I engaged Lydia as my personal tour guide for my eight-day visit to Chengdu in October 2014.
Despite being a varsity student with time constraint on her part, Lydia spent a fair amount of time to research and draw up a suitable itinerary for me, including visits of some major attractions in Chengdu and its vicinities as well as places further away, namely Jiuzhaigou, Huang Long and Bipenggou. She planned, arranged and when necessary purchased the tickets in advance for me for the ground transportation. She also provided me with her advices for the bookings of hotel accommodations.
Lydia was responsive, knowledgeable, punctual, cheerful and very caring. She was also mindful of my budget and was very capable of getting new information along the way and refined our itinerary accordingly. Throughout our trip, I enjoyed having intellectual conversations with her on various topics of interest.
I told Lydia that I would like to try out the classic Sichuan smoked duck (樟茶鸭) at its origin. Despite being an item usually served in banquets and special events and thus not readily available, she was able to find a restaurant with this dish on its menu at a very inexpensive price.
Lydia took many pictures for me with her cell phone and before I reached home from my trip, she already had the pictures compiled into an album waiting for me in the "IN Box" of my email.
Lydia is very trustworthy without any doubt. She always adhered to her commitments. I will definitely engage her again when I visit Chengdu next time.
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