Customized Tours

Tailoring each experience to your wishes by locals who love their city

Tourists exploring the city with a local guide

Top customized tours & experiences around the world

From exploring cool neighborhoods to eating with the locals to seeing iconic sites, these are some of our favorite experiences

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The best private, customized tours & experiences with locals

We tailor all our travel experiences to your interests. On our custom tours with friendly local guides in major cities across the world, you’ll discover the soul of a city with someone who can show you its attractions beyond the famous landmarks. A balance between highlights and hidden gems, our customized tours seek out a city’s authenticity and celebrate the local way of living. You’ll see the iconic sights – but you’ll also uncover the secret spots loved by locals: the unassuming restaurants that serve the best traditional cuisine, the cool, charismatic neighborhoods, and the hidden viewpoints that show the city from a different perspective.

Meet some of our local hosts

Andreea

Rome

Enthusiastic local host in Rome, with a passion for exploring the city's museums and churches, discovering the best food and drink, and guiding visitors through the charming neighborhood of Monti.

Kamilla

New York

Vibrant New York host, history lover, and food enthusiast with insider tips on New York’s best spots for drinks, dining, and hidden gems.

Victor

Hong Kong

A local host with a deep love for Hong Kong, eager to share all my insider tips and tricks to help my guests have an amazing and personalized stay in this incredible city.

See the city beyond your guidebook

Perplexing maps, tangled public transport, and chalkboard menus scrawled in an unfamiliar language can’t hold you back when you have a local guide leading the way. On our custom tours, your local insider plays the role of GPS, guidebook, and Google Translate, so you’ll be able to experience any- and everything the city has to offer. From secret plazas in Italy to underground eateries in Japan, the sides of a city usually reserved for its residents open themselves up to you. Our custom tours allow a foreign city to become more than just another travel destination – it becomes a second home.

Local guide introducing tourists to the best pints of beer in their city

Travel tailored to you

We know that every traveler’s idea of the perfect trip is different. That’s why we take everything into account to plan your tour and give you plenty of unique experiences to choose from. Whether you have a full day, half a day, or just three hours, our custom tours squeeze in as many of the city’s attractions as possible. From must-see tours exploring iconic landmarks to food tours uncovering a city’s finest traditional cuisine (and experiences that veer starkly off the tourist trail), you’ll find the custom tours that pique your interest and satisfy your curiosity.

Tourist and local guide posing with a statue on a sunny day

Like-minded locals leading the way

We don’t just tailor our custom tours to suit your interests; we pair you with a local guide who thinks like you. Our local insiders come from all ages, backgrounds, and perspectives. They’re journalists, artists, comedians, teachers, and company execs. Some of them are food-lovers with a finger on the pulse of their city’s restaurant scene; others are history buffs who can share fascinating stories of their city’s past. One thing all our hosts have in common is that they love their homes and are passionate about sharing its secrets and attractions with travelers like you.

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Latest reviews from our guests

Milo was an excellent guide and explained the history of Japan and Kyoto really well. He was a very engaging story teller. The pace of the tour was just right and we were able to cover a lot of important spots along our tour.

June 2025

Vishwanath K
We arrived in Istanbul two days early for a group tour of Turkey so I scheduled a private walking tour with Tolga to see if he could show us something other than the typical list of sites that were on our group's itinerary. I felt certain that there were neighborhoods that he could show us which we wouldn't otherwise see and Tolga did not disappoint. Along the way, he filled us in on history, culture, religion, and current events. He took us to an historic place for baklava and a cute spot for a quick lunch. We rode the tram, the bus and two ferries, and walked 8 miles! After seven hours, we finally called it quits, but he would have continued longer if we had wanted. We definitely got our money's worth and counted that day as one of the best of our entire three weeks in Turkey.

June 2025

Barbara M
We very much enjoyed the a-typical tour with our guide Alessandro ! His interesting stories gave next to the most important details of the architecture, a very good impression of the atmosphere of Naples.

June 2025

Marius F
Reza was so warm and welcoming during our trip to Milan. He was very knowledgeable about the history and culture of the city and was an amazing guide!

June 2025

Liren T