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Private tourOnly your group will participate
Pickup offeredSee the meeting and pickup details below
Overview
An indepth tour to capture the essence of Beijing’s imperial culture by visiting the classic attractions of Tiananmen Square, Imperial Ancestral Temple, Forbidden City, and Summer Palace. Your tour guide understands local history, well known for wealth of knowledge of imperial culture. Hotel pickup in downtown area of Beijing. Rest assured, there are no unwelcome factory or tourist shop visits.
What's included
Tour ends in a subway station near Summer Palace
Chinese lunch at local restaurant
Transfers between attractions by air conditioned vehicle with an experience company driver
Hotel pickup in downtown area of Beijing.
English-speaking tour guide service
Taxi fare
Boat ride on Empress Cixi Water Way in Summer Palace
Gratuities for guide and driver (recommended)
What to expect
Tiananmen Square
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Hotel pickup in downtown area of Beijing. 40-minute on Tiananmen Square. It has witnessed many significant events in China’s history. Next head for the Imperial Ancestral Temple (30-minute visiting time). It held the most important festival occasions in history.
The Palace Museum
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The highlight today is the Forbidden City (4-hours visiting time). It is time to immerse yourself in the splendid architecture of the Forbidden City which represents the essence and culmination of traditional Chinese architectural accomplishment. Relax over a Chinese lunch in a local restaurant around lunchtime.
Summer Palace
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Then visit Summer Palace (90-minute visiting time), the largest and the most well-preserved royal park in China. It is famed as “The Museum of Royal Gardens”. After this orientation tour of Summer Palace, you will be captivated by the traditional Chinese philosophy of harmonious balance between natural landscape, stream, water, and artificial man-made structures including pavilions, bridges, and halls.
Meeting and pickup
Pickup details
The meeting place is the hotel lobby. The tour guide will find you by eye contact, spell your name from his/her pickup list.
Additional information
Public transportation options are available nearby
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
This tour is a SIC tour, meaning seat-in-coach, with a driver and a tour guide. You will share a coach with other passengers.
Hotel information should be provided 24 hours before departure.
The scheduled hotel pickup time is between 7:00 am and 7:30 am. Your tour guide will call you to your hotel room before 10 pm the day prior to tour departure to reconfirm exact time.
This is no refund for no show. Please do not be late. Your tour guide will go with other passengers without you.
Why is the hotel pickup so early? You will visit Tiananmen Square and Imperial Ancestral Temple first. The Forbidden City opens at 8:30 am.
Temporary Closure for maintainnance: Gate towers and walls of the Meridian Gate (Wu men), East Prosperity Gate (Donghua men) and Gate of Divine Prowess (Shenwu men) of the Palace Museum are to be temporarily closed for upgrade. The closure time is from 2 March to 21 March, 2018.
If you do not receive a phone call from your tour guide the day before tour departure, please check with the front desk of your hotel for messages or refer to the emergency phone number on your confirmation voucher and call your tour operator.
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
