we traveled with uniworld china tour last year and it was great. it was a facinating, interesting but exhausting (and i am in good shape) tour. but there was so much to see, do and learn that you just could not wait until the next day. a fascinating country. the food in general was good (not gourmet) with a couple of excellent meals, 1 very bad lunch and 1 rather fair dinner. the victoria prince is a nice ship (do not expect the Qm2) cabins are nice and clean - not to small. food on board was plenty ful chinese and american style. I would go back in a minute.

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Thanks for your response, Shaw. I'm a little worried about the exhaustion factor - it seems that there will be a lot of flying from one place to the next with only a few days in each place. We are planning to add on days on our own before and after the Uniworld portion so that we will have a chance to see at least a couple of places at a more leisurely pace.

3 years ago we took a Uniworld tour of China with Yangtze and Tibet, involving 7 internal flights. Exhaustion was not a problem for us.

We were on the Victoria 2, which was very good. It was a good trip.