My wife and I toured Berijin to Tienanmen, Forbidden City, Emperor's Tombs Great Wall. Also Xi'an and terracottas. - Good tour with knowledgeable guides, clean buses and stops at restaurants with local food for lunch. Hotels served breakfast and for dinner, we were on our own. It worked very well. The diversity of places we visited in Beijing was most interesting with the Great Wall topping the attractions that included Teinanmen, Forbidden City and some Emperor's Tombs. Xi'an held wonderful visits to the City Wall, Temples and the terracota warriors and horses was great. We recommend Top China Travel and Ms. Vicky Lu(vicky@topchinatravel.com).

Great wall adventure completed. - We booked the 8-day Beijing, Xian, & Shanghai tour with TCT, covering Great Wall adventure which is our main aim Our guides, Mr.Tylor and Ms. Muela, was a truly amazing guide in our entire trip …they have good knowledge about China tourism… We thank and Appreciate TOP China Tours company and special thanks to Ms. Hanna, for their professional communication and service offered to us in organizing our tour package.. Yes, we are happy with is tour with TCT…We highly recommend this tour for anyone who is willing to travel to CHINA. (Dear travelers, from our previous experience….let us be honest in sharing our reviews…reviews will help other and us before traveling to any unknown places… or in selecting the tour agent as per their service offered to previous guests)

Great Wall, great Holiday - This was a highlight of our China Tour, our guide Dean is amazing- we had the Great Wall literally to ourselves to explore - incredible Highly recommend Top China Tours for travelling through China with family - accomodation, meals & guides were just fabulous

A great tour with wonderful Host - Our host Cici was on time, spoke wonderful English and was knowledgeable of All aspects of the Great Wall. A fantastic day was had by the 14 travelers with me. We had Cici for the 3 days we were in Beijing for our tour guide

Great communication from the company... - <p>Great communication from the company - they rang the night before to confirm hotel pick up time. Chan was our guide and spoke very good English. His guidance and explanations through out the day were excellent. Unfortunately I did feel he took more time with the Chinese tourists than he did with the few English speaking tourists on the coach.<br/> The great Wall was amazing - it had been snowing so snow covered the wall beautifully. The lunch was good and due to a minor accident on the way home which delayed our bus from leaving the wall for 1.5 hours, we were dropped back off at our hotels. Which was a bonus.<br/> Great tour for the price - cannot be faulted!!</p>

I found this last minute on the day... - <p>I found this last minute on the day before the tour itself. Value for the service is great, for the transport, guide and lunch. Don't expect a Michelin stars one but it was decent after the walk. guideNancy was really helpful and spent as much time needed with everyone who needed help. Only one star missing for the information about the wall which was shared but could be more to understand the history behind this great place</p>

This was a really good tour and... - <p>This was a really good tour and great value for money. There was a slight mishap in that we did not know our pickup time had changed as no access to email and so we actually missed our day, but when I phoned we were able to join the next day. Nancy was really informative and gave the tour in both English and Mandarin so we did not miss anything, as well as giving tips for the rest of our stay in Beijing. This part of the wall did not feel crowded compared to other tourist sites we had been to, so we were able to fully appreciate it without feeling overwhelmed. Lunch was really nice and worked really well considering the number of people on the tour.</p>

We did choose this option based on... - <p>We did choose this option based on the overall package different pick-up locations entrance fee included, lunch included and NO stop at jade or tea shops.We had a very busy weekend as we did the trip on April 30th - in the middle of the May 1st holidays in China. Nevertheless pick-up was almost on time at the subway station Dongzhimen - with a 5 min walk to the bus. The bus was OK and fully booked. Only small letdown was the not functioning loudspeakers. We were at the very last row and did not catch a single word from our guide - but not a big thing. We arrived after ca. 2,5 hours and could then stroll around for ca. 4 hours at the Great Wall - very impressive and an absolute must if you travel to China. We took the cable car - boarding was easy with only 5 min waiting time although the wall overall was pretty crowded that day. We used our time well and walked a lot on the top of the wall. After 3 hours a lunch was served - ok, but nothing special. The way back was ca. 3,5 hours as the roads were pretty busy. For 45 this was an excellent options - we could recommend!</p>

Visiting the wall was such a great... - <p>Visiting the wall was such a great experience with amazing views. I loved that we were told the various ways to get to the wall and left to do as much or as little as we wanted in the 3 hours before meeting for lunch. Going to the top by cable car cost extra but it saved about 1000 steps! The food at lunch was really good and plentiful. <br/> However, the day did not start off very well as we had the meet point changed. We had confirmation for meeting at the Hilton but atb10pm the night before a phone call said the Novotel. We rang the guide and he said Hilton but in the morning an email said Novotel! Not a good start. We text the guide to tell him we would be at the Novotel. He turned up about 30 minutes late. At the end of the day we were encouraged to get off the coach to take the metro home although the tour content stated hotel drop off. We did not take up his offer of the metro and so a taxi was arranged for us and 2 others to go to our hotels. Not good service to be offloaded because traffic was building up and they didn't want to spend the time doing hotel drop offs.</p>

Disappointing service - The great Wall is a great attraction, but this tour is not. 4+ hours to the wall and another 3+ back to Beijing. Forced shopping stops and no cable car ticket is not worth the $50 USD it costs. Find another tour or simply hire a car for the day