Summer Palace Tour: No Advance Booking Needed

Experience an affordable Temple of Heaven walking tour where you can book within your budget and tip the guide based on your experience. Enjoy quality sightseeing and encourage your guide to always do their best!

Duration: 2 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Summer Palace (Yiheyuan) - Book within your budget to ensure your place and travel with a professional English-speaking tour guide. Discover the stories of the Summer Palace from your guide.
    NOTE: The Summer Palace ticket is not included. Please bring your passport and cash (or Alipay) to purchase a ticket.
    Meet your English-speaking guide at Metro…
What's Included
  • Guidance from an English-speaking guide
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Tickets of Summer Palace
Additional Information

There is no need to book tickets in advance for the Summer Palace. Visitors can purchase tickets on the day of their visit. Please remember to bring your passport and either cash or Alipay for the ticket purchase.
Make a reservation within your budget to ensure your spot and enjoy learning about the history of the Summer Palace from a professional…

Location
Summer Palace
Xin Jian Gong Men Lu
Tour guide will meet you or your group at Metro Line 4 Beigongmen station(North palace gate station) Exit C Find the guide who is holding a sign with name “Roy Li” Summer palace doesn't need to book ticket in advance. Tourists can buy ticket on the day of the tour.
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Mai
Oct 8, 2025
Roy a great tour guy!!! 💜 - Roy is a very pleasant, kind and nice tour guy. He understands China history and explains that very well. Our family took a private tour to the Great Wall with him. We like him so much we took another private walking tour with him. He speaks English very well almost without any accent. His communication skills is great, always answering text promptly. We were sad after the tour, he became a good friend. I strongly recommend Roy for any tour
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Fishercats83
Jul 14, 2025
A brilliant walk with Roy in the Summer Palace - Absolutely amazing guided tour. Two hours of passionate story telling and anecdotes shared by Roy Li. If we had visited the palace alone, it would have been just a walk into the crowd. Instead, we walked with bright eyes waiting for another surprising gem of Roy's surprising knowledge.
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Patrick
Jul 9, 2025
Tolle Guide & tolle Tour - It was a great tour with lots of information and opportunities for questions. A pleasant atmosphere for our small group.
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Irisvdheide87
Jul 1, 2025
Amazing tour - I had a super fun and informative afternoon at the summer palace. I booked another tour with Roy Li because he is a passionate and knowledgeable guru. He told me the interesting stories about the emperors of the summer palace and made the tour interactive. He also made good suggestions for the rest of the afternoon. I would highly recommend this tour.
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Lukaskc2892he
Jun 7, 2025
Great Tour with Roy - Great day with Roy! I enjoyed the tour through the Summer Palace a lot! Roy made it fun and interactive. His English is really really good and easy to understand. The background given was a perfect mix of history and fun facts. Earlier that day I also did the Hutong tour with Roy and that was equally as great! Strongly recommend to do any tour with Roy. It'll be a good time!
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G0ldfish888
Jun 2, 2025
Summer palace guided tour - Most enjoying tour of the summer palace. Our guide Roy must be one if the best tour guide I experienced He was very entaining and knowledge not just the Palace but open to all questions regarding all aspects of china history . Very friendly, and excellent English . Highly recommend
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Glutenfreefran
May 24, 2025
Brilliant tour - highly recommend. Perfect for solo travellers and anyone who has an interest in history - As a female solo traveller, this was the perfect walking tour - Roy was friendly and full of information, he made the tour so interesting through quizzing us and his sense of humour. I would highly recommend if you want to learn more about history and really understand the place. He also always offers to take photos and answer any more questions.
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Robert_c
Apr 24, 2025
The guide waited for us... - The guide waited for us at the subway station as it was written on information. He was very polite and humorous. He explained a lot things and told us a lot about Chinese history.
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B8818hojoseg
Apr 16, 2025
Great experience - Great tour, Roy the tour guide was amazing! Super friendly, good English, lot of info and super open to have recommendations even after the tour, highly recommended
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Matiassk7720ce
Apr 12, 2025
Highly recommended guide, you'll love China with him. - Muy buen guía! Súper claro al hablar (inglés) tiene muy buena conexión con el grupo, muy participativo. Muy recomendable!! A very good guide! He speaks extremely clearly (in English), connects well with the group, and is very engaging. Highly recommended!! Matias, from Argentina.
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From $100
up to 15 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).