My sister just got back from China after 6 months of being an exchange student. My mom visited her there for a week and a half and returned completely drained and stressed. While they were celebrities over there with the locals, the traffic was dreadful, the hotels were too scared of seeing Americans die in their care and kept turning them away (the cops got involved when the owner of a low price hotel got suspicious of why Americans were in his dump instead of the nicer hotel they got kicked out of and my mom was suspected of being on the run), the locals poo in the streets due to lack of bathrooms available, they ended up staying a night in a tent on the beach where the water was dirty and shark infested, and the only place my mom wanted to see (the great wall of China) was deemed a "bad idea" due to the area being too dangerous and Beijing being "too dirty". Oh and the weather was in the 90's and humid the entire time. I'm really glad I didn't go.