Beijing Private Tour: Forbidden City, Great Wall, More

Embark on a thrilling 3-day private tour of Beijing’s highlights, including the Forbidden City and Mutianyu Great Wall. Beat the crowds, slide down the Toboggan, and enjoy inclusive entrance fees, guide, lunch, and transport.

Duration: 3 days
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights

Tiananmen Square-Forbidden City-Hutong-Lama Temple (L)

Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang) - Tian’anmen Square, the world’s largest public square. Explore the sites around the square with opportunities to take some amazing pictures.
Forbidden City-The Palace Museum - Forbidden City, the largest Imperial Palace in the world. you will…

What's Included
  • Entrance tickets to the sights
  • Bottled water
  • Round Trip cable car or chair lift up and toboggan down the wall for Mutianyu section
  • Lunch
  • English-speaking tour guide service
  • Air-conditioned vehicle with a private driver
What's Not Included
  • Accommodation
  • Dinner
  • Gratuity to the guide and driver (for good service)
  • Special Guide service with extra 400CNY per day
Additional Information

Take part in this very exciting and comprehensive private tour. Our professional guide will take you to explore the amazing Beijing city during this 3 days tour,

  • Discover most incredible attractions such as Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Mutianyu Great Wall, and etc. You can choose the different option by your own preferences;
  • Efficient way to…
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Beckylw8187rw
Sep 26, 2025
Brilliant Beijing - My family and I had Sonia as our guide who took us to the main sites of Beijing and to the Jinshanling section of the Great Wall. Sonia was extremely knowledgeable, friendly and made our trip very enjoyable. In our party, we had 5 adults and 3 children. We were able to arrange for our own private transportation through Catherine Lu tours and picked up directly from our hotel. This made it so easy for us. They also gave us great tips for restaurants and we thoroughly enjoyed our 3 days with Sonia. Would highly recommend this tour company and Sonia as a guide.
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Abdala
Sep 21, 2025
Excellent tour....super recommended - This tour was excellent for our visit in China Beijing. Sonie was the best guide and was always attentive and available to all our queries and requests. We traveled with older gentlemen and she was always attentive to them and to make them okay. He helped us in the trade, always attentive and giving us suggestions; he organized restaurants with authentic local measure very good. He was key in suggesting the times to visit the attractions and explaining each of them. We definitely recommend this private tour for your visit to Beijing, and ask for the guide Sonie is definitely the best!!!
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John
Sep 17, 2025
Fabulous custom Beijing tour - Catherine Lu personally organized our custom trip in Beijing. And now we’re off to Xi’an for the next leg, still working with Catherine. Planning for this began some months ago, and has changed numerous times because of changes on our end with friends here. In each case, Catherine Lu was flexible and helpful. The organization and her staff were superb. Catherine gets back to you when you have concerns and makes sure that all of any potential issues are taken care of. We feel that this is a top notch company all the way. This week, Lena (tour guide) with driver Mr Li were fabulous. They took care of every need and arrangement. Every worry we could have had was overcome by their understanding and their preparedness. They picked us up from the train station in Beijing and immediately took us to the Summer Palace for touring. What a gorgeous place, and Lena filled us in on all of the details and stories that took place there. We had a lovely tour there, and then they drove us to our hotel in the hutongs and waited for us while we got settled in. Lena took us for a brief stroll and introduction to the hutongs around our hotel, and then we set off for Jingshan Park to get some exercise walking through the beautiful park while Lena told us about its history. when we reached the top, we could see the roofs of the Forbidden City below us. Lena provided many insights and stories that were fascinating. Afterwards, the tour included dinner at a wonderful local Beijing restaurant. The food was fabulous. The following day was our time on the Great Wall. What an experience! Again, Lena was full of great information and stories. She shared so much insight about the Wall, what life would have been like for the soldiers who guarded there, and how the signal towers would warn the people who depended on the Wall for protection. She told us about the peasant lady whose husband was drafted to work on the wall, and about the foolish emperor who “cried wolf” one time too many! Lena was kind, patient, and always answered questions with super information, as well as always suggesting places to take our picture to make our trip memorable. Chatting with her, it was also great to get to know her as a person and what her life is like outside of her tour guide job. We enjoyed the human touches she put into each moment. This made the trip so very special, and for this we thank her so much. Lena was always concerned for our comfort and our health. She made sure that on the way back from the Wall we would learn of and take the shortcut so that we wouldn’t be quite as tired from this long day. After the Wall, another wonderful local meal, followed by a tour of the beautiful and not-to-be-missed Temple of Heaven. Today, we had another impressive and interesting tour This time of Tiananmen Square and the phenomenal, layers of sections in the Forbidden City. We wished we had had more time because the forbidden city simply goes on and on and on. However, we had booked a train at 3 PM from Beijing to Xi’an. Lena not only made some adjustments to our schedule to fit as much as we could into our morning and afternoon, but she also rushed the restaurant staff to be sure we got our lunch in before leaving for the train station. Lena had us take leftover food for a snack on the train. At the train station, Mr. Li and Lena helped us further by carrying our luggage to the waiting gate. They made sure we got to the right place in the train station where those who hold passports are supposed to be. In fact, Lena came all the way down and onto the train and got us to our seats so that we had no worries in a strange and new station. We had a wonderful experience with Catherine Lu Tours and would highly recommend this company to our friends and family!
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Pioneer14489601871
Aug 4, 2025
Beijing in 3 days - We had an amazing three day tour seeing the sights of Beijing, our tour guide Suzie was wonderful and able to happily answer any questions. She was also able to share plenty of historical information about Chinese history and culture. We had the pleasure of eating some delicious Chinese cuisine. The 3 day private tour was fantastic value, the private car was very comfortable and arrived promptly to take us to the next destination. Thoroughly recommend booking this tour with Catherine Lu tours 😃😃
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Jennyyy3126qu
Jul 17, 2025
Excelent tour in spanish with Iris - It was by far the most incredible tour we ever think of having, exceed our expectations, Iris was an excelent guide, she explain Everything very good, she knows a lot and always smiling and helpful, she took us to very good restaurants according to our preferences. Her spanish was perfect The car and Driver very good too Excelent places we visit, we enjoy Beijing very much Definetly recomend to everyone We were very happy it was very well organized and very efficient
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E4750zdpaula
Jul 10, 2025
A Great Way to See All the Highlights! - Working with Catherine Lu Tours was an incredible experience - easy communication, fully customizable, and simply the best. We would highly recommend working with her team to book your next trip to Beijing. Everything from airport transfers to restaurants were discussed and taken care of ahead of time - not to mention seeing all the sights! Anything you want to see - the team will make sure you get to it and on your schedule. It was truly the experience of a lifetime!
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Bruce
Jul 8, 2025
Adam made our tour exceptional - Our tour with Catherine Lu tours was excellent. Our tour guide Adam was amazing. He speaks English and as well as we do, he was very kind and took very good care of us. He is a History professor so his knowledge of China is absolutely amazing, he has a wealth of knowledge and has a great sense of humor. We are exceptionally happy with our tour and know that it would not have been nearly as good without Adam.
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Davidcw9773gv
Jul 6, 2025
Extraordinary tour in Beijing in reliable company with friendly and professional Guides - Extraordinary tour in Beijing with a very friendly , trustworthy and knowledgeable guide, Iris. We saw the main historic sights in a very efficient schedules, always well taken care of, and eating at local places according to our preferences and very fair prices. The minivan we travelled in was very comfortable and the driver very skilled We totally recomend Caterin Lu tourist agency because of its formality, and expertise at giving a great tourist service
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945mikkelj
Jun 26, 2025
China trip - We used Catherine Lu Tours during our visit to Beijing, and we were completely satisfied. They made sure we covered everything on our bucket list, while also tailoring the experience so that both kids and adults had a great time. Our guide, Sonia, was absolutely fantastic – fun, helpful, and attentive throughout all three days. We would definitely use Catherine Lu Tours again and highly recommend them to anyone visiting Beijing or other parts of China.
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220marad
May 17, 2025
Couldn’t recommend higher - I travelled to China with my 60yr old mother and both mum and i had an amazing experience. Catherine lu and team helped us organise everything from our airport pick up, travel between cities by bullet train and tickets to each location. Our guides were great at explaining the history behind everything and were really accommodating. We loved everything being sorted also so we didn’t have to stress. Our tour guides in Beijing Sonia was amazing! We couldn’t be more thankful for our time. We also got to see a bit of Xi’an with our guide Tina and chengdu with our guide Qin who were both also amazing! All of drivers were really nice and cars always clean and comfortable.
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From $242
up to 15 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).