17 Nov 2024
We joined a 11 days 10 nights tour to Kunming/Lijiang/Dali/Shangri-la with a china tour operator called Lan Lan. The overall tour experience is great except a few points which can be improved as follows:
1) We were never told that we need to pay extra Rmb180 to enter the snow mountain and ancient town in Lijiang
2) The hotel at Lijiang is no good, got steps where it's difficult to carry our heavy luggage and the bed is hard. Sleep till I have backache. When asked to change hotel the 2nd time we back to Lijiang, the hotel is not changed.
3) Overall the tour guide is good except the tour guide to Lugu Lake which is a young guy 24 years old. He restrict us to talk on the bus and asked us to sleep. When we reach some destination where we wanted to do some shopping where the dry mushroom that they sell was very cheap, he only gave us 20 mins whereas afterwards when he bring us to his own shopping destination, there is no time restrictions which we are not happy about.
4) The snow mountain they only bring us to the lower ropeway and not the highest ropeway to the top of the mountain. Have to read their itinerary carefully when book which I did not take note of.
Overall this trip is good, bringing us to all the tourist attractions that we wanted to go in Kunming/Dali/Lijiang/shangrila.