Beijing City Tour: Forbidden City, Summer Palace, Temple

Experience the best of Beijing on this classic city tour. Explore Tian’anmen Square, the Forbidden City, Hutong, and the Temple of Heaven. Hotel transfer and entrance tickets included.

Duration: 8 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Forbidden City-The Palace Museum - Next, heading to the magnificent Forbidden City, the largest Imperial Palace in the world. You’ll spend a couple of hours wandering around this amazing example of Imperial architecture and learning about the history of the palace. The whole morning tour will be around 2 hours.
  • Temple of Heaven - After…
What's Included
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Professional guide
  • Private transfer or Uber (based on booking)
  • Lunch in a local Chinese restaurant
  • Entrance Tickets to the Forbidden City, Heaven Temple & Summer Palace
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Dinner
  • Tiananmen Square
Additional Information

This amazing classic city tour of Beijing that includes both visiting the most popular attractions and also some small historic alleys.
You will start your day from walking around the Tian’anmen Square, heading to Forbidden City, explore the Summer Palace and end up your day by going to Temple of Heaven. Hotel transfer, local lunch, private guide and…

Location
Forbidden City-The Palace Museum
No.4 Jingshanqian Street, Dongcheng District,
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Benjamin
Dec 25, 2024
Great full day tour in Beijing with our tour guide Lisa - We highly recommend this tour when visiting Beijing. It included visits to Tiananmen, Forbidden City, and a visit to the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall. Our tour guide Lisa from Catherine Lu Tours was very friendly and knowledgeable, fluent in English and switched back and forth between Mandarin easily. If you want to see the main highlights in and around Beijing book this tour.
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Bryannyc01
Dec 23, 2024
Perfect Beijing Hightlights Tour - We picked Catherine Lu tours because they were able to provide an itinerary that met our needs. We were a group of 3 traveling from NYC and wanted to start our trip in Beijing with a highlights tour to get a feel for the city. Our tour guide Maggie was wonderful, and not only was very knowledgeable of the sites themselves, but also gave us a lot of general trips to make the most of Beijing. We ended up spending another day with Maggie was well (to see the Great Wall and Summer Palace) and we are very grateful that she was our guide!wed highly recommend both Catherine Lu Tours and Maggie.
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Feedbackprovided
Nov 18, 2024
A great experience with a legitimate tour company - I was very pleased with this tour. Communication from the back office staff was timely and helpful. My driver, Mr. YU, was excellent and efficient. And my tour guide, Angel, was knowledgeable, friendly, patient, and genuinely kind. I loved the attractions that we visited, and going with a private guide removed so much of the logistical work that I would have needed to complete if I visited the same locations on my own. Also, the restaurant where we had lunch was tasty and authentic. Again, a great excursion!
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Anthonyal9560bi
Nov 17, 2024
One day for a lifetime of memories - It was incredible! I saw so many things in such a short period of time. My guide was May and she was wonderful. She went above and beyond. She was very knowledgeable about the history of each site and was an expert at getting me in and out of them with ease. She adjusted and adapted the tour to fit with my interests and even helped me make reservations for a restaurant later in the evening. I cannot recommend this tour enough! I saw a side of Beijing and China that I never knew existed and I'll carry these memories with me for the rest of my life.
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Twtwong
Oct 20, 2024
Convenient and comfortable experience - Overall great experience visiting the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square and also the Temple of Heaven. Jenny was a wonderful guide who patiently explained to us the history of the palace and different sites. Jenny also goes the extra mile to really assist her clients even after the tour. The tour was also very convenient in that it covered transportation, lunch and entry into the various locations. Highly recommended.
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Adeens2019
Oct 9, 2024
Fabulous tour of Beijing's essentials - Amazing tour with detailed historic descriptions. Adam was very supportive and accommodating to all our requests. We went to the forbidden city, Jingshan park, temple of heaven, and summer palace. Everything was well explained with interesting pieces of history
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Stevengf145nq
Oct 2, 2024
Temple of Heaven, Forbidden City & the Summer Palace - Fantastic. We visited the Temple of Heaven, Forbidden City and the Summer Palace, what an amazing day. Our guide Angel was very informative and provided lots of information about the sites we were at. Thank you so much.
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Jonomad
Oct 1, 2024
Beijing Best - Amazing day visiting the City Sites with Angel (guide) and Jason (driver). Packed full of information, manouvered around the crowds and traffic during the busy public holidays. would recommend!
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Davidjw7067na
Sep 12, 2024
great experience - Joseph was our guide and he did an amazing job not only give us the history of all the places we visited,but also tending to our needs.He even gave us lunch options,and helped us find addition activities after our tour.best of all,no shopping or pressure to buy anthing additional.
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Micamarco
Jul 23, 2024
Beijing private tour - Had an amazing tour discovering Beijing highlights(Trmple of Heaven, Tienanmen square, Firbidden city( with our guide Angel! Everything perfect and organized in detail! Really a great day
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