We have so many amazing trips in our Tailor-made pages on the website cruise.co.uk.
There is a trip due to depart in a few weeks time including a grand tour of China visiting Beijing and the great wall and travelling south to Xian to see the Terracotta Warriors and the giant pandas before taking a river cruise along the Yangtze! There is then a short flight to Hong Kong where they join a cruise for 7 nights to Vietnam. My customers choose to spend 3 nights at the end in Singapore.
Before they travel they had to obtain a visa for China – Vietnam is visa-free at the moment but this does keep changing!
They found the process a little timely! They applied about 3 months before. The application form is about 8 pages long and you do need to take your time when completing the form so that everything is correct.
They require a full list of your itinerary. It is no good just saying we are on a trip with Buffalo tours. They need every hotel name and destination you are visiting.
You can apply via a company called CIBT who check all the information is completed correctly before you make an appointment in 1 of the offices to have your fingerprints taken.
There are 3 offices in London, Manchester and Edinburgh.
Make sure you take with you..
- Your visa application form
- Passports
- Photocopy of your passports
- Passport photos
- Via appointment sheet
- Letter of invitation from the tour company
- Full itinerary including flight details and hotel names
I would allow the full day for this. My guest forgot to photocopy the passport and to take a photo so this delayed the process. It took about 5 hours including the mix-up
They only accept debit cards or cash so be careful and make sure you have the funds
For the 3 of them, they paid just over £400
You then make an appointment to collect the visa in approx 4 days time or you can choose to have them posted – this was approx £30pp
The office was very pleasant and the staff really friendly.
Best tip is to double check and triple check before your appointment!
I will let you know in a few weeks how they got on! Bet they have an amazing time!
Thanks for reading!
Love Rosie xxx
