Private Tour
Private Flexible Beijing City In-Depth Walking Tour w/ Your Fancy
Overview
Available languages
8 hours
Mobile ticket
This fully-customizable private sightseeing tour offers you a wonderful Beijing city attraction experience in a free style. Visit top attractions like Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Jingshan Park, Lama Temple, Hutongs, Summer Palace and some shopping market and etc. Choose 3 to 4 sights to visit in 8 hours (entrance fees at your own expense). Hotel pickup and drop-off by subway is included.
Additional Info
Wheelchair accessible
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Children must be accompanied by an adult
Infant (1-3 years old) are free providing they do not occupy a seat
Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
Please wear comfortable walking shoes
Passport name, number, expiry and country is required at time of booking for all participants
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What To Expect
Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang)
Your knowledgable tour guide will pick you up at the hotel lobby and tell your tour guide what you are interested. Your itinerary is 100% customized and your tour guide can also give you some suggestions. You may also follow the sample itinerary. First you can do the Tian'anmen Square which is the largest city center square in the world. Looking around the buildings around the square just seeing from outside such as Memorial Hall of Chairman Mao; National Museum of China; the Great Hall of the People; Monument to the People's Heroes.
Forbidden City-The Palace Museum
Afterwards, you can continue walk to Forbidden City which is Imperial Palace for the emperors in the Ming & Qing Dynasty. Listen to the stories and what had happened at the Forbidden City. You will see where the Emperors' worked, lived and spared their lives with their empresses and concubines. (pls remind the Forbidden City closes every Monday)
What‘s Included
Transportaion (check with your booking)
Private English-speaking guide
Meals (lunch & dinner)
Gratuity to the guide and driver
All entrance tickets to the sights
Pickup points
Select a pickup point
Options
Tour w/ Private Transfer
Pickup included
Tour w/ Subway&Uber
Pickup included
Reviews
16 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Amazing experience
Gabriel M,,Sep 20, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00I had an amazing tour with Henry to Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City and the Temple of Heaven. Henry was knowledgeable, friendly and made the history easy to understand. He shared details I would have missed on my own and kept the day well paced and enjoyable. His passion for Chinese culture really showed and he answered every question with patience. I left with a much deeper appreciation of these incredible places. He helped take many photos. I highly recommend Henry if you want a guide who makes the experience both meaningful and memorable.
Professional & Organized
RoseALH,,Apr 12, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00We were able to customize the tour according to our interests and the day was organized and well planned. Communication prior to the tour was easy via Whastapp. Kathy, our guide for the day, was very professional and friendly. She provided interesting explanations and information at each sight. We were especially thankful that she even made a wheelchair arrangement at the last minute for our elderly mother at the Fobidden City. The vehicle provided was clean and the driver was very helpful too. All in all a wonderful experience.
Best day with Adam!
jeancI1607SV,,Apr 2, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00We had the best day ever with Adam. He was so knowledgeable. His English is perfect. I don't expect as foreigners to have pol in china speak English. But when you hire a guide you want to make sure you can understand them. Adam was informative and so nice. We had a unique day as we wanted to see the pandas, then summer palace then the old summer palace. He knew about everything and more. Then he took us to a market we would never have known about and we're so thrilled to have gone. Our family has had a lot of guides and Adam is for sure among the best!
National Museum and Lama Temple
Carmen F,,Oct 25, 2024
- Review from Viator
5.00We opted for visiting the National Museum, Lama and Confucius Temples. Everything we saw was instructive, beautiful and interesting. Our guide, James, was very nice and knowledgeable.
Day tour in Beijing
Z3938EXsandrac,,Mar 8, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Our assigned guide for the day was Angela. She was very thoughtful and assist in all way to make the day tour a memorable one. Highly recommended.
Excellent, we loved it!
Luisina S,,Feb 27, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Thanks to Justin! Excellent ! With Catherine we organized the tour to our liking and our guide Justin did an incredible job! We really enjoyed your company and the day together. His English is outstanding. 100% recommended.
AMAZING first day in China with Amanda at Catherine Lu Travels!
lesliemV1995UW,,Nov 19, 2019
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Amanda was the BEST!!!! Booking tours with Catherine Lu before even leaving home was SO easy and we were more than impressed with the car and driver that picked us up, the details of the day flawlessly planned in advance but then executed perfectly by Amanda!!!! Amanda was our tour guide for this first day private excursion as well as the following day to the Great Wall & Ming Tombs. We could not have been happier with the entire experience over both days and were super bummed the next day when were on our own without Amanda. It would have been super difficult to navigate Beijing on our won not knowing any Chinese, never having been to China, trying to arrange all day travel, meals, purchasing tickets to the tour stops, etc. Amanda constantly checked in with us to see if we wanted to stay in some places longer, leave sooner to move on to the next, add on other things if we had spare time in our day etc. She also had some great recommendations for us during our time in the city. Amanda truly made us super excited for the rest of our trip (which was a little over 2 weeks in total) she was super knowledgeable and thoughtful or our time and what we were interested in, willing to discuss more than just what we saw but historical questions we had as well as questions we had about China's culture in general and she was FUN!! And she even had a little surprise for us at the end of the day that we were able to take home with us - I'm not telling because I don't want to ruin it for others!! You can't go wrong when booking ANY tour with Catherine Lu!!
Beijing minus forbidden city.
xiaojin z,,Sep 27, 2019
- Review from Viator
5.00Private tour organised by Catherine Lu tours. Forbidden city and Tiananmen areas are closed due to preparations for the 70th national day, we decided to customize our own itinerary since there were limited tours available that didn't involved visiting tourist shopping traps. Comfortable private car with driver allowed us to go to 3 attractions in one day at a leisurely pace, have what we wanted to eat for lunch. Thank you to our guide Nico and our driver for the day.
Wonderful day tour of Beijing with Amanda
TravelDuck48,,Sep 12, 2019
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Amanda was a superb tour guide. Her English was excellent; she was very knowledgeable; and, most impressive, she was so empathetic to our needs. We toured Beijing on an exceptionally hot summer day and were wilting in the heat. We hadn't planned a lunch break but Amanda quickly found a fun restaurant for us so we could eat and cool off. She shared with us an amazing amount of history about each place that was easy to understand and she also helped us understand the contemporary city, explaining, for example, the hutong neighborhoods to us. I especially enjoyed our walk through those alleys, as she talked about the architecture and we nodded to the people of the neighborhood. I enthusiastically recommend Amanda as a guide to everyone.
Great half-day tour!
John F,,Jul 5, 2019
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Our guide Nico was great. Excellent English and knowledge. We met at our hotel and then he helped us see Chairman Mao's Mauseleum and guided us through the Forbidden City before leaving us to do some of our own exploring, exactly as we wanted. We even later ran into him with a different tour on the Jinshaling section of the great wall! Would recommend.
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