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Mutianyu Great Wall: Private Layover Guided Tour with Visa-free Permit Assistance
4.9
98 Ratings
Beijing
Experience a private layover guided tour of the Mutianyu Great Wall with visa-free permit assistance. Enjoy the convenience of pick-up from the airport or your hotel and a professional driver and English-speaking tour guide. Explore the Great Wall with ease and make the most of your layover in Beijing.
Experience a private layover guided tour of the Mutianyu Great Wall with visa-free permit assistance. Enjoy the convenience of pick-up from the airport or your hotel and a professional driver and English-speaking tour guide. Explore the Great Wall with ease and make the most of your layover in Beijing.
Duration:
6 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Mutianyu Great Wall - Pick you up in time from Beijing Capital airport or your hotel by our private tour guide and driver. Drive to Mutianyu Great Wall about 1 hour. Then you can stay at there as long as you like. Transfer you back to airport or your hotel after the tour.
- Mutianyu Great Wall - Pick you up in time from Beijing Capital airport or your hotel by our private tour guide and driver. Drive to Mutianyu Great Wall about 1 hour. Then you can stay at there as long as you like. Transfer you back to airport or your hotel after the tour.
What's Included
- Entrance tickets to the Great Wall.
- Licensed English-speaking tour guide.
- Professional driver with air-conditioned vehicle.
- China life tourist accident/casualty insurance.
- Warm coats provided in winter.
- Complimentary bottled mineral water.
- Entrance tickets to the Great Wall.
- Licensed English-speaking tour guide.
- Professional driver with air-conditioned vehicle.
- China life tourist accident/casualty insurance.
- Warm coats provided in winter.
- Complimentary bottled mineral water.
What's Not Included
- Cable cars/toboggan at Great Wall.
- Gratuities, tips to guides or drivers.
- Meals. We can take you to have meals if you have time, please pay the meal cost on your own.
- Cable cars/toboggan at Great Wall.
- Gratuities, tips to guides or drivers.
- Meals. We can take you to have meals if you have time, please pay the meal cost on your own.
Additional Information
We can arrange a pickup for you from Beijing Capital Airport or your accommodation. We’ll assist you in obtaining your Visa-free permit gradually, and ensure you return to the airport promptly. We provide a licensed professional driver and car, plus a professional tour guide fluent in English - both are at your service. You can rest assured of a safe…
We can arrange a pickup for you from Beijing Capital Airport or your accommodation. We’ll assist you in obtaining your Visa-free permit gradually, and ensure you return to the airport promptly. We provide a licensed professional driver and car, plus a professional tour guide fluent in English - both are at your service. You can rest assured of a safe tour with expert English translation both while traveling and visiting attractions, without worrying about parking time. Our driver will safeguard your baggage when you’re away from the vehicle.
- Our earliest pick-up time is 6:30am. You will need 1.5-2 hours to be get out of customs after your flight arrives. You shall go back in airport at least 1.5-2 hours before the flight departure.
- We do not recommend you book this tour, if you arrival Beijing capital airport after 13:30. Unless your layover time over 24 hours.
- Countries qualified for the 24/144-hour Visa-free Transit in Beijing Capital International Airport: Albania, Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Belarus, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Macedonia, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Republic of Montenegro, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Serbia, United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States.
- The 24/144-hour Visa-free Transit only applies to passengers who transit through Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing. The destination and place of departure cannot be the same.(e.g Auckland – Beijing – Auckland)
- As a tour company, if we agree to arrange tour for you that is means your flights information, layover time and your nationality fit the visa free policy requirements. But there are still some other issues might happen that might cause you can not obtain the visa-free or can not get out of the airport. We don’t take any responsibility if you are not able to get visa-free for any reason.
Location
Mutianyu Great Wall
Mutianyu Village, Bohai Town, Huairou 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
4.9
(98 Ratings)
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Favioc2025
Jan 13, 2025
Wonderful experience - My family and I had a 12 hour layover in Beijing. We decided to do the Mutianyu Great Wall private tour.
I am so glad we did.
Even, few days before our trip, the tour operator Daniel answered all our enquiries very quickly via email. He gave us great advice of how to deal with checked baggage and immigration in Beijing.
On the day of the trip Herbie was our guide. He is a legend.
Mr Lee was our driver. His car was big and very comfortable.
We met Herbie at the agreed time and place in the airport. He is super friendly and supportive.
He had winter coats ready for us. He was very supportive with my young child too.
We learned a lot about the history and culture. We had a lot of fun in the lift chair and toboggan.
Herbie was with us all the time and we felt very happy and safe during our stay.
I highly recommend this tour.
My child loved it so much that he wants us to go back to Beiijng.
When we do, I will definitely book the same tour operator.
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Mariadp8924cj
Jan 13, 2025
Great experience for 9-hour layover - just enough time to visit the wall for 2 hrs and come back to catch our flight - Very well organised tour. Our guide Alice picked us up from the meeting point at the airport on time, and we then we met our driver outside the terminal. It was a fairly quick 1 hour drive to the wall early sunday morning. On the way Alice gave us lots of information about the wall and the history. We also asked many question we had in mind. We got warm coats to use, as it was very cold, and got to the wall just after sunrise around 8am and got amazing photos taken by Alice, then walked on our own for about 1-1.5 hrs on the wall, it was a great experience. Had some hot drinks and food in Mutianuy village before heading back to the airport. Alice also suggested a stop at a tea ceremony, but we didn’t have time for it unfortunately. Our driver had a very nice hybrid vehicle and we felt very well taken care of and safe the whole way (got good naps in the car too!). Our luggage was stored in the car while we did our tour. Everything from booking to your tour to returning to the airport was handled really well and professionally! Warmly recommended.
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712harrietd
Jan 4, 2025
Amazing experience! - Can’t recommend enough! We got to The Great Wall for 8am, and it was incredible to see it completely empty as the sun came up
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Petrav183
Dec 8, 2024
Pricey but worth it if you are very time limited - The whole tour was very professionally organized, my guide Herbie had excellent English skills, his explanation was very captivating, he did not spread any propaganda words about China, so you don't feel anyhow uncomfortable listening to something you do not want to. And I cannot omit his huge effort to take the best photos of the best of me, which was an incredible help considering that I was traveling solo with limited options to capture myself using a selfie stick. He also took care of purchasing small photo souvenirs and paid for cable car/toboggan rides in local currency. I cannot forget to mention agency owner Daniel, whose communication was very fast, efficient and straightforward.
I am pretty sure that on my next long layover in Beijing, I will book a Forbidden city tour with them as well.
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Kelly
Dec 1, 2024
Stress-free Great Wall & Old Hutongs Trip - We were a group of 7 people (2 families) which included 3 teenage boys.
Pick-up from the airport was absolutely seamless (the instructions from Beijing Layover Tours to leave the airport are accurate and easier than it initially sounds, it can take a long time to go through all the queues though, first time only took 1 hour, second time took 2 hours)
Our tour guide Lisa was so helpful and gave us great historical background before we arrived at the Great Wall. Lisa got our tickets and dealt with the Chinese staff working the chairlifts and toboggans for us and told us exactly what to do.
I had initial concerns about the timings and wondered if we would be back at the airport in time for our connecting flight, but she knew our timings and made sure we were on time. We were picked up at 7am and returned to the airport by midday, had plenty of time at the wall, time to look in the souvenir shop and travelled back to the airport without rushing.
Highly recommend doing this tour first thing in the morning as it gets busy after that. We were able to take photos with nobody in the way.
Tip: take USD$ with you. The chairlift/toboggan is $20 per person. And any extras (food/coffee/snacks) the tour guide will pay in Chinese Yuen for you and you reimburse them in USD$.
They take photos of you as you reach the top on the chairlift. These are USD$5 each if you want them. Again reimburse the tour guide.
I can’t recommend using this company enough. We did the Great Wall on our return journey from Australia to UK. On our way out we did the Old Hutongs tour which was a lovely walking trip around the old back streets. Again take USD$ with you as there is loads of street foods to try. We went to a restaurant for authentic Peking Duck and then went for dumplings. It was all excellent.
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Jeffersone2
Nov 26, 2024
Great wall almost to myself - A reliable tour operator who provides clear and accurate information about the tour. The guide and the driver were friendly and professional. The Great Wall was almost empty when we arrived early in the morning at 8 AM. Could take good photos.
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Elisabeth2211
Sep 28, 2024
Stop-over in Beijing - We had an eventful stop-over in Beijing, thanks to Herbie. Herbie took excellent care of everything and so we could see the Great Wall of China and the old city.
We can recommend Herbie with a good heart.
Likewise, the Booking Referral in advance with Daniel was smooth.
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840linep
Sep 7, 2024
Fabulous layover activity - I had a great experience with ms Chan and Herbie during my long layover in Beijing. The tour was well planned and organised, Herbie was informative and shared lots of interesting stories. The sun was shining and we were lucky with the traffic also 😃. A great day, with time to spare and no stress getting to my next flight. Thank you so much - highly recommended!
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Sbg9246dt
Jul 18, 2024
Amazing tour during brief layover! - Amazing private tour! What a wonderful time during an eight hour layover. My wife and I were delayed due to a long line at the airport. We had no ability to communicate with the tour guide and worried we would miss our booking. We were delighted to discover Herbie and his team waited for us (for over an hour). Mrs Chen drove us safely to and from the wall and Herbie gave a very interesting presentation about its history. Herbie is extremely friendly and knowledgeable! We highly recommend this private tour!
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Chaska92
Oct 5, 2024
A productive layover! - I recommend! Helen was an attentive and informative guide with excellent English. She and our driver Wu picked me up and ensured I got my flight on time. I also got helpful information from the business as to where to go once I landed in Beijing. A very smooth trip.
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