China Spree’s 14-Day, $2,399, Best Treasures Tour

11-25-2013

 

A Fabulous Deal For the Price

 

Bellevue, WA, November 25, 2013—For starters, China’s Best Treasures is a well-planned itinerary that takes in the highlights of China and includes virtually everything—all for the amazing starting price of $171 per day.

 

“Everything” means transpacific air fare and intra-China transportation.  It means knowledgeable, personable—and fun—English-speaking tour directors and local guides, as well as extensive sightseeing and entrance fees.  It means 5-star deluxe hotels  like the Marriott City Wall in Beijing, the Marriot City Center in Shanghai, the brand new Sheraton North City in Xian and the riverside Sheraton in Guilin that is as much resort as hotel.  And equally important for people who like good food, “the meals on the China’s Best Treasures tour are so good, they spoil you for Chinese restaurants in New York,” as one tour participant said.  (The buffet breakfasts, it should be noted, include all the usual American fare, as well as Chinese delicacies.)

 

The specially chosen itinerary includes must-sees like the imperial treasures in Beijing: the legendary Great Wall of China, the 9,999-room Forbidden City, the Summer Palace (and Tiananmen Square).  But it also provides unique experiences like the hiking tour to the Dragon Spine Terraces at Long Sheng, which passes fascinating minority villages and villagers on the way to beautiful and photogenic rice terraces (and a delicious lunch).

 

Then there are the famous Terracotta Warriors in ancient Xian and the breathtaking landscape of limestone pinnacles on the Li River cruise from Guilin.  In Suzhou the tour visits a classical garden and an interesting silk factory and in the water town of Tongli, a gondola ride through the canals provides a view of Ming-dynasty houses, bridges and cobbled streets.  The tour ends in Shanghai, China’s most cosmopolitan city, which boasts the colonial-era Bund, the futuristic Pudong’s skyscrapers, good museums and  shopping.

 

The extra treats help make this tour special: a Peking duck dinner; a Tang Dynasty stage show; a dumpling banquet; a rickshaw tour of Beijing’s hutongs, or ancient alleyways, with lunch in a family’s courtyard home; a performance of the Shanghai Acrobats; and a ride on the world’s fastest magnetic levitation train.

 

If China’s Best Treasures is booked by December 31, China Spree offers a $400 discount, which brings the price down to $2,399 from San Francisco or $2,549 from New York.  Add-on air fares are available from many other cities.  Prices (which rise in the late spring) are cash-only, are per person double occupancy and are subject to availability.

 

For more information log onto www.chinaspree.com and click “China Tours.”   China Spree’s toll-free telephone number is 1-866-652-5656.

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