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Reviews of 1 Day tour: Forbidden city, Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace
[One day Beijing city tour, visit the most famous sightseeings: Forbidden City, Summer Palace and Temple of Heaven, coach or private.]
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by robin ellison Date Added: Sunday 09 November, 2008
Click for More DetailsWe recently visited Beijing and used ChinaTour.net for three separate day tours. Day 1 we visited Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven and the Summer Palace . Laura (Lili?) was our personal tour guide and despite the rushed atmosphere caused to having to see so many sites in one day, she was very informative, exceptionally helpful, and a delight to be with all day. I highly recommend personal tour guides. The next day we visited the Lama Temple, the Panda Zoo and the Hutong. This was a small group tour and turned out to be a lot of fun. The Hutongs we visited were being renovated so there was a lot of construction debris. I think its great that these areas have been declared protected and are being redone. Lunch was great, in one of the Hutong houses. The Lama Temple was gorgeous and the pandas were sleepy and cute. The tour guide was incredible and I am sorry I forgot her name. I would like to give her personal credit for making this day a great memory. Our last tour was also a personal tour. We went to the Great Wall and the Ming Tombs. We chose the Badaling site since it has the cable cars to take you to the top. I was a little disappointed in that we went to the Great Wall at the last or our tour. The sun was in our faces so any pictures I took turned out rather poor. It would have been better to go to the Wall first but it was incredible to see! During all three trips, side excursions to silk factory stores, cloissone factory stores and other preferred shops took up some of our day but there were no hard sells. Probably what was the most fun was going to the Silk Factory and Pearl Market store. This is 5 stories of shopping heaven. Resist the temptation of buying at the stores visited on the tours if you can. You can find everything you want here if you are willing to bargain. My advice? Start really really low. If we return to China, we will definately use this service again.

Rating: 5 of 5 Stars! [5 of 5 Stars!]
by Kim Baker Date Added: Saturday 28 June, 2008
Enjoyed the tour. Tour Guide was informative and friendly.

Rating: 4 of 5 Stars! [4 of 5 Stars!]
by Joerg Heyse Date Added: Wednesday 11 June, 2008
We were a bit lucky with this trip as we booked the group tour but there was only our family and one other very pleasant guest. The Forbidden City is huge and full of tourists. It is very impressive. The Temple of Heaven is beautiful and definitely something special. The Summer Palace is again full of people, which does not take the pleasure out of the trip. The way we were brought to have lunch - in a golf cart - gave us the feeling of being somehow important and was great fun. The trip to the Chinese Medical Centre was very interesting although surprising. The Pearl Factory on the other hand did not enhance the trip at all. It is much easier to visit these main sights of Beijing with a tour like this than being on your own with limited Chinese.

Rating: 4 of 5 Stars! [4 of 5 Stars!]
by Michelle Balan Date Added: Monday 26 May, 2008
We recently visited Beijing and used ChinaTour.net for three separate day tours. Day 1 we visited The Great Wall and the Ming Tombs, day 2 we visited the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven and the Summer Palace and on day 3 we went to the Lama Temple, the Panda Zoo and the Hutong. All three day tours were wonderful. Our guides were pleasant and informative with excellent English skills. The meals provided were exceptional and transportation with comfortable and prompt. We certainly got value for our money with this tour operation. I was a bit apprehensive when I finalized the booking before we left home because the price was considerably lower then the other online sites offering guided tours. ChinaTour.net was awesome we are completely satisfied customers. Dan and Michelle Balan (Ontario Canada).

Rating: 5 of 5 Stars! [5 of 5 Stars!]
by Bjorn Berglund Date Added: Wednesday 21 May, 2008
Very good. The tour was very informative and our guide Calvin Zhang was a very good guide for these guided objects. I will remeber this tour for long time. I do not think that I ever could get the same good experince with a bigger amount of a tour group, nor trying similar tour by myself. I recommend ChinaTour.net company for booking these type of events. Nice lunch as well. Best Regards Bjorn.

Rating: 4 of 5 Stars! [4 of 5 Stars!]
by Bjorn Berglund Date Added: Wednesday 21 May, 2008
Very good. The tour was very informative and our guide Kelvin was a very good guide for these guiding objects. I will remeber this tour for long time. I do not think that I ever could get the same good experince with a bigger amount of a tour group, nor trying similar tour by myself. I recommend ChinaTour.net company for booking these type of events. Nice lunch as well. Best Regards Bjorn.

Rating: 5 of 5 Stars! [5 of 5 Stars!]
by Julie NGUYEN Date Added: Sunday 30 March, 2008
We enjoyed very much this tour. Our tour guide was Lili. She was very skillfull. We enjoyed having tour with her. Normally, I booked for a coach tour, finally we were only 2 people, my husband and I. It was like a private tour. We had time to see all the 3 sites. She also took us to a traditional chinese medecine institute of research. We were very surprised to have this in the tour since it was not mentioned. We experienced traditional massage. Very good. I recommend your agency. very good quality and service.

Rating: 5 of 5 Stars! [5 of 5 Stars!]
by Olympia Panotes Date Added: Monday 12 November, 2007
Excellent! Great sites! Wendy (our guide) was exceptionaly knowledgeable on all the sites we visited, including history and side-stories! Our family of 9, from age 12 to 61, enjoyed every moment of the tour. Thank you so much for the grand time we had in Beijing. Your company is worth reffering to friends and ralatives alike. Keep up the good work! We will surely go back to China!

Rating: 5 of 5 Stars! [5 of 5 Stars!]
by ling chi Date Added: Monday 22 October, 2007
This was a very enjoyable tour, although a bit rushed in light of seeing so many attractions in a single day. One could easily spend an entire day in the Forbidden City alone. Very aggressive sales presentations marred an otherwise wonderful day with long stop at various factories taking up time. Overall, the tour was very good, comfortable bus and good lunch provided.

Rating: 4 of 5 Stars! [4 of 5 Stars!]
by Keith Richardson Date Added: Friday 17 August, 2007
This tour was simply excellent. Our tour guide - Rita - spoke excellent English which ensured that we didn't miss anything. The itinery through the Forbidden city was particularly clever as we started at the back entrance so for much of the tour we were not part of a much larger crowd. The imperial palaces are simply a sight to behold!

Rating: 5 of 5 Stars! [5 of 5 Stars!]
by Michael Huebler Date Added: Tuesday 28 November, 2006
I cancelled the tour and did the sight seeing tours by taxi instead, I paid the taxi driver 800 Yuan for the whole day. However, the sights mentioned in the different tours on these web pages are worth visiting.

Rating: 3 of 5 Stars! [3 of 5 Stars!]
by Annie Ross Date Added: Monday 11 September, 2006
The tour was great! Kudos to our guide. I highly recommend this tour, as it saves you all sorts of time in terms of getting from place to place and figuring out what is what. The guide is very helpful and provided a great deal of detail, insight and historical background on all the locations visited. Hope you enjoy your visit.

Rating: 5 of 5 Stars! [5 of 5 Stars!]
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