FAQs

With over two decades of private tour expertise, we have travelled the world to bring you access to the greatest private tour guides there ever were, for free. We also offer paid access to our Secrets: special spots, our custom restaurant lists, and elite access to the best bits that are hard to find. 

Navigate the site to the destination of your choice to:

• Access itinerary suggestions for inspiration.

• Contact any of our Private Tour Guides for the destination through the contact form to request a quote for a tour.

The private guide you've written will then write you back directly to your email with their ideas and a price. Once you've agreed, settle up directly with your guide, either in advance, with a deposit, or on the day of your tour.

Some guides on GGG offer a 100% full-service approach. Others only provide spectacular tours.

We have a wonderful mix of people on GGG, and they all have different skillsets.

Travel planning will usually come at an additional cost, so bear that in mind.

If you've ever counted up all the hours you've spent finding transport, researching hotels and districts and managing all of the tickets and payments and so on, you'll know this is a huge amount of research, expertise, and just work.

A great many guides simply live and breathe their material, and that is what they obsess over and focus on, and we think that they are absolutely spectacular that way.

They'll mostly will look after the minor incidental logistics, such as helping arrange private transport, museum tickets, and helping you with booking restaurants.

Tl;dr answer: somewhere between a few hundred dollars, and a thousand or more. 

Prices vary enormously. Mostly your destination choice is the biggest factor. And then each guide and tour choice will make a difference. We don't work with the sort of ordinary guide you find on most of the ordinary platforms you've heard of. We just don't bother, and as a result our guides, who are normally only available through high-end agents or word of mouth. 

As a result, our guides are more expensive than the 'usual suspects'. But they're better, and a lot less money than a full-service agent....

Depends on where you are travelling and which of our guides you book:

Count on a few hundred for a fun half day food tour, and up to a thousand or more for a full day of touring with an absolutely legendary A-lister guide in Paris, for example. 

The best plan? Write and ask.

Ideally at least a month out, and the best guides might be booked out up to a year in advance.

This doesn't mean they will be though. It's always worth it to just write and ask. Many have outstanding friends they can refer you to, even if they are booked out. 

Most of our guides operate their own extremely high-quality network of friends with whom they help manage all their guests.

Just remember: if you're looking for something in the middle of an incredibly busy season or event, probably there are a lot of people who want the same thing as you. 

Things to plan extra time in advance for:

• Anything in Amsterdam during Tulip Season

• Japan during Cherry Blossom Season

• Any big holiday, long-weekend, or in the height of summer.

• Big sporting events, concerts, or blockbuster art exhibitions.

We've got some little prompts set up in the contact forms to help you, but who you are, where you want to go, and when you want to visit. 

Bear in mind that the best guides will get dozens of emails requesting the same dates. Many of these end up dead ends, or 40-strong email threads that they are answering while on a train from one place to the next.

Usually they don't have secretaries. Try and be clear.

Here's important stuff to list in your mail:

1. Your name, and the total number of people in your group. If anyone has any mobility issues, this is a good time to mention it.
   

2. Your destination & dates, approximately.
   

3. If you know your flight time/date, list that.
   

4. If you have a hotel booked, this can help the guide plan out a route for you.