Century Glory

The brand new luxury Century Glory presents every traveler guest onboard the ultimate tasting enjoyment during your 4-5 days on the Yangtze River. Both the grand double-deck Globe Dining Room (2-3F) and the exquisite Pavilion VIP Restaurant (4F) are finely designed with large picture windows and decorated with advanced furniture in elegant color scheme of gold and white as well as atmospheric lighting for a high-class fancy restaurant dining experience. All three meals of a cruising day are greatly arranged in Chinese & Western buffet style at both restaurants. The cruise company caters to you to sample diverse kinds of delicacies in China and other countries in the world and to suite your ordinary dietary habit. Furthermore, there are also a-la-carte services in both those two restaurants, thus, you can order other food as you like to have the ultimate culinary experience during the cruise trip. Besides the three meals, there are plenty of exquisite snacks of western and local flavors offered onboard from the early bird refreshment to night snacks, so you will absolutely treat your taste buds throughout the day.

Breakfast options: salad (assorted vegetable salad); cheese (orange flavor, Emmenthal); beer sausage, sauces (Thousand Island Dressing, French Dressing, etc.); dry fruit (banana chips, walnut, raisin, etc.); cereal; fruits in syrup (pear, pineapple, etc.); juice (orange, tomato); dairies (milk, soybean milk, plain yogurt, etc.); bread and pastries (toast, Baguette, croissant, raisin muffin, etc.); jam (strawberry, apple, honey, peanut, etc.); butter; hot dishes (seasonal vegetable, ox tripe, etc.); eggs; poached corn, roasted bacon, pickles, fresh fruits; porridge; Chinese dim sum; noodles, cooking stations, etc.

Lunch options: salad (assorted vegetable salad); Chinese salad (cabbage, chicken with chilli and wild pepper sauce, celery with sesame oil, etc.); Chinese hot dishes (stir-fried choy sum with garlic, dry braised blunt-snout bream, etc.), Western hot dishes; Western dressings (chopped egg, chopped bacon, olive rings, etc.); sushi (salmon, tuna, caviar, etc.); salad with sauces; sauces; bread and pastries; pickles; soups (cream potato soup, etc.); desserts (mango jelly, orange mousse, black forest cake, puff, snow fungus soup, etc.); fruits; porridge, rice, cooking stations, etc.

Dinner options: salad (assorted vegetable salad); Western dressings (chopped egg, chopped bacon, olive rings, etc.);salad with sauces; sauces (Thousand Island Dressing, French Dressing, sesame oil, aromatic vinegar, chilli oil, etc.); Chinese dressings (chopped green onion, chopped peanut, etc.); Chinese cold dishes (broccoli in scallion oil, sweet and sour ribs, etc.) western old dishes (Philippine styled stewed pork, pizza with mixed sausages, etc.); Chinese hot dishes (braised Dongpo pork hock with brown sauce, stir fried seasonal vegetables, shredded beef with hot peppers, etc.); soups (tomato and beef meatballs soup, etc.); desserts (matcha red bean mousse, German cheese cake, caramel pudding, etc.); bread and pastries (soft rolls, hard rolls, etc.); fruits; porridge; rice; cooking stations, etc.

(Please note: 1. The above dish list of breakfast, lunch and dinner is for reference only; 2. Special dietary requirements, such as diabetic or vegetarian, are accepted onboard, but need to be informed in advance at the time of booking with us or when checking in onboard the cruise; 3. To know exact dining time, you can have a clear idea in the elevator, through TV channel or by listening to the broadcast.)

1. Early bird treatment: Early risers can enjoy complimentary early bird coffee and tea with pastries in the bar (usually at 06:30~07:00).

2. Advanced purified water system with purified water directly offered to cabins on Century Glory. Also, drinkable water is offered through the room thermos and bottled water (1 bottle per person per day).

3. Free drinking of selected red wines, beers, soft drinks, coffee, tea, etc. are offered at lunch and dinner. Milk, coffee, tea, juice and other selected non-alcoholic drinks are offered at breakfast.

4. Century Glory has the Cheers Bar, Panorama Café and Executive Lounge offering drinks, beverage, wines for travelers from morning till night.

5. The legal drinking age on Century Cruises ships is 18 years old.

Drink Packages:

Onboard Century Glory, there are some drink packages for cruise travelers to enjoy a leisurable drinking holiday with good prices. Please know the details from staff onboard after your embarkation. Also, you can check Century Cruises Drink Packages for more information for reference.

Century Glory arranges in total 6 types of comfortable and deluxe intelligent cabins and suites onboard for the total relaxing stay during the cruise vacation, including Deluxe Cabins, Superior Deluxe Cabins, Executive Suites, Family Suites, Glory Suites and Presidential Suites. Every room is more than 25 s.q.m. wide with a private bathroom and a private balcony, and also is meticulously designed into elegant and modern Chinese style for a peaceful travel mood and decorated well with advanced equipment and appliances for a highly intelligent staying enjoyment. The zero-oil painting environment with entire environmental friendly materials ensures the best healthy accommodation for everyone. And the entire linen of 5-star luxury hotel standard will care your skin and help you sleep really soundly. What’s super novel and important is the two types of Family Suites of 34 s. q. m., with one themed with pink kitty and the other with green giant panda. An additional single children’s bed is arranged within the suite, just next to the double bed, which is fantastic for couples traveling with children. Besides, the Glory Suites of 71 s.q.m. wide and Presidential Suites of 85 s.q.m. wide are really top choices for prestigious luxury experience onboard.

Booking the Executive Suites, Family Suites, Glory Suites or Presidential Suites on Century Glory offers you a rich series of complimentary VIP services from dining, drinking, to caring, shore excursion visiting, and so forth, for your ultimate luxuriant cruise travel memory in China!

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You will never feel bored when on Century Glory, since quite many types of interesting cultural activities, performances and entertaining items are arranged during day and late night for your wonderful holiday experience.

In the early morning, stretch your body by learning Taichi with others under the guidance of the Taichi master to start a fresh day. During the day, just feel free to join in the popular cultural lectures, seasonal themed activities & DIYs, like moon cakes making, dumpling making, kite flying, etc. to learn some interesting Chinese culture, art, history, and so on, to enrich your harvest of the trip. Besides, enjoy a movie at the Century Theater on the Bottom Deck. You can also show your singing talent and charm with your friends or family members in the KTV rooms (extra fee). And no worry, if you travel in solo, the advanced new Karaoke machine (extra fee) can also create relaxing hours for you. Furthermore, during your unoccupied time, if you are interested, you can also visit the Captain’s bridge (extra fee) to know how they control the so large cruise, play Mahjong (extra fee) in the Card and Chess Room to get more different fun, and so on.

Moreover, remember not to miss the Captain's Welcome Reception on your embarkation night with band play on site for a great party enjoyment. Furthermore, watch the jubilant Crew Talent Show in the evening to receive the welcome from the whole cruise staff and harmonious moments with international cruise travelers.

If you want some quiet moments, get up to the super-large Top Observation Deck and lie on the deck chair to enjoy the passing scenery and comfortable sunshine, read an interesting book in the River Library, etc. Time is just not enough to enjoy them all!

Traveling with kids? No worry! The great children’s playground is well facilitated with various recreational items for the fun play of your sweethearts!

Cruise guests on Century Glory can receive the catering butler service for a worry-free trip experience. All its about 180 staff are systematically and strictly trained to offer considerate and reputed services to every visitor to the cruise, from the reception, dining, drinking, caring, ordering, cleaning, etc. All of them are very glad to receive and talk to you and help you throughout your tour.

Intelligent Service: Century Glory has launched the first intelligent service on Yangtze River cruise. Once you link your smart mobile phone to the Hi-technological AI VOD system, you will know about the comprehensive information of the cruise and your trip clearly.

Guide Service: Experienced English-speaking guide will serve there during the whole cruise and help you know everything clearly. Every day, the guides will inform through the central broadcasting system or bulletin board the arrangement of all the activities of the next day. Besides, he/she will participate in various activities and give nice introduction of the Three Gorges (Qutang Gorge and Wu Gorge) during your visiting. To help you have a much better tourist visiting experience, Century Glory also adapts the guide earphone for every guest during their shore excursion discovery.

Laundry: Every traveler onboard can do laundry. Apart from the simple self-laundry in the bathroom in your cabin, there is also laundry service for your need. If you want to have your clothes cleaning, just put them into the laundry bag in your room and tell the staff or reception desk, and they will arrange to collect your clothes to do laundry. Staff will send your clean clothes to your room. Such service needs extra payment. Moreover, laundromat machines are prepared onboard, which needs about 15RMB for once with coins (detailed price can be known from the staff onboard). And if you need, please tell the staff for help.

Internet & WI-FI: Century Glory offers free Wi-Fi service to all its guests. The Wi-Fi is covered on the entire ship 24 hours during your whole trip, so you can use it to share photos to social media, contact with your people and deal with some business, in both public area and your cabins. Be kindly known that the signal may be influenced when passing some sections of the Yangtze River. Please tell the staff to help you link your phone and other device to the Wi-Fi.

Phone call / Copy & Print: Both domestic and international phone calls are available onboard Century Glory, so you will still keep great contact with your family and friends no matter they are in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan or other overseas countries. Also, copy & print services are arranged on the cruise. All the services are fee-based, which can be signed to your account and be settled at the end of your cruise trip. Please tell the staff to help you.

Housekeeping: The room attendants will clean your room every day as that in the starred hotels for your neat and fresh staying feeling.

Century Glory has an onboard doctor offers 24-hour treatment services (with both Chinese and Western treatments) to visitors for emergencies in the Clinic. And the doctor will sometimes hold a lecture about traditional Chinese Medicine, telling you something about Chinese medicinal herb and acupuncture and moxibustion. Besides, to care your body and maintain your health, you can do Spa and massage on board to get fully relaxed or keep your healthy lifestyle and release pressure at the Fitness Center.

Payment Onboard

The onboard currency is the Chinese Yuan (there is a currency exchange counter on board). At the end of the cruise you can settle your onboard account either in cash or by credit card (VISA, Mastercard, American Express, all using chip and PIN). Travelers’ Cheques in Euro or US Dollars are also accepted. Also, Alipay and WeChat Pay are also available on the cruise for more convenient e-payment experience during the trip!