Day 1 · Beijing
Arrive in Beijing
You are met at Beijing Capital International Airport and driven privately to your hotel. Rest after the flight, or head out for a first look at the city.
4 days · 3 nights
The Forbidden City and the Great Wall in one private day, with time left over for Beijing at your own pace.
Choose your dates when you enquire
Ask about datesA short private stay in Beijing built around one full guided day: the halls and gardens of the Forbidden City in the morning and a long walk on the Mutianyu Great Wall in the afternoon. Around it you have an arrival afternoon and a whole free day to explore, or to add a guided tour.
The same person from your first question to the flight home, with a wedding or vow renewal planned alongside if you like.
How the days unfold. Your advisor tailors the pace, the hotels and the extras to you.
Beijing
Day 1 · Beijing
You are met at Beijing Capital International Airport and driven privately to your hotel. Rest after the flight, or head out for a first look at the city.
Beijing and Mutianyu
Day 2 · Beijing and Mutianyu
Your guide collects you at about 8 am for an hour and a half among the halls and gardens of the Forbidden City. Drive north to the Mutianyu Great Wall for lunch and about two and a half hours on the wall, with views over the Yanshan Mountains, before returning at about 7 pm.
Beijing
Day 3 · Beijing
A free day to explore on your own or rest at the hotel. If you would like company, choose one of two guided tours with lunch.
Day 4 · Beijing
Breakfast at the hotel, then a private transfer to the airport for your onward flight.
The hotels for each stop. Your advisor confirms them, or something just as good, for your dates.
Beijing · 3 nights
Or similar
Tell us when you would like to travel. Your advisor confirms dates and hotels, tailors the trip to the two of you, and stays with you until you are home.
China
13 days · 12 nights
Beijing → Xi'an → Chengdu → Chongqing → Yangtze River → Yichang → Shanghai
You start in Beijing with the Forbidden City and the Great Wall, then fly to Xi'an for the Terracotta Warriors. A bullet train takes you to Chengdu and its pandas, and from Chongqing you cruise three nights through the Three Gorges before finishing in Shanghai.
China
13 days · 12 nights
Beijing → Datong → Pingyao → Xi'an → Nanjing → Shanghai
A private journey across six cities linked by high-speed train. After three nights in Beijing you head west to the Buddhist grottoes of Datong and the walled town of Pingyao, then south to Xi'an for the Terracotta Warriors, before Nanjing and two final nights in Shanghai.
China
9 days · 8 nights
Beijing → Xi'an → Overnight train → Shanghai
Three cities across nine days. You begin with three nights in Beijing for the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven and the Great Wall, take the fast train to Xi'an for the Terracotta Warriors, then ride the overnight sleeper to Shanghai for its old town, the Bund and the canal town of Zhujiajiao.
A short private stay in Beijing built around one full guided day: the halls and gardens of the Forbidden City in the morning and a long walk on the Mutianyu Great Wall in the afternoon. Around it you have an arrival afternoon and a whole free day to explore, or to add a guided tour.
Every trip can be shaped around you before you book.
Arrive early or stay on at the end, in the same hotel or somewhere new.
Your travel expert books flights that fit the first and last day.
Choose a better room or a hotel with a view for the nights that count.
A honeymoon, an anniversary or a birthday, planned into the trip.
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