Beautiful China, absolutely 100% from begining to end. We did this trip fom 13th of May for three weeks. We were first greeted at Heathrow airport , went through the normal securities before boarding our aircraft for our adventurous holiday, this was just one week after the earthquake and build up for the Beijing Olympics so although security was high we were all made most welcome On arrival in China we were made welcome by our guide Chris Wang, whom stayed with us throughout the complete tour, even when we had the odd wanderer , Chris would make sure we were all back together, the hotels, cruises and trips were all top notch to say the least, there was not one place that one could complain about. The views are fantastic, interesting, we did the Yanxi River 4 day cruise within our tour , Beijinj, Soutzou,Forbidden City . The Great Wall of China ,the Walled City the temples,the Stream, quite an experience,the food you don't know what real chinese food taste like untill you take this trip.and there is so much of it , You do need to be quite fit for this trip as there is a lot of footwork tobe done, there are several internal flights to the different places , you have the experience of the Maglev Magnetic Railway not to be missed, the only overall dissapoint was the baggage allowance from LHR to China was 30kg each however internal flights were about 20kg. our guide did the best by booking our group baggage, as one so on most of the time it balanced out , only after a few people buying 'lots of extras did we all chip in with the cost, not a lot though as excess baggage is very cheap .i have taken propably in excess of 1200 pictures and anybody wishing to view them is most welcome,they are on flickr for all to see. it is easier to see what you will experience than to put it into words, Would we go back for another visit , YES as there is so much to see and enjoy.
Would we use Archers again YES, this was the first Archers trip we have done , and we extended it to visit HongKong , stayed at the Park Lane Hotel, again fantistic, look at my pictures and then tell me you didn't enjoy it , we were very lucky to be with a very friendly group and in our opinion Chris Wang was by far the top guide and we thank him lots. we had two birthdays within our stay whic were made even more special. our overall rating is not 5 star but we would be happy to give a 10/10
Also worth bearing in mind China appeared to be very clean wherever we went no rubbish littered around