Beijing Full-Day Tour: Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven and Summer Palace
Description
Make full use of your time in Beijing and explore the ancient capital’s highlight attractions in one day: the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven and Summer Palace. Well-trained English-speaking tour guide, Chinese lunch (optional), hotel pickup and drop-off are included.
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Itinerary
Your full-day tour of classic Beijing begins with a visit to Tian’anmen Square after being picked up at your hotel at around 8 AM. Tian’anmen Square, the largest city square in the world, holds the Monument of the National Heroes, the Great Hall of the People, the National Museum of China, and the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong. Please note that during peak travel season, the wait time for entry may extend to over 1 hour.
You will then enjoy a short walk from Tian’anmen Square to the Forbidden City. At 8:30-10:30, you will visit this magnificent imperial palace. The Forbidden City, with over 500 years of history, is the largest and best-preserved ancient palatial structure in the world. Duration: approximately two hours.
At 11:00, on the way to your next destination, the Temple of Heaven, considered the holiest place in Beijing, is the largest ancient imperial architectural structure for worship in the world. The visit to Temple of Heaven takes about 1.5 hours.
After lunch, take a 30-minute drive, you will reach the Summer Palace, the best preserved and largest imperial garden in the world. The Summer Palace is regarded as a museum of gardens in China. Duration: 2 hours. At 18:00, you will be transferred to your hotel.
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What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
The hotel pick-up time is around 8 am. The day before your tour date, you will be contacted via telephone or your hotel reception. Please contact the emergency telephone number provided, should you not receive any information.
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Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Children must be accompanied by an adult.
- You will receive details about tour guide and exact pickup time in your voucher the day before. And the tour guide will also call you via hotel or leave a message for you about pickup time the night before tour.
- The Forbidden City opens for booking 7 days in advance, and could be sold out very soon during peak season. For the last-minute booking, we will contact you for a backup plan if ticket is sold out.
Reviews(55)
Naturally I was nervous about using a guide service that I had never used before. But I found Trippest (aka China Highlights) ideal for adding onto our self-booked holiday in China. Their guided tours (we also did a day trip to Jinshanling Great Wall, and the Terracotta Warriors in Xi’an) are half the price of booking through a luxury hotel concierge, and make it super-easy and efficient to visit multiple sites in one day. It’s also interesting to meet and talk to a local English-speaking Chinese person. The company was also good at dealing with an error I made with ID details during booking. I would definitely recommend them, though I would equally say that it’s not as hard as you might imagine to visit Chinese sites on your own (equipped with Alipay/WeChat/Google app for translation, a guide book, and using Didi, the Chinese Uber). But if you want to make your life easy, go with these guys without hesitation.
Dear Trippest Customer, Thank you for choosing Trippest for your travel needs and for sharing your positive experience. We're thrilled to hear that you were satisfied with our itinerary and guide service. Our commitment is to provide the best fragmented travel services in China, whether it's for one location, one day, or just a few hours activities. We aim to make your journey hassle-free, offering convenience and saving you time, ensuring a wonderful experience with us. We truly appreciate the opportunity to serve you and are grateful for your trust amidst many options. We cherish each chance to provide you with professional and satisfying service. We look forward to welcoming you on your next adventure! Have a nice day! Best regards, Trippest Customer Service Team.
Our tour guide, David was very nice and knowledgable. He made our trip very interesting. Viator kept us informed before our arrival and the convenience of just showing your passport to enter was great. Forbidden City bucket list check off..
Dear Elizabeth, Thank you for sharing your experience of the Beijing Full-Day Tour. We're thrilled to hear that David made your trip interesting with his knowledge and friendliness. It's wonderful that you found the entry process convenient and could check the Forbidden City off your bucket list. We appreciate your feedback and hope to see you on another tour soon! Best regards, Trippest Customer Service Team
The guide (Thomas) was very knowledgeable and keen on answering my questions. The tour was very well organize, I could see all the main highlights of Beijing, and the guide recommended a very good local restaurant, also suggesting the most typical dishes. Highly recommended!
Dear Martina, Thank you very much for positive review of the Beijing Full-Day Tour. We are delighted to hear that you enjoyed the tour and found our guide, Thomas, knowledgeable and helpful. It's great to know that you appreciated the organization of the tour and the local restaurant recommendation. We are grateful for your recommendation and look forward to welcoming you back on another tour in the future. Have a nice day! Best Regards, Trippest Customer Care.
The tour was excellent. My tour guide Amber did an outstanding job. Everything was very well planned. I can highly recommend both the tour and the organizer.
Dear Julian, Thank you very much for taking your time to write us with a positive review. We are delighted to hear that you enjoyed the guide, Amber, and the entire itinerary. We strive to ensure that every guest visiting Beijing has a satisfying and memorable trip, even if it's just for 1 day :) Thank you again for choosing our one-day tour in Beijing among many options. We will continue to provide satisfactory and excellent service to all our guests. Wishing you a wonderful day! Best Regards, Trippest Customer Care.
Nice guide and tour, Mei was our guide, decent english, even helped with other reservations. In general a nice a lovely guide and tour! Glad we booked this and her.
Overall this tour was awesome! We enjoyed visiting all the different historical sites but could of done without all the stops at the pearl warehouse, the jade warehouse the herbal medicine place oh wait... the foot massage part of that was awesome! Yes there is a lot of walking but I think manageable because you also get time to sit and rest here and there. I think the only issue we had was because our Hotel was outside the three ring pick up we had to meet our tour in town at another hotel That part was ok. the part that was annoying was our tour guide was suppose to call our hotel and let us know where to meet her and when we finally got to our hotel at 10pm we still hadn't received any info on where to meet and our tour was the next day! So after trying to communicate with hotel staff (which was a major fail) I had to make a phone call to the tour company which cost me $10! We finally was able to connect with our tour guide after a few lousy phone connections and finally got a email with instruction to the meeting place. That was after midnight and we had to be up by 5am to meet up with our group and we already hadn't slept for 24hrs! So needless to say we didn't get much sleep! only think i'd recommend is getting your meet up point if possible before getting to china!
I want to give a shoutout to Sally for such an amazing trip! She was an EXCELLENT tour guide that was highly informative and pleasant to be around for the entire excursion. She also gave us amazing recommendations on restaurants to check out and additional sites we should visit. I highly recommend her and the tour as well!
This was actually one of the least enjoyable days of our tour. I wanted to go here as this tour included Tiannamin Square. This was such of a historical place, how could you miss it. It was very crowded and a long day with tons of walking (be prepared)! I found this to be quite boring if it wasn’t for the historical significance. With all this said, I am very glad I went on this tour, however I probably would not do it again. All the different areas, just seem to be repetitive. And I fell it’s the type of thing you have to see, Np but do not need to see again.
I have traveled extensively and have never had a better tour guide. Cactus met us on time. She was knowledgeable and pleasant. She went out of her way to explain and show us the sites. Lunch was delicious and plentiful. She knew all the best places for photos. But the best thing about her was her ability to make you feel at home. I can’t say enough about Cactus. She was excellent. If you are ever in China she’s the one to request.
Thank you Sally for being such a wonderful tour guide! She and our driver Mr. Xu took great care of my friend and I during the tour. Sally shared knowledge about not only the sites we saw, but also about Chinese culture. She also knew great spots for photos. It was lots of fun being able to converse with her in both Mandarin and English. We were able to stop at a tea shop to take part in a tea ceremony also along the tour, which was a great experience. I would recommend this tour!
