Summer Palace Tour: No Advance Ticket 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 reserve your spot and consider tipping the guide at the end of the tour based on your experience (Gratuities). This ensures a high-quality sightseeing experience and motivates your guide to provide excellent service. The suggested tip is 180-200 Chinese yuan per person (20-30 USD per person)….
What's Included
  • Guidance from an English-speaking guide
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Tickets of Summer Palace
Additional Information

Visitors to the Summer Palace do not need to book tickets in advance. Tickets can be purchased on the day of the visit. Please remember to bring your passport and either cash or Alipay for ticket purchase.
Booking within your budget is recommended to secure your spot, and tipping the guide at the end of the tour based on your experience is encouraged….

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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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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Felipill
Apr 10, 2025
Immersive Excursion over the last Chinese Dinasties - If you want to immerse in Chinese history, this is your kind of tour. Affordable tour, easy to walk, friendly to navigate the history, and never boring. Our tour guide Roi is fabulous, he walked us through the last dinastías and their way of living, but also making questions, like trivia’s so you always keep engaged in the explanation, while you visit the most important landmarks of the Summer Palace. I really recommend having this tour with Roi.
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Melina
Apr 10, 2025
If you want to know a lot of interesting facts and history of the Summer Palace, with no doubt, Roy is the BEST guide!!! - The walking tour with Roy was super interesting. He has a LOT of interesting information about the history of China and the Summer Palace. He designed an easy 2 hours walking tour that pass super fast because he is not the typical guide that only talks, he is making questions and being interactive!!! Thank you so much Roy!!!
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Eeleent2025
Mar 31, 2025
Extremely dedicated and knowledgeable tour guide - I went with Roy on a custom tour for my friend and I on a day when Roy had no other tourists on the tour. He is extremely dedicated and knowledgeable, and we learnt so much as well. Thank you Roy for coming 1 hour out just to tour 2 people on a custom tour. I would definitely come back and it was so much appreciated!
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From $40
up to 5 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).