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Beijing Highlights Tour: Forbidden City, Temple, Palace
4.5
53 Ratings
Beijing
Maximize your stay in Beijing by discovering the city’s top attractions in a single day: the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, and Summer Palace. The package includes a well-informed English-speaking tour guide, Chinese lunch (optional), as well as hotel pickup and drop-off.
Maximize your stay in Beijing by discovering the city’s top attractions in a single day: the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, and Summer Palace. The package includes a well-informed English-speaking tour guide, Chinese lunch (optional), as well as hotel pickup and drop-off.
Duration:
8 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang) - Your full-day tour of classic Beijing begins with a visit to Tian’anmen Square after being picked up at your hotel at around 8 AM. Tian’anmen Square, the largest city square in the world, holds the Monument of the National Heroes, the Great Hall of the People, the National Museum of China, and the…
- Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang) - Your full-day tour of classic Beijing begins with a visit to Tian’anmen Square after being picked up at your hotel at around 8 AM. Tian’anmen Square, the largest city square in the world, holds the Monument of the National Heroes, the Great Hall of the People, the National Museum of China, and the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong.
- Forbidden City-The Palace Museum - You will then enjoy a short walk from Tian’anmen Square to the Forbidden City. At 8:30-10:30, you will visit this magnificent imperial palace. The Forbidden City, with over 500 years of history, is the largest and best-preserved ancient palatial structure in the world. Duration: approximately two hours.
- Temple of Heaven - At 11:00, on the way to your next destination, the Temple of Heaven, considered the holiest place in Beijing, is the largest ancient imperial architectural structure for worship in the world. The visit to Temple of Heaven takes about 1.5 hours.
- Summer Palace (Yiheyuan) - After lunch, take a 30-minute drive, you will reach the Summer Palace, the best preserved and largest imperial garden in the world. The Summer Palace is regarded as a museum of gardens in China. Duration: 2 hours. At 18:00, you will be transferred to your hotel.
What's Included
- Hotel pickup and drop-off within the 4th Ring Zone.
- Included all admission tickets per itinerary.
- English-speaking tour guide.
- Hotel pickup and drop-off within the 4th Ring Zone.
- Included all admission tickets per itinerary.
- English-speaking tour guide.
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Hotel accommodation.
- Any meals
- Gratuities
- Hotel accommodation.
- Any meals
Additional Information
- Children must be accompanied by an adult.
- You will receive details about tour guide and exact pickup time in your voucher the day before. And the tour guide will also call you via hotel or leave a message for you about pickup time the night before tour.
- The Forbidden City opens for booking 7 days in advance, and could be sold out very soon during…
- Children must be accompanied by an adult.
- You will receive details about tour guide and exact pickup time in your voucher the day before. And the tour guide will also call you via hotel or leave a message for you about pickup time the night before tour.
- The Forbidden City opens for booking 7 days in advance, and could be sold out very soon during peak season. For the last-minute booking, we will contact you for a backup plan if ticket is sold out.
Location
Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang)
West Changan Street, Dongcheng District,
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.5
(53 Ratings)
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Martina_f
May 24, 2024
Great tour of Beijing main attractions - The guide (Thomas) was very knowledgeable and keen on answering my questions. The tour was very well organize, I could see all the main highlights of Beijing, and the guide recommended a very good local restaurant, also suggesting the most typical dishes. Highly recommended!
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Juliann484
Mar 10, 2024
Amazing - The tour was excellent. My tour guide Amber did an outstanding job. Everything was very well planned. I can highly recommend both the tour and the organizer.
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Ni599
Jul 15, 2023
Nice guide, helpful and thoughtful. - Nice guide and tour, Mei was our guide, decent english, even helped with other reservations. In general a nice a lovely guide and tour! Glad we booked this and her.
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Juang7907
Dec 12, 2019
One of the BEST experiences ever! - I want to give a shoutout to Sally for such an amazing trip! She was an EXCELLENT tour guide that was highly informative and pleasant to be around for the entire excursion. She also gave us amazing recommendations on restaurants to check out and additional sites we should visit. I highly recommend her and the tour as well!
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Ctbfp
Dec 6, 2019
Best tour ever. - I have traveled extensively and have never had a better tour guide. Cactus met us on time. She was knowledgeable and pleasant. She went out of her way to explain and show us the sites. Lunch was delicious and plentiful. She knew all the best places for photos. But the best thing about her was her ability to make you feel at home. I can’t say enough about Cactus. She was excellent. If you are ever in China she’s the one to request.
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Phoebe
Nov 30, 2019
Fun and Informative! - Thank you Sally for being such a wonderful tour guide! She and our driver Mr. Xu took great care of my friend and I during the tour. Sally shared knowledge about not only the sites we saw, but also about Chinese culture. She also knew great spots for photos. It was lots of fun being able to converse with her in both Mandarin and English. We were able to stop at a tea shop to take part in a tea ceremony also along the tour, which was a great experience. I would recommend this tour!
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Paulmalone45
Oct 19, 2019
A good overview of Beijing - An early start to beat the queues. Tina our tour guide was very knowledgeable and pointed out all the key sites and even advised the females in the group where to find the European style toilets.
A long day but well worth gettingup early in the morning.
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282shirleyp
Oct 15, 2019
Shirley - Excellent. Toan was ery informative and organised. He also got on knew eveyones names that were on the bus. Would highly recommend.
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Jodi
Feb 17, 2020
AWESOME! - Overall this tour was awesome! We enjoyed visiting all the different historical sites but could of done without all the stops at the pearl warehouse, the jade warehouse the herbal medicine place oh wait... the foot massage part of that was awesome! Yes there is a lot of walking but I think manageable because you also get time to sit and rest here and there. I think the only issue we had was because our Hotel was outside the three ring pick up we had to meet our tour in town at another hotel That part was ok. the part that was annoying was our tour guide was suppose to call our hotel and let us know where to meet her and when we finally got to our hotel at 10pm we still hadn't received any info on where to meet and our tour was the next day! So after trying to communicate with hotel staff (which was a major fail) I had to make a phone call to the tour company which cost me $10! We finally was able to connect with our tour guide after a few lousy phone connections and finally got a email with instruction to the meeting place. That was after midnight and we had to be up by 5am to meet up with our group and we already hadn't slept for 24hrs! So needless to say we didn't get much sleep! only think i'd recommend is getting your meet up point if possible before getting to china!
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Mjm_gka
Dec 7, 2019
Very crowded. - This was actually one of the least enjoyable days of our tour. I wanted to go here as this tour included Tiannamin Square. This was such of a historical place, how could you miss it. It was very crowded and a long day with tons of walking (be prepared)! I found this to be quite boring if it wasn’t for the historical significance. With all this said, I am very glad I went on this tour, however I probably would not do it again. All the different areas, just seem to be repetitive. And I fell it’s the type of thing you have to see, Np but do not need to see again.
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