Review for Journey through Japan - HN
Well organised journey with wide ranging itinerary covering natural, traditional, cultural and modern sites. Guides were great and handled mishaps like weather cancellations well. Accommodation was faultless, but there could have been more diversity in food. Japan is not really set up for vegetarians or people who don't like sashimi. Will travel Wendy Wu again... maybe China with George!
Apr 25, 2025
Booking Experience for Ultimate Uzbekistan
Matt was very patient and answered all my Queries, professional in his attitude. Booking process was smooth .
Apr 24, 2025
Booking Experience for Grand Tour of Indochina
The operator so helpful and very kind
Apr 23, 2025
Review for Vietnam Trails
Fantastic trip with everything being superbly organised. Excellent hotels and meals.
What really made it special was our guide, Ang, who was able to explain the context around why things happen in Vietnam, which added greatly to our understanding. He was an excellent guide, always available for us, really helpful and helped make the trip so memorable for myself and my wife.
I would recommend Wendy Wu for anyone thinking of visiting Vietnam.
Apr 23, 2025
Review for Majestic Yangtze
Brilliant holiday with great guides, both National and local, also the drivers were really good. The hotels were well situated and of a very good standard and of course the boat on the Yangtze was a wonderful experience!! Our group of 22 became great friends and write to each other regularly with happy memories of our trip with Wendy Wu.
By the way, our original Guide, Betty had an accident on the second day. The coach driver took her to hospital and stayed by her.side until 3:00 in the morning. Now that is devotion to duty!!
Apr 23, 2025
Review for Vietnam at a Glance
The tour guide was fantastic. He had a wealth of knowledge, which he was eager to impart at the many diverse points of interest visited. The itinerary was full with just the right amount of free time. The hotels and meals provided were spot on, and it is a holiday I will remember with fondness for a very long time.
Apr 23, 2025
Review for Gems of China
Another great tour with Wendy Wu from start to finish. The tour shows a lot of the best parts of China from the Great Wall to the mountains of Zhangjiajie and as much in between as possible. The national guide Jacky was on hand 24/7 and delivered an excellent tour with his knowledge and experience. The local guides on the way were also knowledgeable and friendly. Various local cuisine all tasted good, I’m did like the Peking Duck 😊, and the hotels were of a high standard. Nice size group of 18.
The pandas were fun to watch as well.
All in all a great tour, fantastic people and amazing time 😊
Apr 22, 2025
Review for Best of Borneo
Met all our expectations in touring the country and seeing a wide range of animals in their local habitat. Small group (17), excellent tour manager and local guides, very knowledgeable, good transport, ate very well at different restaurants, great local dishes. Although very humid a good time to see Borneo.
Apr 22, 2025
Review for Jewels of Japan
Jewels of Japan is an action packed trip to Japan, taking in most of the iconic sites.
Our guide Madoka was amazing, with a good sense of humour and was very informative about the places we visited.
The hotels were all very good quality as were the coaches used to transport us around.
I liked the fact that the tour introduced us to all the different foods eaten in Japan and the various ways the dishes are served and presented.
I thoroughly enjoyed the experience
Apr 22, 2025
Review for Natural Treasures of China
This Wendy Wu trip was a wonderful mix of experiencing both some of the most amazing natural scenery in the World and the hustle and bustle of Chinese city life.
Our prime reason for booking this tour was to visit places like Zhangjiajie and Jiuzhaigou and these places were indeed AMAZING! For us, however, we found that the two weeks were extremely "full-on", action packed with one visit after another after another, with very little opportunity to come up for air. We would have loved a little more down-time, with opportunities for us to opt out of some of the city visits to go and explore a little more for ourselves. For example, squeezing in visits to some of the extremely crowded places like Hongyu Dong in Chongqing after a long day was not a lot of fun.
We have come home with fantastic memories and photos, but also really exhausted, far more so than after our previous Wendy Wu "China Delights" holiday in October 2019.
The highlights:
1) EVERYTHING in Zhangjiajie, from the National Forest Park to the Glass Bridge and especially the visit to Tianmen Mountain - just breathtaking! LJ, our local guide was exemplary, guiding us as best he could through the crowds and queues around for the Qingming Festival. He was so informative, a great communicator and a real "people person", an absolute gem.
2) the visit and walk in the Black Mountain Valley was an unexpected delight. So tranquil and picturesque - a perfect day!
3) The simple breathtaking visit up to the astonishing Huanglong area, so high up in the mountains and just the most amazing sight to behold - and such a sense of achievement ascending to 3500 metres altitude!
4) The Dazu Rock Carvings were so interesting and awe-inspiring! I now need to read up on all the history and origins.
5) Inevitably, the pandas in Chengdu were just a joy to see.
6) All the meals were excellent (except the Farewell HotPot dinner in Chongqing which was arranged for 4:30 pm, far far too early to enjoy, particularly as we had tucked into a good lunch just a few hours before with no knowlege that dinner would be so early! Such a shame, as we would have loved to indulge fully in this special meal).
We also particularly enjoyed the odd occasions where we had time to go off and explore by ourselves, away from the organised schedule and experience the sights and sounds in our own time, in a more relaxed manner. These included:
- travelling on the subway over to Orange Island in Changsha, and then trying some of the street food
- our scheduled free evening in Chengdu after the panda visit, strolling along the riverside and trying food at one of the street food restaurants.
- an early morning hour's stroll around the little city park below our hotel in Chongqing, at Louis' suggestion. Such a peaceful start to the day, watching groups and individuals doing their early morning exercise, inspiring us to do some of our own stretching exercises by the lily ponds!
- The scheduled free evening stroll around Fenghuang, taking in all the beautiful illuminated sights and sounds along the river. A really vibrant and colourful scene.
- it was just great fun interacting with Chinese people, trying to talk some mandarin with them, and enjoying their requests to have photos taken with us westerners! We found them so helpful and friendly when trying to master Alipay, or buy tickets for the metro or select food in the street food restaurants.
The downsides:
We felt that the tour was just a bit too relentless, with too much being squeezed into absolutely every day. There were moments when we were too exhausted to appreciate everything. It would have been preferable to have some of the visits, particularly in the cities, as optional extras that you could either partake in or opt out of. Being jostled by crowds and crowds of people, trying to "follow the flag" and not lose the group were not our idea of fun, or time well spent. Maybe the tour could be a extended by a couple of days to allow for a bit of "recovery time" between places and activities.
Specific suggestions:
- maybe have an opportunity to see the night life of Chongqing from a river boat cruise (rather like the experience in Shanghai), rather than in the thick of the crowds?
- maybe in the Nine Villages Valley have a private shuttle bus for the Wendy Wu Group to take us from lake to lake, rather than having to join the manic jostling for a place on the shuttle buses with everyone else. This was exhausting! A private mini-bus would also give us more flexibility on timings and walks we could do between lakes?
Finally, a word for Louis, our Wendy Wu national ******. He was wonderful, quietly efficient and friendly and patient and very very knowledgeable. Our group of travelling companions were great fun. A group of strong and very individual personalities who all gelled very well together right from the start.
Thank you Wendy Wu for such a wonderful trip. Now the task of sorting through all the photos ....
Apr 22, 2025
