Definitely worth a visit to the Forbidden city to understand the history! Marco was a fantastic guide and I thoroughly enjoyed my experience with him. Met other solo travellers as well in the same group and we hanged out afterwards! However, I thought that the guide would also be included for clock museum and treasure museum but it was not. Honestly, you can skip the clock museum as it was not interesting to me since it was displays of the many clocks given from other countries (France, Britain etc). Treasure museum was huge but the explanation were all in Chinese which was not helpful for my english speaking fellow travellers. Overall, worth it for the palace museum and guide tour but recommend to skip the other museums if not of huge interest to you.