Great Wall Layover Small Group Tour: Perfect for Budget-conscious Beijing Visitors
4.9
46 Ratings
Shunyi District

If you find yourself with a layover of 8 hours or more in Beijing and you’re working with a tight budget, this compact group excursion to see the Great Wall comes highly suggested.

Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Mutianyu Great Wall - Be met our tour guide at Beijing Capital Airport Terminal 3 Arrival Hall Starbucks Coffee (right beside the international exit B) at 9am. Drive to Mutianyu Great Wall (9am-10am). You will visit the Mutianyu Great Wall about 2 hours (10am-12pm). Then transfer you back to Beijing Capital airport (12pm-1pm). End of our service.
What's Included
  • Entrance tickets to the Great Wall included.
  • Complimentary China life tourist accident/casualty insurance.
  • Professional guided tour with a licensed English-speaking guide.
  • Comfortable transport with an air-conditioned vehicle and professional driver.
  • Free bottled mineral water provided.
What's Not Included
  • meals.
  • Cable cars/toboggan at Great Wall.
  • Gratuities, tips to guides or drivers.
Additional Information
  • This tour is suitable for your arrival at Beijing airport at Beijing time before 7AM and departs at 3PM Beijing time or later.
  • The pick-up address is Starbucks coffee shop at terminal 3 arrival hall (beside the international exit B). If your flight arrive at terminal 1 or 2, please take the airport shuttle bus to terminal 3. But we can transfer you to terminal 1 or 2 to catch your next flight after the tour.
  • If you stay in a hotel, please go to the pick-up address on your own.
  • The tour duration is fixed, if you would like to stay longer or shorter time at Great Wall. Please choose our private tour.
  • If you did not show up on time at the meeting point at 9am, we will go on with our tour.
  • Countries qualified for the 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 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)
  • We don’t take any responsibility if you are not able to get visa-free and get out of airport for some reasons.
Location
Beijing Capital International Airport
Starbucks coffee shop at terminal 3 arrival hall (beside the international exit B)
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Jankobal
Jan 8, 2024
Everything you need for a long layover - We had a layover tour with Herbie who gave as a great experiance. He talked with pasion and gave us really a lot information about great China wll history and todays condition also.
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Valentinaungaro
Dec 26, 2023
Best and easiest organization - We got to the airport with the idea to get a taxi to go and visit the Great Wall during our layover. Right outside the luggage pickup we found this company and Lisa made our experience way way better! They offered the trip to go and come back, the Great Wall entrance tickets, English guide, water, and even winter jackets since there were -10 degrees! The Great Wall is incredible and definitely a must do, thank you Lisa for being our guide!
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Francescato1244zu
Dec 25, 2023
Amazing layover at the Great Wall! - I took a tour with Beijing Layover tour during my 13 hours stopover in Beijing. It was amazing! Our tour Guide, Herbie, shared with us the story behind the Great Wall and some cultural background of China, making the experience more insightful. They are very organized (they even provide you with coat if you don’t have it with you!). They really take care of you. If you have a long stopover in Beijing, I would definitely recommend the a tour with them!
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51vikip
Dec 6, 2023
Fantastic experience. Very profesional. - Thank you Lisa for making our layover trip great, enjoyabke and stress free experience. We also appreciate your history knowledge, you shared very useful and interesting informations. The driver Mr.Lee did great job and naše sure to take us back to the airport on time.
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686nyasha
Sep 20, 2023
Great experience! - Beijing layover tours are amazing. Soo helpful, very responsive and were able to answer any question I had. They shared really useful information on how to get a visa, how to navigate out of the airport as it is quite large, to their meeting point. The tour itself was great - got to hear the history of the Great Wall of China from the tour guide and were made to feel comfortable on our journey there/ back and during. I’d highly recommend their services
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Dominiquegc5416oi
Sep 15, 2023
Amazing - Absolutely loved this tour. We had a wonderful guide Lisa and driver ( I am so sorry I forgot his name - this is written in retrospect). They both brought us to the Great Wall and there where hardly any tourist when we arrived there. Honestly a must do stopover.
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Jasminer814
Jun 14, 2020
Love it! - Worth every penny! I met the guide inside the airport, everyone spoke English, were knowledgeable and the car was safe. It was really cold so the guide was ready with free jackets in the event you left your coat on the plane. You guide yourself up and through the wall but again very safe.I would book another tour with this group.
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652abigailw
Jan 21, 2020
Fantastic Layover Tour - A friend and I wanted to make good use of the Layover time in Beijing. I looked on here to find a company and this one popped up. I spent some time communicating with Daniel Yan who was very nice and had good English. Even after we had a loss of communication before we had confirmed the tour (probably my fault), I was able to book the tour just a few weeks before with the same itinerary. We paid a deposit on paypal (50USD) even without a PayPal account and were sent a confirmation email and instructions on how to find our guide on the day. On the day, we ended up being slightly late (approx 30 mins) to meet our guide Herbie due to being confused by the immigration systems. We messaged the number given to us and met our guide at the location as promised who took us to our car. The car was very nice and clean and the driver seemed friendly and opened the door for me as I got in. There was a bottle of water and a big coat for us both. We were driven to the car park of the Great Wall and on the way Herbie was very chatty in the car and we asked him questions about where he was from and Chinese culture which he answered very well and showed a good level of English. There us a Subway and toilets located next to the car park My friend and I thought we would walk up to the Wall which would've taken approximately 30 minutes. In the end, we both decided we were better off taking the chair lift and then the toboggan type slide on the way down - looking back on it, we are so glad we chose to do that. I believe it was an extra 120 Chinese Yuan so approximately £14 or $18 USD each. Herbie paid for us and we paid him back when we got to the airport. As we arrived when the Wall had just opened, it was so quiet and peaceful going up on the chair lift. Furthermore, as it had snowed, the mountains behind us as we were going up were just beautiful. When we got to the Wall we walked in between the different towers and parts of the wall and going up and down a lot of stairs, which some are extremely steep so we were glad we hadn't walked up. Herbie was a fantastic guide and told us a lot of history about the Wall. Not only was Herbie a great tour guide, he was a great photographer too and took many photos of us and showed us the best locations to take the photos and was not afraid to give us direction for our poses ;). Before we left to come down, Herbie offered to order us a Subway to pick up when we got down, which was a very kind request. Before you get to the toboggan slide you do get a few locals trying to sell you things, but we walked past and it was fine We then went down the toboggan slide which was a lot of fun and easy to control. They do take a photo of you going down and you can buy this if you want ( we didn't). We were then driven back to the airport. At the aiport, Herbie helped me to use the cash point (it was in chinese) to withdraw the money that we owed. We managed to get the bus to our terminal and get through security etc on time. Overall, this was a fantastic tour that was well organised. Our highlights were the gorgeous snowy scenery, walking on the Wall, the friendly tour guide Herbie who was informative and funny, having a private tour with just us 2 at a very early time of the day with practically no one else around. Worth every penny, and definitely definitely an experience we will both never forget. Thank you to the company
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Ellesha
Jan 9, 2020
Fantastic Layover Tour to the Great Wall! - I can’t recommend booking with these guys enough. Everything was made so easy with full directions to get out of the airport and our amazing tour guide Sherry was waiting for us. She was absolutely fantastic and so informative. A great photographer too! She snapped some awesome shots of my partner and I :) Not only was the tour perfect, but she also took us to a local traditional Peking duck restaurant and helped us order, she even paid when they wouldn’t except Visa and let us pay her back after. 10/10. Such a great way to spend a layover!! And they make it so stress free!
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Nikolar580
Jan 18, 2020
A great disappointment - We had a layover in Beijing and we decided to take a tour to see the Great Wall. The opportunity to see the Great wall was amazing,but the guide wasn't informative at all. She said like 10 sentences on a bus and when we got there she got us tickets +plus she got us tickets for cable car (extra payment). Then she said come to this spot in 2 hours that was it. So honestly I don't see any reason to include information that there is a professional guide with a group. And I also don't think that price for this tour was reasonable, we paid 85$ each. The positive thing was that the pick up and the drop off was at the airport.
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