Beijing Cruise Reviews

First time to Beijing and we were very impressed. Very good value with pre-cruise Princess hotel and tour package of 3 days. Two more ports in China, and then Busan and Vladivostok. Went on Princess tour in Busan to the old Silla capital and was very interesting. Vladivostok was interesting, just walked around on our own, saw the famous railway station - end of the Trans Siberian Railway, and ...

Beijing 3 day Pre-tour, staying at Marriott City Wall. This was excellent. We did the pre-arranged day tours, as well as the optional evening tours. Whilst tiring, all the tours were worth it. Just a warning - the hotel is very expensive for drinks and food. However, the evening optional tours included an evening meal, making them good value for money. Our guide was excellent and we visited ...

I was looking for Mediterranean cruise in April 2011. This cruise popped up and the price was irresistible, booked the cruise 10 days advance only. We had an ocean view cabin 244 on Plaza deck, or 5th floor. Check in at Xin Gang (Tian Jin) was smooth, nice and new passenger cruise port terminal. No shop, nothing to buy or shop, just coffee and tea counter provided by the ...

Ship size and operating efficiencies are forsemost in the cruise companies minds - but the question is what do we - the cruise passenger - get out of their determination to migrate to bigger and bigger ships? The cruise lines claim our ultimate benefit is economy. That may be, (and I doubt if it is true anyway) - but if it is - it is false economy - certainly on am itinerary such as the far east ...

We were looking forward to our first cruise in the East. We had a wonderful itinerary Beijing to Bangkok. We spent 3 nights in Beijing first then we were due to board the Diamond but the fog in Beijing stopped all the traffic and we were stuck in Beijing until they opened the roads - we got to the ship about 4pm and the sailing was delayed for all the other late arrivals. Our embarkation was the ...