Odysseys Unltd. Indepth China

[Quatro]

Does anyone have experience or knowledge of Odysseys Unltd. China in Depth tour? We are planning to take this 21 day tour in September 2014. Thanks for any guidance!

[ronbarb]

We did Odysseys China and Tibet tour, so hopefully our experience will help you. First off, we have done four Odysseys tours, and plan on more. If you have had no previous experience with this company, I think you will be very pleased with them. Our tour guide in China was incredible, as were all the local guides. Our guide stayed with us the entire trip, and each major city had a local guide as well. They were all very knowledgable about their city and very proud to share with us. All our hotels were five star, restaurants were good, not an excessive amount of time spent at shopping venues, enough free time to see whatever was not included on the tour. The incountry flights were surprisingly good. We would arrive at the local airport, stay in a group while our tour guide got boarding passes and then escorted us thru security to the gate (he called us his "sticky rice"). We received hot meals on every flight, most of them being 3 hours or so.

I don't know what your itinerary is, but we really enjoyed seeing China with Odysseys. I think we got an excellent overview of the country. If you're at all interested in Tibet, that was one of the best aspects of the tour. Our hotel overlooked the Potala Palace, and to see it lit up at night was breath taking. We visited with a local family, and mingled with locals visiting Lhasa as a religious pilgrimage. Quite an experience.

Hope this helps you. I would definitely recommend this trip.

I'll keep an eye on this board, if you have anymore questions.