Customer Travel Tips for Suzhou
Customer Travel Tips for Suzhou
Read a selection of great customer tips provided by HostelBookers customers like you
10 May 2015
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: A lot of force selling on the street
Liked: Food!
Disliked: Nothing
14 Sep 2014
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
City break
Events / festivals
Partying / nightlife
Sightseeing & culture
Sports, adventure or outdoor activities
Customer Travel Tip: Get into the modern city cente for a bit - it's flipping mental!
Liked: The contrasts between the ancient and modern. There's much more to this place than canals and gardens - lovely as they are!
Disliked: Not really.
06 Aug 2014
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: Enjoy the water town.
Liked: beautiful water town in PingJinag Rd. and Shantang Rd.
Disliked: It seems like the city itself is under the construction at the moment. Every Roads are under construction.
26 Jul 2014
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: Bring a comfy pair of shoes to wander around :)
Liked: It's a pretty city with lots of parks and places to walk.
Disliked: It's becoming a little touristy and away from the sights it's really just another Chinese town.
21 Jun 2014
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: Find accommodation near to the gardens.
Liked: Not much
Disliked: Gardens were overrated. Lack of restaurants near the hostel
26 May 2014
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: Good last stop before Beijing.
Liked: Gardens and Watertown areas.
Disliked: No.
19 May 2014
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: N/A
Liked: Very beautiful
Disliked: Not many places to eat. Not enough things to do for a long stay.
09 May 2014
Customer Travel Tip: Summer is very hot
Liked: Nice place, nice people. Small expat community.
Disliked: Mosquitos
16 Apr 2014
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: Stay in Ping Jiang and avoid this hostel. See a garden and a museum and you have really seen what Suzhou has had to offer.
Liked: Most of the sites can be walked to in the north of the city
Disliked: Too many electric bikes.. construction of the subway had us walking in the middle of the street with the cars. When does China think of pedestrians as important?
01 Apr 2014
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: Garden museum
Liked: culture, sightseeing, amazing garden
Disliked: no
29 Mar 2014
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
City break
Customer Travel Tip: Lots to see
Liked: Lots ti see
Disliked: No
01 Feb 2014
Customer Travel Tip: I.M. pei museum All the gardens ( recommend the small one's like garden of the nets ) day trip to one of the little water towns around the center. walk around at night near the hostel is a great scenery.
Liked: visiting the gardens and especially the I.M. Pei museum ( for architecture lovers)
Disliked: the old city centre has given away for many boring commercial buildings, at first sight it makes the city centre un attractive.
11 Dec 2013
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: Do visit the gardens.
Liked: The gardens were really beautiful and peaceful to walk around.
Disliked: Nil
23 Nov 2013
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: Figure out where you want to eat before going out as finding food can be difficult.
Liked: We loved everything we saw! The humble Administrators garden was beautiful.
Disliked: Trying to find the bus to get to our hostel when we arrived at the train station. It took asking 5 different people and a slight breakdown before we found the correct number 1 bus.
23 Nov 2013
Customer Travel Tip: Visit the humble administrator garden but try to avoid the weekend, go to the old town, rent a bike
Liked: Gardens and old town areas with the water roads
Disliked: No
25 Sep 2013
Customer Travel Tip: In Summer it gets really, really hot (well over 40°C at day and still over 30°C at night), so think about that, when you plan your trip as this weather is not for everybody.
Liked: Beautiful old town
Disliked: Comparatively very high prices
20 Sep 2013
Customer Travel Tip: If you can't speak chinese, write down the bus numbers you have to use to get from one place to the other place the name of their correspondents bus stops. There is only one subway line so you need chinese to get around.
Liked: Very cultural, I highly recommend Tian Ping Mountain
Disliked: Nothing
07 Sep 2013
Customer Travel Tip: Enjoy Pingjiang Lu
Liked: Beautiful canal town
Disliked: It rained while we were there
16 Aug 2013
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Work / volunteering
Customer Travel Tip: Take the time to have a tea with local people in a garden tea house.
Liked: The wonderful gardens and the atmosphere of the old city
Disliked: Many tourists
18 Jun 2013
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: Train is very useful.
Liked: The river side is good.foods are cheap. Easy to access from shanghai .
Disliked: Far from supermarket.