Boutique Tour: City Highlights of Beijing and Peking Duck Lunch





Description
This private day tour is a comprehensive introduction to the most popular attractions in Beijing. Spend a day exploring Tian'anmen Square, Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven and enjoy a boat ride at the Summer Palace. See Beijing's famous Olympic stadiums, the Bird’s Nest and the Water Cube. The package includes transportation to and from these popular landmarks and a delicious lunch of Peking Roast Duck.
Tour Options
Itinerary
Meet your guide in your Beijing hotel lobby and depart to the Temple of Heaven. The best time to visit is in the morning to catch a glimpse of local senior citizens exercising, practicing Tai Chi, playing Shuttlecock, singing, dancing, or doing ground calligraphy.
Continue to see Tiananmen Square which is the largest city center square in the world. It witnessed some of the most dramatic chapters of Chinese history.
Proceed north to visit the Forbidden City, the place where the Ming and Qing Emperors resided for more than 500 years. Having been off-limits to commoners for centuries, it was officially opened to the public in 1925 as a public museum. After your morning tour, your lunch will be served in a cozy, non-tourist Peking Roast Duck restaurant.
Continue to visit Summer Palace, the best-preserved and largest Imperial Garden existing in China. Depending on the season, you will take a dragon boat inside.
On the way back your hotel, drive by the Beijing Olympic Park to have a look of the Water Cube and Bird's nest.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
Guide will contact you one night before departure, either by calling your room or leave a message, to confirm departure time. Guide will meet you in your Beijing hotel lobby.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Passport name, number, is required at time of booking for all participants
- This is a private no shopping tour, there are no unnecessary stops during the tour; you will have adequate time on each site
Reviews(104)
Spent full day with Dana and her introduction to Beijing was outstanding. The City is fascinating and Dana throughout the tour explained the historical, cultural, religious and political facts that made the City come alive for me. Could not have done this on my own. She navigated the day perfectly and professionally. Also, she is a delightful person that made this that much more special. Highly recommend.
Thank you for the valulabe review, we are happy to know you are satisfied with our service and we will continue to provide top-notch service to future customers.
An all-inclusive boutique tour is pure perfection! Personalized service, unique experiences, and every detail thoughtfully planned. A must for stress-free travel.
Mr. Li is an amazing tour guide. From the moment we started the tour till the end, he was full of energy and trying to please us as much as possible. He knows all the great spots for taking pictures. And the places he choose for us to eat, are amazing. Those were really good restaurants, especially the one close to the Great Wall, where you get amazing trout and a wonderfull view. We had only two days to see 4 important locations, and he made sure that we have a really good experience. Overall we are really satisfied with the complete tour, and we would recommend Mr. Li to everyone that comes to Beijing.
Thank you for the review. Great to know you are satisfied with our service. We will continue to offer excellent service to each of our future customers.
A group of tourists from Serbia spent two glorious days with Mr. Lee. Visiting Beijing is unforgettable. Mostly because of Lee. He shared his great knowledge of Chinese history with us, and it was a real pleasure to tour the city with him. Absolutely all recommendations! ❤️
Thank you, we will continue to offer excellent service to each of our future customers.
The best tour! Dana, our tour guide, know so much history about all the places we visited. She was attentive and patient. These places are a must see in Beijing. I definitely recommend her .
Thanks for the review, happy to know you had a good time in Beijing with our service.
My friend and I took both group tours and private tours. We explored all over the city and to the wall. We were pleased with all our tours but then our last tour was with Angie. OMG! What a difference a FABULOUS tour guide makes! She clarified and corrected information we had been given on other tours (or our understanding of it). She completely modified our private tour to do exactly what we wanted to do, as we had already seen and done so much, we wanted to focus on other things. She was flexible, responsive, and super helpful. She helped us navigate some tricky situations (problem at the hotel, needing to cancel our final tour, and assisting with shopping) that we could not have managed without her. She chose a delightful spot for lunch and we all ate well. We learned so much from Angie and were so pleased to hear from her about so many different topics of interest to us. I feel like we made a real friend in Beijing!
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Our guide, Angie, made our day exceptional! She was prompt to meet us, professional, spoke beautiful English and adapted the tour to our needs. Her depth of knowledge about the tour sites was impressive and accurate. She kept a leisure pace, answered our many questions, took our photos, ordered a delicious Peking Duck lunch at a local restaurant and shared her favorite sites with us. When you miss your guide at the end of the day, you know you've also made a friend.
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Not knowing how to speak the native language was a bit scary. So my partner and I decided to book a private tour guide. She was on time, spoke very good English and had lots to share about China’s history. When booking my excursion I informed the tour company I did not eat pork ( religious reasons). When I met the tour guide I reminded her twice ( when we met at the hotel and before lunch )that I didn’t eat pork. With lots of waking on the tour, by the time lunch came around she took us to a nice restaurant. She looked through the menu and ordered for us. Unlike the other private tour that took us to a buffet (different tour guide )she went through the menu and picked food for us. When the food got to the table I asked what it all was. Half of the food she picked I couldn’t beat because the dish had pork in it. Considering I spent over $400 for the tour, I was upset. I told her that I can’t eat this, and she said I could eat the other items instead. To me it looked and felt like she picked and chose her favorite dishes without considering my food limitations. And for that I gave a two star. I spent way too much of my hard earned money to have an unsatisfactory private tour.
Hi Dear Viator Customer, I am sorry to know that you had a bad experience with the dish selections our guide offered. First of all, we sincerely apologize to you. And we had informed every guide to be careful with customers' special requirements on food. Actually, for a lot of restaurants in Beijing, it is a common practice to put a little bit pork in some dishes to make the flavor better; even though it is not mentioned in the menu. Anyway, it is our fault and we will double check whether the dishes we order have something our customers are allergic to in the future. Thank you for the detailed review. Bruce Li from Wikibeijing
What a wonderful day! Our guide Dana was very friendly and shared the centuries of history, beauty and intrigue that laid behind each of the sites we visited. Fantastic trip. Highly recommended.
Thank you very much David! We will continue to offer top-notch service to future customers. Bruce Li from Wikibeijing
My husband, parents, and brother took this tour on Saturday 11/2. Pickup was prompt with communication the night before to confirm. Our guide Angie and the driver were both very courteous and professional. Due to a marathon in Beijing that morning, Angie adjusted the order of the tour to ensure we made the most of our time despite road closures, etc. She was extremely knowledgeable and her presentation was informative and fun. My parents are older and she was always very aware of their pace and super patient. The lunch was AMAZING. Because we were slower we became delayed; she even beelined ahead of us on a rented bicycle to purchase our tickets to the Temple of Heaven before they closed sales. Highly recommend--we absolutely would go touring with Angie again!
Thanks for the review, happy to know you had a good time in Beijing with our service.



