Review of 1 Day Tour: Great Wall, Summer Palace by Maarten

After a recommendation from another person who had a lovely lady as tourguide via CHINATOUR.NET we decided to book the ONE DAY Summer Palace and Badaling Great Wall with cable car tour. To summarize : - Tourguide Emeet made the correct call to the Hotel Lobby the day before to set the pick up time at 7.30 AM - In the morning there was NO EMEET and after some time a chinese driver appeared with a phone with EMEET on the line stating he was delayed due traffic, so he would meet us at the Summer Palace. ALTHOUGH everybody knows the traffic can be terrible, this was a weak excuses since he was travelling by METRO/SUBWAY we found out after. - The driver was very good and nice (only speaks Mandarin, but we understood). We went to the METRO/SUBWAY station nearby the Summer Palace which was about 30 minutes drive. - He went through the SUMMER PALACE, to catch up his own schedule leaving us with ample time to make pictures or walk a normal pace. - The lunch and jade factory was nice to do, the lunch was good food. - The Great Wall was arriving there, He told us to join the line and wait for the cable car and he would get the tickets and hand it to us. We did our waiting time in the line until it was our turn to hand in the tickets and enter the cable car, NO tourguide EMEET to be spotted anywhere and we had to let all the people behind us pass us to enter. After about 5 minutes passed our turn already he came passed the line in a rush with the Tickets, handed it to us. - On the way back from the tour we went to the Tea House, which was ok, we didn\'t want to buy anything anyway. Just did the free tasting and no intention to buy. TO MAKE A SUMMARY, you could have better tour guide than today\'s, since I heard other guides are better suitable for day tours. Cheers, Visited 8 November 2013