Beijing Old Hutongs Tour by Rickshaw

we had great fun doing this for a little less than 1/2 hr. The driver didn't speak any English (probably none do). The street is very narrow and navigating your way through the maze of cars, bicycles and tourists looked tricky... also saw well built guys in their swimming trunks ready to jump into the water. They are apparently a separate tourist attraction. Separately we did also see the Dum and Bell tower Square. it was built for musical reasons but later used to announce the time (because people didn't have clocks, etc.)

Good customer service. I accidentally left my phone in the car at the end of the tour, but they were able to get it back to me by the end of the night. Shoutout Michael and Simon! Enjoyable tour too. Got to try some new stuff, like a rickshaw ride, and got to touch some silk worm cocoons. Also got to see a cool view from the bell tower.

Only do this if you have not ridden on rickshaw before. They only go up one side of the street for about 10 mins, turn around and come back the other side . Do stop halfway back for a photo opportunity. Was $$$ for what you were offered, our driver understood little English so zero explanation of what you were seeing. Better to go explore the shops just down the road

Fabulous guide, very informative and a great way to see Old Beijing. Risa was accommodating and knowledgeable, pleasure to spend the afternoon with her.

Terrible experience . Took us on tour then halfway through, the guide insisted we only paid half the cost. Demanded more money. When I explained we had paid the total cost, he dismissed it, and then towards the end of the tour refused to ring us back to the hotel until we agreed to pay more and then when we got to the hotel, refused to leave and followed us around until we paid additional money. This tour is a scam, do not recommend it. Stay away from this company The tour itself wasn’t good either. Took us to a pearl and tea factory and pushed us to buy products.

This part of our humongous tour for our group was great fun about 20min around old hutongs and lake area was great fun.and not expensive

We just booked one of the drivers off the street so did not book a recognized tour as such. It is quite funny, they all seem to wait for each other (ie: after a few of them have a booking) and then go off in a line together?. Our driver stopped off for a toilet stop (we certainly didn't want to use those toilets!!! so make sure you go before getting on the rickshaw lol). The house we stopped of was owned by an artist (who was lovely and let us take his picture and photos in the house etc.) so the house is decorated with his paintings which is nice but maybe not what a regular house would look like? All up I think the tour only went about 1 to 1 1/2 hours so expect if you booked the tour this would include your pick up and drop off time?

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We walked around the Hutongs, along various narrow streets. The rickshaw ride thereafter was fun and definitely worth doing. Not as good as rickshaw ride in Delhi.

This was fun to do but there was only one stop for the driver to go to the bathroom. We photographed whatever we could shoot along the way. Thank goodness our guide had explained the history, etc of. HUTONGS.

I'm not entirely sure if this was the tour we were on, but we did see the Hutongs by rickshaw. The rickshaw ride itself was uninteresting, but the neighborhood we saw was very different from all the high rises that you see elsewhere in Beijing. Seeing the Hutongs is worth the time and effort for that perspective.