Private Summer Palace Walking Tour with Admission Ticket
- Flexible Packages Choose from 3 options: guide meet-up at the entrance, 4-hour tour with downtown transfers, or 6-hour in-depth tour (also with transfers)—fit for different schedules.
- Hassle-Free & Guided Packages include Summer Palace tickets (skip peak queues) + a private guide, so you avoid logistics and start exploring directly.
- Stories Behind the Garden
- Your guide shares Qing history, "Dragon Lady" tales, and legends of the 14,000+ paintings in the World’s Longest Gallery.
- Personalized & Unrushed The private tour can be customized—take time to explore, take photos, or dive deeper into spots you love.
What to expect
The Summer Palace, a masterpiece of Imperial Chinese Gardens, is four times the size of the Forbidden City—easy to feel overwhelmed about where to start. What’s more, tickets are in high demand during peak seasons and often hard to secure. On this private walking tour, we solve this hassle: our package includes both Summer Palace tickets and professional guide service. Your guide will take you straight to site and explain how this perfect imperial garden was designed, plus dive into Empress Dowager Cixi’s story—how she wielded control over China for 48 years. We offer 3 optional packages to choose from based on your preference: a guide meet-up at the entrance, round-trip hotel transportation included, or a 6-hour in-depth Summer Palace tour with round trip transfer.










Reviews
Allen was well organised and his English was impeccable. The private van was very comfortable. We had the 4 hr tour and managed to hit all the landmarks of the tour, but you'll need the 6 hr tour if you want a boat ride of the lake. Allen provided basic insight and interesting history of the Summer Palace. Would still recommend if you want a dedicated Summer Palace tour with organised transport
Christine was an amazing tour guide at the Summer Palace. I was a solo traveler but she made everything so comfortable and helped me look around the important Summer Palace areas. She explained many details about the history of the place. I would definitely recommend her to any of my English speaking friends that visit Beijing. Thanks for the amazing experience!
This trip was amazing, and a big part of that was thanks to Jack! He took great care of everyone, was always helpful, and handled everything smoothly. On top of that, he’s very friendly and easy to talk to, which made the whole experience even more fun and enjoyable.
Andy takes good care of the group to ensure we enjoyed the tour. He will recommend and amend itinerary to better match the group needs and requirements.
Kelly was a very fantastic tour guide. first of all very good and understandable english. Secondly, she was very generous with time she took us from the hotel and waited for us, and we exceeded the time. Very knowledgeable, covered the full historic scene with interesting details and stories about the palace. I recommend this experience.
our guide mike was very professional and friendly. despite that we arrived late, he still waited for us and he was clear in explaining details about the brief history of summer palace. he was very fluent in english which made us very easy to communicate.we enjoyed our tour overall.
Our tour guide Edward was very professional and experienced - he showed us around the key architectures and shared with us the history of summer palace quite thoroughly. We genuinely enjoyed our trip to the summer palace!
Everything about this tour was great. Pickup was very smooth. My guide Cindy knew everything about the Palace and taught me a lot of new, interesting things!
Our guide Anson is very friendly and informative, taking care of my family well during the entire tour. Will recommend this tour to anyone who is interested.
Great experience! Andy was an awesome guide with rich knowledge and shared really interesting stories along the way. highly recommend!
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