Need to show ID such as passport. Cannot take camera. If you have a camera they will not let you enter. There is a queue for the security check

I've seen queues to Mao's mausoleum snake hundreds of metres. Today at around 8.15am I joined a very short queue, turned my phone off and went straight through. You have to empty your pockets at the entrance, but it is very quick. Very sensible as...More

This was a nice activity, however the queues are long and you can't take any bags in (even if they are slim and don't have anything in them) as a consequence it was pretty inconvenient as we had to split our tiny group of 3...More

I was there during the National Holidays and the queue was long. However, it was an amazing experience to be in Chinese queue! It took 50 minutes to get in there and total of 2 minutes to see Chairman Mao's statue and then his body...More

Worth a look if you're up early enough and like queuing. Entry is free but you pay for bag storage and additional for camera storage so best to just take a wallet in a zippy pocket.

How often do you get the chance to see one of the big figures of 20th century history, and at the same time feel part of a cultural phenomenon that as a visitor to China we can at times struggle to comprehend? As everyone says,...More

Ok so if like me you have read a few of the other reviews here there is a long, long, long (did I mention long?) line to see the general. The line literally stretches around the block and is the most massive queue I have...More

Having visited Ho Chi Minh's tomb in Hanoi I thought I should go visit Chairman Mao while in Beijing. I was in the area nice and early after watching the sunrise flag raising ceremony. Joined the queue with hundreds of Chinese (and very few westerners)...More

I had read a lot of reviews on TripAdvisor that talk about going early in the morning and having to push and shove in the queue for hours. You don't need to do this. I showed up on a Tuesday morning at 11.30, which is...More

We visited the Hall one Wednesday morning during a week-long trip to Beijing. After reading that you needed to get there early, we arrived at 9 am, an hour after it opened, to see a huge huge huge line of people. Since the weather was...More