Top 13 Shopping Tours in Beijing

1.Private Beijing Markets Tour with Tea Tasting at Hongqiao Pearl Market

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 18 reviews · from $88Our pick

Spend about four hours with a private English-speaking guide, visiting Panjiayuan Antique Market and Hongqiao Pearl Market. Browse thousands of stalls, take part in a tea ceremony and tasting, and get help bargaining. Hotel pickup and drop-off are included. Guides such as Lily, Lucy, and Lisa have led the tour.

“Good way to do bargain shopping with a helpful local. We have bought many wonderful souvenirs and products for reasonable prices. This is highly recommended for those who need help bargaining Chinese style.”

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2.Beijing Exclusive Private Shopping Tour: Curated Just for You

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 12 reviews · from $118

Choose a morning or afternoon private shopping tour in Beijing, with hotel pickup, a guide, and a route shaped around your interests. Browse Silk Street, Hongqiao, Panjiayuan, Liulichang, Maliandao Tea Street, or other listed areas. Bring a clear shopping wish list: some markets close at 7:00pm, so a late start can limit your choices.

“Good preparation on what you are looking for and where you want to go is important”

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3.Dumpling-Making Class with wet Market visit

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 9 reviews · 5 hours · from $50

Visit a Beijing wet market with an English-speaking guide, then make dumplings and local dishes in a family home. Guides have included May, Sonia, and Peter. The five-hour outing includes transport, tea, and a meal, with options for private or small-group bookings.

“Peter was GREAT! He was friendly, knowledgeable, and engaging. He is extremely well traveled and easily draws cross cultural comparisons. The visit to the wet market was fun. Our dumpling teacher was engaging and informative. With that said, a tour that was listed as approximately 5 hours lasted under 3. It was certainly long enough but, had we known the true duration, we would have made other plans for the rest of the day.”

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4.Night Market Haggling Adventure with an English Guide!

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 7 reviews · 3 hours · from $68

Meet your English-speaking guide at Panjiayuan Station for a private evening walk through Panjiayuan Antique Market. Browse antiques and handmade crafts, stop for included street food, and ask your guide to translate or bargain. Guides Lan and July have led tours here. The price is $68 per person, with personal purchases extra.

“We had a realy good time withe our guide Lan, realy nice person”

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5.6-Hour Private Beijing Tour: Flower and Fish Market, Panjiayuan Antique Market and 798 Art Zone

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 7 reviews · from $158

Spend six hours with a private guide and driver visiting Beijing’s flower and fish market, Panjiayuan Antique Market and 798 Art Zone. Browse flowers, fish, crafts and galleries, with a Chinese meal, bottled water and hotel pickup and drop-off included. Guides on past tours have included Ranee, Alice, Lucy, Linda and Miko.

“Our guide, Ranee, was someone you appreciate when exploring new cultures and scenes. She gave us the context of the markets and galleries and answered questions in a way that showed she wanted us to understand and enjoy ourselves too.”

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6.Private Full Day Beijing Shopping Tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 7 reviews · from $88

Spend about eight hours shopping Beijing with a private English-speaking guide, starting with hotel pickup. Browse Panjiayuan’s arts and crafts, Hongqiao’s pearls, Silk Street’s tailoring and accessories, and a local supermarket for Chinese ingredients. Choose subway or taxi transport. Lina and Sunflower are named guides associated with the tour.

“Lina and Sunflower were great. They both treated our group like family. If you need any type our tour or guidance in Beijing they are the people to book! See next time.”

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7.Lama Temple, Hutong and Silk & Pearl Market Private Day Tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 5 reviews · from $139

Spend about eight hours with a private English-speaking guide, starting with hotel pickup and a visit to Lama Temple. Then explore hutongs, stop at a Beijing tea shop, and browse Hongqiao and Silk Street markets. The route can be adjusted to your interests. Guides Aaron and Lily have led this tour, and lunch is not included.

“Our guide was called Aaron, he was amazing in his experience, knowledge and expertise. His english was perfect. Such a lovely person showing us all the sites He picked a great restaurant for lunch and we tried the famous perking duck - its Read more”

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8.Private Tour to Pearl Market Acrobatic Show & Peking Duck Dinner

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 5 reviews · from $158

Spend about five hours with a private guide and car, starting at Beijing’s Hongqiao Pearl Market. Get help comparing vendors and bargaining, then have Peking duck at a local restaurant and see a Red Theatre acrobatic show. The package includes dinner, bottled water, transport, and middle-level show seats. Pickup is offered at hotels within the 4th Ring Road.

“My 2.5-year old son enjoyed it very much! The Peking Duck dinner wasn't as ceremonious as I expected. I thought they'd show how they prepare it but instead our tour guide showed how they eat it at the table. Our tour guide Lucy was lovely! Read more”

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9.Vegan Home Cooking & Local Market Tour with Sanxia

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 4 reviews · 4 hours · from $47Best value

Join Sanxia for a market visit and hands-on vegan cooking class in her Tongzhou home. You’ll select seasonal ingredients, make dishes such as dumplings and sesame noodles, drink Chinese tea, and share a meal. The private experience suits 1 to 8 people and includes a Fragrant Hills bookmark and photos.

“This was amazing! I did this cooking class back in September and it was such a great experience! I was the only person booking it that day, so we met a little earlier, went to the market together and bought all the vegetables fresh from there! Then, we went to Sanxia‘s apartment and cooked a lot of different dishes! It was really fun!! We all ate together and talked a lot. I actually ended up spending my whole day with Sanxia, her boyfriend Jürgen and their friends. It was my favorite day of my whole solo trip to Beijing, China ^^”

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10.Beijing Market Tour with 10-course Family Feast

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 3 reviews · 4 hours · from $119

Meet guide Dee at Liaogongzhuang metro station for a market visit, ingredient shopping, and a home-cooking session with Dee, Susan, and a Beijing family. Help prepare dishes, then sit down to a ten-course meal with local drinks. The four-hour tour is limited to two participants and includes transport between the station and the family home.

“We had an incredible experience. Dee, Susan and the wonderful mom who does the cooking were fantastic hosts – warm, knowledgeable, and happy to answer every question we had. The market visit was fascinating and felt very authentic, a real glimpse into daily life in Beijing, far away from the usual tourist trail. Then came the feast – which was way beyond a “10-course” description. We must have tried around 20 different dishes, each one delicious and prepared with such care. The variety, flavors, and freshness were truly outstanding. This was easily one of the best food experiences I’ve had. If you want to eat incredible home-cooked food, learn more…”

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11.Dumpling Cooking Class and Local Market Tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 3 reviews · from $80

Start at Zhaojunsheng Vegetable Market near a Beijing hutong neighborhood, choose fresh ingredients, then prepare dumplings from scratch in a traditional courtyard. An English-speaking guide and instructor leads the four-hour class, with different fillings, including a vegan-friendly option. You get your own ingredients and materials in a group of no more than eight.

“Super fun experience! 2 young girls from Beijing with excellent English. We went to a local market together to get groceries and made the Dumplings from scratch. Beautiful building that we prepped and cooked in.”

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12.Full-Day Private Tour Panjiayuan Antique Market and Beijing Capital Museum

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 3 reviews · from $145

Start at 9:00am with a hotel pickup by taxi and a guide who can shape the shopping stops around your wish list. Browse Panjiayuan for tea ware, calligraphy brushes and traditional art, then enjoy a Beijing-style lunch and visit the Capital Museum’s bronze, jade, porcelain, folk art and old photographs. The private tour lasts about eight hours.

“Without hyperbole, Robert was an outstanding guide. Knowledgable, very friendlly, not overbearing, VERY clear English. flexible. I enjoyed my activity very much.”

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13.Small Group Beijing Temple of heaven and Summer Palace with Pearl market

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 3 reviews · from $128

Start at 8:30 am with hotel pickup inside Beijing’s 4th ring road. An English-speaking guide leads a small group of up to 15 through the Temple of Heaven and Summer Palace, with a stop at Hongqiao Pearl Market. Expect imperial gardens, the Temple’s echo pavilion, shopping and a lunch break. No guide name is provided.

“The small group tour was a private tour for two with a driver and a well competent English speaking guide.”

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