Chinese New Year Celebration
Spring Festival overlay with lion dances, seasonal decor and limited-time food and merchandise.
Universal Studios Beijing
Theme park · Asia
🇨🇳 Beijing, China
The largest Universal park on the planet, opened 2021
Overall score7.3
Opened
2021
Size
394 acres (160 ha)
Rides
37 attractions
Avg. visit
10 hours
Ticket range
$52–$103 USD
Events & shows
Christmas at Universal Beijing
Winter holiday season with a tree-lighting ceremony, festive parades and themed food.
Halloween Horror Nights Beijing
Separately ticketed after-dark Halloween event with scare zones and haunted houses themed to Chinese and global horror.
Visual Archive
Universal Studios Beijing opened in September 2021 as the biggest Universal park ever built, with seven themed lands including a full Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Transformers Metrobase and Kung Fu Panda Land of Awesomeness — the last of these unique to Beijing. It scaled to roughly nine million annual visitors within two years.
Plan Your Visit
Hours & tickets
- Operating hours
- Typically 10am-7pm, extended to 8pm or later at peak season and during Halloween nights
- Seasonal closures
- Open year-round; Beijing winters are cold and some outdoor attractions close in extreme weather
- Queue-skip pass
- Universal Express passes sold in one-time and unlimited tiers; pricing swings widely by date and sells out on peak days. From about $55 USD.
- How long to stay
- Full day, two to cover everything comfortably
- Multi-day tickets
- 2-day tickets and annual passes are sold, typically at a strong discount to two single days.
- Season pass
- Annual or season pass from about $260 USD.
Getting there
- Nearest airport
- Beijing Daxing (PKX), ~60 km; Beijing Capital (PEK), ~40 km
- Public transit
- Excellent: Universal Resort station is served by Beijing Subway lines 1/Batong and 7, a short walk from the CityWalk entrance
- Parking
- On-site parking available. Around $14 USD per day.
- Staying over
- Universal Studios Grand Hotel and NUO Resort Hotel on site, both with early park admission.
Accessibility
- Accessibility
- Modern, fully step-free site with lifts and ramps; wheelchair rental on site and per-ride accessibility guidance published in the app.
Good to know
- Who it suits
- Broad family appeal with Kung Fu Panda Land of Awesomeness and Minion Land for younger children, alongside intense rides such as Decepticoaster and Forbidden Journey
- Best time to visit
- Late March to May or September to October; avoid Golden Week, Chinese New Year and summer school holidays
- Dining
- Wide range from Chinese regional dishes to themed western fare; mobile ordering is common and reservations help at peak times
- Outside food
- Outside food and drink are not permitted.
- Weather cover
- A high share of headline attractions are indoors (Forbidden Journey, Transformers, Kung Fu Panda, Minion Mayhem), which helps in cold or wet weather.
- Baby care
- Baby care centres with nursing rooms, changing tables and bottle warming in each land cluster.
- Rentals on site
- Stroller / pushchair hire and Lockers available on site.
- Currency & payment
- Yuan; mobile payment (Alipay/WeChat Pay) dominates - international cards work at main tills but linking a mobile wallet is far smoother.
- Official app
- Universal Beijing Resort app and WeChat mini programme: tickets, wait times, mobile ordering and virtual queues - largely Chinese-language.
Archival records
Largest Universal Studios theme park in the world
World's first Kung Fu Panda themed land