□ Written by Tang Gang

Golden Cruises: A Five-star Castle Floating on Yangtze River

□ Written by Tang Gang

The Three Gorges of the Yangtze River is a trump card of Chongqing tourism. The main method to cross the Three Gorges by far is taking a ship. The Gold cruise looks like a five-star castle drifting on the Yangtze River.

Jiang Zongjin , a general manager in Yangtze Gold Cruises Co., Ltd. has said that since the first gold cruise was built in 2011, more than 1 billion RMB has spent so as to make 7 gold cruises in the next 3 years. Either the implantation of many ocean cruise elements including design style and leisure vacation or the indicators of the cruise volume and comfort, Yangtze Gold Cruises have been rated as the most luxury lineup in China and Inland Cruise Ships.

Where has the “ luxury lineup ”shown ? It’s described that Gold Cruises are far beyond any others in the Yangtze River in the total length, carrying capacity, the number of crew and room size. For instance, principal ship dimensions are the important indicator to measure the comfort of deluxe cruises, thus Gold Cruise that has reached the largest size of world inland river cruises has really acted as the fifth generation luxury cruise on the Yangtze River with 136 meters to 149.96 meters long and 19.6 meters to 24 meters wide.

Being pioneering, Gold Cruises are equipped with helicopter apron, large two-tier Movie Theater and simultaneous interpretation conference hall, etc. In addition, other cruises adds new recreation facilities such as simulated wheel house, children’s playground, Mini golf course, and ring-shaped race track.

Besides, the Yangtze Gold Cruise fleets enjoy sight-seeing elevators and the only commercial pedestrian street with 800-odd square meters. Apart from these, the Yangtze Gold Cruise ships have offered special snack bars, coffee bars, cheongsam boutiques, supermarket and game center etc, which resembles a commercial pedestrian street in the bustling city. Double balconies are equipped in the rooms near the pedestrian street, enabling the tourists to get an unprecedented tourism experience.

The travelers c an not only appreciate the beautiful natural scenery along the Three Gorges, but also sense the modern urban style in such a cruise ship. This will give tourists a great experience.

Jiang Zongjin told the reporter that currently, 7 cruises has been rated as the five-star cruise ships. Many innovative functions onboard, for example, recreation facilities including helicopter apron, jogging track, large two-tier Movie Theater, pedestrian streets, swimming pool, conference room and billiards room, improve and enrich vacation category tourism products, guiding the Yangtze Cruises to develop in the direction of vacation tourism products. “Stunning” is the first impression of tourists who board the Gold Cruise. It has shown itself as a new, luxury and comfortable holiday cruise in front of tourists at home and abroad.from the first day. It’s said that a large number of travelers now choose not to take a ship if it’s not Gold Cruise when booking tickets in the travel agency, because they come to travel in the high-end and luxury cruises. Now, Gold Cruises has been one of the most magnifi cent views on the Yangtze River.