Explore Like a Local: Book Verified Guides for Private Tours & Custom Itineraries
Go beyond postcards with trusted, community-reviewed experts who reveal neighborhoods, flavors, and stories you will never find on a bus. Share your interests, match with a verified guide, co-create a flexible plan, and enjoy personal, safe, and unforgettable travel.
About Our Local-First Travel Platform
We believe the best trips are built on human connection, not generic scripts. Our platform matches curious travelers with vetted local experts who craft safe, flexible, and respectful experiences, supporting neighborhood economies while turning everyday streets into rich, personal discoveries.
How It Works
Discover, compare, and book verified local guides in minutes through a simple flow that captures your interests, recommends matching experts, builds a private itinerary, and secures payment, messaging, and logistics inside one streamlined, traveler-friendly dashboard.
Create Your Traveler Profile
Tell us how you like to explore, from walking pace and budget to culinary interests, mobility needs, and preferred photography stops. Your profile powers accurate guide matches, ensures realistic timing, and helps your guide tailor pacing, depth, and neighborhood selection to your expectations.
Get Matched With Verified Guides
Our system compares your preferences with guide specialties, language skills, schedule, and recent reviews, then presents a curated shortlist. Message guides, compare sample routes, and confirm availability before committing, ensuring you book someone genuinely aligned with your pace and passions.
Book, Pay, and Get Ready
Secure your date with protected payment, receive a detailed plan, and access offline-ready maps, meeting points, and contingency options. Use chat to adjust timing, include last-minute stops, and finalize logistics so your experience begins perfectly, even if arrival plans change.
Verified Guides & Safety
Travel confidently with identity-verified professionals who pass multi-step checks, maintain active licenses where required, and follow community standards, transparent policies, and incident procedures designed to keep your plans dependable, respectful, and secure from booking through the final goodbye.
Multi-Step Identity and Credential Checks
We verify government IDs, cross-check guide licenses when applicable, confirm language proficiency, and review experience portfolios. Ongoing spot checks, document refresh schedules, and random audit rides ensure that standards remain consistent, not only during onboarding but throughout a guide’s tenure.
Insurance, Compliance, and Local Laws
Guides agree to operate within local regulations, respect site rules, and maintain appropriate coverage where required. We clearly communicate inclusions, liabilities, and safety boundaries, setting realistic expectations while encouraging thoughtful, lawful, and courteous engagement with residents and cultural landmarks.
Reviews, Reporting, and Resolution
After every tour, travelers submit structured feedback covering communication, expertise, pacing, and respect. We investigate issues promptly, mediate disputes, and may suspend listings when standards are not met, ensuring that future travelers benefit from transparent, consistently enforced quality controls.
Custom Itinerary Design
Collaborate with a specialist to shape day-by-day plans, weaving in local markets, authentic eateries, timing for crowds, and meaningful conversations, then finalize a flexible route that adapts gracefully to weather, energy levels, and spontaneous neighborhood discoveries.
Tour Types
Choose from focused specialties or mix themes, including neighborhood walks, food crawls, architecture deep dives, photography sessions, street art hunts, and active nature escapes, all paced to your comfort and personalized to highlight the city’s living cultural heartbeat.
Food Markets and Hidden Kitchens
Taste your way through market stalls, family-run eateries, and bakeries locals actually frequent. Learn ordering customs, typical prices, and seasonal specialties while your guide introduces vendors personally, translating menus, dietary notes, and stories that anchor dishes in place and memory.
History, Architecture, and Urban Layers
Trace shifting borders, eras, and movements through landmark buildings and overlooked blocks. Your guide connects political change, materials, and design details to social history, revealing why neighborhoods look the way they do and how communities preserved identity during rapid modernization.
Outdoor Adventures and Micro-Escapes
Step beyond downtown for coastline paths, hillside viewpoints, urban parks, and kayaking coves. The route fits your fitness level and includes transport logistics, hydration stops, and safety briefings, creating a restorative balance between city intensity and rejuvenating, photogenic green spaces.
Destinations & Neighborhoods
Move beyond tourist corridors into lived-in streets where daily routines, crafts, and rituals unfold, linking landmarks with small moments that make a trip personal, practical, and emotionally resonant long after you return home and share stories with friends.
Hidden Districts With Character
Explore creative studios in repurposed warehouses, tucked courtyards, and small plazas where grandparents chat at dusk. Your guide weaves micro-histories, local heroes, and current challenges, offering respectful ways to engage without disrupting rhythms that keep these communities vibrant and welcoming.
Day Trips and Countryside Color
Swap asphalt for vineyards, river trails, workshops, and village squares. Learn transit connections, seasonal closures, and fair pricing, then meet makers who share techniques and tasting notes, turning a simple excursion into a textured portrait of regional heritage and craftsmanship.
Seasonal Routes and Time-Sensitive Highlights
Catch fleeting festivals, harvests, migratory wildlife, or limited museum exhibits with carefully timed stops. Your guide balances crowds against experience quality, providing quiet windows, pre-booked entries, and alternate viewpoints when conditions shift unexpectedly, ensuring the moment’s magic remains accessible and enjoyable.
Group Sizes & Private Options
Whether traveling solo, with a partner, or coordinating a multigenerational crew, we tailor pacing, breaks, and content so everyone feels seen, engaged, and unhurried, maintaining intimacy and flexibility that large group tours simply cannot match reliably.
Solo Traveler Confidence
Navigate unfamiliar streets comfortably with a guide who anticipates logistics, provides conversation, and photographs key moments. Learn safe transit shortcuts, nighttime routes, and budget tips, transforming solo travel into empowering discovery rather than a compromise between freedom and security.
Couples and Close Friends
Plan relaxed, shared experiences like sunset viewpoints, wine bars, cooking classes, or photo walks that fit your style. Your guide helps avoid crowded times, recommends intimate venues, and preserves spontaneity, ensuring you connect with the city and each other meaningfully.
Mobility-Friendly Paths and Transport
Receive gradient notes, curb cut availability, elevator locations, and accessible restroom markers. When terrain complicates a section, we propose smoother detours or private transfers, preserving core highlights without unnecessary fatigue or surprises that reduce enjoyment and confidence during the day.
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Language, Hearing, and Visual Support
Request guides fluent in your language, or add captioning apps, visual aids, and printed summaries. We reduce background noise exposure where possible and provide tactile or descriptive alternatives at key sites so the narrative remains inclusive and comprehensible throughout the experience.
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Dietary, Religious, and Cultural Considerations
Your guide coordinates meal stops and activities that respect faith, allergies, and cultural norms. Expect clear ingredient lists, separate utensils, prayer-friendly timing, and contextual etiquette tips, ensuring shared experiences remain welcoming while honoring boundaries that matter to your group.
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Support Small, Independent Businesses
We prioritize owner-operated shops, markets, and studios, directing tourism revenue to neighborhood stakeholders. Your spending choices foster resilient local economies while bringing you closer to craftspeople who share their expertise personally, deepening appreciation beyond surface-level souvenir transactions.
Low-Impact Transport and Routing
Walk, cycle, or ride public transit where feasible, using routes that avoid congestion and sensitive wildlife zones. We calculate timings to limit crowd pressure, reduce noise, and give residents space, protecting the spontaneity and warmth that make real community interactions possible.
Respectful Wildlife and Nature Practices
We never bait animals or enter restricted areas. Guides brief you on trail etiquette, waste policies, and observation distance, ensuring memorable encounters that protect habitats, support conservation funding, and model responsible behavior other visitors can follow and appreciate visibly.
Booking, Payments & Policies
Enjoy transparent pricing, secure payments, and fair terms that handle delays, weather, and unexpected events, with responsive support that favors practical solutions and clear communication instead of confusing fine print or unhelpful surprises during your trip.
Popular Services
Choose focused offerings that deliver reliable value while preserving customization. Every service includes secure booking, responsive messaging, and clear deliverables so you know exactly what is included, what is optional, and how to tailor details to your pace and interests.
Private Orientation Walk (2.5 Hours)
Kickstart your stay with a personalized neighborhood walk covering transit basics, safety tips, coffee spots, and essential landmarks. Your guide calibrates recommendations to your interests, ensures practical confidence from day one, and shares a tailored list of reliable places nearby.
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Custom Multi-Day Itinerary Design (3–7 Days)
Collaborate with a specialist to build day-by-day plans including crowd timing, meal reservations, transfers, and contingency options. Receive polished PDFs, offline maps, and booking links that keep each day realistic, immersive, and aligned with your budget, pace, and passions.
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Airport Pickup + Neighborhood Kickstart
Arrive relaxed with a coordinated airport transfer followed by a concise local briefing and short orientation stroll. Learn immediate essentials, confirm the week’s plans, and get answers to urgent questions so your trip begins smoothly, without guesswork or avoidable detours.
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Travel Resources & Preparation
Arrive ready with neighborhood primers, packing lists, etiquette notes, and safety tips that keep stress low and curiosity high, empowering you to engage confidently from your very first morning in a new city or village.
Learn MoreCorporate & Incentive Travel
Transform offsites and conferences with curated, small-group experiences that energize teams, reward performance, and meaningfully connect visiting colleagues with the host city, all delivered with reliable logistics, safety-first protocols, and concise reporting for procurement and finance stakeholders.
- Team-Building Quests and Challenges Turn neighborhoods into playful learning grounds with clue-based walks, culinary missions, and creative photo hunts. Guides facilitate reflection, ensuring teams bond through shared discovery while respecting local life, traffic, and noise constraints that keep activities considerate and engaging.
- Executive Transfers With Context Combine airport or hotel transfers with compact, high-value touring that showcases key districts between meetings. Guides tailor commentary to industry interests, introduce strategic venues, and optimize timing, delivering productive city literacy without compromising privacy, punctuality, or professional expectations.
- Spouse and Partner Programs Offer personalized daytime plans for accompanying guests, balancing culture, shopping, and wellness. We coordinate timing with event schedules, simplify pickups, and build accessible routes, ensuring everyone enjoys the destination while supporting the conference agenda smoothly behind the scenes.
For Guides: Join the Platform
Grow your business with reliable bookings, fair terms, and tools that highlight your expertise, streamline communication, and reduce admin tasks, so you spend more time guiding and less time juggling spreadsheets, messaging apps, or fragmented calendars.
Requirements and Application
Submit identification, licenses if applicable, references, and specialty descriptions. We value professionalism, empathy, and neighborhood fluency. Clear guidance helps you craft listings that set accurate expectations, attract ideal travelers, and reduce friction from the very first message exchange.
Tools, Messaging, and Templates
Use built-in itineraries, offline maps, and preflight checklists to reduce repetitive work. Saved replies and structured proposals align your voice with platform standards while preserving personality, leading to faster conversions and better review outcomes consistently across diverse trip types.
Earnings, Payouts, and Support
Track confirmed bookings, cancellation tiers, and tips on a single dashboard. Payouts occur on predictable schedules via trusted processors. Dedicated support helps with complex requests, invoices, and group logistics, allowing you to scale without sacrificing responsiveness or quality.