Visiting Hangzhou’s Temples and Pagodas
Written by Viator, June 2012
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Reply by Viator, June 2011
Doing what: Hangzhou - Heaven on Earth Day Trip from Shanghai
Hangzhou is a scenic location. We had a good time there. Unfortunately, the journey is a bit long from Shanghai (about 3 hrs). Our guide, Frankie, is a friendly person but he is still new in the job, I think. He didn't provide much commentaries about the location, the building, etc.
Reply by Viator, May 2011
Doing what: Hangzhou - Heaven on Earth Day Trip from Shanghai
Hangzhou is worth visiting. The bus ride is a little long and bumpy depending on the van or bus you get. Since we visited on the May Day holiday, the traffic conditions weren't ideal. We had a friendly tour guide.
Reply by Viator, May 2011
Doing what: Hangzhou - Heaven on Earth Day Trip from Shanghai
Beautiful place to visit. Recommend trip for the destiation. But; van smaller than on previous trips, older and somewhat dirty with mushy odour. A pity for a 2.5 travel time each way. Felt rushed when walking around, especially short time at the pictureqse fish lake area.
Reply by Viator, May 2011
Doing what: Hangzhou - Heaven on Earth Day Trip from Shanghai
Tour should include transportation to and from Hangzhou by train with transportation to Shanghai station by tour escort and follow up transport in Hangzhou. Six hours in the car through Shanghai traffic in exchange for three hours sight seeing is not a good deal. The train takes 45 minutes. The tour in Hangzhou was excellent.
Reply by Viator, May 2011
Doing what: Hangzhou - Heaven on Earth Day Trip from Shanghai
After a 3 + hours drive out of Shanghai we finally made it to Hangzhou. the traffic was horrible in town that day, riding in a small minivan that had A/C but the driver didn't want to turn it on made it even worse. After our boat ride we went to eat..Ok meal, then we went to the tea house for green tea. We made one more stop but only had about 10 minutes to take pictures. then we piled into the van and rode back to Shanghai. It was very hot in the van even with the windows open. Everyone slept except me because i saw the driver start slapping his face and shaking his head trying to stay awake. I was so happy to return to my hotel! Perhaps you could charge people more money and take the high speed train as a group and have a driver meet the group in Hangzhou. This would eliminate so much time on the road.
Reply by Viator, April 2011
Doing what: Hangzhou - Heaven on Earth Day Trip from Shanghai
Beautiful gardens and the green tea village demo / tasting was interesting
Reply by Viator, April 2011
Doing what: Hangzhou - Heaven on Earth Day Trip from Shanghai
dfenitively never again!!! half a day on the highway with trafic jams!! all this for a glance an eye on a poor lake !!never again
Reply by Viator, January 2011
Doing what: Hangzhou - Heaven on Earth Day Trip from Shanghai
We had a great time,hangzhou is a nice city, but not small!! Helen our tour guide was awesome, she knew everything and could answer all our questions.
Reply by Viator, January 2011
Doing what: Hangzhou - Heaven on Earth Day Trip from Shanghai
It was a very long drive (heavy traffic) from Shanghai. I would have preferred to travel by train to Hangzhou and be collected from the station by bus and shown around. Hangzhou, the lake, the pagoda and tea fields are all interesting. If you can avoid the drive and catch a train, then visit this area.
Reply by Viator, January 2011
Doing what: Hangzhou - Heaven on Earth Day Trip from Shanghai
A huge day with so much jammed in. We went unfortunately on a public holiday and got caught in traffic for hours. To see the traditional site of tea and to be educated in the fine arts of tea making was well worth the trip in the end though.
Reply by Viator, December 2010
Doing what: Hangzhou - Heaven on Earth Day Trip from Shanghai
Unfortunately when we arrived there, the mist/fog/pollution was so bad we could hardly see more than 200metres across the lake. The areas around the lake were very interesting. As our driver had got lost going there, we were short of time and the areas around the lake were rushed. She got even more lost when returning to Shanghai and was so late that our guide deserted us at the first drop-off back in Shanghai and we were left hoping the driver knew how to get back to our hotel. A most disappointing tour! No stars from us!
Reply by Viator, November 2010
Doing what: Hangzhou - Heaven on Earth Day Trip from Shanghai
Weather was misty so did not experience beautifull colours of scenery - but still a wonderfull day excursion - West Lake should not be missed
Reply by Viator, November 2010
Doing what: Hangzhou - Heaven on Earth Day Trip from Shanghai
Hangzhou is a beautiful city, and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the 13-tiered pagoda and gardens, as well as West Lake and the tea farm. We had a fun tour guide who led us through some memorable sites-
Reply by Viator, November 2010
Doing what: Hangzhou - Heaven on Earth Day Trip from Shanghai
Overall the trip was good, One thing need to be improved is the type of car/van. Total pax : 9. Plus 1 Driver + 1 Tour Guide, Hence 11 altogether. The van was considerable too small & cramped for this more than 3 hours / trip.
Reply by Viator, October 2010
Doing what: Hangzhou - Heaven on Earth Day Trip from Shanghai
Eventhough I have a private tour (only me and my wife), it is not a good tour, the tour leader didn't explain the history of the places and/or he should show more interesting places in Hangzhou. He acted more like a companion to us, helped us with pictures taking. However, as we love tea, we enjoy the tea place visiting.
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