Private Tour
Private Full Day Tour: Forbidden City, Tiananmen & Summer Palace
Overview
Available languages
8 hours
Mobile ticket
Do full justice to three of Beijing’s must-see sights with a privately guided city sightseeing trip. Check out Tiananmen Square, the immense square at the heart of the city, and explore the highlights of the Forbidden Palace and the Summer Palace on guided walking tours.
All entrance fees, private transfer with driver, hotel pickup and drop off all transfer with lunch at local Chinese restaurant are all inclusive.
Additional Info
Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Please wear comfortable shoes
Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
Please make sure to provide your full name and passport number for entrance tickets purchase to Forbidden City in advance
If you prefer to have different language tour guide than English one, please kindly make your booking with request 3 days advance
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What To Expect
Tiananmen Square
After picking you up from your centrally located hotel in Beijing in the morning, you will start your day trip by visiting Tian'anmen Square, the world’s largest public square. Explore the sites around the square with opportunities to take some amazing pictures.
The Palace Museum
Then you will spend a couple of hours wandering around the magnificent Forbidden City which is an amazing example of Imperial architecture, and you will learn about the history and stories of the palace. Forbidden City, also known as the Palace Museum, and Gu Gong in Chinese, lies at the city center of Beijing, and once served as the imperial palace for 24 emperors during the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368 - 1911AD). There is another option: just purchase the entrance ticket to Forbidden City. You can use your passport to enter.
What‘s Included
Hotel pickup and drop-off
Professional English/other language guide
Lunch in a local Chinese restaurant
Entrance Tickets to the Sights
Transportation （Private Transfer or Subway according to options you choose)
Dinner
Gratuities
Personal Cost
Pickup points
Select a pickup point
Options
Special Guide+Private Transfer
Including Spanish/German/Italian/French guide, entrance tickets, hotel pickup and drop off all private transfer.
Pickup included
English Guide+Private Transfer
Including private English guide, all entrance tickets, local lunch, hotel pick up and drop off all private transfer.
Pickup included
English Guide+Subway
Including private English guide, all entrance tickets, local lunch, hotel pick up and drop off all subway transportation.
Pickup included
EN, ES, FR, DE, ITGuide+Subway
Including Spanish/German/Italian/French guide, entrance tickets, hotel pickup and drop off all subway & Didi transportation.
Pickup included
Reviews
271 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Extremely knowledge and comfortable tour
PATTY J,,Jan 9, 2026
- Review from Viator
5.00This was an excellent tour. Picked up right at our hotel. Vivian was an extremely knowledgable guide. Made us feel comfortable the whole way through. There are certain security checks and things you should not bring and she provided us with that information the day before, and then was very helpful to let us know what was coming ahead. During the time of the tour, she asked us what we wanted to do and how long we wanted to take and provided information on all the destinations. I would highly recommend this tour. The driver and vehicle transportation was clean, safe and extremely comfortable.
We booked with Catherine...
Daryn M,,Jan 6, 2026
- Review from Viator
5.00We booked with Catherine Lu tours. Jenny was our tour guide. We were trying to get the most out of our brief time in Beijing and they were very flexible and made some great recommendations. The Forbidden City was magnificent and much larger than expected. Jenny was a wealth of information and shared a lot of interesting details that brought the history to life. We rearranged our tour and were able to see forbidden city and temple of heaven, walk through the Hutong streets and even see an acrobatics show in the evening that was incredible. Lunch was delicious and we were driven in a new modern comfortable van. Highly recommend this experience to see some of the premiere sights of Beijing.
A great day in Beijing
A7314TWbenw,,Jan 6, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Justin helped me to have a fantastic day in Beijing. He was organized, informed and provided a structure where i still felt like i could spend more or less time in places, depending on what was interesting to me. Thank you for your help, and the dinner recommendations you gave me for afterwards!
Blockbuster Tour in China
rebeccaoS6893XG,,Dec 27, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Amazing day with the best tour guides in CHINA!!!! Suzie and David, were fantastic, perfect English, brand new van and great food. This team can not be beaten
Dream views !! Highly recommended for the whole community
horaciop911,,Dec 27, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00On our tour we were with Iris, very friendly and friendly. Iris, our guide, took care of all our preferences and explained in Spanish the whole visit (including lunch meals).
Highly recommend the tour with May
laramC2118PF,,Dec 25, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00We had an amazing tour with May. She was very knowledgeable and spent the whole day with us. She even accommodated a last minute request to go to a temple. We had a great christmas with May! I would definitely recommend this tour. Lunch was also delicious.
We visited China!
Bruno R,,Dec 24, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00We visited the points with the Song on December 24, 2025. It was a private tour, with lots of stories about the locations and a delicious lunch.
Amazing experience, knowledgeable and reliable guides
N9469MEjulief,,Dec 20, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Everything about my one day private tour with Catherine lu Tours was amazing. The pre tour communication was clear with Jenny meeting me at the hotel as planned with her driver in a clean and comfortable modern car visiting Tian'anmen square, Forbidden city, Hutong's and Temple of Heaven. Jenny my guide was knowledgable, answered all my questions, my personal photographer catching all the perfect moments and our driver was always there when we were ready to move to next destination. Catherine Lu tours are a amazing company to deal with, always returning my messages within 24 hours, I booked a private tours in Shanghai with Cathy, Xian with Ricky and Beijing with Jenny, highly recommend all my guides as all knowledgeable and reliable. All fees including lunch were included in my initial quote, I strongly believe that you get so much more information with a guided tour than trying to navigate by yourself.
May is the amazing private tour guide
383gennyr,,Dec 20, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00I would like to thank my private tour guide for her excellent services.. I really love the way she explain to me about the historical events of the places we visited.. I highly recommended her to be other tourist.. I really enjoy and she's amazing.. Highly recommended her...
Incredible visit to Beijing
Gerardo M,,Dec 20, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Excellent service, highly recommended, Ariel helped us in a great way and the sites visited were wonderful, the city forbidden, the summer palace and temple of heaven, thank you Ariel!!!!
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