Excellent tour with a very prepared and passionate guide whose English speaking was very good. Only negative note for the inclusive lunch in a nearby restaurant where drinks were excluded and a can of costed me 20 rmb!..
bad coordination between Beijing and Xian teams. Our hotel was in north of Xian so we were asked to come to city centre for pickup but another tourist also had her hotel in Xian north, but she was both picked up and dropped off. The guide Michael was interested in shoping stops. We had 2 shopping stops in half day tour and less time to actually view Terracotta Warriors...
I liked the half day tour with lunch. Joy was an excellent guide; very knowledgeable and energetic. My only complaint was the amount of walking. I called ChinaTour.net and specifically asked if there was a lot of walking and I was told no. This was not true, we walked over two miles...
Fantastic trip and guide arranged by Chinatour. The tour guide has very good knowledge of Terra-cotta history and given us a good guidance during the trip. Thank you..
This tour need to picked up from hotels in central area in Xian, it is better to choose a hotel near the bell tower in Xian...
Very good, we enjoyed this tour very much. Our guide was very interesting and knowledgeable...
It was a very comfortable service. The guide was very well educated and informed us about the exhibition by fluently english...
A good organised half day tour to Terracotta Warriors. Tina was an excelent guide with good knowledge and a pleasant attitude. We had a good time, nice food and the Terracotta Warriors where breath taken...
Good tour. The guide oriented us to the best places and we could buy a terracota warriors souvenir..
It started picking up people from their hotel. Although this is a good service I would suggest just have a one meeting place to avoid wasting time just picking up people. Next we went to a place where they explain how terracotta army was made this can easily been skipped because the tour guide from the terracotta museum said the same thing. And although they said no shopping this is definitely a shopping stop. the factory itself had a shop or souvenirs I recommend just buy your souvenirs from the muslim quarters. Then finally to the terracotta museum which we had to pay 20 rmb for the hearing aide because the guide, bless her need to speak I get that so she does not need to shout but this an unforseen expense. After seeing Pit 1 and 3 they told us to have rest in a Cafe that sells tea and again souvenirs shops. Then Pit 3 then seeing the museum for the old farmer who discovered the pit. After 2pm that's when we had lunch. Got back to the hotel around 430. Though it was in the itinerary this whole ile experience will be done in under 2 hours. Having a tour guide explaining every pit and follow the umbrella is not really what I enjoy. I rather have what we experience in Beijing that explore the place yourself then meet up in a specific time and place. I wish I just had done going it myself really...
