Never made it to Suzhou so I can't tell you how I would have fared there. However in Yunnan province (Dali, Lijiang, Kunming) I didn't have too many problems wi

Never made it to Suzhou so I can't tell you how I would have fared there. However in Yunnan province (Dali, Lijiang, Kunming) I didn't have too many problems with Google Maps either. I would have loved to use Baidu Maps all the time if there were a Pinyin mode. When I first installed the app I was shocked by the permissions it requested, but on stock Android I didn't really have a choice. I do think international iPhone users generally have it easier in China. Let's see what happens this year (or next) with Google resuming some operations in China (saw some job openings focused on Ads in Shanghai and Beijing).