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Forbidden City Tour: Explore 18 Palaces
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508 Ratings
Dong Cheng Qu
Embark on an immersive journey through the Forbidden City on a mini group tour. Discover the Palace Museum’s hidden treasures and gain cultural insights in 4 hours. Skip the line and secure your limited ticket today!
Embark on an immersive journey through the Forbidden City on a mini group tour. Discover the Palace Museum’s hidden treasures and gain cultural insights in 4 hours. Skip the line and secure your limited ticket today!
Duration:
4 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Forbidden City-The Palace Museum - Start your day’s exploration of the Forbidden City in the morning with pickup from the lobby of your Beijing hotel. Board a comfortable tour vehicle with your guide and group and head out for the Forbidden City, one of Beijing’s top attractions. Upon arrival, bypass the long lines and whisk directly inside with…
- Forbidden City-The Palace Museum - Start your day’s exploration of the Forbidden City in the morning with pickup from the lobby of your Beijing hotel. Board a comfortable tour vehicle with your guide and group and head out for the Forbidden City, one of Beijing’s top attractions. Upon arrival, bypass the long lines and whisk directly inside with your pre-booked entrance ticket. Begin your exploration of the world’s largest imperial complex, also one of the best-preserved sites in the world. Also called the Palace Museum, this attraction boasts approximately 10,000 rooms in total, where 24 emperors lived for over a span of 500 years from the Ming to the Qing dynasty. Learn about the detailed, eclectic history of the site from your guide, an expert in Chinese culture, during your tour. Please see the Itinerary section for a full list of the 18 different palaces visited during the tour. Your tour ends in the Forbidden City; you are responsible for your own transportation back to your hotel. Please Note: all traveler names and passport number required required. You MUST provide your above info upon booking, in case the tickets are sold out. You MUST have your passport with you for attending this tour.
What's Included
- Forbidden City entrance ticket
- Hotel pickup (optional)
- Professional historian guide
- Local taxes
- Forbidden City entrance ticket
- Hotel pickup (optional)
- Professional historian guide
- Local taxes
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Hotel drop-off
- Food and drinks
- Gratuities
- Hotel drop-off
- Food and drinks
Additional Information
Experience the ultimate small group tour of the Forbidden City, where you will explore 18 palaces, including The Palace Museum Antiquarium (Treasures Museum). This 4-hour tour offers a comprehensive insight into the structure and cultural significance of the Forbidden City. The number of tickets sold for the Forbidden City is now restricted daily. Fear…
Experience the ultimate small group tour of the Forbidden City, where you will explore 18 palaces, including The Palace Museum Antiquarium (Treasures Museum). This 4-hour tour offers a comprehensive insight into the structure and cultural significance of the Forbidden City. The number of tickets sold for the Forbidden City is now restricted daily. Fear not, this tour includes the ticket and even lets you bypass the queue!
- Infant and children must be accompanied by adult
- A current valid passport is required on the day of travel
- All traveler names and passport number required required. You MUST provide your above info upon booking, in case the ticket sold out. You MUST have your passport with you for attending this tour.
- If the booking less than 2 people, it may cancelled and full refund
- Tourists holding foreign passports can make reservations within 7 days (not applicable to Chinese tourists, including Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan)
Location
Hotel Kapok Beijing
东华门大街
Address: No. 16 Donghuamen Street, Dongcheng district, Beijing. 木棉花酒店，北京东华门大街16号
You can take taxi to Kapok hotel or take subway Line 8 to Jinyuhutong station and go out from Exit C , and walk to the right side to Kapok hotel for around 8 minutes.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.9
(508 Ratings)
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Catherine
Oct 22, 2025
Forbidden City tour - Our guide Renny is very informative and entertaining at the same time. We thoroughly enjoyed the experience. Highly recommended.
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Lenitae2025
Oct 21, 2025
thank you sofia - The best tour in Beijing .it was a cold and busy morning in the palace museum .but the tour was very good. because the tour guide was sofia .she knows which line is fast .she was so helpful .even we were a little bit late .she can helped us to get the tickets.our kids all like her.she take care for the two kids .she is so knowledge .even the kids can follow her the all morning.
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Carmen_panarello
Oct 14, 2025
Beautiful unforgettable memories and images. Marco's guide. Group in harmony and respect. We will miss those moments. - Marco is a percet guide, precise, punctual, preofessional and attentive. The gruop had been choosen as perfect mix, and all went as planned. We have seen th best parts of the Forbidden City and we now have in our minds and hearts beautiful memories Thank you. 14 October 2025
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Sydneynik
Oct 13, 2025
Wonderful tour - We had an wonderful group tour of the Forbidden City with Marco as our guide. He made the history come alive and the 3+ hours flew by!
My family group of 6 (including adults, kids, and grandparents) all thoroughly enjoyed our visit and learnt so much.
Thankyou Marco!
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Vasileios_k
Oct 11, 2025
Marco, our tour guide,... - Marco, our tour guide, made this experience perfect. He was very polite and accommodating, told us the history of the forbidden city with the right amount of details, and was kind enough at the end of the tour to offer recommendations for food in Beijing. I would definitely recommend.
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Florence_a
Sep 17, 2025
Great visit quotes prohibit - Very interesting
Great guide
What to do
Lets you know the palate to recommend guide to the hour very precise on appointment
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Benjamin_v
Sep 16, 2025
Summer as a guide was... - Summer as a guide was great, you knew many details of the place, and very friendly also to explain everything.
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Anatan2025
Sep 8, 2025
Amazing forbidden city - We visited the Forbidden City in the afternoon. The palaces were absolutely beautiful and breathtaking—they made us feel like we’d stepped back 600 years. Our guide, Summer, shared so many cool stories about what went on there, which made the whole tour way more engaging and awesome.
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Conniez144
Sep 7, 2025
Tour Guide Service Was Excellent, Just Do Not Visit in August! - I gave a five-star for the tour guide service provided - the most important thing is that joining the group enables you to get the admission tickets with ease. You are not guaranteed a ticket if buying it online yourself, and it'll waste you lots of time if purchasing the ticket at the entrance on the visit day. The tour guide has a profound knowledge about the forbidden city. She's willing to answer your questions and provides customized services/recommendations whenever possible.
I would NOT recommend to visit the Forbidden City in August, though. It's nothing to do with the tour guide service, but for anyone visiting Beijing, think twice to visit in the hot summer if you have a choice of going there other time of the year. There are almost no trees in the Forbidden City (except the royal garden). You'll have to follow the large crowd go through sun-baked stone roads with no shades for 4 hours. Considering it a chance for free sun-bath/tanning can make you happier, but it doesn't work for little boys!
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Alexispu8992fp
Sep 7, 2025
Half day tour of the forbidden city - Even if the weather was really so hot for us our guide Summer was super knowledgeable, and whenever possible, she tried to get us away from crowded areas. She also tailored the tour to what our group wanted to see.
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