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We are doing the Beijing to Shanghai with the Hong Kong extension starting April 28. We purchased our air through Viking since for Business Class it was a huge savings, we also did our own research and told our TA which flights would be ideal for us. She somehow passed that info along to her Viking rep and we were given our flight info and our hotel info last November, direct flight from Dulles Airport (20 mins from our home) to Beijing. Returning from Hong Kong was another story, there were no direct flights back to Dulles, so we have one stop in Chicago. We were even pretty specific about our seat assignments and got our preferred. Since we have a forced overnight, we were told that it was possible that our hotel for the forced overnight could be different from the hotel for the remainder of our stay in Beijing, we did ask that if possible we would of course prefer to stay in the same hotel and not have to move, that request was also granted. Our hotels are: Kerry hotel in Beijing, Crown Plaza in Xian, Westin, Bund Center in Shanghai, Shangri-La Hotel in Guilin, and the Kowloon Shangri-La in Hong Kong. In January one of the flights had an equipment change, and I got a call from our TA telling me what kind of plane we were getting and asking me what seats we wanted. Our TA and Viking have been extremely accommodating, and available to answer our many endless questions. We have not received our travel docs as yet, but I expect they will arrive in a timely manner as has everything else. Starting to get very very excited about this trip. T minus 6 weeks and counting:D

We are happy to read that we will be joining you in Beijing. Arriving late

from Tampa via Chicago Tokyo/Narita. We were told the Ritz will be our Hotel. In any case hope you have a safe flight ( it is a long one ) however Business Class is somewhat helpful.

See you soon,

Ulla and Dan

My wife and I did the “Viking Emerald- China's Cultural Delights” trip in Mar – Apr of this year. If anyone is interested here is a link to a video slideshow I put together of that trip:

I will occasionally check the message board and try to answer any questions anyone might have. The information we learned from these boards was extremely helpful to us during this trip.

Tom

Thanks for posting informative and very entertaining pictures. We're about to go on the same journey in April and found your presentation exciting. Dan

My wife and I did the “Viking Emerald- China's Cultural Delights” trip in Mar – Apr of this year. If anyone is interested here is a link to a video slideshow I put together of that trip:

I will occasionally check the message board and try to answer any questions anyone might have. The information we learned from these boards was extremely helpful to us during this trip.

Tom

Well done, informative and appreciated picture series ! We're about to take this trip in April. You've made it even more exciting as we anticipate our adventure.

Dan