Summer Palace Private Half-Day Tour: Experience Imperial Beijing's Cultural Heritage

Breeze past the long entry lines to enjoy your half day pre-booked tour of the Summer Palace. Follow your tour guide to visit huge emperor’s summer garden. Including the longevity hill, South Lake Island, Suzhou Street. Learn about the ancient history, culture and itions that helped shape the Summer Palace through your guide’s engaging commentary.

Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Summer Palace (Yiheyuan) - Your well-trained English-speaking tour guide and car/van will pick you up in your hotel from 8:30 am or 13:30pm. Please kindly refer us when you book it.
    Transfer to the Summer Palace the largest imperial garden existing in China. Located at the northwest Beijing, you can enjoy the wonderful scenery for around 3 hours….
What's Included
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Professional guide
  • Entrance ticket
  • Gasline, Parking and Toll fees
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Lunch
  • Boat fee
Additional Information
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
  • Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
  • Please wear comfortable walking shoes
Location
Summer Palace (Yiheyuan)
No.19 Xinjian Gongmen Road, Haidian District,
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Eddiehopkins79
Jun 25, 2025
Great Tour! - Maggie was a great tour guide. She was on time, knowledgeable, fun, and spoke perfect English. Highly recommend especially if you can get Maggie.
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Ashlynb566
Jun 25, 2025
Maggie is the best tour guide! - Loved this tour but our tour guide Maggie made this our tour incredible! She is so sweet, kind, happy, smart and answered all of our questions! If you do this tour, I recommend requesting Maggie. She is the best.
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Karlybowman
Jun 25, 2025
Great tour, request Maggie as your guide! - This was an awesome tour, our tour guide Maggie was the best! She has been my favorite guide by FAR throughout my China trip. She is so sweet, knowledgeable, and kind! Her English is also very good. Love Maggie!!!!
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784joycec
Jun 18, 2025
4 hours well spent!!! - The tour was a great cultural exploration of the Summer Palace. Our tour guide Rita took us around to see many popular and picturesque spots next to the beautiful lake, along with vivid stories of the history of the palace that were both entertaining and informative. I would recommend this tour to anyone wanting an interactive viewing of the Summer Palace with friends or family.
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Leanne_s
Jun 17, 2025
This tour is one of the... - This tour is one of the must do.s whilst in Beijing but put it behind the other sites like the Forbidden City and Great Wall if time is short. The palace has its size and lake. The lake was stunning and learning about the history of how the palace was used by the emperors family is an interesting learn.
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Carole_b
Jun 10, 2025
Summer palace - Great way to learn some Chinese history if like me you only previously had a brief knowledge of. Made even better by my very knowledge and enthusiastic guide Rita
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Carolebo1415xt
Jun 10, 2025
Summer Palace wanderings - Lovely place to visit and wander around for a few hours. Tour made even better by my guide Rita who was very knowledgeable and enthusiastic. Definitely a good place to spend some time
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Gill860
Jun 8, 2025
Great half day tour - We thoroughly enjoyed our tour to the Summer Palace. The half day tour suited us well and our tour guide Jun was extremely knowledgeable, very helpful and spoke perfect English. We managed to see everything and even had enough time to fit in the boat trip!!! Would certainly recommend Jun and this tour !!!
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B6001tdrebeccaw
May 26, 2025
Excellent tour, friendly guide - We booked a one day tour to see the Great Wall and the Summer Palace. Linda was an excellent guide, friendly and knowledgeable about the history of the Summer Palace and the Great Wall, and happy to answer questions. She was also great on ensuring the itinerary worked well, meaning we avoided going to the attractions at the most crowded part of the day. I would recommend this tour.
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Anniecq3063yk
May 23, 2025
Great experience - The summer palace was my favourite part in Beijing city. Nancy was a great and energetic tour guide and had great knowledge of the palace
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From $48
up to 15 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).