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An Educational tour is a refreshing experience. Surrounded by inspiring natural scenery, you will delve into China's long history, rich culture and folkways while participating in hands-on learning opportunities.
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LaikaPanda
8 contributions
Dec 2019
China Education Tour organised our 3rd holiday in China and again, it was an excellent personalised tour. What meakes China Education Tour a tour company of choice for our family? I think it is the company's organisation, planning, attention to details, proactiveness, communication, and careful selection of tour guides which stand them apart. The whole trip of 10 days, with all the train interchanges, hotels and restaurants, varied activities from countryside sightseeing, museums, cruise, fireworks and Zhuhai ocean park, was smooth and without a hitch. Our tour guide Beatrice in Guangzhou was particularly wonderful. Her English was excellent. Her knowledge and her ability to discuss all matters relating to China made the trip interesting. She was also fun to be with. Our driver Mr Chen in Guangzhou was also particularly genial and patient. It was a happy moment to be greeted by him every time we got into the car. Thank you for another amazing holiday.
Written February 15, 2020
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Dear LaikaPanda,
Greetings from China Educational Tours. It is our honor to be your exclusive China tour company. We're pleased that you found our guide Beatrice and driver Mr. Chen wonderful. Your recognition is an encouragement to us. Thank you again for choosing us.
Best regards,
CET Customer Care Team
Written February 17, 2020
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KaiYuen
Severn, MD10 contributions
Oct 2017 • Family
While we had a multiple city tour planned, this area was one of the many tours we really looked forward to seeing. This area has been on National Geographic and I've always wanted to see it first hand. Although our trip coincided with the rice fields being recently harvested, it was still quite an enjoyable experience. Everything from visiting the local Yao (long haired women) and their shops, to the surrounding villages enroute to the top of the rice terraces, was an amazing experience. Once at the top, you have a panoramic view that is simply awe inspiring! It's almost inconceivable that someone could create such an agricultural masterpiece by cultivating rice fields directly into the mountain sides! The walk up was very interesting, as we witnessed a young bride preparing for her wedding perched on a mountain top! She looked quite regal in her traditional attire! Lunch at a local mountainside restaurant was a delicious experience as well! What made this trip all the more enjoyable was Jane's enthusiasm for her position as our guide! She relayed to us how proud she is of her city for all of the historical and cultural contributions it provides. She is exceptionally well informed about the entire area, and goes the extra mile to ensure you're well educated on the local culture, historical significance of the terraced rice fields and how the locals maintain them. A great experience I highly recommend! I will recommend China Educational Tours (CET) to everyone I know! CET delivers as their name implies - educational and culturally and historically significant experiences!!! Kai Yuen
Written November 6, 2017
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John D
Beijing, China6 contributions
Apr 2015 • Couples
My wife and I enjoyed a full-day tour from Guilin, with the Li River cruise, a short visit to West Street in Yangshuo and a countryside tour in Yangshuo county, tailor-made to our requirements at rather short notice by Michael Hu. From being picked up at our hotel to being returned there, everything was well-organised. The river cruise was a highlight of our several years living in China and the countryside tour gave an interesting insight into local life, including visiting an old farmhouse and watching the preparations for a local festival in 'Secret Garden' village. Tour guide Lily was knowledgeable and very helpful sorting out a problem for us, which actually extended the time of our tour. The driver was also friendly and seemed very safe. Overall, a great day out and a good recommendation for China International Tours.
Written April 13, 2015
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stoffel1953
Hobscheid, Luxembourg123 contributions
Feb 2020 • Couples
We were planning to go to China in coming April 2020, had our trip and itinerary all set up in a magnificent way by Carol Guan... The coronavirus made us change our destination - instead we'll go to South America for the same dates as previewed for our China trip... Considering the efficious flexibility and dynamism that Mrs Carol Guan brought to us when we discussed and set up our China tour, we have no doubt that the execution of the trip would have been a full hit ! This to mark our appreciation to Carol Guan and China Educational Tours as well as our frustration to not be able to make that trip - WE JUST POSTPONED and look forward to South American trip... MORE TO COME !
Written February 17, 2020
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Dear stoffel1953,
Thank you for your positive review about us on Tripadvisor. It is such an encouragement to us during this special period in China. Now all people here do our best to prevent the spread of the virus. Since this week, companies are gradually resuming work on a large scale in cities which has not been severely hit by the onslaught of the coronavirus. The good news is that numbers of infections were starting to decline significantly for the last week. We do hope that our life can be back to normal very soon. And wish you have an excellent trip in South America!
Best regards,
CET Customer Care Team
Written February 18, 2020
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Steph & Dan
59 contributions
Jul 2019 • Friends
We do not recommend a tour through this company, though they could have had an off day. Hotel pickup was later than the time they told us to be ready. It was also chaotic; the car driver was stressing we needed to quickly get in when it was he who was running late in the first place. And we weren’t the last ones to get picked up.
Once we got on the large group bus to head to the river, the tour guide did not balance speaking in Chinese and English. He spent most of the ride speaking in Chinese, even showing pictures, and then when he switched to English, he spoke shortly, was extremely difficult to understand (even for a native English speaker who is also bilingual), and what we did understand was only about logistics.
Finally when we got to the pier, we had to wait 30 minutes while he was issuing tickets. It was very disorganized and got confusing because half the group was going on a boat ride 30 minutes later. Yet somehow we’d have to meet up after the ride in Yangshuo to catch the bus back to Guilin. Directions were unclear as to the meet-up location and time. And even worse, the first wave of people to go realized we only had 10 minutes to get on the ferry when the guide handed us the tickets last-minute. So many of us had to run to the boat. And we never saw our tour guide after that.
Luckily, we had planned to bring our luggage with us and stay in Yangshuo, foregoing the last part of the tour back to Guilin. We truly can’t imagine how that must be for those who needed to go back.
We’ve done multiple tours over the past five years, and unfortunately, this is my first low-star review. The river cruise itself was beautiful, and is still a must-do, but I imagine there are better ways to do this than through this tour. Hope this feedback can be helpful and that this tour company can better support their staff to success.
Once we got on the large group bus to head to the river, the tour guide did not balance speaking in Chinese and English. He spent most of the ride speaking in Chinese, even showing pictures, and then when he switched to English, he spoke shortly, was extremely difficult to understand (even for a native English speaker who is also bilingual), and what we did understand was only about logistics.
Finally when we got to the pier, we had to wait 30 minutes while he was issuing tickets. It was very disorganized and got confusing because half the group was going on a boat ride 30 minutes later. Yet somehow we’d have to meet up after the ride in Yangshuo to catch the bus back to Guilin. Directions were unclear as to the meet-up location and time. And even worse, the first wave of people to go realized we only had 10 minutes to get on the ferry when the guide handed us the tickets last-minute. So many of us had to run to the boat. And we never saw our tour guide after that.
Luckily, we had planned to bring our luggage with us and stay in Yangshuo, foregoing the last part of the tour back to Guilin. We truly can’t imagine how that must be for those who needed to go back.
We’ve done multiple tours over the past five years, and unfortunately, this is my first low-star review. The river cruise itself was beautiful, and is still a must-do, but I imagine there are better ways to do this than through this tour. Hope this feedback can be helpful and that this tour company can better support their staff to success.
Written July 11, 2019
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Hi Stephanie,
Greetings from China Educational Tours.
I am deeply sorry that you haven’t enjoyed the tour. This is the first time we come across such a problem in the past 5 years. I have hence checked with our guide and the boat company about the detailed arrangements on that day.
The Li River cruise had been cancelled for 3 days due to the floods and was re-opened on July 11th, which had caused the chaos. There are about 10,000 people taking the boat everyday. If the boats had been cancelled for 3 days, it means there are more than 30,000 people want to take the boat on the re-open day but only 10,000 of them can make it, as there are only about 100 boats are sailing each day.
We usually book the tickets online in advance. Due to the cancellation and limited tickets, we tried everything but still unable to get your tickets until 23:30 on July 10th and the boat company’s website shut down due to the overloaded visitors. Because of the good relationship we had with the boat company, they promised that we could only purchase the tickets on arrival at the port on 11th . There were so many tourists on that day, so the guide only got tickets for half the group departing at 11am and the rest departing at 11:30am.
We usually arrange separated buses for English speaking travelers and Chinese speaking ones. Because of the situation explained above, all the travelers had to mix together. The tour guide spoke more in Chinese as he was trying to provide optional tours to Chinese tourists with showing pictures as there were more Chinese people in the bus. I understand it’s not professional and not acceptable at all. Also, this is not the typical English speaking tour guide we use for the seat-in-coach tours.
I recognize your disappointment and we sincerely apologize for the treatment and inconvenience you’ve received. Based on our money back guarantee policy, we therefore like to arrange the full refund for the Li River Cruise which is USD 144 via Viator . We hope that you would accept this and we know that this probably would not fully make up for what you missed out, and how you were treated.
We appreciate your writing and letting us know how you felt about this trip, and we can learn from this experience to be better prepared. I just want to let you know that the seat-in-coach/group tour is not the service standard of our company. We specialize in tailor made private tours. We highly recommend our private tours to you if you would come back some day.
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Best regards,
CET Customer Care Team
Written July 18, 2019
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Hargreavesfamily
Lancaster uk41 contributions
Jul 2018 • Family
China Educational Tours - its not just for School/College groups!
Our family have just completed the most amazing tour of China organised brilliantly by Leon at China Educational Tours. We had wanted to visit China for some time but had no desire to join a massive group tour, visiting places that we didn't want to, following a distant tour guide holding an umbrella in the air. Having thought it would be impossible to organise a tailor made tour taking in the sights we wanted to see, I came across China Educational Tours after an internet search. I sent an email and Leon responded within hours, after a few emails back and forth an itinerary was sorted, it took a few weeks for me to sort out our Chinese visas during which time Leon was in touch every week just to check all was ok and once our visas were in our possession I firmed up all our plans with China Educational Tours.
Our trip started in Beijing, being met straight off our flight and transferred to our hotel by our guide and driver, they made sure all was well before they left us, even recommending a local restaurant for us to try. We started our tour properly the next morning with visits to Tianamen Square, The Forbidden City and Temple of Heaven. Day two started with a walk along the Great Wall followed by visits to the older parts of the city where ordinary people live, finally on day three we visited the Summer Palace and then were put on a Bullet train to Xian. On arrival in Xian we were met by a new guide at the railway station and taken to our new hotel. Day four started with a visit to the Terracotta Warriors, that afternoon we cycled around the ancient walls of the city, then went on to visit a street market. On day five we took a train again, this time to Chengdu and arrived in time to look around a museum tracing the origins of people of the area. On our second and final day touring in Chengdu, we started off with a visit to the amazing Panda Breeding Research Centre, we then continued on with a visit to the People's park for afternoon tea, a Temple and finally a street market. On our final day we were picked up and transferred to the airport for our flight out of China.
Each day of the tour we were taken to a local restaurant for lunch and with our tour guides help had some fabulous local Chinese food. A special thanks also to our 3 drivers who conveyed us safely through the sometimes mind boggling traffic and driving standards, dodging the endless mopeds and bikes with such skill and concentration that we always felt quite relaxed. However our holiday was made by each of our 3 guides - theywere brilliant, they were knowledgeable, informative, flexible, friendly and just generally lovely to spend time with. They were each very passionate and proud of their home town, wanting to share as much of the history, culture and day to day living with us as they could. We would thoroughly recommend all the team but especially Jin in Beijing, Rocky in Xi'an and Linn in Chengdu - anyone would be lucky to have each of them as their guide.
Top tip : make sure you've got decent walking shoes - we walked over 60 Kms over the 7 days on our tour.
Our family have just completed the most amazing tour of China organised brilliantly by Leon at China Educational Tours. We had wanted to visit China for some time but had no desire to join a massive group tour, visiting places that we didn't want to, following a distant tour guide holding an umbrella in the air. Having thought it would be impossible to organise a tailor made tour taking in the sights we wanted to see, I came across China Educational Tours after an internet search. I sent an email and Leon responded within hours, after a few emails back and forth an itinerary was sorted, it took a few weeks for me to sort out our Chinese visas during which time Leon was in touch every week just to check all was ok and once our visas were in our possession I firmed up all our plans with China Educational Tours.
Our trip started in Beijing, being met straight off our flight and transferred to our hotel by our guide and driver, they made sure all was well before they left us, even recommending a local restaurant for us to try. We started our tour properly the next morning with visits to Tianamen Square, The Forbidden City and Temple of Heaven. Day two started with a walk along the Great Wall followed by visits to the older parts of the city where ordinary people live, finally on day three we visited the Summer Palace and then were put on a Bullet train to Xian. On arrival in Xian we were met by a new guide at the railway station and taken to our new hotel. Day four started with a visit to the Terracotta Warriors, that afternoon we cycled around the ancient walls of the city, then went on to visit a street market. On day five we took a train again, this time to Chengdu and arrived in time to look around a museum tracing the origins of people of the area. On our second and final day touring in Chengdu, we started off with a visit to the amazing Panda Breeding Research Centre, we then continued on with a visit to the People's park for afternoon tea, a Temple and finally a street market. On our final day we were picked up and transferred to the airport for our flight out of China.
Each day of the tour we were taken to a local restaurant for lunch and with our tour guides help had some fabulous local Chinese food. A special thanks also to our 3 drivers who conveyed us safely through the sometimes mind boggling traffic and driving standards, dodging the endless mopeds and bikes with such skill and concentration that we always felt quite relaxed. However our holiday was made by each of our 3 guides - theywere brilliant, they were knowledgeable, informative, flexible, friendly and just generally lovely to spend time with. They were each very passionate and proud of their home town, wanting to share as much of the history, culture and day to day living with us as they could. We would thoroughly recommend all the team but especially Jin in Beijing, Rocky in Xi'an and Linn in Chengdu - anyone would be lucky to have each of them as their guide.
Top tip : make sure you've got decent walking shoes - we walked over 60 Kms over the 7 days on our tour.
Written July 17, 2018
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johnziac
Old Greenwich, CT16 contributions
Aug 2017 • Family
My wife and I wanted to take our two oldest grandchildren (18 & 16) on a tour of China. We found China Educational Tours on line and working with Michael Hu we put together a 17-day private tour. Our tour included Beijing, Xi’an, Chengdu, Guilin, Shanghai and a flight to Hong Kong. I could not imagine a more well-thought-out, well-run, appropriate tour than the one that Michael put together for us. Our granddaughter wanted to visit Pandas so we went to the Dujiangyang Panda Valley, Panda Keeper program and it was one of the highlights of our extraordinary trip. We cannot say enough about China Education Tours and Michael. This was truly a trip of a lifetime for our grandchildren and for us.
Written August 30, 2017
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Pixiep3
Gold Coast, Australia7 contributions
Oct 2016 • Couples
Michael from China Educational Tours compiled a trip for three couples. I personally couldn't fault the trip from any angle. It was absolutely fabulous!!! And the price was right too!! From the planning stage where Michael was quick to reply to queries. Then when we had the trip planned and asked could we add in an extra, Michael was flexible and quick to make the adjustments. The result was a fantastic trip!!! We had a local guide meet us at the airport or train station in each city. All guides had excellent local knowledge and good English which made communication easy. They were also flexible to our needs and we were thrilled to be able to chat and learn about their daily lives as well as view some world icons. By having a range of modes of transport we were able to see some of the countryside from train or personal minibus. I would recommend this company to anyone who doesn't want to do the 'big group' tour of China. We had such a fantastic trip!!!
Written November 7, 2016
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wprincess4
Ottawa, Canada214 contributions
Oct 2016 • Couples
My husband and I booked our entire China tour through China Educational Tours(CET). We had three goals in mind...a) we wanted a small group and b)we wanted no built-in shopping experiences and c) we wanted to visit some specific 'off the beaten path' attractions. China Educational Tours delivered all that and more! We were a group of just two and were accompanied by a guide and driver in every location. We were met at the airport or train station in each location and were accompanied to the departure point to ensure we checked in with no hitches at the end of each leg of the trip. We saw everything on our wish list and thanks to CET we saw things we hadn't even known should have been on our original list. From hiking in the rice terraces to exploring a lesser known, and hence uncrowded, part of the Great Wall and taking a trip by boat up the Li River we were more than satisfied. All of this without stops for shopping or high pressure sales tactics. Everything went very smoothly and when there were small issues (like a family emergency for one of our guides) solutions were quickly found and put into place with no disruption to our schedule. Thanks to Michael Hu for making great suggestions during the planning stages and for his special efforts to make the trip run smoothly. Thanks to him and his team for making our trip wonderful and trouble free. I highly recommend this company for fast, efficient and reliable service.
Written November 6, 2016
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harryv989
Albury, Australia207 contributions
May 2016 • Couples
This is our fourth trip to China, but the first with China educational tours. Even though the other travel organisers were fine, this tour had some extra hurdles, but China educational tours organised everything without any problem. Carol made sure that train tickets were where they were supposed to be. Our guide Michelle always had options available and our driver was very experienced. If we were to return to China, I would most. Certainly use China eduCation all tours again as on top of everything else. The tours also present value for money
Written May 10, 2016
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Sue R
Kfar Shmaryahu, Israel4 contributions
Is Guilin dragon international travel service co.,ltd part of China Educational tours, or how are they connected?
Customer Care Team of CET
Guilin, China1 contribution
Hi Sue, sorry for the late respond. China Educational Tours is the name of E-Commerce Department which belongs to Guilin Dragon International Travel Service Co., LTD.
Ann France
Brisbane Region, Australia6 contributions
Michael , you have been highly recommended to us by our friends Bob and Sandy ! Barry and I would like to do a 14 to 21 day tour of China in 2019 . We would like to spend only a little time in the big Cities please . I have had a recent limited tour and very happy to revisit any areas again.
I look forward to hearing from you
Kind regards
Ann
Customer Care Team of CET
Guilin, China1 contribution
Hello dear, sorry for the late respond. If you need any help of touring China in 2019, please feel free to call 1-800-130-494 to contact Michael.