Suzhou Travel Reviews

Checked out this new club on XingHai Street last night.  Awesome place.  Great drinks and not very expensive.  They also gave me a members Reveller card which gives me deals in the club and also with local companies that advertise in their monthly magazine.   ... Details

REVEL is a new club bringing Shanghai style to Suzhou.  If you are fed up of the same old theme that the Chinese clubs have you should check out REVEL.  It has western dancers all night, good deals on drinks and an amazing atmosphere created by the DJ's.  All the DJ's are from ... Details

We caught the fast train to Suzhou and after negotiating the touts at the gate, picked a sweet looking man who was supported by an English speaking woman in a 'pink' booth. We paid to see gardens, 5 gardens, and hopped on a bus ready to explore the delights of the garden city as it said in the ... Details

I heard people saying "Heaven's Above, Su-Hang Down Below", until I had been there, I didn't understand the meaning of it. Each of these gardens is this city is a piece of fine art – the landscaping, the stone work and wood work, the architectural design are all involved in a lot of ... Details

Computer Troubles! Today's news is being published quite late. Let me tell you why. It is late because I didn't get home from the computer repair shop till 7:15 am Magic City Time. Let me first say, that this edition is being published from my own 'now fixed' laptop computer, thanks to 'SuZhou jingying ... Details

At the mention of Suzhou, classical gardens always come as the first to one mind. However I had something different to experience this time. A childhood friend works in Suzhou after graduation from college school. She is my guide and I can just go around with her without worrying where to take ... Details

I was eager to experience the bullet train from Shanghai to Suzhou on a summer Sunday. The bullet train is named He Xie Hao (Harmony Train). I purchased the train ticket one day in advanced on 2F of Shanghai South Railway Station. You should go to the ticket window marked He Xie Hao(和谐号), another ... Details

Sunday is probably my favourite day of the week in China. For those who work it is nearly the only day that is taken as a holiday and it is perhaps for this reason that there's always an extra jauntiness to the streets, an extra spring in the step and moreover, an even greater crowd than usual out and ... Details

My long awaited visit to Suzhou happens at long last under a sudden spell of downright miserable weather that casts the day in a grim shroud of cloud, mist and almost incessant rain. I couldn’t have chosen a worse day to start my trip and sitting on the bus, watching the raindrops making streams ... Details

It’s a well-known fact that the Chinese were up on their game in the department of inventing things immeasurably useful to mankind: from paper to the compass, porcelain to gunpowder. Even contrary to my students’ textbooks (put out by Cambridge University) the Chinese invented the printing ... Details