justmesk

there is a place right in Calgary you can get your Visa from

Wow...what an excellant holiday, VIking takes very good care of taking care of everything, they are extremely well organized and do go out of their way to please you.

It was wonderful to meet sissabagrama from this board ...and as well we met alot of other great people in our group I think we had a great group of people. .

I have to agree totally with everything that sissabagrama posted. We did have the best tour guide (JIN) His smile and his stories were welcoming each morning. THe hotels were wonderful , especially the Ritz in Beijing, the staff there were always smiling and so attentive to our needs... and the chef Nathan made us feel very special and well taken care with our dietary needs.

I enjoyed the optional Peking opera , as this is truly a part of the chinese culture , they now have English words telling you what is going on through the performance which probably helped .

The Peking Duck dinner, was horrible, my experince was anyhow, I think it was more because of the way the dinner is served and some of the people who were sitting at our table have no manners or etiquette and were "double dipping" which grossed me out. They seemed to rush us out of there as well.

I must say one of the highlights of this trip for me was visiting the hutongs and a family's home, the lady had a wonderful story to tell us, and her daughter did some beautiful paintings inside of the bottles

As well I enjoyed visting the school children

the days on the river is truly awe inspiring....you never know what beauty lies around the next bend, beautiful scenery

the only downfall of the trip would be the pollution in China . I found it difficult to breath many days as I have bad allergies, so if you have allergies be sure to take something with you

I wonder what is the reasoning behind this ....if we already have been through the screening? does anyone know

GoInOnaCruz

Are you not allowed any drinks while boarding the plane? I always buy a bottle of water for the flight ...but always after I have been through security, as I have problems with my ears and swallowing helps during take off and landing

thankyou Peregrina651

I notice that link is broken , but please notice the one you have listed for April 4 ...is actually April 14 who ever made the post posted it as 4-14-13 so that is actually april 14, can you please change the link so it goes to my post of the roll call for April 4 Thank you

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/newre...e=1&p=37348095

here is the link to Apr 4 Imperial Jewels Emerald

Please change that link so that it links to the Apr 4 roll call

I don't know how to make the link....but here was the roll call for Apr 4

viking Emerald Imperial Jewels of China - Apr 4-2013-roll call

you have the april 14 roll call on your link , there is a link for the April 4th one somewhere

Is anyone else travelling on April 4 Viking Emerald - Imperial Jewels of china

I have not yet got my visa, how long of a process is this to get. Should I be getting worried about it yet .. I have to travel a ways to get it ...or send it in the mail.