Private Day Tour of Beijing: Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, and Summer Palace
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Beijing
Experience the best of Beijing on a private day tour. Visit iconic landmarks such as Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City, indulge in delicious Peking roast duck, and enjoy convenient hotel pickup and drop-off. Book now!
Duration: 9 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang) - Meet up your friendly private guide and driver at your hotel lobby in the morning 8:00. Head up to see the largest city center square
  • Tiananmen square, located at the center of Beijing, see Tiananmen Gate with Chairman Mao’s pic , National flag , National Museum of China , Congress Palace Hall , Monument to the People’s Heroes, listen the story of the past and today from your guide.
  • Forbidden City-The Palace Museum - Continue to explore the UNESCO-listed sights Forbidden City, see the 600 hundred years Old Royal Palace, visit 24 emperors lived rooms accompanied by your professional guide. Learn about the life of the ancient emperors and the stories of the concubines, explore the unknown area such as where is the lost half room from the 9999.5 rooms from the Forbidden City.
  • Temple of Heaven - Next, heading to see the landmark building from Beijing — Temple of heaven, also the largest worshipping structures from the world, experience the local Beijing people’s retired life.
  • Summer Palace (Yiheyuan) - Visit the best preserved imperial garden — Summer Palace in the afternoon, it was built at 1750, burnt at 1860, rebuilt at 1888, listen the insider knowledge from your expert guide why the famous dragon lady Empress Dowager Cixi loved here so much and spend hundred billion to rebuilt this garden, learn about her extravagant life and the secret story behind, admire her opera house, birthday celebration rooms, the longest painted corridor as well as the beautiful Kunming Lake as well.
What's Included
  • Bottle of water
  • Peking Roast duck lunch
  • All sights entrance tickets
  • Professional multilingual guide (English, Spanish, French, German)
  • Summer Palace Fragrance Pavillion ticket
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Transport by air-conditioned car
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities (Recommeded )
Additional Information

See Beijing City top attractions: Tiananmen square, Forbidden City, Temple of heaven, and Summer palace within this 8-hour private full day tour.
Accompany with your knowledgeable guide to learn the related history. Sample a tasty peking roast duck at the lunch is an unmissable try when you are at Beijing.
This is an all inclusive tour, all sights entrance tickets, lunch, as well as hotel pickup and drop-off are included.

  • Passport name, number, birth year and country is required at time of booking for all participants (for getting your Forbidden City entrance ticket in advance), and a current passport needs bring with you on the day of travel.
  • Tip: Forbidden city tickets need 7 days ahead booking, within 7 days booking we try, if not get, will change to Lama temple ( the miniature of forbidden city )
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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Mona
Apr 11, 2024
AMAZING tour and experience with Cathy! - Don't hesitate to book this tour with Cathy! She is the best guide you could have for any tour in Beijing. Cathy is warm, humorous, and did an AMAZING job guiding our family of 6, including some of my family's first time in China & Beijing. Cathy is sweet, informative, cheerful, and worked very hard for us all day during our full day tour. She navigated us through all the top sights with ease. The driver also did a wonderful job, and the lunch was absolutely fantastic and included Peking duck and amazing local authentic dishes. My mother who is Chinese found the tour nostalgic and food authentic, my other family members who had never been to China thoroughly felt like they had a wonderful time and understanding of Beijing's history and sights. All thanks to Cathy! Cathy also arranged for us to go to an acrobatics show which was one of the highlights of our trip! She also provided local recommendations and truly went above and beyond. Don't hesitate to book Cathy for this tour or any of her tours! We look forward to the next time we can do a tour with Cathy!
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Kristinh86
Apr 10, 2024
A wonderful day with Cathy seeing Beijing - A wonderful tour. Cathy is fantastic, very knowledgeable, warm and energetic. The tour was very well organized and the driver was great. We had an amazing lunch and sampled many local dishes. Highly recommend booking this tour.
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Vincensu_12
Apr 7, 2024
A great day in Beijing - Our private day tour in Beijing was just great. Tickets for the Forbidden City were sold out, because we booked late, but that visit was replaced with visits to Jingshan Park and Lama Temple which we liked a lot. We also visited T-square, Temple of Heaven and Summer Palace. Our guide Michael was very knowledgeable, friendly and flexible. Till the end of the day, he fed us in an enthusiastic way with his colourful stories about ancient China. We really recommend this tour. Big thanks to Michael and the driver!
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Mana
Nov 19, 2023
Beijing visit - I spent full day with Cathy visiting many places in Beijing. She is very knowledgeable and has an attractive way in sharing knowledge. She has a lot of details about every single place we visited. One of my best trips.
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Sophiah169
Oct 24, 2023
Best way to see Beijing in a day - We just wrapped up a private day tour in Beijing and it was beyond fantastic! Our guide, Sunny, was full of enthusiasm and energy, turning our long day of sightseeing and navigating into an easy and enjoyable experience. Despite the long queues at each location, Sunny expertly coordinated all our tickets, allowing us to relax in the shade, which we were extremely grateful for. Sunny was not only insightful and friendly but went above and beyond in her efforts, assisting us with buying snack and helping with dinner reservations. The Peking duck lunch was a standout. With our stomachs rumbling after hours of exploration, we arrived at the restaurant to find the food pre-ordered and ready to dig into. Having a driver to whisk us between all of the locations was also a major convenience. We were able to rest our feet and even take a nap between each location. The private tour was a perfect choice for us. We loved having the flexibility to pace ourselves, spending as much time as we wanted at each location, and even squeezing in a spontaneous coffee break. We can't recommend this tour - and Sunny - highly enough. Thank you!
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Mariape9385zn
Sep 3, 2023
Walking enciclopedia in Beijing. Best company to book! - We had the most amazing time in our tour with Cathy! We got to see all of Beijing’s landmarks in one day and everything has smooth and flawless. She took care of all the tickets for all the places. I would recommend this tour to everyone who is coming to Beijing with my eyes closed. Cathy is a great tour guide who knows a lot about history and assures that everything goes perfect. Great places, nice transportation, excellent food/ lunch and the best company! She is the best guide in Beijing.
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Carlosvcal
Jan 15, 2020
Memorable - We were so lucky to have booked this tour with our knowledgeable guide Rose and our courteous driver Sam. They treated us like royalty and gave us the most memorable tour we have had so far in China. Rose always have the time and knowledge to answer all our questions and went the extra mile to meet our requests. We had a great Peking Duck lunch that was part of our tour that we honestly never expected. Way above our expectations. We highly recommend Rose and Sam and we leave Beijing with the feeling that the money we spent for this tour was the smartest money we spent.
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8886aaa
Jan 15, 2020
Best 1 day visit in Beijing - If you want to see a lot in 1 day, effectively but not rushed, contact Rose. She is intelligent, fun, fast and accommodating to your personal needs. Very good and clean transportation. They take you to the entrance of a large park , accompany you and pick you up at the exit , so you have to walk less. Food was good, winter time was perfect because there were no long lines so she took us to additional places
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Sararivf
Dec 6, 2019
Awesome tour - This is one of the best tours that I ever have, Cathy is such a great person and guide, I highly recommend taking this tour. We had a great driver and awesome lunch with a lot of delicious food. We enjoy it a lot :)
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Humbertocarp
Dec 6, 2019
Amazing! - Cathy is a great person and she is very talkative. I love the tour!!! Amazing food and good time in Beijing!!!!
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