Forbidden City & Tiananmen Square: Private Layover Guided Tour from Beijing Capital Airport

Experience a private layover guided tour from Beijing Capital Airport to the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square. Get visa-free permit assistance, professional English-speaking guide, and safe transportation.

Duration: 6 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang) - Pick you up in time from Beijing Capital Airport or hotel. You will take about 1 hour drive to Tiananmen Square. Stay there as long as you like.
  • Forbidden City-The Palace Museum - After visit the Tiananmen Square, and then go to visit the Forbidden City. You can decide to stay longer or shorter time as you like.

Transfer you back to airport or your hotel after the tour.

What's Included
  • Entrance tickets to the Forbidden City.
  • China life tourist accident/casualty insurance.
  • Licensed English-speaking tour guide and professional driver.
  • Air-conditioned vehicle.
  • Warm coats provided in winter.
  • Complimentary bottled mineral water.
What's Not Included
  • Personal expenses.
  • Gratuities, tips to guides or drivers.
Additional Information

We can pick you up from Beijing Capital Airport or your hotel. We will guide you to get Visa-free permit step by step, and make sure you get back to airport in time. We supply a professional driver and a car with licence as well as a professional English speaking licensed tour guide, both of them work for you. We will make sure you can enjoy a safe tour…

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.

Customer Ratings
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C7293cakarinar
Apr 7, 2025
Beautiful experience with Herbie! - We had the opportunity to enjoy the tour of the Forbidden City, Tianmen Square and Summer Palace guided by Herbie. I have to say that it was an amazing experience for our first time in China. Herbie provided us with detailed historical explanations of the sites and moreover, with insightful observations of Chinese culture. Through his stories, knowledge of the best photo spots, and great organization (shoutout to Mrs. Chan!) we enjoyed a very packed but beautiful day in Beijing. We can’t wait to go back!
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Francois_b
Apr 1, 2025
Great tour of the forbidden city - I had a very nice visit of the forbidden city with Mr Xiang who explained everything about the history of this wonderful place. He was speaking English very well. He was the best guide I could have! If you do not have much time and you wish to have a private tour, that is worth the price.
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Camper47737524143
Feb 14, 2025
Amazing layover tour to the Forbidden City & Tiananmen square - Herby, my man! Really friendly service from a guide who knew a lot about the culture, the city and the history. Would recommend to anyone
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Aramk2024
Feb 11, 2025
Fantastic guides with fantastic views - It was one of the best decisions we did for a vacation ever. We are traveling 35 years together and it was by far the best tour we had. The best before this one was Mutianyu Great wall. We did it with same company. We were early at the airport and our tours started at 8 and 7AM. That allowed us to be early at all locations and avoid crowd. Although everyone we met was very nice and friendly. The guides are very knowledgeable and open for questions. We learned a lot about all the places we visited.
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Dorka0213
Jan 4, 2025
Amazing layover tour with Alice - We went to a layover tour visiting the Tiananmen square and the forbidden city and it was really worth it, the sights are beautiful and its a good use of your time instead of waiting at the airport. Our tourguide Alice was really knowledgeable and professional. She shared a lot of interesting facts about the history of all the sights and China.
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Janosch
Dec 5, 2024
Great Forbidden city tour given by Alice! Many interesting insights and a good level of English. Thanks again Alice. 🙏 - We’ve had a really great tour given by Alice. She showed us around the Forbidden city and gave us many different insights
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Freqbustraveller_72
Dec 1, 2024
Great tour for a short stopover! - Had an enjoyable and informative tour around Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square with Alice as my personal guide. Alice was an excellent host and was very knowledgeable on the history of the areas we visited. Great communication by Daniel in taking my booking and even organised my return transfer back to the airport. Thoroughly recommended!
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262p_lc
Nov 18, 2024
Great tour with great guide - We visited Mutianyu Great Wall and Forbidden City&Tiananmen squra with Herbie as a tour gude. It was the best experiance what we can get i think ! The prganosation, the car , the driver, and most inportantly the guide Herbie was Great. He telled us a lot of things of the sites but also about China hostory amd people! Greatly reco.mend the tour and Herbie ! Thanks a lot
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Robertopw2300fj
Sep 11, 2024
Highly reccomended! - We recently took the tour and it was fantastic. Thanks to our tour guide Shane. Shane's warm and friendly nature made the tour enjoyable from start to finish. He handled all logistics smoothly.
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Elegantbutsporty
Jun 15, 2024
Wonder Herbie - We took this tour during a long layover in Beijing, Herbie our guide was very good and super efficient, from when he picked us up at the airport and throughout the entire tour where he explained to us in detail and competently the different aspects of the forbidden city. I highly recommend this tour if you have a long layover in Beijing.
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From $65
up to 15 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).