Yangtze Gold Cruises: the Largest Fleet on Yangtze River

Yangtze Gold Cruises Booking Tips

Please Provide Complete Information for Booking

When booking a Yangtze Gold Cruise ship, please provide us the complete information including your and your group members’ name, nationality (if you have two nationalities, please show us the nationality used for entry visa), gender, passport number, date of birth, your favorite cabin and amount of cabins, and other personal requirements.

Valid Documents & Real-name Registration

When booking the Yangtze Gold cruise ships with us, please provide us the correct passport info, like your name and passport number. Real-name registration is needed when booking the cruise. If there is any change for your passport, please contact us and provide us the latest personal info that we should deliver to the cruise company once you changed.

What’s Include & Exclude in Yangtze Gold Cruise Fee

The following items are included in your cruise fare and there is no need to pay when you board a Yangtze Gold Cruise ship.

• Entrance Fees: The arranged shore excursions listed in the itinerary of your cruise ship. Arranged downstream and upstream shore excursions include Fengdu Ghost City, Lesser Three Gorges and Three Gorges Dam Site.
• Meals: The daily meals (specified with “B”, “L” or “D”) on your cruise ship.
• Cabins: A bed in the cabin as specified in the itinerary. You could enjoy your room during daytime and night. Usually,
  Chongqing to Yichang for 3 nights onboard;
  Yichang to Chongqing for 4 nights onboard;
• Activities & Lectures: Captain Welcome Party, singing and dancing shows, fashion shows, Chinese Yangtze culture and history lectures, Captain Farewell party;
• Cleaning:Room cleaning service every day;
• Local guides for the arranged shore excursions;
• Accident Injury Insurance;
• Service Charge & Government Taxes.

The following items are excluded in the Yangtze Gold cruise fare. If you want to enjoy the services, you need to pay extra fees accordingly.

• Tip: There is a mandatory service tip CNY 150/person/voyage required to be paid when checking in the cruise, you can pay at the ship reception counter. You can decide to pay or not for volunteer tips to river guide, cruise director and staff onboard.
• Transfers: Transportation between Chongqing Jiangbei Airport / Chongqing North Railway Station and Chongqing Chaotianmen Port; also between Yichang Sanxia Airport and Maoping Port.
• Optional Shore Excursions: 298 RMB for each one site per person, except Mini Three Gorges charges for 180 RMB/person, Dachang Ancient Town charges for 150 RMB/person, Mount Shuanggui for 90 RMB/person.
• Personal Expenses: Expenses of a purely personal nature such as laundry, clinic service, faxes, telephone calls, spa, salon, shopping, Internet, DVDs, etc.
• Meals: Any meals which are not specified with "B", "L", or "D".
• Single Room Supplement: If you want to stay in one cabin (usually two beds in one cabin) on your own, you need to pay higher than one room shared with another.

Yangtze Gold Cruises Boarding Tips

Call the Ship or Check Email ahead

In normal circumstances, no matter you take downstream or upstream Yangtze Gold Cruises, you usually embark your ships at Chongqing Chaotianmen Port / Yichang Maoping Port. Check the exact ship for detailed boarding time. Also, the boarding port may do some adjustment for special events, like weather condition, level of water, river navigational conditions, annual maintenance of the Three Gorges Dam ship locks, etc.

To make everything go smoothly, please call the ship (the phone number we’ll show you clearly in the Confirmation Letter) one day ahead or at least in the morning on the boarding day. Or, you can also check your mailbox on the boarding day or one day before for the updated boarding information our travel consultant delivered. Please make sure your phone can be called through in China, so that we can also call you if there is any urgent change.

Find the Exact Pier in Chongqing & Yichang

Chongqing Chaotianmen Port is the general pier name and it is consisted of 14 sub-piers. While, Yichang Maoping Port is about 75 kilometers’ driving distance away from Yichang Sanxia Airport (takes about 1.5 hours), about 60 kilometers’ driving distance away from Yichang East Railway Station (takes about 1.5 hours) and about 55 kilometers’ driving distance way from Yichang downtown (takes about 1-1.5 hours). Travelers who take an upstream cruise will first gather at Yichang East Railway Station or Yichang Three Gorges Cruise Terminal to take the arranged bus to Maoping Port for embarkation.

For the boarding piers is not so easy to get to, you’d better use our worry free private transfer service. The local guide or driver will take you to the correct cruise pier from the airport / train stations, etc.

Board Your Ship at the Scheduled Time

Please plan your transportation ahead and board your ship at schedule time. If there is any trouble for your flights, train or local transportation to the port causing you arrive at the port late, please contact us at first time and we’ll try our best to help you solve the problem.

Collect Cruise Ticket at the Pier

Travelers will collect the cruise ticket with your real-name info signed at the corresponding port in Chongqing / Yichang, make sure your passport and ticket with consistent information, and get security check before board the ship for checking-in.

Luggage

Please kindly note that if you do not book private transfer with us and need to hire the local porters to carry your luggage in either Chongqing or Yichang Port to your ship, please discuss the price with the porter beforehand. It usually charges according to the number of your luggage.

For more Yangtze Gold Cruises booking and boarding questions, please feel free to contact our professional cruise agents who are here ready to help you at any time!