Zhangjiajie Travel Guide
How to Plan a Zhangjiajie Tour?

If you think you can get everything well organized by yourself, you can choose to travel in Zhangjiajie on your own, but you really should consider the advantages and disadvantages by this way

Advantages: Itinerary Flexible

Disadvantages: Language Problem, Time-Wasting, Not Always the Cheapest Way as You Think

Some Facts in Zhangjiajie You Should Know:
It is not easy for people who want to travel alone in Zhangjiajie to have a smooth trip.
Zhangjiajie gets huge scenic areas, it's necessary to get a good and reliable guide, or you may occasionally get lost, wasting time on finding where to go, where to eat, etc. and also be afraid of an unfamiliar language and lacking a sense of security.
Travel in Zhangjiajie, means you are in a Chinese speaking place, communication will be the biggest problem for your travel if you can't speak Chinese. Perhaps you think you can hire an English speaking guide on the Internet by yourself, but it's always not easy to get a good and reliable guide, because the information from the Internet not always reliable.

Advantages: Save Money

Disadvantages: Itinerary Not Flexible, Forced Shopping, Most Chinese in a Group

Some Group-join Tour Facts in Zhangjiajie You Should Know:
1. Itinerary Not Flexible: the itinerary and date sheet for a group tour is always fixed, your travel schedule may not match it.
2. Zhangjiajie is a newly developed tourism city, although more and more foreigners(English Based) are travel to zhangjiajie, at present there are not enough foreigners to be organized as a group-join tour.
3. Almost all the group tours in Zhangjiajie are based on Chinese group, often the price for a Zhangjiajie group tour is very low(some travel agencies even offer zero and debt tour fee program), seems it's a good way to save money, just think about it: really? obviously it's a trap and always means a forced shopping tour.
4. Almost all the group tour guides in Zhangjiajie get no salary from their company, they have to persuade tourists to do shoppings, then there will be commission rebate to the guide and travel company. Sometimes if the tourists don't cooperate, they may force tourists to do shoppings or pay extra fees, otherwise they will get bad attitude and service for you.
5. Taking a group join tour, you may be guided to some free attractions instead of the highlight attractions in core scenic areas of Zhangjiajie. Even if you were guided to the core scenic areas, they would give you less time to visit the attractions, because they need to save enough time for all the group to do shoppings.

Tips: Try to calculate the general expenses based on the reference costs listing above, you can get a clear idea on how much costs for a Zhangjiajie tour.

This is the best option for you to have deeper experiences in Zhangjiajie. It's flexible, valuable and customizable for your budget and interests.