Home > Cusomer Center > China Odyssey Knows >How to Book a Private Tour with China Odyssey Tours > Private Tour Designing

FAQ Quick List

How to Book a Private Tour with China Odyssey Tours?

China Odyssey Travel Arrangement

Before you go to China

Traveling in China

Miscellaneous

Want a quick answer?

We're happy to help with any questions about China and China travel. Send us your questions and get answers from our experts!

Enter your email:

Enter your question:
* Email response within 24 hours.

China Odyssey Tours Frequently Asked Questions

Private Tour Designing


  1. How to plan my China trip with you?

    1. Send us an inquiry by filling in one of our online forms. Tell us when you wish to come, how many days, where you want to go, how many people, and any other information which is necessary for us to plan a perfect China tour for you.
    2. After we receive your inquiry, one of our professional China travel consultants will email you and give you a proposal.
    3. If you accept the proposal (you may modify it till you are satisfied with it), we will calculate the tour cost and send you the tour price. If you accept it, please confirm that you would like to book it.
    4. You need to pay a deposit of USD50-150 per person to secure the booking and we will make all the reservation according to your tour itineary immediately after we receive your deposit. Just tell us what you want for your China tour and let us do the rest! We provide prompt response, professional tour design, reasonable price, and worry-free customer service.

  2. What is the difference between Private tours and SIC tours?

    Private tours are fully escorted packages, which means in each city, you will have your own professional tour guide speaking your language and a private air-conditioned car/van/coach with your private driver at your service during your staying there, from meeting you at the airport (or train station) upon your arrival, showing you around, till seeing you off at the airport (or train station) for your next destination. If you take our private package, you will not be mixed with other tourists when sightseeing and transferring except that you take the Yangtze River Cruise and Li River Cruise.
    SIC tours stands for Seat-in-Coach Tours, which means you will share an air-conditioned coach with other tourists and you will have an English-speaking tour guide to take you to all the scenic spots listed in the Itinerary that day. Usually your tour guide will contact you the night before to inform you about the next day's departure time, and the next day our coach (bus)and guide will go from hotel to hotel to pick up guests who signed up the tour for the day.
    Compared with Private tours, SIC tours are usually less expensive than the Private tours, but Private tours are more flexible.
    Note: If you have 5 or more people in the group, we recommend you take our private package because the price gets very close to that of SIC.

  3. What kind of tour(s) can I get from you?

    We offer different kinds of tours including:
    Package tours elaborately designed by our travel experts features with scheduled tour routes & itineraries, quotations. All these tours are fully escorted packages, which means in each city, you will have your own professional tour guide speaking your language and a private air-conditioned car/van/coach with your private driver at your service during your staying there, from meeting you at the airport (or train station) upon your arrival, showing you around, till seeing you off at the airport (or train station) for your next destination.
    It means all the tour packages we have on our website are flexible, tailored to meet your special interests. We understand people are different, so are their requirements for their own tours, to design a perfect and personalized tour to China for you according to your own special interests by co-working with you is always our goal.
    You can always just send us an email telling us your own interests, which places you want to go, what you want to see and what you want to do, let our tour consultants tailor-make a special tour plan for you for a special tour experience in your life.
    Note: If a group is bigger than 10 people, we can offer a private escort (national tour guide) who will be at your service from one city to another with the group during your whole trip in China.

  4. What is the high season? What is the definition for the high season, shoulder season and low season?
    High season refers to the part of a year when the weather conditions and other factors are the best for traveling and usually there are more people traveling in the high season, so it's always the busiest time for the hotels, airlines, and travel agencies. Thus the price of hotel, air tickets, etc. is comparatively higher than that in other seasons.
    High season, shoulder season and low season is defined as:
    High season: April 1st to May 31st, Sep 1st to Oct 31st
    Shoulder season: June 1st to Aug 31st & Nov 1st to Nov 31st
    Low season: Dec 1st to Mar 31st
    There are slight differences of definition of this between different hotels, airlines, travel agencies in different regions.
    In Tibet high season is from July 1 to Oct 15. The rest of the year is the low season.
    China Odyssey Tours reserves the right to modify the definition of different seasons.
    Note: If you plan to travel during the high season, we suggest that you make reservations two to three months prior to your departure date.

Most Frequently Asked Questions:


Questions related to this topic: