We had a great experience. The driver arrived at our hotel right on time. The car was newer a d very comfortable. She collected the agreed upon fee and we were off. A very comfortable ride and she brought us almost to the entry to the cable car. She then ran to the ticket window, purchased our tickets and ran them back to us. We went and did the wall experience and she was waiting for us where she parked. On the way. Ack to our hotel she stopped at a roadside farmers stand and bought fresh oranges and persimmons. She gave us the two bags of fruit, without taking money, although we tried to pay, a d we enjoyed the fruit on the drive to the hotel. She dropped us off at the front door completing a great day. I would highly recommend this activity...
Accommodated our last minute booking, let us stop at a bank on the way to the wall, experience as described. The driver picked us up from our hostel and parked at the carpark to the wall. Driver then came in with us and organised our coach tickets (we elected to pay for these when we booked) and showed us the way to the coach. Were given 4hrs to do whatever we wanted and return to the van. Great experience , let us do our own thing, very convenient. Would do again...
Amazing! Booked this tour last minute for the following day. I was messaged later that evening about what time my driver can pick us up. They were very accommodating in rearranging the time pickup(I asked if they could pick us earlier to ensure we had ample time to catch flight). Driver was professional, friendly and helpful in obtaining our tickets and directions. Totally loved it! Would recommend this tour for anyone else...
Amazing time at the Great Wall. Glad I read reviews first and went for the private tour option without a guide because we had 5 hours to do what ever we wanted and it was the best decision. However the drive there was scary. Driver sped the whole way and passed cars in front by driving in on coming traffic. I was almost in tears when we got to the wall. I hated that part. So before we left the great wall I told him to slow down. And it was a lot better and we still got home in good time. So remember to tell them to drive carefully and you will be fine. The private tour without guide is best option. You don’t need a guide on the wall. And we stayed and hour away and got picked up from hotel and dropped off. Didn’t receive the lunch which I paid for, and wasn’t given option to be dropped off at another location like it said in the tour guide. However couldn’t be bothered caring so was a good day..
The trip to Mutianyu was safe and comfortable. The car was in a good condition, middle class or lower premium, most importantly clean. Felt some mild pressure by the driver, but it could not overshadow the overall experience of the Great Wall...
I booked a car transfer service to Mutanyu Great Wall...the drivers behavior was great... as my hotel was near to airport they have charged $30 more... car was great in service and was clean. Be cautious before buying any souvenir from the great wall area...the sellers will ask for 10 times higher price... for me they asked a price of 285CNY, I bought it in 60 CNY and later found that some other sellers are selling at 20 CNY.....
We had a wonderful Great Wall tour. The car was very comfortable. Our driver was fantastic, as was our guide. She was very knowledgeable with many interesting stories and info. She also had good English. We all really enjoyed our day...
Ordered a car for four people and entrance tickets to the Great wall. Any questions we had previous to the trip was answered without delay on email. The car was spacious and clean and the driver very nice, on time and service oriented. He quickly helped us purchase additional cable car tickets by the entrance. We had good amount of time to explore the wall without hurry. Am very happy with the service provided by ChinaTour...
Ordered a car for four people and entrance tickets to the Great wall. Any questions we had previous to the trip was answered without delay on email. The car was spacious and clean and the driver very nice, on time and service oriented. He quickly helped us purchase additional cable car tickets by the entrance. We had good amount of time to explore the wall without hurry. Am very happy with the service provided by ChinaTour...
Picked us up with no problem and got us to the wall and back to our train on time. Would use again...
Good service. The only negative thing is that, at first, the driver wanted to wait for us only 2 hours to visit the Wall, when is clearly especified on the reservation that we have 4-5 hours. We had to explain it to him several times until he understood...
As a wheelchair user of a number of years who has been travelling widely using my wheelchair I am quite used to getting around problems of access. I have found that by far the best method is to fully research destinations prior to travelling. One of my bucket list items was to visit the Great Wall of China and so to this end we were booking our trip to Beijing over Easter 2019. I researched the best. Places to see the Great Wall that would be accessible for a wheelchair user and found that there are 2 locations where the Chinese have made a great effort by building ramps etc. Before we left the UK and armed with this information I searched for day trip tours that would take us to these locations and found an ideal one being offered by ChinaTour.net. I made all appropriate enquiries with them stating my disability needs and they came back with an 8 hour tour where we would be picked up at our hotel in a private car for just the 2 of us. We would be taken to the first location where our driver would pay the entrance fee to the wall; the driver would then leave us to enjoy the wall at that location. Also included in the tour was an internal shuttle that would take us to the second location, which was also appropriate for wheelchair users. Once we had been to the second location we were to call the driver who would then pick us up and take us back to the hotel. This was perfect! But of course was not cheap, we were charged over $230 which although quite a lot of money I recognise that we have to pay for the convenience I require so all’s good. Well it all started well with the driver contacting us the day before the tour was due to commence to arrange a pick up time. We were duly picked up at 06:30 as arranged by Edward who seemed a very pleasant character and off we went to the wall. Unfortunately when we arrived at the wall we found that the location was anything but wheelchair friendly, in fact there were no ramps at all. I asked Edward about the location being supposed to be disabled friendly with easy access to the wall via ramps etc., he just said “This is the Great Wall, there is no disabled friendly access!” Anyway I had no choice but to climb some steep steps which I did manage to do but it took a great deal of effort and rather spoiled our tour. We spent a nice half hour or so on the wall with Edward taking some photos for us and then returned to the car. We were expecting to see the internal shuttle but Edward didn’t seem to know anything about this and in fact told us that the tour was complete and that he would be taking us back to the hotel. This is what he did with us being delivered back to the hotel by 10:00 a total of 3.5 hours without us being taken to the locations we were expecting to see. Additionally while on the way back Edward asked us what we were going to be doing for the rest of the day and we said that as the tour had been so short we would go and see Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City. Edward told us that for an extra $100 he would be our guide, we declined this as we felt we had already been fleeced enough. I have to say that although ChinaTour.net promised exactly what we wanted and needed they didn’t deliver anything like the tour that we had paid for. I then contacted ChinaTour.net by email and explained how cheated we felt laying out exactly what they had promised, I quoted their email in which set out quite clearly what we could expect. I then went on to set out exactly what the tour delivered by Edward exactly had consisted of which was very different and in no way was comparable. I received an email from Decy who told me she was sorry to hear that we were not happy with the tour and would be contacting Edward to discuss and would get back to us. This didn’t happen, the next thing that happened was that Edward bombarded us with some 20 messages via WhatsApp and would not stop despite being asked repeatedly by me for him to stop, finally I had to block him on WhatsApp! I again emailed ChinaTour.net to ask them to stop Edward’s harassment and received an email confirming that they would do so and apologising for the inconvenience caused. Finally I asked them what they were going to do to recompense us for the shortened tour that didn’t provide what we had paid for but, I have heard nothing else from ChinaTour.net other than being repeatedly asked to provide a review! I would caution anyone who finds a tour that seems perfect for them on ChinaTour.net that it seems likely that you will not get the tour you thought you were going to get. Additionally when you tell them you are not happy with the service you receive you will clearly get nothing from them. Despite repeatedly asking them to explain what went wrong and what they plan to do about this situation I have not received anything at all! For these reasons I would say do not use ChinaTour.net for tours as it is clear they don’t deliver what is promised and don’t care what their customers think at all...
i booked the driver to the great wall and the entrance ticket but still had to pay the entrance on site...
Easily a five star rating. the driver was a very kind and good safe driver. the vehicle was also so nice and clean. He gave us plenty of time at the wall and drove us straight up the cablecar ticket area. Highly recommend to anyone who wants to be just you and your friends and not a big tour bus situation...
Very good. Precise information, all the services on time. All the necessary information accesible. Very kind driver...
