanks for all your support before the trip (and for getting us out of the broom-closet in Zhangjiajie)

Viola

Hi Leo,

Yes, I can give you some feedback on the Beijing trip. In general we enjoyed the trip very much. It was a good idea to go to Jinshanling Great Wall instead of Badaling. Actually we had heard of Badaling being rather crowded during National Holidays, that’s why we asked you to include Jinshanling. It was a good choice;

Jack, our tour guide was very nice, he has a very good knowledge about the places we went and the history behind. The driver was very experienced and we always had a smooth drive, although obviously sometimes the traffic was dense.

The Restaurants that Jack picked were all ok, the experience with the family in the Hutong for the Dumpling making was very nice.

There could be some minor changes to the tour. For example it was more convenient to go to Jingshan Park and Beihai Park on the same day instead of separate days. Actually Jack proposed that and it was good. We went to both of the parks the day after the Forbidden City. There are some further attractions to visit inside the Summer Palace and Beihai Park. You have to buy extra tickets, which are 10 Yuan per person. I think it might make sense to include these in the tour right away from the beginning.

Hi Leo,

It was a great tour! The staff on the boat were so nice and helpful! The accommodations were excellent. The food was so good. If I had one complaint it would just be how rushed everything is when you visit things off the boat. I understand why and know there is a busy schedule but it was so rushed to me. Sorry it took so long to answer. I had no mobile data all day.

The only place I felt it was really crowded was at the fungdu ghost city. Everywhere else had people but not too bad at all for China.

I saw some places were really busy. I heard a lot of people are traveling again. I have a lot of friends who have shown some interest in my cruise. When they ask me for more info about booking the cruise I will definitely send them your contact card. I will put some pictures on WeChat tonight. So many want to see some. That will help I think.

Hi Rita, thanks.

We enjoyed the trip very much. Jiabang Rice Terraces were fantastic though. Probably the best place we have been in China.

We had an amazing trip and everything was perfect

I will have to get back there and the bamboo rafting

Steven was amazing

Hi Rita.

Sure! I am glad to do so! We want to recommend you further

All the best!

Cheers.

Maria.

Hi Rita,

It is allright, cabin is great, and kids are happy.

Thank you so much for a wonderful trip Wonder.

Alex was fantastic!!!

Hi Vivien,

Wonderful! Sandy is a great guide. It's been a real pleasure.

We've just returned from our Chengdu-Xi'an trip. Thank you for such a wonderful tour.  

We are already looking toward our next trip.  We'd like to travel to Beijing from April 30 - May 3.  

We really like the "4 Days Beijing Family Tour with Kids Fun" itinerary, with some changes - Like removing the Beijing zoo and hutongs on the fourth day and instead moving Temple of Heaven to that day.  

Can we work on this trip with you, or should we request through the website again?  Thank you.

Hi Wendy,

Yes, we got connected rooms today. Everything is fine here. The numbers of travellers we are not able to control. We didn’t expect to be alone. Ellen did a super job today, guiding us around Chengdu and the Panda “park”. We are now filled up with fantastic memories from the last four day.

Hi Vivian.

Tour was good, the guides both very good. Gulangyu island, shenzen tower and Tulou in Nanjing County were the highlights

Hotel outstanding 

Second one really perfect with good breakfast and view from rooms

Overall vacation was a bit expensive, I wonder what would have been the cost with private car only for the day we went to the County?

hi Wonder,

The trip was in general quite ok despite bad weather. Thanks for your help. I already shared your contact to a friend, Tamer, hope you can also help him.

Hi Tracy,

Yes! We are enjoying.

Hi Echo 

We had a great holiday in Guilin. A place we would like to revisit before leaving China. 

The hotel in Guilin was quite good. Spacious room with a lovely view and a great bar. The breakfast was mostly Chinese, but we still haven’t found a hotel with great western breakfast yet. It was okay - but not amazing.

The hotel in Yangshuo was more simple but the service was good and the surroundings were amazing. I could imagine that it would not be so good if it was colder since the room wasn’t isolated. There was air conditioning/heating so it was okay for this season. I think it will be great in to sit outside by the river in the summertime. 

The guide was nice and friendly and so was the driver. But my husband couldn’t see out of the windows in the car since he is quite tall. So he missed out on the beautiful scenery when we were driving. 

On the Li River Cruise we sat at a 6 persons table - we would have preferred a 4 persons table - but otherwise it was a great trip.

Best regards,

Sanne

Hello Johnson,

Thanks for asking. Overall it was a very nice experience. And Jerry did a fine job. It’s nice to be taken care of someone who is enthusiastic about showing strangers around in his country.

Well I don’t know if he is but we learned a lot from him.

Later more, when I have more time, we may want to do another mountain tour somewhere else later on

Just wanted to thank you Wendy,

Our travel in Beijing was great!!

Hello Tracy,

Everything is awesome. Both driver and Hilary are great.

Hello Wonder,

Our trip were very well. 

Harbin:

The driver who picked us in aeroport, the train and in our visited to city was fantastic. He drove very well and my family felt safe.

We liked all places we visited and the time we had in these place. The city is very clean and so different of Nanjing. We lliked the experience of food and the restaurant.

The guide was amazing and he have a good english.He explained a lot of facts of city very interesting and the place we visited. He gave space for we had good moments in family. It is very good. 

Yabuli:

The hotel Club Med for us was wonderful.

 I m going to talk the hotel by steps:

 

1- Bedroom:

The bedroon was very big with 2 individual beds for our children and a room for us with a big and confortable bed. The bathrooms were ok. It was very clean and with a lot of space to put our clothes. In the bedroom they have a smale space with a fridge, a cups to drink coffee, tea and bottles of water. we didn´t pay anything that we consumed in bedroom and everday they putted what was miss. All nigths they opened the bedroom and cleaned the garbage bins and offered some gifts(orange, cherries)

2- Food

 They have 2 restaurants one workes like buffet and another workes in the evening with hotpot dinner that we need to booking. We didnt try this restaurant because the buffet restaurant was so good and all time they have western food.

The buffet restaurant the food like I said was good and different everday. The problem of this restaurant was noise because were a lot of pleople there. In the evening of New Year they had a different menu with a lot of seafood and gourmet.

For adults they have a good wine and beer.

They have food all the time for the guest in the bar or in the restaurant that workes in the evening.

This is the hotel with all inclusive very good.

3- Animation and activities

The animation for the children were wonderfuly. They started at 8:30am and finished at 5:00pm. The children can lunch with staff or with parents.

The ski class for children start at 9am and they have like 2 hours in the morning and 2h in afternoon. If they don´t want making ski they play in the club med with staff and they can do climbing too.

For a 1^st January the kids staff prepared a show with the kids very nice.

For adults they have ioga class in the morning and afternoon, dance class, ski class and another activities.

The ski class some teachers speak a little bit of english and if they don´t speak someone translate for us or we saw the teacher to do ski and we can understand. I think it is easy for a foreign do ski in this class.

They have class for all pleople, they have a rent material good and if we prefer buy it is possible.

The hotel has been prepare for pleople don´t want to do ski and enjoy a relax moment in the mountain.

They have a club for families doing activities together they call amazing family.

All evenings they have a show or some activities for guests. 

In the evening new year they had fire works, a party and a show. In the first day of year like I said they did the children show and then they had a candyland to offer the guests.

4- Space

All space of hotel was clean, big, with a beautifull decoration and moderm style.

The swimming pool is big and it is nice have a good moments in jacuuzzi outside with snow and cold.

The gym is ok and they have a spa too. 

5- Language

It is easy to find someone that speak english. I think the hotel is for foreign pleople or chinese pleople who like the western style.

We liked a lot our holidays, we were able to relax and have a good moments in family.

I hope this description of hotel help you. If you need more informationa please contact me.

Best regards

Ana Oliveira

Hi Echo,

Thanks a lot for your message. Everything has been handled perfectly. I am very happy about our relation to be honest from the 1st contact until the end, everything has been very smooth and I won’t hesitate to come back to you for future plans. I think Chinese New Year should be complicate due to the Covid situation but anyway still lots of opportunities to come in coming months. Have a great weekend. Best.

Hi Vivien,

I have a wonderful trip thanks to you and the guides.

Hi Tracy,

Thank you for checking in. yes, all well and good. The driver has safely reached us to our final destination @Lijiang.

Hi Vivien,

Very nice. Everything is great.

Hi Wendy

Good!! Looking forward to go to the mountains tomorrow. Thanks for asking!

Great! We really liked it thanks a lot!!

Hi Riley

Yes we had a great time!

Only minor issue is related to smoking rooms but I realize that this was outside of your control

Guides were fantastic- especially in terms of accommodating our own pace - because of kids.

They also provided good insights that allowed us to appreciate the sights even more

Hi Wonder

Tour guide Selina was really great, she was enthusiastic and friendly. Very knowledgable about HuangShan. Car was spacious, but we had to change vans frequently.

Hotel was okay, a little small on the mountain, but overall not bad. Understandable that it’s small. It was a lot of hard work for the people to bring hotels things up to the mountain.

We would suggest to add 宏村 to schedules next time. We thought it was really nice.

We were lucky because weather is nice. Restaurants Selina brought us to were all good. A lot of stairs on the mountains, but great trip overall.

Dear Wendy,

Trip was quite good thanks.

Good morning, Lyn!

Thank you, we had a wonderful time.

Hi Rita.

I just wanted to let you know how Amazing Ellen was today. She was so nice and friendly and knowledgeable as well as super accommodating. She made our day very special and I will recommend your company and her to all of my friends! What an amazing trip! So glad you worked it out to come!

Hi Rita,

Really i appreciate your support at every moment. For my next trip to guilin i will contact you.

Hi Vivien,

It’s been great! We are really enjoying it. Thanks for booking everything for us.

Dear Vivien, I think Linda has already provided feedback to your website. A couple of additional notes from my side:

• The trip was well organized, with the appropriate balance between personal time and time used for guided tours
• The hotels were good, great locations, we would have preferred more ‘continental’ options for breakfast/dinner
• Our guide (Evelyn) was great. She was extremely nice and willing to go ‘the extra mile’ to help us living a great experience
• ...last but not least, one comment on your support. Our decision to travel with China Discovery come from your initiative to contact me and follow up a request that I made months ago. When I received your email I was almost ready to confirm the trip with another agency. What made the difference was the quality of the program you offered but also the very professional way you interacted with us. We appreciated the ‘tone’ that you used in your messages or in our phone conversations. We appreciated your ability to follow up on our requests in a short timeframe, your depth in checking what was concerning to us.

Thank you, we look forward to our next trip together!

RF

Hi Zeva,

We really enjoyed the trip. Everything was well organized and Li was a wonderful guide!

Hello Vivien, 

Everything perfect up to now.  Evelyn is very nice and professional. 

Everything is going very well.  

Everything was good and we enjoyed a lot the trip.  Thanks for organizing and for asking

Tour very good. Thanks for your arrangement. Look forward to working with you again in the future.

Hi Echo

We had a great tour in Sichuan. The room in the last hotel in Chengdu was fine although breakfast wasn’t. But I guess that’s because that they didn’t have a great selection of western foods and you cannot expect that everywhere in China.

Overall it was a really great tour and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a great tour to Sichuan. Jason was a good guide and my youngest son Anton really liked him immediately.

If something needed to be changed that would be an extra night at Emeishan. After driving up and down the mountain the kids were tired and would have loved going straight back to the hotel and the pool and the playground. And then done the drive back to Chengdu the next day. I know it wasn’t possible due to the flight time the next day but if there were flights a bit later that would have been perfect. 

The driver was also friendly and service minded. If the car had autopilot the ride would have been more smooth - setting the seed to a certain limit - but that is a minor thing.

Thanks for all your help.

 

Sanne

Hi Zeva,

Thanks for Advise, you also take care of yourself. Hoping we will be in touch, after this episode. You have blessed time, till we contact again.

Bobby

Zeva, 

China is still on our list, but not at this time. We have canceled other trips until a later date. I will contact you when we start making our plans to visit China.

Thanks,

Don

Hello Zeva!

Unfortunately, we will not be visiting China this year. We are very sad. Our daughter was working in Shanghai but had to come back to the U.S. so we will not be visiting her there.

If we decide to plan a trip to China in the future we will certainly contact you.

I hope you remain healthy!

Kim

Hi Zeva,

Thank you for your email.

We are being advised not to travel at all in 2020 because of the virus still being a bit of an unknown.

Thank you for your help. We have your details and will be in touch when travel looks less risky.

Blessings!

Karen

Dear Mrs. Catherine,

thank you so much for your kind message and for all information!

My family and I are good, we live in Sestri Levante, a small city on the sea, about 50 km from Genoa, and here the situation is good, from May 3 phase 2 will start with some less restrictions.

The situation starts to going better also in Milan, Lombardia and Piemonte but all Italy is “red zone” without transit from one city/region to another city/region

I hope that 2021 will be our Tibet year!

And how are you? I suppose that everything is quite well in your splendid Country.

Kind regards

Anna

Dear Catherine,

Thanks a lot for your kind mail and pieces of advice. I do remember you and our wonderful trip to Gansu last November.

It's true France and other countries are now hit by the Covid-19 disease and many measures have been taken to flatten the curve of new cases.

We work at home for more than a month now, and this will probably continue for a long time.

The main issue was the lack of masks. The situation is getting better now but we still miss masks. As individuals we cannot buy some, they are indeed reserved for health professionals. I wish we could get disposable masks.

The positive aspect is that I had time to sort all the photos I took during our trip to Gansu. We hope to come again and discover other parts of China.

Thanks again for your advice and taking news.

Take care,

Jean

Ni hao Rita,

I was very pleased to get an email from you today and know that you were safe. Our friends in Beijing have also managed to keep well by keeping isolated since January. They have a baby now so it was very important to keep well. My family and the group that travelled to Tibet with you are all safe and well. I am sorry about all the people that China has lost over the last few months to the virus. The world is a sad place to be at the present time.

In New Zealand we are entering our 4th week of full lockdown. We have all been required to stay home except for essential services. Supermarkets have stayed open but with strict distancing and only a few people allowed in at a time. This was fortunate as life would have been a lot different had the supermarkets closed. We can go out in the local area for short walks or runs for exercise but other than that police are being very strict on people who have no reason to be out and about.

We appear to be winning the fight so far as we have only had 11 lives lost and around 1500 people infected. This because our lockdown came very early and almost every New Zealander has stuck to the rules and kept apart. We also closed our borders early and it doesn’t look like anybody in New Zealand will be leaving the country or people from other countries coming here for quite some time. Possibly years. Our success in keeping the virus out, so far, means we will not have immunity to it but we have saved a lot of lives. The government will make the decision on Monday if we come out of full lockdown and what the new rules will be.

How are you in Chengdu? I hope your beautiful city has been well in the current time and suffered only a little. We hear little of how things are in China other than the numbers. I note from your attachment about Personal Protection information that your approach has been very similar to ours including policing measures and governmental control. We have done it mainly by co-operation and few have been fined or arrested for disobedience as most are in agreement with the measures taken and our government has kept us fully informed as to what is happening on a daily basis.

Stay Safe and well. Please keep me up to date with how you are. Hopefully both our countries are over the worst and we can begin contact again.

Dylan.

Dear Rita,

Greeting!!!

Thank you for sharing us information about the COVID-19 published by the authoritative medical institution in China.

We and my family all are safe. We managed to work from home since last month now. My town where am I living there in Saudi Arabia "AlQatif City" is quietly safe and under control of COVID-19. with only minor cases comparing to other city in Saudi Arabia and. We have followed the instruction and policies from our government to avoid affecting and spreading of COVID-19.

Thank you for your communication back and hope situation will improved and if so we might return back to china for another tour visit in the future.

Regards,

Aqeel

Dear Ms. Rita,

That is very thoughtful of you. I hope you and your team are doing great as well. We are in this together, and let's hope for the best to come soon so we can resume our business. Send my regards to everyone there and thank you for checking on us.

Thanks & Regards,

Christine

Dear Rita,

Thank you for your most informative email.

It was wonderful to hear from you. I have passed your information onto my husband who is a general practitioner in our country.  He will share it with all of his colleagues. 

We are fortunate here in South Africa at this time, we seem to have managed to flatten the curve of COVID-19. That is not to say we has decreased the curve. We are currently under a 35 day lockdown which may be extended.  

My daughter and I hope to one day visit your beautiful country again. 

Sending you and all your family much strength during these uncertain times. 

Stay safe!!

Warm regards 

Samara

Dear Rita,

Thank you very much for your message and kind words of advice! We are living unprecedented times and we are doing our best to cope with the situation. My wife and I are currently based in Dubai for a number of years now. We still remember fondly our trip to China and the fantastic beauty we have found there, as well as your great service throughout the trip.

We are looking forward to returning someday, especially as we have seen just a little part of your country. We have not been to Shanghai for instance and I am sure there are also other national wonders like the Zhangjiajie Park which remains for us the highlight of our trip in China. If we do, be sure to contact you as our agency of choice.

Stay safe and healthy and have a great day!

Adrian

Hi Rita,

It’s been awhile ago that we spoke to each other. How are you? Im okay.

Since the COVID-19 here in Netherlands im staying at home everyday, it’s been a month now since the lockdown in Netherlands, Kinda long staying at home and not going to work. hehe 

Thank you very much for your concern and your information. 

Hope you and your family are all fine and that no body got infected with the virus. Yeah that’s true no one want to see another break out again. So hopefully its will be over soon but am doubting that, maybe over few months. 

Also take care of yourself and your family and still be careful in public.

Greets,

Louise

Thank you Rita. I happy that things are returning to normal in China. I have great respect for your people and society and hope to visit again someday.

Stay safe.

Regards, 

Stephen

Hi Rita,

Thanks for your information about Covic19.

We are all going well. Our country is coping From this pandemic well, we are social distancing now, only go out for groceries.

We will all pray pray pray that this Covic 19 will soon be over and that they will find the vaccine. Hope the world will be better tomorrow.  

Susan

Hi Rita,

Thank you so much for your warm greetings!  We do follow all good suggestions to protect well ourselves. Now all of our partners work at home and the Canadian government supports financially almost every Canadian and SME.  

一切会好起来的！Ca va bien aller!

Keep safe!

Shirley

Hi Rita,

How nice to hear from you. We have great memories of Chengdu and Tibet. Unfortunately we are not permitted to leave Australia and people returning are placed in quarantine for two weeks. We don't know how long this lockdown period will last. People think it might be until October.

Kind regards,

James

Hi Rita,

Thank You so much for the kind email. Please that all is getting back to normal, we will see the light in 314 more weeks until the virus has run its course. Our economy has taken a beating. Fortunately we are in the infection Control business and sell high quality hand antiseptics for over 25 years to hospitals.

We are established however our supply chain for manufacturing is disrupted and prices are going through the roof.

Keep well and one day I will return for anther adventure in China, I enjoyed my trip very much!

All the best and will start wearing a mask in the grocery store.

Bob

HU RITA 

WAS SO NICE TO HAVE YOUR MAIL.

HERE IN ISRAEL WE ARE DEALING WITH THE COVID-19 RELATIVELY WELL. MY FAMILLY FRIENDS AND BPEOPLE ARROUND ME ARE ALL WELL. HOPE THIS WILL BE OVER SOON ALL THE BEST

RIVKA

Hi Rita,

Thank you so much for your mail. We really are in a chaotic situation in the world right now. I'm sorry about the deaths in China and I hope you and your loved ones are healthy. Here in Sweden it just gets more and more stressed. More and more are dying and the hospitals is overcrowded. Hopefully it'll end soon.

Thank you for the pdf. I'll send it around. The authorities in Sweden are a bit quiet about a lot. I dont think they want to cause panic so they doesn't tell us about everything. It's mostly people from hospitals that talks to media who gives us the right information about the situation. And also information from other countries of course. So thanks again, I really appreciate this.

Keep safe,

Marie

Dear Ms. Wing Zeng.

Thank you for your kind considerations. We are all healthy without any corona symptoms.

Once again, thank you so much for organizing such a wonderful China tour for us. Everything was perfect: The guides, the hotels, the meals, just everything.

And thank you for the useful coronavirus prevention handbook.

I hope everything is fine for you and your family, as well.

Best regards,

Magnus

Hello Mike,

Thank you for your email and your kind words of advice.

I will pass on your information to those around me.

I am grateful that my husband and I could see such a beautiful part of China late last year before the virus hit.

Hope you are keeping safe and well.

We are beginning to experience lock down here in Australia to prevent the virus from spreading.

Hope to be able to make it back to China one day.

Kind regards,

Mrs. Anne

Dear Mr Mike Liu,

It is my pelasure to hear from you again. I am glad that you and most people in your country progressively defeating the virus.

I hope that everything will be back to normal in a very short time.

Please keep in touch.

Thank you and best regards,

Jimmy

Hi Mike!

SO GOOD to hear from you. Congratulations on your country’s management of Covid-19. Yes, you have given us a good example and we hope to learn from your experience. Thank you for your well wishes.

Kind regards

Gladys

Hello Catherine,

Indeed. Thank you for your message and yes I remember you perfectly J.

I am now in Reunion Island where we have a lock down, like you had in China before. We have 341 cases for 830 000 inhabitants so it’s ok and hopefully it will stay like that.

Best,

Viswa

Thanks Mike;

Our hearts go out to the people of China. We sincerely hope that the situation in China, and the rest of the world gets back to normal soon.

We sent a package of N95 masks to one our tour guides several weeks ago, as a small token to show our appreciation for her efforts while we were in China, and to show our concern for the well-being of her family.

Thanks very much for sending the information and suggestions about dealing with the virus. We are starting to experience many of the same problems that the Chinese people faced when the virus first started to spread, and your suggestions will be most helpful.

Best Wishes,

Rick

Dear Mike,

Thank you for the extra touch and update on the current situation in China.

Very proud to watch how China combat the virus so expediently! China is indeed a good role model for the other countries to observe and follow.

Let's continue being vigilant and not be complacent about the situation.

Bless you and your family.

We look forward to our trip next March.

Kind Regards,

Ting

Hi Mike,

Thank you very much for this information. We find that the problem is getting more and more serious in Thailand. I am sure the information you sent will be helpful for us here.

Cheers,

Lina

Hello Johnson,

Many thanks for your warm greetings and concern while we undergo our trials and tribulations with Covid 19. Thank you also for offering to mail masks to us. Lucky we were well prepared, having been living in HK during SARS and bird flu.

I also passed your email on to other family members and they too thank you for your concern.

New Zealand is in lock down, day 7 and so far, all is well. We ourselves are managing very well in self isolation. There is plenty to keep us busy within the home – work, crossword puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, knitting, cleaning out cupboards and I am doing my keep fit via video. A sign of the current times, but hopefully in 3 weeks, all will be well again.

Take care, ad best wishes.

Regards,

Beryl Chung

Thank you Vivien! This is very kind of you. I have passed along this information to my friends and family, and am taking serious precautions myself. I am glad to hear that things are getting better in China, and hopefully things will get better soon here too. I have fond memories of my time in China, and am glad I got to visit before the spread of COVID-19. Take care!

Peter

Hello Jack,

Thank you so much for thinking of us we are doing ok here I hope you and your family and friends are ok. Thank you very much for sending this I will pass it on to my friends and family, it is very kind of you. Thank you again.

Kind regards,

Faye

Dear Jack,

I hope you are well.

Thank-you very much for your advice it is very useful.

I hope you and your family are safe and I hear that in China things are getting better.

I wish you all the best,

Patrizia

Thank you Johnson for your kind thoughts and helpful information. We have been asked to stay here n our homes and not go out except for essential services. Hopefully this will help in controlling the spread of the virus.

We still plan to visit China if this virus runs its course and it is safe to do so. Thank you for your concern.

Alice

Thank you, Johnson.

We wish you and your family continued good health.

Our families have been fortunate and have not been sick.

But we miss visiting China on one of your trips.

We hope to do so soon.

Frank

Hi Rita. You are very kind for your advices.

As you can read in internet, all Europe is blocked. Italian government was the first to introduce strong restrictions to try to stop the infections. Italy is the first country for the number of deads, more than 2 thousands. At the moment the infection continues, unfortunatly. Doctors say it takes other 2 weeks to reach the pick. Our government established by law to remain at home, everybody. We can go out  shopping for foods only, possibly with masks( I have some), with one meter of distance. Now there is a strong control to make people respect the law, big fines for offenders.

These restrictions until 3th April. Anyway it is very hard . 

I red China is getting better and I hope you don't have problems.

We are fine at the moment. I will inform you about recent news later.

Thanks and greetings.

Luigi

Hello Rita,

Thank you for helping me plan my trip to China. Unfortunately my trip to China in July 2020 was cancelled today because of the coronavirus outbreak. 

I am disappointed because I was looking forward to seeing the pandas in Sichuan but I know I will get a another chance to go to China when the virus subsides.

Thank you and kind regards,

Alexander H

Dear Zeva,

I want to thank you for your truly exceptional customer service. You have been very helpful through this entire process.

If we should be able to reschedule a visit to China in the future, I will certainly use your services, and I would happily refer my friends and associates.

Sincerely,

Laurie

Dear Wing Zeng,

thank You very much, the masks arrived to my son yesterday THANK YOU VERY, VERY MUCH…now I am very much more quiet and peaceful about them three! 

You send so many masks, Thank You ! And once again I am very grateful for the sacrifice You are making, because I am aware the masks are expensive and it’s difficult to find tem in these so hard times.

As I already told You in the past, I am very sorry that my so poor English does not permit me to better explain how much I am touched, and moved, for Your

Kindness, and generosity: I wish You were here to hug You and Your Family and….but I have not so big enough arms to do…all the Chinese People.

I really do hope that in the future You should visit Italy (or we can come to Chengdou) so I will thank You more properly.

Now You are sleeping in the middle of the night, and I wish You are doing sweet and happy dreams…the night is going to finish, and a brand new happy day is going to rise…Good Night little big hearted Wing…thank You.

Carlo

Dear Vivien Li,

thanks for your email. I have a good memory of China which I think is one of the countries that I liked most today for the courtesy of its inhabitants and the tourist beauties, as well as being one of the most advanced in the world.

You have dealt with the coronavirus problem seriously and with determination and you can be an example for many other countries.

In Europe we are not as good as you but we hope that our politicians will learn from you.

I hope everything will pass and I will still have the opportunity to visit your beautiful country.

Mario

Dear Rita,

Thank you for your message and that is very positive news it was lovely to hear from you too. Thankfully we are all fine at the moment and just staying at home away from everybody as the government says.

China is the most beautiful county and one day Glenn & I will return to explore more of it.

Take care of yourself 

Regards

Eileen

Dear Wing Zeng,

Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness in providing the very useful information on Covid-19. It is greatly appreciated.

All our family are well and in good spirits despite the unprecedented times we are living in. We are now in lockdown in Ireland until at least Sunday 12th April. It is difficult but we hope it will save lives and contain the virus.

We also hope there will be a medical breakthrough soon to eradicate the virus.

Thank you again for all your kindness.

Take care and stay safe and well.

Regards,

John

Hello Wendy!

We are really glad to hear you're fine, I hope all of your guides and your fellows are safe and healty too.

We are very concerned with this pandemia, in the north of our country the situation is really critic, in our places we are quite safe, everybody, but we take everything very seriously, we don't exit home but to collect food and what we need, a few people is allowed to work....everything is in lockdown.

Let's hope this will go better soon!

We would thank you so much for your kind thought, and for these useful informations you've sent us, we appreciate so much and we will tell friends and family.

Thank you again, we will come back to China as soon as possible, your Country is great!

Stay safe, you too

Barbara

Dear Rita,

Thank you, good to read you. Actually I am well aware about the progress in China. Originally I had been invited to lecture to GACC staff in February in Sanya. But in the future the Chinese colleagues will rather teach me … they gained so much experience.

Meanwhile I continue as an advisor to WHO but otherwise am very careful. Will certainly let you know if I need some assistance - but not right now as China closed the border to foreigners (like everybody else).

Continue to take care - all my best wishes to you, your family and colleagues,

Robert

Dear Rita:

Thank you for your email. 

It is good to hear that matters are improving in China. Here in Manila the virus is only just beginning to take its toll.

One of the doctors at the hospital that recently treated me for a minor cancer has died from its effects and most of the others at that hospital are now under quarantine. Many more people will die in the coming weeks. Because of my age (over 60) the local authorities do not allow me to leave my apartment -but that is fine with me as it will force me to write up material I have been meaning to write up for some time now.

Once this is over I sincerely hope to get back to China - this time covering Xining and Chengdu. Always on the search for rhubarb growing in the wild! And when the virus allows that to happen I shall be in touch with China Discovery. The last trip you organized for us was excellent.

Best wishes

Richard

Thank you Jack for your email advising on corona virus and updating on the status of the virus in China. We are also following the case not only in China but all over the world. We hope that a vaccine is found soon so that the economy can return to normal. I can understand that the tourist industry is hard hit and hope that China Discovery/Tibet Discovery is able to maintain its operation until this problem is resolved.

Glad that you have read the ongseokkim website. If you so wish, recommend it to your colleagues, friends, family, etc to read. As my father's original root and thus my root is China, our history may be of interest to people in China especially those with surname of Wang.

With peace and harmony

Eng-Joo

Hello Vivien,

Thank you for your email, our family is well. Canadian cities are now under lockdown except for essential workers. Canada is a country with only 33 millions people spreading across a vast land mass. We have a good public healthcare system but it cannot handle a spike in COVID-19 cases. In order to keep the hospital available to the seriously ill people we all stay home to practice social distancing.  

In light of all the bad news around the world it is unlikely we’ll come to China anytime soon. Please keep yourself safe and keep in touch.

Regards,

Alona

Hi Leo,

I hope you and your family are healthy. I know the tourism industry has been hit hard in China, but I read in the news that life is getting back to normal.

My family is safe here in the US, and I am fortunate to have a remote job during these times. Since everything is picking back up in China, I would be happy to finally write a review for you. I apologize, I have forgotten where I was to write that review, can you please send again?
Take care,

Molly Sharp

Hello Vivien,

Thank you so much for your note and for thinking of us during these strange and difficult days. It is so encouraging to know that things are improving in China, and we hope they will soon here as well. I hope all your family is well. We remember fondly our trip on the Yangtze River!

Helen Mazarakis

Dear Leo Li,

We are happy for your people that the coronavirus in China is retreating. It gives people living in Belgium hope. 

We wish you all good health. 

With love,

Elizaveta and family

Hi Vivien,

Many thanks for your email, kind wishes and guidance documentation.

I will read with interest and forward to my family.  

I hope you and your family were not affected with COVID19 and it is good to note that it appears to be coming under control in China. 

Here in the UK our figures are gaining momentum and we have just moved into the “stay at home” phase with guidelines and key restrictions.

On a positive, we have very fond memories of our time in China last year and are so pleased we were able to visit.  We wish you and our tour guides all the best, continue to keep safe.

Kind regards 

Carol and Bill

Hi Vivien,

Thank you for your kind letter. I hope that you and your family are well. 

I can imagine how difficult it is for travel industry to go through this crisis. 

How long Wuhan has been under the lockdown? Are there any effective medication against the virus? 

We are now in a total lockdown. We’ll see how the UK will be effected by that. It is difficult for everyone. 

Stay well and healthy.

Best wishes, 

Nana

Hi Dear Vivien

Thank you very much for the important information. Fortunately we the group are all well

Israel is a small country and we hope to succeed. 

At this stage Corona is present. We admire the Chinas success

Best wishes

Aron

Dear Mark,

It is good to hear from you. Firstly, yes I can confirm I received the refund thank you. 

It is also very encouraging to see chinas progress in fighting COVID-19 - thank you for the informations. I think many lessons can be learned. 

Australia is at the beginning stage with shut downs commencing. We are hopefully that with discipline we can also overcome these challenges. My husband and I are well. We staying isolated as are many others, in an effort to avoid the virus. 

We look forward to returning to China in the future and joining for this cruise! Maybe in 2021 (my China work contract finished so we would come back as tourists). 

我们一起加油吧！

Joanna

Dear Wing,

So sweet of you to get in touch. It's a very difficult time for everyone. I'm glad you are returning to some normality in China. We are so lucky to have taken and enjoyed our trip last year.

Wishing you continued good health and luck for the coming year.

Kind regards

Tamesha

Hi Leo,

Thank you for the thoughtful update. You are a special young man. I sincerely hope you and your family are well and have avoided this terrible virus. I am so sorry for the impact this has had on your business. I realize the hardship this has caused you. I will keep you in my prayers.

With Sincere Regards,

Judy

Vivien,

Thanks a lot. Msia is in movement restriction now. I have been working from home since Monday. Hopefully things will be back to normal in a another month or so. I just can’t wait to go travelling. My husband & I have been visiting China once or twice a year since the last 10 years or so. 

Regards

Patricia

Hi Vivien, thank you for your kind email with the attachment for handling Covid-19 on a daily basis. It is great to hear that you and people in your province are getting some normality back in their lives.

This week the Australian Government has banned all International travel to and from Australia. In Australia we have had over 400 people test positive to Covid-19 with six deaths so far. We will get through this by being cautious and sensible and following your guidelines.

I can’t wait to visit your beautiful country next year!!

Stay safe, regards Trevor    

Trevor

HI Yanny, 

Thanks for the great information. My hometown (Malaysia was lock down 14 days) . My Families needed to be stay in house to protect the virus. will pass down your grateful info to my families. for my self, since i work in Singapore should be not affected right now but i have to protect in well too. 

You take care too, send me a blessed to your family's. After virus gone, lets plan another trip to meet you up. 

Regards 

Davidgoh

Hi Yanny,

Thank you for your email and for having taken the trouble to prepare the very useful advice note to share what you have learnt in dealing with the virus in China.

It has now spread around the world and in the UK we are just about to start to experience the worst of it as the numbers infected are beginning to rise dramatically. It seems the whole of Europe and much of the rest of the world is going into lock down with borders being closed and curfews against people gathering together being imposed. Here in the UK, all schools are to be shut from tomorrow and summer examinations cancelled, all sporting events, music and theatre shows etc. have been cancelled, travel is restricted, everyone is being asked to work from home wherever possible, airlines are grounding most of their planes and every person over 70 years old is about to be told to go into total isolation for at least the next 12 weeks.  Our hospitals and health service have cancelled all non-emergency procedures and engineering companies are being asked to change their production and to immediately start manufacturing oxygen ventilators for the hospitals as fast as possible. We have never seen anything like this before but when something like this happens, it shows that it doesn’t matter what country we are from as we are all just citizens of the world.

It is very encouraging to see that China now seems to be over the worst and is slowly getting back to normal. My daughter Sarah is still in Shanghai having spent most of the last 8 weeks in isolation in her apartment, so she is very happy that things are getting better in China. But she will now have the problem of how to get home to the UK as her contract and work visa will expire soon.

I hope you and your family and colleagues have all survived unscathed and your life and business will soon get back to normal.

Regards

Chris 

Hi Yanny,

Thank you for your email and for having taken the trouble to prepare the very useful advice note to share what you have learnt in dealing with the virus in China.

It has now spread around the world and in the UK we are just about to start to experience the worst of it as the numbers infected are beginning to rise dramatically. It seems the whole of Europe and much of the rest of the world is going into lock down with borders being closed and curfews against people gathering together being imposed. Here in the UK, all schools are to be shut from tomorrow and summer examinations cancelled, all sporting events, music and theatre shows etc. have been cancelled, travel is restricted, everyone is being asked to work from home wherever possible, airlines are grounding most of their planes and every person over 70 years old is about to be told to go into total isolation for at least the next 12 weeks.  Our hospitals and health service have cancelled all non-emergency procedures and engineering companies are being asked to change their production and to immediately start manufacturing oxygen ventilators for the hospitals as fast as possible. We have never seen anything like this before but when something like this happens, it shows that it doesn’t matter what country we are from as we are all just citizens of the world.

It is very encouraging to see that China now seems to be over the worst and is slowly getting back to normal. My daughter Sarah is still in Shanghai having spent most of the last 8 weeks in isolation in her apartment, so she is very happy that things are getting better in China. But she will now have the problem of how to get home to the UK as her contract and work visa will expire soon.

I hope you and your family and colleagues have all survived unscathed and your life and business will soon get back to normal.

Regards

Chris 

My very Dear Wing Zeng,

I very often thought to You in the last months…but I was afraid to write to You. So now I AM VERY HAPPY TO HEAR AGAIN FROM YOU !!!

How do You do? Are You well? And Your Dears, and Your Family are all well?

What all You Chinese People did in this period  is something heroic …and now that You are almost free from the virus, and You almost won this terrible

battle匶ou already and immediately started to help us: THANK YOU, You are GREAT ! !

Thank You as well for Your attachment, now I will forward it to all the people I know, and we all will follow Your advices.

Here in Italy we are in a very bad time, specially in the North of Italy : we Italian are a strange Nation : most of us are following strictly the advices of the Goverment,

and stay home in order to avoid the contagion, but someone goes around the streets like nothing happened….

Well, let’s look to the future, hoping to see it!

Grazie, mia Cara Amica Cinese,

I and my Family just love You and Your People.

Carlo

Hi Mark,

Thank you for the information. It is perfectly fine and I can understand why it will be a slow process.

So glad to hear that the situation has improved in China. Here in US we are just starting. But I am confident that this will be over. And I will be able to visit China again.

Please take care. It must be a very difficult time for you and the company. But I am sure we will all recover from this and come out stronger.

Regards

Melva

Hello Lily, 

We are hanging on in Guam we start to have firs cases of Corona Virus, so probably it will keep us busy for next few month , we hope this global health crisis resolve by July and vaccine that is being tested in Washington State will be available in August or September and we all return to our regular lives . We are excited to visit China next year , as we have many places to see . Hope you doing well its a though time for all of US but things will get better eventually 

Marcin

Echo, thank you for your email and the document on safe procedures to help avoid the virus.

I hope you and your family are doing well.

It appears that China has gone through the worst part of the virus. China took some tough measures to prevent of the virus but they were things that had to be done. Americans marveled at how quickly China built hospitals to add much needed beds.

Again thanks to you and our guides and drivers for the wonderful experience we had in visiting your country.

Lou and Valerie Coggia

Hi Echo, 

Thank you for your email and for the information you shared, and I'm very glad to hear from you that things in China are slowly starting to get back to normal! That is great news. Unfortunately I think things in the US are still going to get worse for a while yet. In California we have been in a stay at home order for the last few weeks, but all of the states are handling it differently and not much is being enforced. 

Looking forward to all of this being behind us, and hoping that it will spurn some positive changes in the future for how we handle something like this again. I hope you and your friends and family all continue to stay safe and healthy! 

-Lauren

Dear Echo,

Thank you so much for your advise and for remembering us.

My country is currently under attack of Covid-19. We are all at home and in alarm status but we are confident that we will overcome it, like your country.

All the measures you’ve described are been already adopted.

Thanks again and good luck.

M. Ángeles Hernaiz

Hi Wonder,

we all pray to get out of this situation alive and we hope to be able to return to our travels that enrich us so much culturally and open our minds!

Best wishes

Monica

Dear Echo – Thank you so much for your helpful information and kind wishes. This is a truly terrible crisis facing humanity and we must all work together and support each other to overcome it.

Wishing you, your family, friends and country good health and best wishes for a brighter future

Best wishes

Jackie

Thank you Echo,

That is very kind and thoughtful sharing this advice with us in the UK.

It also gives us some cause for optimism to hear how China is recovering after the worst of the epidemic.

Sadly in the UK we are entering the most challenging period of escalation & virus spread but at least you kind advice gives us hope.

Many thanks and I look forward to being in contact again in happier times.

Terry

Echo, 

thanks so much! This is a super-mindful message, and in times like these, it matters more than ever. 

Here in Italy, we are holding up, and taking an example from you. It is inspiring to see how you managed to move forward, and I hope soon we'll be able to do the same. 

Hope to have the chance to visit again sometime in the future. 

All the best, 

Daniela

Hi Wonder,

Truly appreciated the information that you sent me.  I am looking forward to normal circumstances in both our countries.  A planned visit to China April 12 was cancelled.  I had planned to visit the Panda Reserve with a fairly large group tour.  Will have to add that to my list—-perhaps with the Yellow Mountains.

Dee Ann

Rita you are such a sweetheart!

Thank you for thinking of us.  We are all ok- my 14 yr old boy loves not having school, my 19-yr old girl is with my parents in TX taking on line classes, and my 21 yr old man is finishing college on line and graduation is cancelled. :(

Thank you also for sending me this very informative information.

All the best to you and your family.

We all think of our wonderful trip every day & have beautiful photos on our walls to remind us how much we loved China.

-Michelle

HI Lyn

Thanks for your suggestions. We are so happy to hear that China has come out of the crises in such a short time.. We are still struggling here.  We wish you and your family as well as China Discovery staff all the best..

Teevee

Hello, Rita.  I am happy to hear from you.  I have worried about you, and Jason, and the young man who was our driver, and your friends, family, and co-workers during this pandemic, especially in the early days when so many people were dying. 

Thank you for the list of suggestions.  Our governor of our state, Oregon, asked residents to stay home for the next few weeks, possibly through April.  We are staying home with the exception of grocery shopping.

Our trips for the next few months have been cancelled (I had a trip planned to see Jordan and Egypt).  One thing I am happy about is that I was able to visit your lovely country last year for two weeks.  I met nice people, saw beautiful sights both in the cities and in nature -- especially the wildlife, had good food and lodgings, and was impressed with the bullet trains. 

Blessings to you, too.

Rene' Pizzo

Dear Ms. Lyn Wang,

We are all doing well. Hope you and  your family and friends are fine, too.

This is indeed a moment of great apprehension all over the world. 

We are aware of the news worldwide and our governors are taking severe measures to fight this terrible and deadly virus. The number of people who have contracted the virus is increasing here and surely your suggestions are very useful.

Thank you for thoughtfulness and attention. I will certainly send my friends your kind words.

I hope things get better soon.

Best regards,

Carmen Dominguez

Hi Wonder,

Thanks for sharing the guidance on how to fight the Coronavirus.  Now is  the toughest time for all people in the world. 

We are so glad to hear that people in China are ok now  and businesses are now back in normal.  Hopefully, together we can find the cure for this virus so that people can be safe. 

Stay Safe!

Best Regards,

Tina

Mr. Wonder,

Thank you for the e-mail letting us know you are well and providing an update on the situation there.   We’re looking forward to the day we can feel the threat from the virus is over.  Hopefully, we’ll all get together to capture the lessons-learned and best practices, so we’re better prepared for the next time.

One request would be a current picture of your baby or babies?  We still think back fondly on our Silk Road trip that you expertly arranged for us.  We were at Angkor Wat and in Thailand over the Lunar New Year and sadly few tourists were there.  Hopefully tourists will quickly regain their confidence to travel again.

Again, thanks for thinking of us. And remember, if anyone asks for a recommendation of your services, we’ll respond!

Best wishes, Ann and Ken Wilkinson

Hello Rita,

What a wonderful surprise it is to hear from you! :) Thank you for thinking about me during this very uncertain time. Here is Hawaii, we have 26 confirmed COVID-19 cases. My husband Started working from home since 3/17. I am a dental hygienist so my office has cancelled all my patients for the next 3 weeks. My boss is following CDC & American Dental association guidelines.

I am happy to hear that you are safe & healthy.

I am so grateful that my husband & I were able to visit your country. I LOVED China so much. We had wonderful weather & clear skies. We had purchased a pack of N95 masks that we took to China but never used. I have yet to have need to use it during this COVID-19.

I have enclosed a couple of pictures of our tour of Yellow Mountain. I wish I could be back there one day again!

You were such a pleasure to work with!

Take care Rita!

Cheers from Hawaii,

JAIMIE

Hi Wonder

Your email was a lovely thought. You, your family, colleagues and the people of China have certainly been through a very difficult time.  It has been wonderful to see how the country rallied and supported the measures that have seem such amazing results.  Well done!!

Thank you for sharing your suggestions.  We all need to support each other to ensure that the rest of the world can soon be in the same position of control as China!

All the very best to you Wonder

Warm regards Liz

Dear Wonder,

Thank you very, very much for your message!

I must tell you that we were very worried about you, your family, and the families of all the very nice people we got to meet thanks to the wonderful (no pun intended !) trip you organized for us and which we cherish in our memories. We are extremely happy to hear from someone inside China that the situation has evolved very positively and that you feel that the crisis is on its way to be soon over in your country.

I believe that, contrarily to some other Western countries (Italy, Spain, the USA...), Belgium has tried to learn in a timely fashion from the Chinese experience with the novel coronavirus and that we are reasonably well prepared. Still, we are now in almost complete lockdown and life goes on in a very restricted way to limit propagation. Many of the recommendations in your document are already in force, but I shall distribute it to our circle of family and friends, since information resulting from the experience in China is obviously extremely valuable to us. We are also very grateful to China for the medical supplies your country has recently sent to supply our hospitals and our fronline medical staff.

We sincerely hope that the economic consequences of the coronavirus crisis won't be too painful to bear for the Chinese people and both Monique and I wish you all the best and a speedy return to "normal" life!

Yours sincerely,

Elie

Dear Mr Wonder Wang, thank you very much for your email! I really appreciate it and I am happy to hear that you are alright! I was thinking also the past months about you and the lovely people in China that I met last year, if you are healthy and well. Now the virus came to Europe and in some places, like Italy, it is vey terrible. We stay here at home and working home office. We still have food but we do not have masks and disinfectant! I use after save lotion to clean my hands. A lot of people also still think that Covid 19 is only a flu... I hope the scientists will solve the problem soon and our life will be normal again. I also hope to come to China again, I like China so much! 

I hope we hear again each other in the future, stay healthy.

Best regards 

Georgios

Hi Wonder!

Thank you so much for your email. It's so nice to have support from so far away!

I'm very happy that everything is more stable now in China. I really loved to visit your country.

Luckily we and our families are good, at home passing the 2 weeks "quarantine" but ok. Thank you for the information.

Kind regards,

 

Diana.

Wonder, thank you for sharing this important information with us. My daughter who traveled to Beijing 101 has been in constant contact with her exchange student and her host family and they have been very helpful in providing much needed information. We keep them in our prayers and follow all the recommendations they have made. We are hoping that all Americans can do the same as we love to travel and would like to see this pandemic eradicated. We do hope to return to China and visit some of the areas my youngest daughter was able to see. She speaks so fondly Tiger Leaping Gorge. 

Be safe to you and your family,

Karen

P.S. your new baby should be crawling and getting ready to walk soon.

Dear Wonder,

Thank you so much for your nice email.

We are fine, and hope the same for you.

Yes, in Italy the situation is very bad. China’s experience, example and direct support are hopefully guiding us out of this crisis, but we are not able to apply such strict measures as you did, so it’s not clear how far is the peak yet.

And unfortunately all the rest of Europe is going through the same path.

What is amazing is that until it happens to you, you don’t understand, When we heard about China we felt supportive, but everything seemed to be so far away, and when the virus started spreading across Italy, the other European countries looked at Italy as a weird case and felt absolutely safe!

It’s good to hear that everything now is stable in China, thank you again for sending the document.

I wish you all the best

Take care

Anna

Hi Wonder

Great to hear from you.Perola and I were hoping that things would improve in China quite quickly and good that things are picking up once more and you can start getting tourists back into your magnificent country.

Best wishes

Ken

Dear Wonder and family,

How have you and your family gone through the miserable time?

Thank you very much for reaching out to us and sending us this informative letter. It is very kind and thoughtful. 

We are doing the very best we can to protect ourselves and staying away from our grandchildren, which is not easy! Avi has essential work so continues to go to work, otherwise most people are home. Schools, restaurants, theaters, cinemas and more are closed.  Many of the restaurants are trying to survive by preparing take away food. Either to be collected at the restaurant or sent with a messenger.

It is not an easy time but it is encouraging to to hear what has happened in China and that things are now under control. Hopefully there will not be another wave.

Blessings to you too!

Sincere regards,

Angie & Avi

Thank you Lily. Right now we are stuck at our home in Lina Peru. The government closed the boarders so we can t get back to the US. But we are good just everyone is on quarantine.  I have not canceled out flights and we still are considering travel to China but we want to see how things progress. When do you think China tourism will start to return.

Kim

Dear Wonder,

Greetings from California.  Thank you so much for your heart warming email.  My family and I deeply appreciate your thoughtfulness. 

All of us are doing fine and no one is in danger.  Our oldest daughter is an emergency room physician.  She has a rather challenging job on her hands, but so far she is doing well and taking all precautions.

Tonight our Governor has just issued an emergency executive order to have all citizens in California to stay home, except for law enforcement and emergency personnel.

My wife and I have been staying inside our home close to a week now because of our age, we are the high risk groups. We are doing fine.

Anyway we hope this crisis will go away soon, just like China defeating COVID-19.  

Again we thank you for your care and concern about us.  We wish you and your family are safe and well.

Sincerely 

Louis Chiu

Hi Rita, 

Hope all doing well. We were really worried about you all, 

It's good to hear that vaccine are under trial, and recovery is heading great and controlled there at China. 

Are all personal guides ( Teena, Jhon, wendy, christry) and drivers doing  well? 

We are missing those days. 

Wish that this phase should End soon and everyone gets healthier and happy Again. 

Good to hear from you Rita. 

Take care. Be in touch. 

And yes, we will follow all the instructions as mentioned.

Thanks 

Harika

Hello Rita,

Thank you for contacting me to share your concern. I remember my wonderful trip to China to visit my son Jeremy in 2015. You were so helpful in helping me plan the Yangtze River cruise. Now the world is at war with the horrible Coronavirus. I am safe in Boise, Idaho with my father who is living with me. In my state of Idaho, there are 24 cases. All people are staying home and restaurants, schools, bars, businesses are closed. Thank you for the helpful information. We must hope and pray we fight and win this war with the virus.

I send hopeful wishes for all of us

Debbie

Dear Rita,

first of all, thank you very much for the information. As you probably know, the situation in Spain is becoming more severe every day and we are still far from having this under control.

We are all currently locked at home but for buying food or medicines and travel to work, but the use of the mask is not so spreaded as it is in China (I noticed from the information you sent that this is very important).

I hope you and your families hadn't suffered from this and a quick recovery for those who are still affected.

Luckily, we could visit your country when it was still possible and we have very good memories from the trip. We'll keep promoting China as a travel destination because (I promise you) we really loved it.

Thanks again for your mail. I really appreciate it.

Kind regards

Hector Alonso

Dear Lyn,

what a nice surprise to hear from you!

We are fine, me and my family are quarantined at home. 

We are following the rules of our government, and I think we'll make it.

We still remember the nice trip we made last year thinks to your help.

I hope you too are in good health, and your relatives.

We see China as a great example now, and I hope we'll be able to get out of this nightmare and be able to travel again.

I wish you all the best and thanks again for your email and good hints.

I'm also worried about your job, that without tourist must be suffering a lot.

Thanks a again

Xie xie

Antonio, Gianna, Andrea and Luca

Dear Echo,

You are so kind to provide us with this timely information. I have been concerned about you and the wonderful guides and drivers we met through you, as well as the entire population of China. I am so glad to hear that you are well.

I have the greatest admiration for the Chinese people who have come together to contain this virus. The people of the United States are just now recognizing the dangers of coronavirus so schools and restaurants in our state have been closed. Ken and I are isolating ourselves at home. Hopefully, our country will learn from yours and be able to stop the escalation of this disease.

I will forward your e-mail to family and friends. Thanks so much for reaching out to us to show us your caring by providing us with invaluable information from people who have lived through it.

Best wishes,

Audeen Faller

Hi Riley,  

Thank you for the update and information. So glad to hear that China has had no new cases. Though you have suffered a lot, it looks like all your efforts have paid off.  It's encouraging to see how China is defeating the virus.  

My family and I are staying at home. We do not go out at all unless absolutely necessary. We are also vigilant about washing our hands, not touching our faces, etc.  We are hoping that we will be able to contain the situation.  

It was so thoughtful of you to email me. At times like this, supporting each other and working together is so important. Be safe!

Sunny

You are so very nice to send this Catherine! I will read and give out to my friends. We live in a small city in the middle of the US so we hape that we will see very little of the Virus from travelers. But we are staying cautious. I am so glad you are doing well! Please send our best to our guide!

Kathren Knigge

Hi Riley,

I am pleased to hear from you and to know that most people in China have been able to defeat the virus and everything is slowly but surely going back to normal.

Thank you for your email and also for the information about Prevention Coronavirus Disease (COVID 19).

I , my family and friends are doing well here and hope that everything is going well with you, your family and friends in China.

Take care and God Bless you all,

Edwin

Thank you, Wendy, very kind of you to send this. I’m in California, currently under a “stay at home” policy. I hope the virus has truly been brought under control in China, and that your travel business will fully recover as well.  Not sure when I’ll be visiting China again, but I hope it can be soon.

Brian Tucker

Hi Wendy,

What a great website and great news for China!

Here we are still getting it under control. Our state government has put a stay at home policy into effect so it should be contained soon. Can’t wait.

I’m tentatively planning the trip for September. 

Be safe yourself!

Jack

Thanks wendy for your email. My location has a “shelter in place “ order so we are only supposed to do essential chores like grocery shopping but still allowed to perform solo activities like walk my dogs, ride my horses. 

Glad China is getting a handle on the Coronavirus situation. USA is still work in progress. 

Hope you and your friends and family are well. 

The world will get through this, hopefully sooner than later. 

Take care!

Tara

Dear Wendy,

It is great to hear from you and know that you are well. Yes. We are all well. 

Thank you for your caring and a detailed good advices for protection of Corona Virus.

Based on the current situation, all countries are advising all people to self isolate and stay at home. and some countries banned travel and social meetings. 

So that all tourist companies & airline are impacted. In the near future or until it clearer, not many people will start having holiday any sooner.

Are you impacted by this?

Anyway, please take necessary protection to protect you and family. And take a good & long rest after a few years busy and hard work.

You deserved a good break !!!

take care

Thomas

Hi Wendy, 

Thank you for your greetings and information, we in Canada are trying our best to fight this virus.

You guys 加油，China will be my first place to visit after the world put the virus under control!

Take care,

Sablina

Hello Miss Wendy,

Thank you for your helpful information on the "Virus".

We are staying home except for necessary tasks until the situation is appropriate. 

Cordially,

Kent

Thanks .. Riley for the useful info

Yes our humanity have a very hard and difficult task in the past and coming months

We need to learn how to respect animals and never let this event repeat again

Hope in the very near future. We can find vaccines for this virus and all back to normal

I am still auxiliary want to come back to China to visit lots of other beautiful places.

Take care and stay safe

Ms Lowe

Hello Riley,

Thank you for your advice, there were a couple of things in it that I was not fully aware of.

Here in Australia it is only now becoming something that people are taking seriously. I think we are in for a very rocky road ahead.

Phil and I are following the recommended safe personal distances and are staying home as much as possible. We live in a quiet area and on a large block, so we are very fortunate to be able to distance ourselves from our neighbours. We are also very fortunate to have wonderful neighbours and our street has established an email network for information/tips/etc and most have offered to help others if the need arises.

We are very grateful that we did our travel in China when we did and that we missed the impact of the virus. We feel for the people affected and hope that China is able to quickly recover and return to normal soon.

Regards and best wishes

Lee and Phil

Hi, Wendy

What a joy to receive your email.

Lately I thought a lot about you, the tour guides and the Chinese people that I love a lot.

Here we are starting the war against Coronavirus, unfortunately I am at risk and our government will not be as efficient as yours.

Angelica and I had a trip scheduled for early May to Portugal, everything was canceled, but if everything goes well, we will go as soon as we win this battle, according to Convid 19 and we are already scheduled for 2021, we
will return to China.

Thank you very much for your information.

Let's keep in touch.

As Brazilians are used to writing at the end

Kisses

Mariusa

Dear Riley,

thank you for your words.

The situation, here in Italy, is not easy right now but all the measures that our Government are taking are the best ones to guarantee the containment of the virus.

We just need to staying in our home, trying to relax and wait until the beginning of April. Indeed our Government is trying to prevent worse scenarios, but we all need to do our part. Everything will be better, we just need to be patient :)

Best regards

Maurizio Tordini

Thank you Wendy,

It is great to hear that you are well.

It does sound as if you have done a great job of containing the impact of Covid19! 

In these uncertain times it is good to  have sound advice snd strategies to manage!

We were in Spain for 1 week of a long planned holiday of Spain, Portugal, France and finally to Germany! We came home after only a week and are now Self Isolating for 2 weeks!

We are wondering what Travel in future will look like .....and when it will happen!

We are so grateful to have done what we did last year in China and be able to look back at those wonderful memories!!

We thank you for your part in putting that trip together! It was spectacular! 

Regards,

Barb and Tony Dalwood

Hello Wendy. We are good but obviously facing the terrors and uncertainty of the weeks to come.

I hope you, your family and all staff are well.

Thank you for your information as it is useful and gives a glimmer of hope for us all.

Take care

John

Hi Wendy,

I’ m glad to known about you and I thank you for your attention.

I hope this pandemia ends soon and I expect to travel another time  to China and Japan.

Best regards,

Deolinda

Thank you for your message Wendy. I hope you and your family and friends are also keeping well in these difficult times.

Kind regards

Kylie

Hi Wendy, thank you so much for your valuable information. Here, in Spain, all people in their homes.

My best regards

Jesus

Dear Wendy:

Good morning.

I hope that you are safe and free from Covid19.

We, for the time being, are not sick and your recommendations are very well appreciated.

Our son, who was going on the trip with us, is arriving this Sunday March 22 from the United States and he will be quarantined for 14 days.

We are learning to live with this new disease, limiting many activities but if it is for one磗 health it is worth it.

Hopefully in the near future Covid19 will be "defeated".

Our trip to China is not canceled but is on hold. When we do travel, we will definitely do it with you.

Please stay in touch giving us any advice. You are experts from who we can learn.

Best regards

César Pérez

Hi Lily!

Thank you so much! You have been in my thoughts often, and I am glad you are ok.  Yes, these are challenging times ahead and I hope we all pull through safely. I will share this information with everyone I know. Wishing you and yours all the best and hope to talk to you soon! 

Thank you,

Gwen

Hallo Lily,

Last year, with my cousin Roberto Bergoglio and his wife Anita Maletto, I had with 'China Discovery' a nice holiday in China.
We remember well the beauty of the country and the kindness of our guides. 

We are now very sorry for the bad news from China and we hope that all of you is well. 

We are sure that these difficult moments will soon be over.

Cheer up!

Franca Bergoglio

Dear Riley,

Thank you very very much for your mail, I really appreciate it as you may know that we are in serious difficulty here in Italy.

I hope that after all this it will be possible to organize a trip in your wonderful country.
Best regards,

Domizia Sorrentino

Hi Lily,

Nice to hear from you. Thank you for your email. We are doing fine, Canada has about a 1000 cases so far, but we try to stay safe. Hope situation will improve in couple of months (usually it takes about 3 months for Corona virus) and vaccination is on the way,

Thank you,

Stay safe!

Angela

Hi Riley,  

Glad to hear from you. I have recently read the news, where China has zero new domestic confirmed cases. Which is a good news!

Also, thanks for the concern. As of now, the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Singapore is getting controlled, where most of the new confirmed cases are imported cases and a few linked cases from clusters that have been traced.

However, to combat the widespread of COVID-19, we were advised by the Singapore government to defer all travel plans till further notice. This is to contain all possible spread of the virus. Hence, for the travel plan, we will temporary put it on hold.

We believe that with more socially responsible citizens all around the globe, we will overcome the virus soon!

Thank you and have a nice weekend ahead!

Cheers,

Amanda Ong

Thank you so much Riley. I really appreciate you sharing that with me. I will forward it to Lana as well. We are all dealing with this outbreak now and We’re learning new things every day - the information from China is very helpful. I hope you and your family are doing well and that we can figure out how to contain this!

Thanks again,

Joanna

Thank you Riley,

That was very kind of you to inquire about my health and send the recommendations to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

I am in good health, but self isolating. I will share your attachment with family and friends. I am happy to know China has survived the worst of this. It will be harder for other countries affected to enforce the same level of control.

Best regards,

Thom

Hi Ariel,

The prevention list is great!

Now the eye of the COVID19 storm has past China and is approaching US.

We are in partial lock down here in San Francisco and cannot go out unless is for food, medicine or necessary supplies.

Restaurants are closed except take outs.

We were in a Chinese restaurant this past Saturday and Sunday for take outs and there were zero customers inside. And that is before the lock down :-( .

I am still interested in coming to China for vacation but maybe later.

I will let you know

George

Thank you, Riley. We are actually in Canada, and I don't know how different the responses are in Canada versus America. Wearing masks is a rare thing here generally--but, now masks have been sold out at stores so I think a lot of people are wearing them, to protect themselves and others as well as possible.

We are in the city of Edmonton, but where we live is more like a suburb, with space between the houses and in the neighborhood, so hopefully ok to go out without masks. Still, we are staying home except when someone needs to go out.

I'm very glad to hear no one you knew caught the virus!

Jennifer

Hi Jack,

I hear China continues to recovery from the Virus. I'm happy to hear that and hope you remain well.  

The US has begun to respond strongly to the outbreak. Asking all people to work from home if possible, closing businesses, cancelling large gatherings, closing schools.  My company has asked us to work from home so I am working from home for the next 4 weeks. Unfortunately, testing is not available unless the person has symptoms, recently traveled, and is at high risk. They are working on releasing more test kits and slowing the spread of the virus.  My thoughts are with Italy and other countries that are fighting this terrible virus.

My best wishes to you and the people of China for you continued recovery.

Barb

Dear Jack,

Thank you for your thoughtful help and advice at this time. Much appreciated. We are happy that things in China have improved and you and all Chinese are an example to the rest of us. Soon it’ll be the anniversary of our holiday in China. We frequently look at the photos and remember all the beauty we saw and the kindness of the people. Brendan and I are being very cautious. Our daughter lives with us and she is very caring and amusing and we cannot ask for more. Our leader, Leo Varadkar Is an exceptional person whom we trust and appreciate. This too will pass. I hope you and your family are all well. Also the excellent company you work with will no doubt emerge again and will we wish you all the best. Kindest regards.

Honora and Brendan. 

Hi Jack,

TQ for good advice. Hope all of you and family at ChinaDiscovery are fine.

Here in Malaysia, the number of cases are increasing. Our government had just ordered a lockdown for two weeks-no travel outside home except for emergencies and for food.Except for essential services, all businesses also closed. Hopefully it will not have to be extended after that.

Rgds,

Ngeow

Dear Catherine,

Thank you so much for your email. China has done amazingly well and now seems to be leading the world on controlling Coronavirus. The advice is very much appreciated. We know several people (friends, colleagues and family) who have caught the virus and are now in isolation, but so far in our household (with our newborn baby) we are still well.

The UK is now almost in lockdown - the majority of people who are able to are working at home (except, notably, for supermarkets, school workers and health workers). I hope these new measures will be effective.

Hope your family and colleagues are well. Best wishes to you all.

Christopher and Ellie

I am sure you have been through very difficult times also, but it gives me hope here that the USA will also survive!

Stay healthy!

Mary H Thieme

Hi Lily!

I hope everything is swell on your end, and you & whole family are healthy!

We have received your attachment with many thanks. I’ve been meaning to send you postcards during my travels, but due to the recent virus outbreak, the trips had to be cancelled. ☹

The situation is not so good here in Indonesia. A lot of our local citizens tend to have a low awareness of COVID-19 and its danger. People are also selling surgical masks at insanely high prices. I am glad to hear that China is already recovering though, and hoping my and other countries can follow suit sooner rather than later. My colleagues, family, and I have been trying to keep our hygiene by washing our hands regularly and keeping hand sanitizer at all times.

Stay safe and thanks for your concern again!

Warm wishes,

Patrice

Hello Lily, 

We are hanging on in Guam we start to have firs cases of Corona Virus, so probably it will keep us busy for next few month, we hope this global health crisis resolve by July and vaccine that is being tested in Washington State will be available in August or September and we all return to our regular lives. We are excited to visit China next year, as we have many places to see. Hope you doing well its a though time for all of US but things will get better eventually 

Marcin

Yes, thanks Catherine. We are currently stranded in the US and trying to get back to Canada. Glad to hear things are stabilizing in China as that’s what we have been hearing. Only getting started here so a long road ahead.

Darren

Thank you Tracy. I do hope you, your family and friends are doing well. I hope we will be able to travel next year. Until the, stay happy and healthy.

Sandy Ching

Hello Lily, 

Thanks for your mail. I am glad to hear you and your family are well. And that the situation is stabilising in China. 

I am afraid the infection has spread to Europe now and since last week the situation has changed immensely. Since Friday all bars and restaurants are closed. There are no more lessons in schools, but there is a minimum of teachers to take care of children whose parents work in the medical service or take care of elder people. 

I work for a local community and last news is that we remain open and keep working. We have to avoid unnecessary meetings or reorganise them. And civilians are only allowed inside the building if they have an urgent appointment. 

But since today lots of companies decided to close for a certain period of time. It is expected that in the next few days more and more companies will have to close. I think that would be best, otherwise the virus can keep spreading. 

The prognosis is that we will only reach the peak in another month! So we are only at the beginning... 
We’ll have to wait and see what the future brings. 

KLM status is still the same at the moment. But now we are getting news that European passengers are put in a 2 week quarantine when arriving in China. We’ll just have to be patient I guess and see what happens. 

Meanwhile we hope to stay healthy and that we can keep working. 

I’ll keep in touch once the situation changes. 

 

Take care and stay healthy !

Saskia 

Thanks Tracy ... all good on my end, hope u and your family good as well. 

It’s sad... now we can’t plan any overseas travel... 

BR

Ron

Hi Tracy,

Thank-you for your email and information on how to approach preventative measures it is very much appreciated.

Hopefully you in China are coming out of the worst of the impact of the virus now which is small comfort for all the families effected by it. We in Europe now are heading into a very dark place with us where China was back in mid-January – with our Governments now realising they have to undertake very drastic action with their people.

We in the UK are just today moving to business where they can work from home - with big events and gatherings now cancelled. We are about 1-2 weeks we think behind where Spain and Italy find themselves - with them now entering total lockdown.

We are very grateful for how you in China have lead and showed us the way to handle the virus and see how the world can and has to learn form this on how to internationally together handle future situations better together.

For the future we would still love to travel and see China - but that is now not likely for at least 6 months I think – our Government in the UK now talking of the virus being “active” for at least the next 6 to 9 months….

Best regards

John and family

Dear Tracy,

How lovely to hear from you again, and thank you for your thoughtful attachment of Covid-19 Precautions. They will be useful.

How have you been since the outbreak in China? – I do hope you and your family and colleagues have managed to escape and are well. You were all very much in our thoughts. The school my son-in-law was teaching at near Dalian did not re-open after the Chinese New Year, so he and my daughter and grandson went to Kuala Lumpur for 2 weeks then back to Australia. He has been teaching by Correspondence all this time - not easy with students all over China and around the world. However the school hopes to reopen physically at the end of March so Glenn returned to China and the school last Saturday for 2 weeks quarantine. Kerry and Ethan are staying in Australia until the end of the Summer holidays and hopefully will return to China then. Your country has been so strict and we hope that the downturn in cases continues to be effective and everything else returns to normal for you soon. 

We feel so much for those in the Travel industry who are the hardest hit. Is your company still operating? Do you still have work? What did you do during the outbreak. Our airlines and Travel agents are just beginning to feel it in the last two weeks. Our largest travel agency Flight Centre is very hard hit, not to mention the cruise ships. Our small town is dependent on tourism – we have dolphin and whale-watching boats, with busloads of visitors mainly from China and Korea. These are no longer coming and only one boat goes out each day.

We are so pleased that we were able to have the wonderful trip to Harbin that you organised for us - great memories! Glenn’s mother did not get to China - had to cancel the day before leaving Australia.

Our movement restrictions have only just started properly today – we have about 290 cases of Covid-19 in Australia to date.. Anyone returning from overseas has to be quarantined for 2 weeks.  I think this is just the beginning for us, however to date we are much better off than many European countries.  Congregations of people are being limited, and people are learning to be very careful.  They are not closing the schools or universities yet, unless a case of Covid- 19 is found in them.  Only 3 to date. It will be a day-to-day situation, as you will understand.  We have a 90-year old friend who left Spain on 10 March heading for Australia through Vietnam and then transiting in Singapore.  We wonder if he will get here (Singapore is stopping even transitting) and if he does he will have to go into quarantine!  We have advised him to consider postponing the remainder of his trip as he may not be able to return to Spain later.

Again, thank you for your thoughtful email and do let us know how you are faring.

With very best wishes

Judy and Geoff Washington

Hello Tracy,

Thank you for your kind mail with useful information.

We are ok, taking care, staying home and avoiding contact with friends and family!

Best regards

Irene Lephilibert

Hello Lily

Thank you very much.

I am still out of China but should be back next month I think. Situation now is not good outside of China. 

Please take care!

Janislene

dear Tracy

thank you for remembering of us.

Our contemporary art exhibitions in Beijing and Xi’an have been delayed by Chinese and Italian authorities, but not cancelled.

Therefore, we must wait to visit China again, but we believe we could do it later on, hopefully in September next (provided we survive).

We will get in touch, as soon as we can.

Best regards

gg

Dear Lily,

Thank you very much for your concern and your kind words. These are indeed hard times for us.

As you know, my husband and I are physicians, we work in hospitals...We take care as much as we can, wear masks when we are in crowded places and wash our hands all the time.

I am very happy for you that things in China are going slowly back to normal. The Chinese people went though terrible times. It also gives us hope for the future.

Thank you again for your concern.

All the best,

Alicia

Dear Lily,

I hope everything is ok with you and your family.

Attached is the official participation from the International Standardization Organization (ISO) of which I am a member and I spent 2 weeks in Wuhan and two weeks in Shenzhen and Beijing.

We remember the beautiful country and people and pray for good health to everyone.

Best regards,

Mickey Cohen

Hi Lily, 

thank you very much for your thoughts. 

Unfortunately, the situation in Milan and in Italia is not so good.... but I want to be optimistic !!!!  

Thanks again for your email

Alfredo 

Dear Catherine,

how can i not remember you Catherine, we spend an awesome time at Panda Base! I've been thinking about you a lot lately and i was relieved to read that you are doing well so far and that China is stabilizing.

Yes this virus is pretty bad, not only for health reasons also for all other factors that are involved (like economy). I can only imagine how seriously it affects business at China Discovery and i just hope, that economy recovers fast and you and your colleagues don't suffer long from the after affects.

Take care Catherine and thank you for your thoughtful e-mail.

Best regards

Fabienne

Dear Lily,

Thanks for the thought.

Yes, things are not going very well here, even if in the city where we live for now there are no big problems.

But China is an example and like you, we too will come out of it.

Ciao

Thanks Lily for your email.

Due to the outbreak of this corona virus many people have refrained from travelling and going on tours. 

Saddened to see airlines and many tour agencies are affected by the scare caused by this highly contagious virus.

We hope a vaccine can be found and things can return to normal.

Keep yourself safe and healthy to prepare for better days ahead.

Thanks.

Christopher Yeo

Hi Lily, 

We have been thinking about you so much lately and I am sorry that I haven’t reached out to you sooner. I hope that this email finds you well and that you and your family are managing amid the difficult times currently in China. We met and were shown such kindness by you and so many wonderful people during the trip you arranged for us last summer and our heart breaks thinking of all the people that are or may be impacted by this virus. Our thoughts and prayers are with you all and hope that these challenging times will soon come to an end. If you have a quick moment to send me an email and let me know you are alright, I would so love to hear from you. For now, take good care!

Best regards,

Jennifer Cutillo

Dear Lily,

thanks for thinking of us. Unfortunately in Italy the situation is still worsening.

Hopefully it will improve so. However, we are doing well and our region is not among those most affected.

We hope to be able to make other trips soon.

Sincerely,

Roberto Bergoglio

Dear Catherine,

Thank you so much for thinking of me and the thoughtfulness of sharing these informative pointers!! It has been very worrisome with the ordeal of COVID-19 outbreak!

Foremost, I am so relieved to hear the good news of China’s progress with controlling the outbreak.  My heart goes out to those in Wuhan and pray for speedy recovery for everyone impacted by this.  The affected cases unfortunately have steadily increased in the US and our communities are trying to stay calm and battle what seems to be the inevitable outbreak.

Thank you again for thinking of us. Let us all come together and conquer the COVID-19!

My Best,

Karen

Hi Tracy,

Great to hear from you!  We have some diving and a cruise planned the last week of April to first week of May to Aruba, Curacao and Bonaire in the Caribbean which we hope is not cancelled. We are now completing a two week ski vacation in the local mountains, and we have gotten a good work out.  Just a couple days left and we'll consider winter over.  So far, so good here...we hope to be healthy and strong when the virus visits us.  It is not smallpox, polio, or ebola but some challenge is presented. You know best about that...how is it affecting people you know? Panic is never productive, but, challenges must be faced, especially when unavoidable. I would be interested in how you and your friends are coping with coronavirus, perhaps I can learn from you. One thing I really like about Chinese culture and society is their interest in learning from others, which I hope to do the same with you.

Remember, our house is your house if you ever come to the USA. We are booked this year as we have another two week dive vacation planned at St Kitts in the Caribbean in November. Hope to show my wife some Wudang Tai Chi next time I visit, and my son is interested in Tibet, especially Mt Everest.  

Everything in God's timing, and we are always blessed to hear from you.

Bob, Betty and Joshua Butler

Hi Lily.

My mother did enjoy her tour. I will probably contact you soon regarding a tour in Chengdu to see the pandas in the first few days of July, if the situation gets better! I am in Guangzhou, not Shanghai, but yes, I have been staying safe at home and not going outside very often. I hope you are also staying safe!

Kim

Dear Catherine,

What a wonderful surprise to hear from you. We were saddened to hear about the outbreak of Coronavirus in China. We are glad to hear with the government strict measures, it has been contained and cases are decressing. I think of you often and still refer clients to you if they are traveling to China. Take a little break now, I’m sure there will be many tourist returning to visit your beautiful country. 

We were supposed to travel to Italy and France this week. But cancel due to fear of being stuck or quarantined in a foreign country. 

You take care too! 

SUSAN LEE

DEAR LILY,

I'm very happy to hear that in China became very day better!

Also in Italy arrive this virus but we live in the very north of Italy over 1450 slm higher and here there is no problems...

Now the school will be close for 10 days..I hope that with this strong measure also here in Italy we will be able to decrease the number of this virus!

I hope that you and your family are well, I hope that all over the world this virus become like zero and we return back to our normal life!

Sincerly

Roberta Capovilla

Hi Lily

Just wanted to check how you are?

Of course this (and a lot of other trips) are on hold now.

Hope things get better very soon

Best wishes:

Marko

Hallo Lily,

Last year, with my cousin Roberto Bergoglio and his wife Anita Maletto, I had with 'China Discovery' a nice holiday in China.
We remember well the beauty of the country and the kindness of our guides. 

We are now very sorry for the bad news from China and we hope that all of you is well. 

We are sure that these difficult moments will soon be over.

Cheer up!

Franca Bergoglio

Tracy,

i am so sorry that this is happening. you have been so helpful. i hope you and your family stay well.

hopefully, we can reschedule our china trip in the fall.

best regards,

Vivian

Lily,

You were definitely correct in getting us to leave China right away. We did not want to leave as we were really enjoying the trip you had arranged for us.But it was correct to leave.

I am now trying to claim part of our flight back to Canada. To make this claim could you please send me:

1) A letter stating that our trip was terminated on January 25 when we were in Tiger Leaping Gorge and the reason why ( Because of coronavirus and the towns of Lijiang and Dali our next two stops were being closed and other parts of China were going to close soon). So we were advised to end trip, get back to Shanghai and leave China immediately.

2) Letter should include both my husband's and my full name

3) Letter should include our itinerary number

4) Needs to be on official paper

5) Include your name and contact information

If you could send this as soon as possible, it would be appreciated.

Again thanks for getting us out of China and also for arranging a great trip.

Hi Lyn,

Thank you for your email.

We enjoy the Harbin trip very much especially the 雪乡和亚布利。 It was totally an unexpected experiences for all of us.

Our challenges are the super cool weather and the taste of the 东北菜. Staying at Snow Village and sleeping on kang炕bed   

is like sleeping over a stove. You will feel warmer and warmer as you lay on your back. Egg is very previous and you are given only one egg with an exchange of a breakfast voucher. 哈哈哈太冷鸡不生蛋。

May I suggest to give more information and price expectation on optional activities such as Yangcao mountain, snow tubing, skiing

before departure for customer to plan and make decision. Overall, we paid extra 1380rmb per person to enjoy the optional activities

which was not budgeted into the trip.

Your services and prompt response is excellent and surely I will recommend you & your company to my friends & family.

Hopefully I will make another trip to China soon.

Thank you once again.

Regards,

Seng

Hi Lyn,

I know you are celebrating but I wanted you to know we made it back to California OK.  Thank you for the fine tour.  All the guides were great.

Dear Wendy

Good Day
Thank you for email and arrangement. So far so good and we enjoy the trip. Thankful for the support and information and the tour guide also helpful. We safely arrived in Indonesia. About the food also no problem, we loved spicy food and we can eat everything including pork and stinky tofu. Keep maintain your service and I will try to call you again for next trip in China.

Please find the attachment for one of our tour. You may post on your website or post at trip advisor.

Best Regards.

Hi Lyn,

Thank you for all the arrangements- Derrick has been good.

Hi Wendy,

Thank you Wendy so much for organizing our wonderful trip to China you made every thing fun and easy. All the arrangements worked out perfectly without a problem. We had a fantastic time and enjoyed all the sights and sounds and attractions. We really appreciated our tour guides they were exceptional and the drivers and pre-organized tickets made the trip easy. Could you pass on a special thanks to Anne, Alison, Tina and Eric who made our family feel very welcome and gave our trip a warm and personal touch.

Thanking you Jenny and family :-):-):-)

Hi Wendy

Yes, home safely thank you. Could I tell you before I respond to your queries, it was a wonderful, brilliantly organised trip, thank you so much.

1.  You were always prompt with responses to any queries and clarifications. Your suggestions were carefully considered and you accommodated our requests effortlessly.

2.  The tour was simply great. Beijing - Kai as guide and driver Mr Ho. What a find with Kai! His English was perfect; his knowledge was exceptional. Kai constantly volunteered information and explanation without having to be asked. The restaurants he took us to for our lunches were fabulous - very fresh, freshly cooked and spice level to accommodate our palette. He was also very considerate towards my sister who is older and less mobile than us, always looking out for her, assisting with her bag etc. You have a real gem with Kai. Mr Ho and the vehicle were also fantastic. The van was very clean and comfortable. Mr Ho was also very helpful with luggage. If there needs to be a simple suggestion for the future, perhaps a low step to assist customers into the van would be helpful. Kai provided us with bottled water each day, without being asked.

With regards to the itinerary in Beijing, I should have included an extra day to see the Ming Tombs. As we had a full free day at the end of the holiday, I did organise a private tour for this reason, and it was great. The Great Wall - I chose the option of the cable car because my sister has mobility problems. 350 metres of steep cobbled ramp way, plus approximately 100 steps of varying heights (from 10 cm to 45 cm in height) were extremely challenging for my sister and she would have missed this amazing place had Kai and my partner Tony not been so kind to her and physically assisted her. Perhaps a bit of a misunderstanding on our part Wendy, as this was certainly not disability friendly! 

Xi'an - bullet train was great except both the conductors and the officials at the exit gates in Xi'an, wanted to see our tickets! I showed the itinerary to them, but Kai told me later that perhaps I should have also shown our passports? Never mind, we got there! Crystal and driver Mr Hou(?) were also great. The vehicle was clean, however smaller than in Beijing and a little more difficult for 4 people to be comfortable. Again, a low step would be advantageous for customers to access the van more easily. Crystal was very knowledgeable and both were helpful. The museum and the warriors just have to be seen to be believed. The theatre restaurant in the evening was technically the best I have seen, anywhere. A wonderful experience was Xi'an. Crystal provided water each day without being asked.

Harbin - flight was good. Guide was Karl but the driver was never introduced to us. Karl's English was not very good and his understanding of us and our questions was quite poor. A very pleasant and nice young man however. We had breakfast early in Xi'an, then nothing until we arrived in Harbin late in the afternoon. The itinerary stated we would tour the ice lanterns after dinner, but Karl did not understand we had not yet had dinner. Finally he understood us and took us to a local cafe where we had one choice only for our meal (it was very good though) and then we headed to the park. Excellent sculptures, we had seen nothing like this before. The snow sculptures the next day were simply quite stunning. Wonderful, talented people. The ice and snow festival in the evening was unbelievably spectacular. The vehicle was not really acceptable I am sorry to say. Very cramped and quite dirty as had not been cleaned after previous customers. There were used tissues and empty water bottles in the van. We had to ask Karl for water, and he went to a store to buy some. When I realised the Tiger Park was not on our itinerary I was very disappointed as I thought I had included this. Karl arranged this for us for Y600 and we appreciated this.

On our last day in Harbin we had Celine as our guide and she, like Kai, was brilliant. Excellent English, offering information constantly. The ice swimming with the locals was extremely funny as the older Russian women really made it very entertaining and fun. On our leisurely way to the airport she was told our flight was now leaving 1.5 hours earlier than scheduled and no one had been told. We received royal treatment by Celine who sped us through check-in and waved us off just in the nick of time! Thank you Celine. I think she may also have checked the van as it was cleaned that morning and we hope she realised that it was not us who left rubbish in the van. Again a low step would be helpful for customers, particularly as the floor became very icy and slippery and was problematic for us.

I arranged a private tour of the Ming Tombs on our last holiday day and I realise we could not have included this on our original itinerary due to time constraints. This was really worthwhile, so I would definitely recommend this to other customers Wendy.

3.  Suggestions? Low step for each van please, especially where it is icy. In Beijing if time is as limited as ours, perhaps suggestion of Ming Tombs in place of the Sacred Way?

Wendy, a great holiday with so much included. Both Kai and Celine are wonderful. I will put review on TripAdvisor as soon as possible.

Dimity Simes

Hi Vivien

We had a lovely time in Huangshan - thank you very much for arranging the tour!

The trip was very well organised, Alex is very helpful and great at showing us all the sights and is very knowledgeable about Huangshan. We had a very enjoyable trip and want to thank you and Alex for making it happen.

Kind regards

Jeannette

Dear Mr Leo,

Apologies for the late reply as I'm very busy lately.

Overall, I and my family are very satisfied with the tour. We learnt a lot about interesting things in Zhangjiajie from Kevin, not just the natural scenery, but also the food, arts and culture. The schedule was not too packed, and Kevin assisted us well during the trip. The driver is also very nice. Thank you very much for arranging a memorable tour. 

Best regards,

Niko

Dear Tracy,

We just arrived home in Australia last night and I wanted to write to you and let you know how much we enjoyed our Harbin trip. All the arrangements went perfectly to your plan.

Grace was a superb guide – provided so much local and historical information which we all enjoyed (including our 10 year old grandson who was learning much of the material at school in Dalian).  The ice and snow festivals were unbelievable and being a little early in the festival meant that we could see some of the exhibits under construction and they were  not so crowded.  We enjoyed the historical parts of the city and the ice swimmers.  The two lunches Grace took us to were the best meals we had in China – superb!

We were very grateful that at the end Grace unexpectedly obtained a station pass and helped us find a place for our luggage on the train (being eight of us and from overseas we had more than normal).

We will have no hesitation in recommending China Discovery, and yours and Grace’s service to any friends who enquire.

With best wishes

Judy Washington and Family

Hi Wendy,

We made it home safely.  I thought both Helen and Kelly did an amazing job.  They made our visit to China wonderful.  They were always on time, professional and very knowledgeable.  I was impressed that they escorted us from the moment we arrived to the moment we left the train station or airport.  They made sure that we were secure and had everything that we needed.  The drivers were professional.  This whole trip couldn't have gone smoother.  I would and already have recommended your services to friends.  I am very happy with everything.  

As far as the travel consultant. I felt that you were very easy to communicate with and were very responsive.  

I don't have any additional suggestions.  This was a great experience.

Thank you,

Ann

Hello Mike,

Thank you for all.

Yes, it was good. Only problem was weather, too foggy! That's was our problem, we've chosen that period.

So here's my answer for your question:

(1)  How do you like our tour arrangements and are you willing to recommend our service to your friends?

- It was great, yes I will.

(2)  Do you have some suggestions for us to improve our service?

- Nothing

(3)  If you come to China again, would you like to use our service again?

- Yes sure, it will be happy chose you again. 

Thanks and see you next time.

Best regards,

Sukhbold.Ts