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A guide who works this city daily and orders the stops by traffic and opening hours.
China · Beijing
Private Guide & Car Hire in Beijing
Made to order Guide · Escort · Car · Translation · Transfers Chinese · English · Korean
Theme
- Forbidden City Axis
- Great Wall Hiking
- Hutong Cycling
- Museums
- Old Beijing Food
- Imperial Nights
Licensed local guideItinerary before paymentNo shopping stops
Ground services in Beijing
Guide, escort, car, translation, transfers, family and photo — book one or combine them.
- Best months
- April–May, September–October
- Days needed
- 3 days minimum, 4 comfortable
- Arriving
- Capital Airport 45 min, Daxing 60 min
- Typical day
- CNY 900–1,200 (≈US$125–167) car + guide
Quotes are in CNY; US$ figures are indicative at about CNY 7.2 = US$1 and move with the daily rate. Final price is confirmed by our team before you pay.
Local escort
No rushing, no pushing sales. Point ordering, photos and looking after the kids, half or full day.
Private car & driver
5 to 19 seats, priced per day with fuel and tolls included. The driver knows the coach parks.
Translation
English, Japanese and Korean available; good for business visits and independent travellers.
Airport & rail transfers
Name-board pickup, 60 minutes free waiting when a flight is delayed.
Family & school trips
Museums and ruins explained by age, with breaks and meal time kept in the plan.
Photo session
Half a day of shooting, 20–30 retouched photos, shot along the same route as the sightseeing.
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01What to see
Beijing: the four places that matter
Ordered the way you should actually visit them, not by fame.
980 buildings, 72 hectares. Enter south, exit north, three to four hours. Passport booking, closed Mondays.
The best restored section with fewer crowds than Badaling; 90 minutes by car, cable car up.
Ming cosmology in wood and blue tile; the early morning park is the real Beijing.
Grey-brick lanes, courtyard houses, and the 700-year-old drum tower nearby.
02Two-day plan
How we would plan your two days
Built around opening times and traffic, not around a list of attractions.
Day 1 · Imperial axis
Tiananmen, Forbidden City at 8:30, exit north to Jingshan for the view, then Houhai and the drum tower in the evening.
Day 2 · Great Wall
Leave at 7:30 for Mutianyu, cable car up, walk between towers 14 and 20, lunch at the foot, back by 17:00.
Day 3 · Temples and parks
Temple of Heaven at 7:00 for the park life, then Lama Temple and the Confucius Temple, or the Summer Palace if you want water.
Local notes
- Forbidden City tickets release seven days ahead and sell out; book on the official channel with your passport.
- Do not take a rickshaw tour of the hutongs — the prices are invented at the end.
- Badaling is the busiest wall section; Mutianyu or Jinshanling are better use of the same day.
03Where to stay
Pick the area first, the hotel second
The wrong district costs you an hour a day in traffic.
Wangfujing / Dongcheng
Central, walkable to the Forbidden City, best for a first visit.
Hutong courtyards
Atmosphere and small hotels; harder with big luggage.
04What to eat
Two things you should not leave without trying
Peking duckRoast duck carved at the table, CNY 200–400 (≈US$28–56) a bird; book a day ahead.
ZhajiangmianWheat noodles with fermented bean sauce, ¥25–40.
05What goes wrong
Three things that catch first-time visitors
- Forbidden City tickets release seven days ahead and sell out; book on the official channel with your passport.
- Do not take a rickshaw tour of the hutongs — the prices are invented at the end.
- Badaling is the busiest wall section; Mutianyu or Jinshanling are better use of the same day.
06Questions
Beijing: questions travellers actually ask
Do I need to book the Forbidden City?
Yes, online with your passport, up to seven days ahead. It is closed on Mondays.
Which Great Wall section?
Mutianyu for a first visit — restored, cable car, and less crowded than Badaling.
Is three days enough?
For the main sites, yes. Add a fourth for the Summer Palace and the 798 district.
The full guide runs to four pages — in Chinese
Tickets, opening hours, hour-by-hour itineraries and eighteen local questions. Machine translation handles these pages well; send us a screenshot if anything is unclear.
How booking Beijing works — three steps, itinerary before price
No deposit to get a plan, and nothing is locked in before you agree to it.
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Send the brief
Dates, party size, how you arrive and what you want to see. Tell us the working language you need and whether anyone has trouble with stairs.
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Get a route and a price
We order the stops by location and traffic, then quote per car per day with fuel, tolls and the driver included. Ask for changes as often as you need — it costs nothing.
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Confirm and travel
Only after you accept the route and the price do we assign the car and guide. You get their contact details before pickup, so you are never handed off to a stranger.
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