Went to ChangSha and ZhangJiaJie (Hunan province) for a few weeks late last year. Almost impossible to do anything without any Mandarin skills.
Hard to even find the airport and train station, nothing in English script, had to run GPS to even find when to get off the train.
If there were bars and clubs, I couldn't find them. NOBODY spoke any English.
And I travel all over the world with hardly any problems.
China is the hardest country I've ever visited.
Anything to do with Microsoft/Facebook/Google is totally blocked, can't even access the android play store.
If you do go have WhatsApp and WeChat preinstalled and working on your phone along with Maps.Me and the area you intend to visit already down loaded.
Hard to even find the airport and train station, nothing in English script, had to run GPS to even find when to get off the train.
If there were bars and clubs, I couldn't find them. NOBODY spoke any English.
And I travel all over the world with hardly any problems.
China is the hardest country I've ever visited.
Anything to do with Microsoft/Facebook/Google is totally blocked, can't even access the android play store.
If you do go have WhatsApp and WeChat preinstalled and working on your phone along with Maps.Me and the area you intend to visit already down loaded.