Breakfast and lunch are buffet. Diabetic, vegetarian and low-salt menus can be provided with advance requests. These are identical riverboats. Each has a lounge with dancing, an observation deck, health club, jacuzzi, karaoke cafe, three bars, library, hairdresser, outdoor jogging track and a business center with an international phone and fax system. Lectures and cultural programs are given, along with tai chi lessons and demonstrations of painting and calligraphy.
Passengers are mostly American, European and Asian.
There is a doctor on board with abilities in both eastern and western medicine. At Wuhan you board a small river craft for an upstream ride on the Daning River to see the Three Small Gorges, narrower and even more impressive than the great Three Gorges. At Shashi you go ashore to visit the ancient city of Jingzhou and the Prefectural Museum with artifacts from the Zhou, Qin and Han dynasties. Other shore excursions include Fengdu, Yueyang and Wanxian, Mt. Lushan, Mt. Huangshan and Nanjing. Shore excursions and port charges are extra.