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Summer Palace
Summer palace
Summer Palace
Marble Boat
Spring in Summer Palace

Private Summer Palace Walking Tour

By Discover Beijing Tours
10 out of 10
Free cancellation available
Price is S$145 per adult* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple adult tickets
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Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
Overview

Join this private Walking tour of the Summer Palace with a professional English speaking guide. You will visit the major buildings inside the Summer Palace, get an idea on how to form a perfect garden in old days; learn the history of this most beautiful garden with your guide; get to know the powerful women Empress Dowager Cixi's storey and how she controlled the country for 48 years. After the guided tour, you will have your own time to explore more of the garden or your guide will give suggestions on where to go to your next destination and how.  When make booking you can choose to meet at the Summer palace on your own or tour with transfer.

Activity location

  • Summer Palace (Yiheyuan)
    • No.19 Xinjian Gongmen Road, Haidian District,
    • 100080, Beijing, China

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • The Summer Palace Ticket Office
    • 100091, Haidian District, Beijing, China

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Meet at the meeting point
  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h2h
  • English

Private Tour start at the Meeting point: is in front of the lions of the Summer Palace East Gate.

Language options: English
Price details
S$145.00 x 1 AdultS$145.00
Total
Price is S$145.00
Until Fri, 15 Nov
Private Guide&public Transport
  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h2h
  • English

Hotel pickup on foot is included in this option, you will subway together with your guide to the Summer Palace.
Pickup included

Language options: English
Price details
S$171.85 x 1 AdultS$171.85
Total
Price is S$171.85
Until Fri, 15 Nov
Private Guide & Transfer
  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h2h
  • English

City centre hotel pickup and drop off is included in this option.
Pickup included

Language options: English
Price details
S$265.83 x 1 AdultS$265.83
Total
Price is S$265.83
Until Fri, 15 Nov
Summer Palace In-depth tour
  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h2h
  • English

Summer Palace In-depth tour : 6 Hours tour with return hotel transfers, tour including the museums, gardens and boat ride(summer only)
Pickup included

Language options: English
Price details
S$373.24 x 1 AdultS$373.24
Total
Price is S$373.24
Until Fri, 15 Nov

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedProfessional guide
  • What's includedWhat's includedEntrance fee
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedAdditional entrance fees inside the Summer Palace to the museums
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedService charge
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedHotel pickup and drop-off

Know before you book

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Summer Palace (Yiheyuan)
  • 2h
  • Admission ticket included
Meet your guide at the east gate , in front of the ticket office at the time you choose to start your wonderful tour. (If you choose the option including the transfer, then your driver will hold your name sign waiting in the lobby of your Beijing hotel) In front of the east gate your professional tour guide will give a detailed history lesson to the Summer Palace. Then you will enter the Palace from the east gate. In front of the Map, your guide will explain how to built an idea garden in old days, their believe and fengshui influence etc.
Hall of Benevolence and Longevity
  • 10m
  • Admission ticket included
Then followed by your guide you will visit these buildings : the Hall of Benevolence and Longevity where they received officials and foreign envoys;
Hall of Happiness and Longevity
  • 20m
  • Admission ticket included
the Hall of Jade Ripples where the emperor was under housing arrested for 10 years; Hall of Fragrant Herbs where the emperor used to store his books; the Hall of Happiness and longevity ,empress dowager Cixi's bedroom;
Long Corridor at the Summer Palace
  • 20m
  • Admission ticket included
Walk along the longest corridor in the world which listed on the Guinness book of world record;
Tower of Buddhist Incense(Summer Palace)
  • 30m
  • Admission ticket included
See the Hall of Dispelling Clouds, tower of Buddhist Incense from distance;
Kunming Lake (Pass by)
then continue to the Marble Boat--a foreign style superstructure which was supposed to be a symbol of stability of the Qing Dynasty.  During the tour you will not feel been rushed, you will stop to listen to the stories, have your own time to look into the buildings and take photos, and continue. Once the tour finished near the Marble boat, you can continue to explore more of the Summer Palace gardens or your guide will give suggestions on how to get to your next destinations and how. (if you choose the tour with transfer, your driver will take you back to your hotel or next place) During the tour feel free to ask your guide any questions if you have.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESSummer Palace (Yiheyuan)
    • No.19 Xinjian Gongmen Road, Haidian District,
    • 100080, Beijing, China

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEThe Summer Palace Ticket Office
    • 100091, Haidian District, Beijing, China

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