Traveler Reviews

• Stevol2020 13-Jul-2023

  Rosa was fantastic, highly recommend, great day exploring Xi’An given the summer rush, covered many places.

• Quest536855 10-Jul-2023

  Cindy was absolutely amazing from start to finish. Very knowledgeable and accommodating. We definitely learned a lot about the Chinese couture from spending a day with her. Thank you!

• Nazneenneela 05-Jul-2023

  Excellent,efficient,polite tour guide.I will give her 10 stars.Well English spoken.I would strongly recommend her.

• Sielkeb2023 05-Jul-2023

  I spend roughly two days in Xi'an under guidance of Cindy (or Ping), one of Chattering Lu's awesome guides, and it was awesome! My visit to Xi'an was pretty much a dream come true. The first day, Cindy, my guide, picked me up at my hotel at 8 O'clock in the morning, like we established the day before. She and the driver first drove me to the Terracotta Warriors, afterwards we went to visit the Banpo museum and the Temple of the Eight Immortals. I really, really loved it! I've been dreaming of visiting the Terracotta Warriors since I was a kid so I was really happy I got the chance to go there and watch them. Cindy was very knowledgeable and she really put a lot of effort in explaining everything to me; she had made drawings and maps to explain stuff beforehand, in the car. She made also sure I was able to get a good view, and to take some nice picture at the site, even though it was quite busy already. (note; I think you can better go on a weekday, since weekends are even busier). I got all the time I wanted to look at the warriors and didn't feel pressured at all to go on. I think we spend 1 hour and 15 minutes or so in the car, but the drive wasn't boring at all. Cindy would point out all kinds of interesting stuff on the way. For lunch, we had Xi'an belt noodle, which was really, really delicious! Afterwards, we went to the Banpo museum, which is an on-site museum of a prehistoric village. I thought it was really interesting too, and Cindy was, again, able to explain everything really well. I'm really happy I picked this museum, it's wonderful to see such an old village preserved. The last stop of the day was the Daoist temple. I got a lot of information about Daoist religion on the drive towards the temple, which was very interesting. The temple itself was beautiful and the atmosphere was really special; Xi'an is a very busy city, with a lot of noise from traffic everywhere, but in the temple itself it was silent. I had asked if it would be possible to also book a halfday tour the day after in the old centre of Xi'an; I wanted to visit the old monk in the muslim quarter, the city wall and the Wild Goose Pagoda. That was possible (thank you, Catherine Lu!) and Cindy took me to all these places, telling me everything about it while we were going. We took the metro to the Goose Pagoda and after that walked to the Mosk and Muslim Quarter. There we noticed it was 12h already and in theory that would be when my tour ended, but Cindy was so kind as to take me for lunch and still take me to the City Wall afterwards, which was really very kind of her! The mosk is absolutely wonderful too, I can really recommend everyone to go and visit it. It's a beautiful mix of Arabic and Chinese architecture. I am very interested in history in general and I'm really happy I booked a guide of Catherine Lu for 2 days; that way I got to see al the historical highlight and I got all the information about them that I wanted to know. Most of the historical places in China barely have any information boards, so without guide you're pretty lost if you want to know more than the name of the building. And on top of the awesome tours, I also got some nice places to eat lunch at! For my last day in Xi'an, Cindy suggested some other things I could do, like walking to the South Gate of the City Wall or going to the museum. She even send me the complete route to get there, which was really kind. She also told me of some nice places to eat. I was very grateful for this recommendations! I really had a great time in Xi'an and I dare to say it's because of Cindy and because of Catherine Lu Tours!

• Jonsonwhanau 23-Jun-2023

  We booked out tour through Maggie at China highlights, right from the start she was so accomodating answering all my questions and changing things around to suit us. We were picked up by our guide Susan and our driver in a spacious air conditioned car. Susan was very knowledgeable and told us history facts on the journey out to the Warriors. Susan timed our tour so by the time we were In pit 1 we had the place pretty much to ourselves, the warriors are a must see they are absolutely breathtaking and the history is so amazing. We were extremely grateful to Susan and our lovely driver who made sure we had water and the air con was cold. This trip was one to tick off the bucket list for sure - no words can really describe how special this day was and it was down to the lovely tour guide Susan

• Agnieszka_s 10-Jun-2023

  What a day! I had the please of having Rosa as my guide during the tour and she was just wonderful! Having a knowledgeable tour guide makes such a difference, navigating through the crowds of Terracotta Warriors is not an easy feat, also understanding the history makes all the difference. Would highly recommend this tour and ask for Rosa!

• Fungzoe 31-May-2023

  This trip has a bad start, as I am fallen sick. But Luckily with an experienced tourist guide and driver, I have a very good experience of Xian. Rosa is a very professional tourist guide with more than 10+ year’s experience. She is very caring, take me to get the right medicine before the trip. Her english is very fluent and even prepared props to help me understand the history of Terra Cotta and Xian. She knows all the best spot for photos, and all the details of the museum and history. Driver is very friendly, he is very funny and caring. He knows that I am not well, so he prepared many drinking water and even warm water. He also prepared umbrella in advance as he has checked it will rains! His car is very clean, spacious and AC is strong enough (many cars in Xian seems don’t have AC or is very weak) I have a great trip:) and wish I can come again to tourist around with this driver and Rosa! Highly recommended ❤️

• Pwood567 30-May-2023

  We booked a package that included hotel collection, transport to Terracotta Army, Museum, lunch and a visit to the Xian City wall with a bike ride around. We had a thoroughly excellent day! Our tour guide was called Amber and she had near perfect English and was extremely knowledgeable about every area of the tour. Nothing was too much trouble. Amber made sure we were in all the best places for all the best photos and really made our trip something very special. I can’t recommend her enough. A fabulous day out in Xian. Note- the package included a car to take us everywhere, the tour guide and lunch. You need to pay on top for entry to the various sites. However, the entry fees for all activities combined cost no more than around £40 each person for the day. Paying for the tour guide (in advance) made everything possible. The car and Amber picked us up at 8:30am and dropped us back at 3pm(ish) so it’s a full day. Excellent value !!! If you are going to Xian on a tour ask for Amber…

• Worldtraveler97531 20-May-2023

  The tour was wonderful! We visited the Terracotta Warriors, the Banpo Museum and the Big Goose Pagoda. Lunch was delicious too, we had biang biang noodles. My guide Amber was so friendly and knowledgeable. Highly recommend this tour. Thanks!

• Hankwillie 30-Oct-2019

  Do to a family matter I had to cancel my tour at the last minute. Cathrine Lu was amazing. She went above and beyond helping me out in a time of crisis. She helped me get to the the airport and get checked in on time. I can't recommend Cathrine Lu tours high enough. This lady has integrity, knowledge beyond belief and kindness. I will use Cathrine Lu tours every time I got to China. I will see you soon Cathrine. Thanks Again!!!