Forbidden City: Tours & Tickets

great day trip, good tour of the forbidden city, a jade factory, tea factory/chinese medicine place and the wall. However, the queue to get up to the wall in the cable car (also, cable car wasn't optional, we all had to pay for it) was at least 50 minutes plus 50 minutes down, we were given two hours so obviously we were late getting back to the bus and still only had max 30 mins on the wall. Tour guide was excellent though. Also, we weren't told the pick up time and location until 7.30pm the night before - perhaps give warning to your customers of when they will receive the message as we were a little worried that we had not heard anything.

This tour was really interesting and hit all the major tourist attractions in one day while also providing some more cultural attractions in the form of jade and tea. Since I was on a tight schedule it was excellent to be able to see it all and still have enough time to enjoy the city on my own before leaving. Our tour guide was knowledgeable which brought the depth of history to the places we visited. One recommendation: get the cable car ticket. If you don't get it now, you'll end up buying it when you're there because otherwise it takes like an hour of uphill walking to reach anywhere nice on the Great Wall.

We happened to hit Beijing during the Dragon Boat Festival, so Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City where very crowded, but we still enjoyed the sights. The Great Wall was amazing. Getting the cable car option is highly recommended. I’ve been to Badaling Great Wall, but I liked this (Mutianyu) site much better. The guide, Sabrina was very knowledgeable and shared a lot of interesting facts about the sites we visited. Overall, 5-star tour!

Tour was great: pickup from hotel; well organized interesting visit of the Forbidden city ( 2 hours sufficient), 2 hours Great Wall were also sufficient because of the heat ... I took the cable car for going up and going down I used the slider - highly recommended, lots of fun. The two sales „meetings“ were also ok. Lunch was very good. Guide was friendly and very helpful

The tour agency was very efficient, provided us details for the trip through message as well as thru our hotel’s front desk. Our guide, Nikki was excellent, provided all the required info on all the attractions in a light hearted way, enjoyed our tour very much. Recommended tour if you have a short stay in Beijing.