wanting to go on another next time we visit

hi there, I just come across you post and thought I might add my bit also. We have just come back from the USA and my daughter and I went on a 7 day east coast USA & Canada trip with tours4fun. We were quite worried but loved out trip. Ther..e was about 50 people on the bus and out of that 3 Aussies (including us)and 4 Spanish speaking people. Everyone else was from an Asian country but funnily enough they mostly had US passports. The first day was a little rough, getting to know the other people was testing at first, simply because of the lack of English. But by about day three we were getting along great. We stopped mostly at Buffets and had 2 or 3 Chinese Banquets. All the food stops were great nothing too freaky. Our guide was fantastic he told us a lot of info on the way to places and let us know exactly how much time we had at each tour. We paid him the extra for the optional tours in a lump sum and also the tips for his service. Our bus was quite big and had overhead room for a bag. We were assigned seats which worked well because we could leave things on out seats and always the stuff was there when we got back. Our bus driver was the best, he got around each city with ease and was a lot of fun to talk to each day. The mornings were quite early and we got into hotels about an hour or two after dark (one or two nights later then this) but the distances we traveled and the sightseeing we did
that was little surprise. I expected a far different experience but we both came into it expecting the worst and came out wanting to go on another next time we visit. The company that organized the tour overall was E travel and everyone on the bus had paperwork from about three or four tour companies.
The hotels were all very nice but we really only had time to shower, sleep and repack our huge suitcases.
If you take the tour go in with eyes open and just enjoy the trip, we had no problems with any part of the tour but by the end we were stuffed. Lots of walking places and we snuck in quite a lot of shopping in a few of the china towns.
girlgypsy | Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 12.14 PM