Private Tour
Half-Day Forbidden City Private Tour
Overview
Available languages
4 hours
Mobile ticket
Spend 4 hours exploring two of the must-see attractions in Beijing on this private walking tour. Accompanied by an informative guide, you will have a leisure walk at the Tiananmen Square and get insight into the palace life in the Forbidden City. Your guide will pick up you from your hotel by taxi or public transport and deliver insider tips as you enjoy the walking tour.
Additional Info
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Public transportation options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Important note: Entrance tickets of the Forbidden City are usually released online 7 days in advance and could be easily sold out. Kindly advise you to book the tour at least 8 days before since the ticket purchase is based on the real name policy.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What To Expect
At the appointed time in the morning around 08:30, your private guide will pick you up from the lobby of your hotel and then accompany you to take a taxi or subway to visit the Tiananmen Square. The public transportation fee is at your own expense. Follow your guide to take a leisurely walk around this city square, and you can shoot distant view photos of the brilliant landmark buildings such as the Monument to the People's Heroes, the Great Hall of the People and the Memorial Hall of Chairman Mao.
Forbidden City-The Palace Museum
Walk through the Gate of Heavenly Peace with the great Chairman Mao's portrait on it; you come to this morning's highlight - the 600-year-old Forbidden City - the largest and the most intact imperial palace complex of the Ming and Qing Courts (1368 - 1911 AD). During the following 3 hours, your professional guide will lead to visit at least 14 most famous scenic spots of the Forbidden City, which include the towers, palaces, Gallery of Painting and Calligraphy, Clock and Watch Gallery, and Imperial Garden, etc. When finishing the sightseeing, your guide will escort you back to your hotel by taxi or subway.
What‘s Included
Private English speaking tour guide
Entrance fees to tourist sites
Meals
Transfer fee
Gratuities
Pickup points
Select a pickup point
Options
Group Tour Forbidden City
Route: Pick up at the meeting point, visit Tiananmen Square and Forbidden City, entrance tickets included.
Duration: 3 hours
Inclusions: Professional English-speaking tour guide, entrance fee.
Meeting Point : Pick up at the Gate of Grand Hotel Beijing. We do not provide pick-up and drop-off at your hotel.
Notice: The meeting point might be changed. The exact information will be sent to you one day before the trip starts.
Group Tour: About 20 pax
Pickup included
Half-Day Forbidden City Private Tour
Route: Pick up at your hotel, visit Tiananmen Square and Forbidden City, drop off at your hotel
Duration: 4 hours
Inclusions: Professional English-speaking tour guide, entrance fee, public transport fee.
Private Tour & No Shopping
Pickup included
Reviews
9 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Excellent stopover tour
Sense of Tourism,,May 10, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Everything worked out perfectly: Rocky, my guide, was ready to meet me, when I came into the arrivals hall. Car and driver turned up promptly and we drove into the centre of Beijing. Here we walked across Tiananmen Square and through the Forbidden City. I was expertly guided to the best photo opportunities and learned a lot about China then and now. Highly recommended!
Forbidden City & Tiananmen square with Barry
Sandra R,,Jan 29, 2020
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Had a wonderful afternoon walking around these amazing places with Barry. He was so knowledgeable & interesting. He was also very kind as i am an older lady & ensured that I was walking at a speed that was comfortable. I was too tired to walk back to the Metro so he called a taxi for me. Later in the evening long after the tour, I sent him a message asking to translate some food options for me. He even did that in his own time, so kind.
Bejing honeymoon!
suzanneea,,Sep 3, 2019
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00John was our tour guide. From the start he greeted us with a warm welcome and gave us a really good tour. Not only did he give us all the cultural tour. He also gave us loads of tips like where best to get souvenirs, where to eat Peking duck with the locals and even where the best toilets were! 🤣 Jon made our first stop in China really special and memorable! We would highly recommend him and the company.
Beijing 2 day tour
MahomedOsman,,Sep 3, 2019
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Had an amazing 2 day tour in Beijing taking in all the major sights. John was an awesome tour guide, very friendly, knowledgable and personable. Would recommend!!!
A perfect tour if you are short of time
krishatnet,,Aug 30, 2019
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00We got lot lucky with crowd as the school vacation just had got over and the crowd was really less especially on the wall. John was full of energy and fun, he was there on time at the hotel and was very knowledgeable. Although this was a packed tour we didn’t feel so stressed out, we did manage to walk a long way on the wall. Thanks to John suggestion roll for taking the cable car and slide on the way back it was totally worth it. Definitely recommend this tour.
Beijing and great wall tour
784ivanab,,Aug 26, 2019
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00We booked John for the first as a group of five from Croatia. We booked him for three days from Saturday the 24th August till Monday the 26 August. As we first meet on the Beijing international airport John was delighted because we were his first group in his six years working experience as touristic guide in Beijing. He was very Professional in our three days guided tours and we really recommend him expecially for tourist you will come for the first time(like us) to Beijing. We were visiting the Forbidden city, The Tianmen Square, The Summer Garden, The Houtong tour, and on last day of tour The Big wall. He took us to some unusaul touristic places like The foot massage, and during the one hour massage was “baby sitting” our twelve year old son, buying him an ice cream. An finally on the of out our he gave us a little present because we were his first tourists from Croatia. And on the, just two words: highly recimmended!
City Tour, Shops, lunch, Theatre and more
Petewaldron,,Aug 22, 2019
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00John was a great enthusiastic guide, knowledgeable, superb English and eager to please. Flexible to our needs, meaning we covered so much and more than we thought we would. Highly recommend
Saw all the things i wanted to see
ClarkSolo,,Aug 11, 2019
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Excellent good timing, not too long or too short. Tour Guide "Cool" was excellent, driver "Gong" was excellent.
Interesting tour, exceptional and helpful guide
ronanm811,,Aug 6, 2019
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00I joined this tour as I was on a short trip in Beijing and wanted to see the primary sites. Tina, our guide, was friendly, knowledgable and very approachable, and really made the tour an enjoyable experience. While the area around the Forbidden City was busy (to be expected in August), Tina guided us all safely through the crowds and even to some quieter parts of the city. Mutianyu though was a different experience, as it we got there in early afternoon and it was much quieter and we had lots of time to explore. Parts of the wall are very steep so be prepared for that, but the views are worth it. The ski lift up and toboggan down are novel, and a nice change from standard access options. I can't really fault the tour - they arrived on time, Tina was gracious, helpful and very knowledgable, they refunded part of my pre-booked fee as they had amended the tour slightly (not that I'd have known - but it was very honest of them in my view) and Tina provided a little gift/momento of our trip which was very welcome. All in all - a very enjoyable day out visiting some of Beijing's must do attractions.
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