Forbidden City Discovery: Mini Group Tour with Emphasis on Palace Museum and Cultural Insights

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Embark on an immersive journey through the Forbidden City on a mini group tour. Discover the Palace Museum’s hidden treasures and gain cultural insights in 4 hours. Skip the line and secure your limited ticket today!

Duration: 4 hours

Cancellation: 1 day learn more

Highlights

Forbidden City-The Palace Museum - Start your day’s exploration of the Forbidden City in the morning with pickup from the lobby of your Beijing hotel. Board a comfortable tour vehicle with your guide and group and head out for the Forbidden City, one of Beijing’s top attractions. Upon arrival, bypass the long lines and whisk directly inside with your pre-booked entrance ticket. Begin your exploration of the world’s largest imperial complex, also one of the best-preserved sites in the world. Also called the Palace Museum, this attraction boasts approximately 10,000 rooms in total, where 24 emperors lived for over a span of 500 years from the Ming to the Qing dynasty. Learn about the detailed, eclectic history of the site from your guide, an expert in Chinese culture, during your tour. Please see the Itinerary section for a full list of the 18 different palaces visited during the tour. Your tour ends in the Forbidden City; you are responsible for your own transportation back to your hotel. Please Note: all traveler names and passport number required required. You MUST provide your above info upon booking, in case the tickets are sold out. You MUST have your passport with you for attending this tour.

What's Included

Forbidden City entrance ticket
Professional historian guide
Hotel pickup
Local taxes

What's Not Included

Gratuities
Hotel drop-off
Food and drinks

Additional Information

Experience the ultimate small group tour of the Forbidden City, where you will explore 18 palaces, including The Palace Museum Antiquarium (Treasures Museum). This 4-hour tour offers a comprehensive insight into the structure and cultural significance of the Forbidden City. The number of tickets sold for the Forbidden City is now restricted daily. Fear not, this tour includes the ticket and even lets you bypass the queue!

Infant and children must be accompanied by adult
A current valid passport is required on the day of travel
All traveler names and passport number required required. You MUST provide your above info upon booking, in case the ticket sold out. You MUST have your passport with you for attending this tour.
If the booking less than 2 people, it may cancelled and full refund

Location

Forbidden City-The Palace Museum

No.4 Jingshanqian Street, Dongcheng District,

Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings

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Nztommo

Aug 22, 2024

Outstanding day - Jefferey was fantastic. He was very knowledgeable about the forbidden city and his English was great He also had a good sense of humour and we enjoyed his company. Our son is learning Chinese so the two of them talked most of the tour.

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214kyit

Aug 22, 2024

Half day tour with jeffrey - Nice tour and jeffrey is very friendly tour guide. I really enjoy the tour. I learned a lot of history.he know a lot about forbidden city. I really recommand it.

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A2725ju_

Aug 20, 2024

Great experience - I really liked a lot of stories about ancient times and their connection with modern time. The tour guide made a lot of good jokes too! :D I liked this tour much.

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839alinat

Aug 20, 2024

Great and interesting tour - Thank you for great tour. Was interesting, we learn so much. I really enjoyed the walk tour with Lilly! Highly recommended! Thank you so much!

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436manand

Aug 18, 2024

Great Tour - Maggie was an excellent tour guide through the Forbidden City, providing a historical overview with an attention to detail that gave so much context for what we were seeing. Without a guide like her, we would have walked aimlessly around this massive complex and not understood so many elements about it and the incredible histories that it's witnessed.

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Krishnav545

Aug 15, 2024

The most amazing tour of the forbidden city - Linda was amazing and gave us a thorough tour of the forbidden city! She was very knowledgeable and kind. She helped us by meeting us at our hotel, arranged the driver and helped get our tickets. We gently paced through the city learning lots about the ancient history of this UNESCO heritage site. We are newlyweds, Linda gifted us 2 beautiful good luck charms which was so very kind. I would highly recommend this tour company and Linda. We had booked a small group tour, but we’re lucky enough to have a private tour just to ourselves.

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Julien

Aug 14, 2024

Great experience at the forbidden city - Really great experience, with lots of insights on the forbidden city and Chinese history! Very understandable English

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Nigel_b

Aug 12, 2024

Fascinating trip! - We very much enjoyed the tour Jeffrey took us of the Forbidden City. He was very knowledgeable, kind, patient and informed us of various very interesting details we otherwise would not have known. My 14 year old daughter was very engaged and interested. Highly recommend!

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Gloriawe4934lm

Aug 11, 2024

Wonderful experience, thank you Summer. - Went on August 11th at 1pm. Beautiful place. Plus, our wonderful tour guide Summer was always happy to answer our question. She was especially nice and always made sure we had enough water and breaks if needed. Honestly, could not have asked for a better guide. Wonderful wonderful wonderful. Thank you Summer. - 💖 Gloria

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