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Forbidden City & Tiananmen Square: Private Layover Guided Tour from Beijing Capital Airport
5.0
16 Ratings
Beijing
Experience a private layover guided tour from Beijing Capital Airport to the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square. Get visa-free permit assistance, professional English-speaking guide, and safe transportation.
Duration:
6 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang) - Pick you up in time from Beijing Capital Airport or hotel. You will take about 1 hour drive to Tiananmen Square. Stay there as long as you like.
- Forbidden City-The Palace Museum - After visit the Tiananmen Square, and then go to visit the Forbidden City. You can decide to stay longer or shorter time as you like.
Transfer you back to airport or your hotel after the tour.
What's Included
- Entrance tickets to the Forbidden City.
- China life tourist accident/casualty insurance.
- Licensed English-speaking tour guide and professional driver.
- Air-conditioned vehicle.
- Warm coats provided in winter.
- Complimentary bottled mineral water.
What's Not Included
- Personal expenses.
- Gratuities, tips to guides or drivers.
Additional Information
We can pick you up from Beijing Capital Airport or your hotel. We will guide you to get Visa-free permit step by step, and make sure you get back to airport in time. We supply a professional driver and a car with licence as well as a professional English speaking licensed tour guide, both of them work for you. We will make sure you can enjoy a safe tour with professional English interpretation both during driving and in attractions, and would not waste your time for parking. Our driver will make sure your luggage is safe while you are not in the car.
- Our earliest pick-up time is 7am. You will need 1.5-2 hours to be get out of customs after your flight arrives. You shall go back in airport at least 1.5-2 hours before the flight departure.
- We do not recommend you book this tour, if you arrival Beijing capital airport after 12:00. Unless your layover time over 24 hours.
- Countries qualified for the 24/144-hour Visa-free Transit in Beijing Capital International Airport: Albania, Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Belarus, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Macedonia, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Republic of Montenegro, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Serbia, United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States.
- The 24/144-hour Visa-free Transit only applies to passengers who transit through Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing. The destination and place of departure cannot be the same.(e.g Auckland – Beijing – Auckland)
- As a tour company, if we agree to arrange tour for you that is means your flights information, layover time and your nationality fit the visa free policy requirements. But there are still some other issues might happen that might cause you can not obtain the visa-free or can not get out of the airport. We don’t take any responsibility if you are not able to get visa-free for any reason.
Location
Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen Guangchang)
West Changan 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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(16 Ratings)
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Elegantbutsporty
Jun 15, 2024
Wonder Herbie - We took this tour during a long layover in Beijing, Herbie our guide was very good and super efficient, from when he picked us up at the airport and throughout the entire tour where he explained to us in detail and competently the different aspects of the forbidden city. I highly recommend this tour if you have a long layover in Beijing.
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Pioneer59962477873
Jun 3, 2024
Amazing!!! - It was such a fine and beautiful experience. I didn’t know what to expect but this definitely over exceeded my expectations! My tour guide Herbie was extremely kind and thought me a lot of things about Beijing, which I would have never known if it wasn’t for him. He also helped me with any problems or wishes that I had during the tour, which was extremely kind of him!
I definitely want to book this again if I ever have a layover in Beijing!! I will for sure not forget about this, as this was just amazing!
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Lizfm6254jg
May 19, 2024
Fantastic! - Our guide, Herbie, was very informative, kind and thoughtful. We will be booking a Great Wall tour for our return layover and hope to get Herbie again.
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Katarzynakm110ci
Mar 23, 2024
Great experience, good vibes - Great experience! Well prepared but not “heavy” with transmitting it at the same time.
On time, good language skills- only superlatives. 100% recommended. Thank you!
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Shaquanej
Mar 22, 2024
Great Tour With Herby - Very happy we found this tour. Our plane landed in the afternoon, and we were having a hard time finding a forbidden city afternoon tour. I'm so glad we found this one. Our tour guide Herby spoke great English, was conversational and made over 1000 years of history very entertaining. He also took a lot great pictures and shared some good suggestions. If you can, request Herby, do it.
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Davidmu5284zv
Mar 16, 2024
Brilliant layover tour - I had a fantastic layover tour with Herbie as my tour guide. Everything was very well organized, from the pick-up to the sightseeing and the return transfer. Herbie led the tour with great joy, he also has incredible knowledge of the sights and knows the best photo stops. All in all, simply an unforgettable tour, I can only recommend it to anyone traveling to Beijing.
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Wws1
Jan 23, 2024
Enjoyable 1-day visit to Beijing - Having a whole day layover in Beijing I decided to make a tour and selected "Beijinglayovertour". My choice was not inexpensive but after all I had for myself a nice car with a very smart driver and a personal tour guide - Ms. Nina.
Every detail re. tour was excellently organised starting with an e-mail precisely describing virtually every step from leaving the aircraft, getting 1-day-visa and meeting the tour guide. Ms. Nina was not only a great source of information but thought of many details making this tour very memorable. The provided very warm coat (right size!) was important considering ambient temps of -10 deg C.
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E351csandreaf
Jan 19, 2024
A Magical Layover Tour! - We had such a magical Layover tour not once but twice! We had a long layover in Beijing going and coming back home, so we booked with Beijing layover tour for experience China for the first time. Great choice!! Hans was a wonderful tour guide, we had a lot of fun with him! He was very informative, showing us around and giving us history and fun facts about the sights. We had originally planned the great wall on the first layover but got cancelled due to the mega snow that fell on December 14th. We were SO lucky to see the city blanketed in snow. Hans also had two heavy winter coats ready for us to use. They were so comfortable and convenient! The whole thing was so beautiful and a day we will remember for the rest of our lives. Hans also recommended a wonderful spot for Peking Duck and it did not disappoint! On the second layover back home, we finally saw the great wall! Our favorite places on the trip were the Temple of Heaven and the Summer palace! We really got to see a lot during our two layovers, what a treat! Thank you Hans for an unforgettable layover, wow!
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Zs_fiam2024
Jan 10, 2024
Layover tour with Lisa - We had our best time in this layover tour. Thank you Lisa. You are the best.
They picked up at time in the airport. She told us a lot of historical story about The Great Wall and Forbidden city.
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497juliettev
Dec 25, 2023
Must do tour! - Beautiful tour. Seven was very informative and kind. It's a must do, if you have a layover in Bejing. They help you out with the admin. We were a little bit late and they waited and were so kind about it.
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