Mutianyu Great Wall & Summer Palace Private Layover Guided Tour

Our guide Herbie was perfect very prepared, nice, engaging. Also the lunch stop was great, very recommended

I am very happy to have booked this layover tour. In no time, I was able to climb the historic Great Wall of China, walk in the Summer Palace, explore the Hutongs in a rickshaw, attend a traditional Chinese tea ceremony and enjoy the world-famous crispy Peking duck. I will definitely book again sometime, as the Forbidden City unfortunately had to close on Monday. Thanks to Nina, she was a great tour guide and driver Chang also friendly and eager! Communication with Daniel via email also went smoothly and quickly. Conclusion: Great service, fair price, friendly and very knowledgeable tour guide, fast response, uncomplicated booking!

We had an amazing experience on this tour. We went to the Great Wall, summer palace and a Hutong. Herbie was a fantastic guide, so friendly and chatty. He was also very knowledgeable of each site which added to the experience. He gave a great recommendation for food in the Hutong which was great. It is great to also have a driver, as well as the guide, to drop and pick you up right at the entrance of the sites, in an air conditioned car with free water. This is really helpful especially when you have limited time on a layover. I could not recommend this tour enough!

We had a fantastic experience with this company and we can recommend them At 200%. The organization and contact with Daniel was impeccable. He was very informative and responsive, explaining everything in detail. We had a 12h layover - Herbie our amazing guide met us at the airport punctually and everything went perfectly well. Herbie was super nice, knows chinese history so well and he was also very punctual and mindful of time. We visited the Great Wall and then the Summer Palace. He was always attentive to our needs and he is also a GREAT photographer! He was so kind to send us our pictures afterwards. The driver was also careful at all times and very kind. We had a fantastic day, the only problem is that we wish we had had more layover time to do more in Beijing! 😊 we loved this incredible city and Herbie & Layover Tours Beijing made it possible. If you book with them you will for sure have a wonderful and qualitative time. Thanks one more 😃 Karen & Christophe

The tour to Mutianyu and Summer Palace has been such a great time, and definitely made our long layover in Beijing a great sightseeing and quite an educational experience on the places we've visited. The private tour was quite seamless, with the pickup from the airport being on-time, and our driver doing a fantastic job with a smooth drive throughout the trip and ensuring that we get back to the airport on-time for our outbound flight by the end of the tour. The overall tour didn't feel rushed, and time was managed quite well at both the Great Wall and Summer Palace, although of course, more time can definitely be devoted to these locations if you are in Beijing for > 12 hours, especially given the vast size of the Summer Palace. Our tour guide, Herbie, has such a phenomenal amount of energy that can give you a boost even if you just came out from a red-eye flight. His fluency in English is superb and combined with his enthusiasm just makes the tour so much more enjoyable than doing a normal group tour that you may find elsewhere. He covered through a good amount of history and answered a lot of our questions with no problems - and you can definitely see his passion in both knowing about the history and sharing that knowledge to his tour group. He's also got a keen eye for taking photos - exactly which spot, and what pose to do, if you ever need a good solo/group photo taken. Would definitely recommend as an overall package, with the convenience, quality of tour and level of interaction that you get.

Had an amazing day being shown around by our guide (Herbie), great way to spend our layover! Herbie was very knowledgeable and gave us lots of information about the history of the Wall and Summer Palace, which made the experience much more meaningful. Didn't feel rushed at all - very comfortable driving and had lots of time at each location, and Herbie took extra time to get some great photos for us! He even went the extra mile and contacted our transit hotel for us which was a great help. Thanks again!!!

The second tour with Herbie in Beijing was fantastic again. Seeing the wall was incredibly impressive. To get down from the wall you can use the Mutianyu Great Wall Slide, which is a lot of fun. Seeing the Summer Palace was great and Herbie's information about its history and use was fantastic. With Herbie as your guide you not only have a super guide with incredible knowledge but also a brilliant private photographer who knows the best photo spots. The restaurant he chose for lunch was also incredibly delicious. All in all an incredibly great tour in Beijing.

We did the tour with Herbie and it was very great! In a 14 hour layover we were able to go to the Great Wall, to have some local Chinese food and to visit in the end the Summer Palace. Herbie made it dynamic, giving us time to enjoy and taking the best group pictures :)

The tour was superb. Herbie greeted us with a big smile and we knew from that moment that we are in good hands. He was very informative, kind and a great photographer. The wall was not crowded, I was very happy about that! Herbie took us to a great local restaurant (we were the only foreigners) and the food was superb! The summer palace was nice, tho there the crowd was big and I wished we had more time there to explore it a bit more. Herbie was superb, he shared a lot of information with us, was ready to answer all of our questions. I would recommend this tour 100%!

Perfect tour. Herbie went above and beyond to make it the best trip possible. We can recommend everything about it.we learned sp much and he answered all the questions we had.