Beijing Gourmet Food Cruises Reviews

This is an EXTREMELY long report; I don’ seem to be able to anything halfway. Please read it knowing that we are NOT tour people. We don’t like regimentation and we surely do not want to get up at 5am every day of our “vacation”. I have years of experience planning and managing events, and I am quite persnickety. We’ve done many cruise-tours with Grand Circle and Avalon. They have been great, ...

Viking has a great reputation and we expected a great cruise on a luxurious ship. it began with a compulsory stay in a business type hotel in Beijing nowhere near anything important. We wished to stay in another hotel but were told that, if we did not turn up and stay in the selected hotel, we would be considered as no shows. in fact, the pre-cruise experience dealing with the US office was ...

While the land portion of Viking's Jewels' of China Tour was phenomenal (Hotels were first-class; tour guide was the BEST we've ever experienced; planned activities were well-organized and carried out to perfection), the experience aboard the Emerald was disappointing. The ship is dated (musty smell, warped carpeting). SEVERAL people of our floor contacted food poisoning, including me and my ...

I'd like to add a voice of agreement with the negative critique entitled "Ma ma hu hu" posted April 2015. My husband and I also were on the same cruise, and it really was a major disappointment from our past experiences with Princess. We had the same experience and opinions as stated in "Ma ma hu hu" as it relates to service, itinerary, excursions, Hong Kong Terminal and especially the Buffet ...

We've been on a fair few cruises on five different lines. One thing you realise is people love to complain about any minor niggle and to take a lot of the complaints with a grain of salt. For that reason I'll start with the positives because there were several. Embarkation and disembarkation was smooth and painless, maybe because we had priority but I think it flowed wherever you were in the ...

Ages m 61 f 58 Past cruises Princess 7 P&O 2 Celebrity 1 Regions: - Caribbean. Northern Europe, Mediterranean, South America and Alaska. Cabin Baja Balcony Grand Asia We took a short land tour before joining the ship from Beijing. The land tour was very rewarding and enjoyable. Our tour director Spike was excellent and involved everyone. Partly because Spike had set a very high bar we ...

Before we went on this trip I read the reviews other people who just came off of the same trip had posted. My thoughts were you can't please everybody and maybe these people are just too picky. I was wrong they were right. I went on the nine day Yenisei river cruise prior to getting on the 17 day Beijing to Singapore cruise. The first day I got into my cabin I woke up and was shaving, my sink ...

Azamara Quest Asia - Feb 14 - 28, 2009 Full Disclosure: This was the worst travel experience of my life. I've sailed with RCCL and Celebrity 11 times before this, my first trip on Azamara.  I heard from many fellow passengers on the Quest that they'd had excellent experiences on the Azamara Journey. I have personally been on all four M-class Celebrity ships and several RCCL ships, and will ...

Pre-cruise: We booked ahead "to save money" however the price dropped and try as we might we could get no adjustment. We were lied to by customer service (no such reduced fares existed), were transferred to non-supervisors when we asked for them, were refused an explanation as to why other passengers requested and received the same adjustment. Entertainment - the ship's onboard singers and ...

We have just returned from a 17 days cruise on Sapphire Princess. The journey started from Beijing,China with port of call at Nagasaki,Shanghai,Okinawa,Taipei,Hong Kong,Nha trang, Vung Tau, Singapore the finally Bangkok. These are interesting ports of call otherwise we wouldn't have chosen this cruise. Having said that, the next best thing was to get off the ship. They should have renamed the ...