Private Tour
Mutianyu Great Wall & Summer Palace Private Layover Guided Tour
Overview
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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 with professional English interpretation both during driving and in attractions, and would not waste your time for parking. Our driver will make sure your luggage is safe while you are not in the car.
Additional Info
Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Specialized infant seats are available
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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 11:30.
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.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What To Expect
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, you can stay at there as long as you like. After that, transfer you to Summer Palace.
Summer Palace (Yiheyuan)
Visit the Summer Palace, you can decide to stay longer or shorter time. Transfer you back to airport or your hotel after the tour.
What‘s Included
China life tourist accident/casualty insurance.
A licensed English-speaking tour guide and a professional driver with air-conditioning vehicle.
Entrance tickets to the Great Wall and Summer Palace.
Warm coats in winter.
Free-bottled mineral water.
Meals.
Cable cars/toboggan at Great Wall.
Gratuities, tips to guides or drivers.
Pickup points
Capital Airport
Shunyi Beijing China
Options
Mutianyu Great Wall & Summer Palace Private Layover Guided Tour
Pickup included
Reviews
32 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Everything great
eleonoraamelia,,Nov 24, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Our guide Herbie was perfect very prepared, nice, engaging. Also the lunch stop was great, very recommended
Best Layover Tour in Beijing!
Oscar H,,Nov 12, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00I am very happy to have booked this layover tour. In no time, I was able to climb the historic Great Wall of China, walk in the Summer Palace, explore the Hutongs in a rickshaw, attend a traditional Chinese tea ceremony and enjoy the world-famous crispy Peking duck. I will definitely book again sometime, as the Forbidden City unfortunately had to close on Monday. Thanks to Nina, she was a great tour guide and driver Chang also friendly and eager! Communication with Daniel via email also went smoothly and quickly. Conclusion: Great service, fair price, friendly and very knowledgeable tour guide, fast response, uncomplicated booking!
Perfect way to spend a layover in Beijing
3reubenc,,Jul 6, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00We had an amazing experience on this tour. We went to the Great Wall, summer palace and a Hutong. Herbie was a fantastic guide, so friendly and chatty. He was also very knowledgeable of each site which added to the experience. He gave a great recommendation for food in the Hutong which was great. It is great to also have a driver, as well as the guide, to drop and pick you up right at the entrance of the sites, in an air conditioned car with free water. This is really helpful especially when you have limited time on a layover. I could not recommend this tour enough!
Very recommendable and great organization
Ilovetotravel155,,Dec 22, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00We had a fantastic experience with this company and we can recommend them At 200%. The organization and contact with Daniel was impeccable. He was very informative and responsive, explaining everything in detail. We had a 12h layover - Herbie our amazing guide met us at the airport punctually and everything went perfectly well. Herbie was super nice, knows chinese history so well and he was also very punctual and mindful of time. We visited the Great Wall and then the Summer Palace. He was always attentive to our needs and he is also a GREAT photographer! He was so kind to send us our pictures afterwards. The driver was also careful at all times and very kind. We had a fantastic day, the only problem is that we wish we had had more layover time to do more in Beijing! 😊 we loved this incredible city and Herbie & Layover Tours Beijing made it possible. If you book with them you will for sure have a wonderful and qualitative time. Thanks one more 😃 Karen & Christophe
Awesome Tour - Great Photos during a Quiet Great Wall and Lots of History to Learn from our Tour Guide
K2532CMjn,,Dec 14, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00The tour to Mutianyu and Summer Palace has been such a great time, and definitely made our long layover in Beijing a great sightseeing and quite an educational experience on the places we've visited. The private tour was quite seamless, with the pickup from the airport being on-time, and our driver doing a fantastic job with a smooth drive throughout the trip and ensuring that we get back to the airport on-time for our outbound flight by the end of the tour. The overall tour didn't feel rushed, and time was managed quite well at both the Great Wall and Summer Palace, although of course, more time can definitely be devoted to these locations if you are in Beijing for > 12 hours, especially given the vast size of the Summer Palace. Our tour guide, Herbie, has such a phenomenal amount of energy that can give you a boost even if you just came out from a red-eye flight. His fluency in English is superb and combined with his enthusiasm just makes the tour so much more enjoyable than doing a normal group tour that you may find elsewhere. He covered through a good amount of history and answered a lot of our questions with no problems - and you can definitely see his passion in both knowing about the history and sharing that knowledge to his tour group. He's also got a keen eye for taking photos - exactly which spot, and what pose to do, if you ever need a good solo/group photo taken. Would definitely recommend as an overall package, with the convenience, quality of tour and level of interaction that you get.
100% Recommend!!!
Scenic24122613124,,Jun 7, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Had an amazing day being shown around by our guide (Herbie), great way to spend our layover! Herbie was very knowledgeable and gave us lots of information about the history of the Wall and Summer Palace, which made the experience much more meaningful. Didn't feel rushed at all - very comfortable driving and had lots of time at each location, and Herbie took extra time to get some great photos for us! He even went the extra mile and contacted our transit hotel for us which was a great help. Thanks again!!!
Fantastic layover tour with Herbie
davidmU5284ZV,,Apr 14, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00The second tour with Herbie in Beijing was fantastic again. Seeing the wall was incredibly impressive. To get down from the wall you can use the Mutianyu Great Wall Slide, which is a lot of fun. Seeing the Summer Palace was great and Herbie's information about its history and use was fantastic. With Herbie as your guide you not only have a super guide with incredible knowledge but also a brilliant private photographer who knows the best photo spots. The restaurant he chose for lunch was also incredibly delicious. All in all an incredibly great tour in Beijing.
Herbie’s team!
luiscD8143YI,,Apr 9, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00We did the tour with Herbie and it was very great! In a 14 hour layover we were able to go to the Great Wall, to have some local Chinese food and to visit in the end the Summer Palace. Herbie made it dynamic, giving us time to enjoy and taking the best group pictures :)
Great layover tour with Herbie
Laura V,,Mar 29, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00The tour was superb. Herbie greeted us with a big smile and we knew from that moment that we are in good hands. He was very informative, kind and a great photographer. The wall was not crowded, I was very happy about that! Herbie took us to a great local restaurant (we were the only foreigners) and the food was superb! The summer palace was nice, tho there the crowd was big and I wished we had more time there to explore it a bit more. Herbie was superb, he shared a lot of information with us, was ready to answer all of our questions. I would recommend this tour 100%!
5 Stars well deserved
80reinhardw,,Mar 2, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Perfect tour. Herbie went above and beyond to make it the best trip possible. We can recommend everything about it.we learned sp much and he answered all the questions we had.
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