Private Day Tour to Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City and Mutianyu Great Wall
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160 Ratings
Beijing
Experience the best of Beijing in just one day with a private tour to Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, and Mutianyu Great Wall. Includes transportation, English-speaking guide, entrance tickets, and lunch.
Duration: 9 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang) - You will be picked up at hotel lobby at 8:00am by your assigned English speaking tour guide. A comfortable vehicle (non-smoking) with an experienced driver will be ready for you to explore Beijing.

Your tour starts with visit to the Tian’anmen Square, the world’s largest public square. Explore the sites around the square with opportunities to take some amazing pictures.

Then you will venture northward to the Tian’anmen Rostrum guarded by the enormous and portrait of Mao for all to see and what has universally been photographed all over the world.

  • Forbidden City-The Palace Museum - Next, the magnificent Forbidden City, the largest Imperial Palace in the world. You will spend 1.5 to 2 hours wandering around this amazing example of Imperial architecture and learning about the history of the palace.

  • Mutianyu Great Wall - After that, drive around 1 hours to the village near the Mutianyu section Wall and enjoy lunch at the local Chinese restaurant. (Dishes will be ordered on the spot according to your choice at the certain budget)

Then drive around 30mins to the Mutianyu Wall which is less crowded section. You will have your choice of taking the cable car or chair lift up the breathtaking wall and spend a leisurely 1 to 2 hours hiking up and down the various sections exploring the Watch Towers and marveling at the construction and beauty of the renown and legendary Wall. You then have the option of an exhilarating toboggan ride back down or simply return the way you came with cable car.

What's Included
  • Lunch at a local restaurant included
  • Admission to all attractions covered
  • Choice of round cable car or chairlift and toboggan tickets
  • Professional English-speaking tour guide
  • Comfortable air-conditioned transportation with a private driver
What's Not Included
  • Accommodation
  • Gratuity to the guide and driver
  • Personal Cost
Additional Information

This comprehensive 8-hour excursion encompasses Beijing’s top attractions, including Tian’anmen Square, the Forbidden City, and the Mutianyu Wall. Your experienced, English-speaking guide will provide personal pickup and drop-off services from your downtown hotel. The outing includes entry tickets to the Forbidden City and Mutianyu Wall. Roundtrip shuttle bus service, a local Chinese lunch, and a roundtrip cable car journey up and down the wall or a chairlift up and toboggan ride down the wall are all inclusive.

  • For the lunch, you will be taken to the authentic Chinese local restaurant catering for the locals or at the western-style subway restaurant (2 options). And the lunch has its budget
  • Please offer all passport number and name for Forbidden City tickets booking and bring passport or passport copy during the tour
  • Dress code is smart casual
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
  • Infant (1-3 years old) are free providing they do not occupy a seat
  • Extra fee is requested after 8 hours 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.

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Andreas
Apr 12, 2024
Wonderful tour with Amanda through the Forbidden City - We very much enjoyed our tour with Amanda, and we very much appreciated her kindness and all her valuable background information on the Forbidden City.
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Aruni74
Apr 12, 2024
Beijing Stopover Tour - Amazing day touring to Mutianyu section of the wall, followed by Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square! Peter our English speaking tour guide was fantastic and very informative and had every detail covered. We only had one day in Beijing as a long stopover and got to see some amazing places, including airport pickup’s. Highly recommended tour by Catherine Lu Tours.
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Daytrip44889800988
Apr 4, 2024
Best guide ever - Angela - Had the best tour around all the major sightseeing spots in Beijing to fulfill daughter’s dream to visit the Great Wall of China. Angela, our tour guide, was very professional and knowledgeable, including all the myths and side stories of the emperors and queens. She is also very caring to our daughter and she had a great time!
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Quince2
Mar 26, 2024
Absolutely faultless and exceeded expectations. - We had an amazing day with Peter. He was extremely helpful, patient when he needed to be and absolutely knowledgeable. The tour itself was amazing. The day was made special with my parents describing it as the best possible excursion. It was stress free, comfortable and relieved all the initial anxiety they had about such a big trip. Top marks and highly recommended. Peter, get in touch if you're ever in London!
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Shirleytm9279ss
Mar 26, 2024
The difficult family members gave unanimous praise - tour guide Peter👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 - The four-day Beijing tour chose a chartered car + local tour guide because my parents were not very mobile and I was too lazy to do my homework. Peter Yin from Catherine Lu Tours explained Chinese history to us in a simple and easy-to-understand manner without being rigid. He was very enthusiastic/caring/interesting in the itinerary. Flexibility will change according to the situation at the time - avoid peak hours/weather and also thank the driver for driving carefully and not being reckless. Finally, the most important thing is the food introduction. Everyone is very satisfied. *My family is very picky about food. Overall, I will look for them next time I come to Beijing for a group tour.
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Pam_and_keith_w
Mar 24, 2024
Drum and Bell Tower and Hutong very enjoyable tour. - Angela was a really knowledgeable, warm, and friendly person with a good sense of humour. She crafted the tour of the Drum and Bell Towers and Hutong area to meet our interests and showed us a side of Beijing we would have been sad to miss. I realised after our tour that I mis-calculated our tip for her and only treated her to about 50p, (GB pence), and she really deserved much more. Sorry Angela! It was a vibrant lively area with many different street food, sweet and souvenir shops, bars with musicians, and a pretty river with boats for hire. We would have loved to spend an evening there, but time did not permit. Angela was very helpful in arranging our taxi back to our hotel at the end of the tour.
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T888vcalanc
Mar 21, 2024
Best private tour to visit the great wall and the imperial palace. - Our guide’s (Jenna) explanation was great, and solved all our questions, the spots she took us where perfectly timed for pictures (without crowds) and to understand the Great Wall and the Imperial Palace. She even helped us with the pictures. Overall it was a great and fulfilling experience, with an excellent guide.
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Erika
Mar 19, 2024
5 star experience that we will never forget ❤️ - We had a great time. Catherine has been arranging our itinerary and she’s very reliable. Answer our questions promptly. We had Peter as our tour leader and he’s amazing! A Peking University graduate majoring in History, Peter is very knowledgable about history and backgrounds of various Chinese dynasties making his stories very interesting. We could relate his stories to the ancient sites we visited. He is also very knowledgable about today's China. We highly recommend Peter as your tour guide in China and Beijing in particular.
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112fabricer
Mar 18, 2024
Perfect tour for Beijing - We had 2 fantastic guided days with Catherine Lu's teams. Communication was perfect for the preparation. Very attentive and good advice We had 2 very good guides - Sylvie Wang, who speaks impeccable French, guided us to Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven. - Peter, a real well of historical knowledge, introduced us to the summer palace and some very good local specialties. Jason drove us in a comfortable car We recommend !!
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John_v
Apr 9, 2024
Didnt take us to places advertised. Paid for lunch for guide and driver which was to be included in price. - Didnt take us to places advertised. Paid for lunch for guide and driver which was to be included in price. Very Expensive. Great Wall was great
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