Reviews

Excellent holiday, very impressed with China. Susan our guide was wonderful. The food was terrific. The trip is go go go throughout so we feel quite exhausted afterwards. I don’t recommend Air China so in retrospect I would want to fly with another airline. However it was a direct flight and most others are indirect.
River cruise ship was nice but it didn’t start sailing till the second day of boarding so it’s really a three day cruise with four nights on board.

Extremely well managed and excellent value for money considering the vast range of activities included. Local guides exceptionally good, caring and knowledgeable. Hotels were of a very good standard and the food was decent. All aspects of the trip were well communicated. I would hesitate to recommend Wendy Wu’s Glories of China.

We had a great holiday which more than lived up to our expectations. All the guides were excellent and very knowledgeable. In particularly our national guide Linda who fully supported the whole group.

This has been the most amazing trip we have ever been on. The trip is organised so well, and our tour guide Bruce was fantastic. He was with us for the whole two weeks and made it most enjoyable with his good sense of humour. It takes the stress out of a holiday when you don't have to worry about timings or getting around, we were free to enjoy the wonderful sights of China. We covered so much in the two weeks, and I loved the little experiences thrown in, such as tea tasting, the evening shows and the odd surprise entertainment at meal times. We would have never of experienced so much if we had arranged the trip independently. The food was excellent, and there was more than enough of it! We had plenty of opportunities to have free time to wonder, which was nice. We've never been on a group tour before, and we were lucky enough to be with a lovely bunch of people, which also made the trip special. Hotels were wonderful, so nice to come back to a modern, clean, fully equipped hotel at the end of a busy day of sightseeing. Wendy Wu was so helpful from booking and all the way through, absolute five-star service from them, highly recommend and will definitely use them again. Thank you Wendy Wu.

The holiday was well organised and our tour guild was very informative with good English and would always go that extra mile to help you. For myself it was too full on, we had very little free time in must of the places we stayed at apart from Shangai.

jacob the tour guide was very effecient,patient and kind.
beautiful places we visited and knowledge gained. enjoyed the shangai night boat trip looking at all the amazing lights. enjoyed the empress gargen and lake in bejing. the staff on the yangesty river criuse were very sffecient and put on lovely enjoyable evening shows.

This trip surpassed our expectations all round , the guides were amazing , especially our main guide Tony , they are all very knowledgeable and extremely helpful. The food was great too , China is a fantastic country to visit and we will be back in the future .
Thanks to all involved,
Best wishes,
Colin.

Booking experience was very professional. Julia handled all questions which we had knowledgeably and helpfully.

Brilliant holiday

Excellent holiday. Busy but well organised holiday. Saw all the things we wanted to. Sales pitches outweighed information at the silk, Jade and terracotta warrior outlets,. Shanghai hotel not ideally located, otherwise no complaints. Our tour leader CiCi was excellent.

Completed the "China Experience" tour with Wendy Wu this May visiting Shanghai, Xi'An, and Beijing. This was led by National Guide, Grace Gao, and local guides Felicity (Shanghai), May (Xi'An) and Lee/Li (Beijing). This was first trip with the company and as a solo-traveller on the tour. Met for the first day in Shanghai, as total strangers, and discovered I was the youngest (Late 30s) of a group of 16, ages on average ranged around 50–70 years old for the others.
The tour was fast-faced with a lot to see, which could make it physically demanding. Up first thing in the morning, back late at night, no real down-time or taking things at a casual pace others may entertain outside a tour company.
The tour guides were very knowledgeable, and it was good to hear their personal perspectives and experiences which shaped things for them and the changes that have advanced in modern China. It gave a very real element to the world beyond the facade of simply seeing what is in front of you. Felicity sharing as she watched the skyscrapers go up as a young girl in Shanghai, Grace's experience of when she first went to Xi'An to study before they redeveloped the city, and Lee coming in from the villages to Beijing.
The thing I found from China was that my perspective of 'big' changed. The country is so populous and so built up, it made everything back home just feeling small. The souvenir 'town' outside the Terracotta Warriors alone felt like it was the size of my hometown. Downside, you had to walk through it to get back to the bus.
That was the downside of China, the tourism felt over-commercialized and this really seemed to take a lot of authenticity away from the experience. You couldn't simply enjoy something without it being 10 trinket stalls around it, and 2 inside of it.
Though the tour allowed for some very good opportunities to witness things like the Tang Dynasty dancing, Chinese Acrobatics, and an optional Xi'an night tour which included dress up, and went to a festival filled with other domestic tourists to have a good time and lots of pictures taken of/with (Highlight event of the trip).
Wendy Wu were clearly very experienced on when and where to go to the different venues. Seeing other Wendy Wu tour groups at the same exact places shows they have a formula on how to deliver this, which is used for their other tours they host. The timings also allowed you to experience things before the crowds hit, so when you are leaving, you turn around to see a mass of people, and think "good thing we came when we did". I think that goes to sum up how these tours work, they have everything packaged in a neat box, and you pay to experience it. Wendy Wu tours are certainly not cheap in price, but it is fully inclusive, so you don't need to worry as everything is taken care for you, and they have a high calibre when it came to quality of the tour guides, hotel rooms, and choices they select. They know what they are doing to deliver the experience, from the start to finish.
I thoroughly enjoyed the trip, and the biggest cons were down to the lack of flexibility in format which is to be expected.

Would highly recommend a Wendy Wu tour as a way to see China. Majestic China Tour outstanding.Extra tours along the Yangtze a must of Three Gorges tribe & Wuling mountain.
Jason our national guide was ' Awesome'. He is very committed & passionate. Jason guided our group with wit, knowledge, charm & patience. Connecting us all as a family safely through a vast stunning country. Thank you Jason for your dedication, outstanding care & attention to the details. You made my journey across China memorable  & unforgettable. I hope to meet again for more travel memories across China..Five stars 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟

Never a dull moment! So much to see and do, and Bruce and the local guides kept our small group on the go - never a dull moment, and always professional and aware of all our needs.
The cruise was a great opportunity to relax.
First rate intro to China.