Forbidden City Ticket booth was still there when i went last month. After you go through security check and then go in entrance under the Chairman Mao painting. I continued to the roped off area to the distant right side and showed my passport to get in line to buy my ticket (just follow the westerners
) After that i went through the entrance (follow the crowds) there was another optional booth to right to rent the electronic English guide (hangs around neck and had earphones type thing)
Originally Posted by
jiejie
I'd use the visa queues. While they might be long, there are also more of them. If the single TWOV queue gets buggered up with passengers with issues, you could end up waiting longer.
When I got to Passport control(?), I only saw the one line up area that said Foreigners. I didn't see any separate TWOV marked lane so i just followed the western crowd. did i miss it? Maybe its not running at all times? I'm all for shorter lines.