Hello Mike,
First we want to thank you very much for all the excellent work and planning that you did in organizing our trip through Viet Nam, Cambodia and China.
We had a very memorable trip and saw many fascinating things and met many wonderful people.
Except for the guide situation in Hanoi and the minor issue in Beijing things went reasonably well. The
guide in Beijing had gone to the wrong terminal and when he showed up he was most apologetic and was a wonderful guide.
We learned that three countries were too many for the length of time (sixteen days) we were away. We wish you would have suggested adding more days to our schedule. I think you should check with your clients and see what age group they are and book things accordingly. There were too many early mornings and no time for relaxing and catching our breath. An eight A.M. flight might mean waking up at four A.M. in order to have breakfast, check out and get early to the airport depending on distance from the hotel. The trip was very tiring and it has taken some time to adjust once we got back to Canada. Also, information and suggestions regarding the weather would have been helpful. We had no expectation that it would be as hot and humid as it was particularly in Cambodia.
Halong Bay was particularly nice and we would have enjoyed more time on the junk. Overall we really enjoyed Viet Nam and Cambodia. We saw things in China that we have always wanted to see but I don’t think we would return, however we would come back to Viet Nam and Cambodia. Our flight from X’ian was supposed to land in Shanghai enroute to Tokyo but due to bad weather in Tokyo Eastern China Air arranged an overnight hotel for us and unfortunately the early flight the next morning developed a mechanical problem after it left the terminal. The end result was that we missed our flight from Tokyo and had to spend the night at an hotel at the airport.
Having said all that we wondered why since we were landing in Shanghai anyway that you did not suggest adding a day or more to tour Shanghai and see the Expo sights.
I think in the future we would like to visit Thailand and Laos and would contact you if and when we do the trip.
We are now in Mexico for the winter.
Once again thank you for your efforts on our behalf.
Sheryl