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Classic Private City Tour Vienna

Fully private - SALZBURG, HALLSTATT & MELK ABBEY!

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Classic Private City Tour Vienna

Fully private - SALZBURG, HALLSTATT & MELK ABBEY!

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WIENGUIDE TOURS (Vienna) - All You Need to Know BEFORE You Go

Every city-tour should be a little adventure.

Join me for vienna's most charming guided tour., always entertaining, easy to understand & 100% customizable..

What People Say

Consistent 4,9 rating on tripadvisor & google business.

Karyna's infectious personality and enthusiasm for the city she loves means that you'll get a superb guided tour of Vienna. [...] She has so many interesting facts and stories about the different sites and made the tour seamless. [..]

Highly recommended!!! Karyna has personal approach and made the city tour really enjoyable and memorable. The information we've got was really interesting and full of background information and thank you so much for personal insight. Please do not hesitate, it's amazing and perfect for all: youth and adulds!!! [sic]

‍ Our family of 6 spent 2 days with Karyna visiting various sites in Vienna and Wachau Valley. We found her very competent and easy going! She was thoughtful about making sure we enjoyed the experience and she was also extremely knowledgeable about the history of Austria!

We did this tour on our first day in Vienna. This trip was a birthday present for my mother ;-) Karyna was our guide and she was just fantastic. [...] Thank you very much! We would definitely recommend Karyna!

Privately Guided Walking Tours

Go on discovery tour.

Trace your favourite artists’ footsteps, explore Vienna’s rise through different architectural époques or lose yourself for a night in the rich pleasures of the city’s buzzing youth- and subcultures.

The Classics

Vienna must-see.

No exploration of Vienna would be complete without admiring the highlights.

This walking tour is a great place to start if it’s your first time around Vienna.

Join me for a colourful round-trip to all of the most important sights in town.

Architectural Époques

Are you already familiar with Vienna?

Exploring Vienna with a tight focus on just one époque allows us to dig deep and really develop a strong context for what we are seeing.

Recommended for all who really want to please their inner architecture nerd.

Artist's Footprints

It’s impossible to separate Vienna from the artists that lived and worked here.

From Mozart to Falco , from Klimt to Schiele, from Loos to Hundertwasser, we trace the footprints of your favourite artist(s) around the city and examine their work in the light of their lives.

Urban lifestyles

The street-art tour.

It’s a little known secret that Austria's capital is also home to a blossoming street-art scene.

And for some romantic souls, like myself, it‘s precisely in the tension between the old and the new that Vienna comes alive.

Follow along for something different...

Freihausviertel-Liquor-Tour

Spirits of vienna.

Note please, that this is not another, generic let’s-get-drunk-walking-tour. I trust you’d get that done by yourselves.

Instead, we will embark on finely orchestrated tour of tastes through some Vienna’s finest contemporary spirits.

Definitely won't carry you home, though.

In plain Sight

Vienna's cinemas.

For those with a genuine interest in modern history and architecture Vienna houses a number of cinemas that have way more to offer than just their program.

These are the places where the off-screen drama was every bit as thrilling as what you may see on the screen.  

didn't expect that

Surprise tour.

The Surprise Tour is my personal favourite.

All you have to do is answer a couple of questions, — mostly about what you are NOT INTERESTED IN.

And, of course, about the occasion of your booking, — I’ll handle all the rest.

End your tour swinging

Culture meets golf.

Could you imagine a better way to end your city tour than playing a couple of holes on the lush greens of Austria's 1st Golf Club?

Maybe have PGA head coach Sigi Beretzki give you a couple of pointers on your swing and learn about Austria's intricate history of golf?

Me neither... Keep it in the short grass!

Hi, I'm Karyna

I'm here to get you hooked.

On Vienna, it’s Contrasts, it’s Stories.

History may be a science, but making it relatable is an art. My art.

For me this all about helping you form a lasting connection with one of Europe’s most thriving, vibrant, and culturally diverse capitals.

litres of spritzer consumed with clients

Kilometer walked on tours

Churches Visited

Opera performance witnessed

Make Your Vienna Trip Unforgetable

Book your private walking tour.

The Classics Tour was by far the highlight of our city trip to Vienna! Our private guide Karyna made these 6 hours extremely enjoyable! [...]

Make Your Vienna Trip Unforgettable

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Private tourist guide by profession, life-enthusiast by nature..

Me in 2.5 sentences

My story is the classical I-took-my-midlife-crisis-early-to-pursue-a-life-of-passion-story (that’s a thing, isn’t it?):

A bright and upbeat young woman discovers her true love for architecture and history (what else?), turns her back on all offers of being showered in money and fame to combine her greatest talent (that would be talking) with her greatest passion (exploring city cultures), and lived happily ever after (or so she hopes).

The long story

What to say about yourself.. Well, Apparently, I’m huge nerd. Otherwise I wouldn’t have thrown away my lucrative job in marketing to become a full time tourist guide. And let’s be honest, it doesn’t come much nerdier than that. I have been in love with Vienna ever since I first moved here from the Ukraine around 15 years ago. Don’t make me bore you with the details. Let’s just say I needed a change...

I also always had a great interest in the belle arts, but, unfortunately, I never showed enough talent to pursue a fulltime career as an artist. So I went into marketing instead. Connecting with people and presenting things in their best light comes easy to me. So marketing seemed like the obvious choice. Yet, short over long it left me all oddly dissatisfied.

I turned to increasingly long explorations of the city that was now my home. Explorations that soon turned into a year spent dividing my time between work and interning at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, then at then Museum für Angewandte Kunst. I was finally onto something...

I still remember the first time it dawned on me how much meaning was hiding in plain sight all around me. It was like being plunged in the rabbit hole of Alice in Wonderland. Learning about the history and conflicts that shaped my environment was like learning to see for me. Suddenly, the bland loud city life, the background static of our ordinary lives was filling up with life itself.

Needless to say, I was hooked.

But as much as I love the process of discovering and learning, what really gets me off is to share the discovering with other people. I want to pull them into the rabbit hole if you so want. Get them hooked on discovering as well.

Now I do that for a living.

I help people discover my favorite city and when I do a good job, I turn them into explorers in their own right.

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‘It’s plain elitist’: anger at Greek plan for €5,000 private tours of Acropolis

Archaeologists and guides among critics who say scheme goes against what symbol of democracy should represent

J ackie and Malcolm Love stood amid a bevy of tourists in the heart of Athens taking in the Acropolis with a mixture of awe and admiration. The Greek capital’s greatest classical site was truly magnificent, they said, but the crowds had been such, even in April, that they preferred to experience it from a distance.

“We didn’t go, not with all those people,” said Jackie, looking up at the fifth-century monument from the cobbled boulevard below. “We didn’t think it’d be the best thing to do, did we?” she said, nudging her husband.

The couple, enjoying a city break from Ipswich, their English hometown, had pondered whether to do a private tour instead. The Greek culture ministry is planning personalised visits to the ancient complex – at €5,000 (£4,285). “We wouldn’t pay that,” said Malcolm, a lorry driver. “Crazy prices,” Jackie chipped in. “Certainly not for people like us.”

The Acropolis is by far Greece’s biggest attraction, drawing more than 22,000 visitors a day last summer, forcing authorities to introduce tough controls , including a time-slot system.

This year, officials have gone a step further, announcing a scheme that allows sightseers to beat the crowds and experience the Periclean masterpiece on an exclusive basis. The initiative foresees up to four groups of five people being guided by expert archaeologists around the site between 7am to 9am and 8pm to 10pm – before opening and after closing times – to avoid the thousands of selfie-snappers who hourly ascend the rocky hill. “We’ve had requests from tour operators for this for a very long time,” said Nikoleta Valakou, the president of the Hellenic Organization of Cultural Resources Development, a state body connected to the culture ministry.

The ministry, she said, was prepared to permit tours for individuals, provided they were willing to pay the group fee. “There’ll be souvenirs too,” added Valakou. “A replica of a coin, perhaps, or copy of a small statue … something to conjure memories of the unique experience.”

But the measure – part of an overhaul of ticketing policy at more than 350 archaeological sites and museums managed by the Greek culture ministry – has triggered anger and derision, including from archaeologists. Guides have described it as impractical and critics have argued it runs counter to the spirit of everything the world’s pre-eminent symbol of democracy is supposed to represent. “The next thing you know people will be making marriage proposals and drinking champagne up there,” said Despina Koutsoumba, the vice-president of the country’s archaeologists’ association. “They’ll feel entitled, if they’ve spent that sort of money, to do whatever they want at the site.”

The very idea, she said, was “unacceptably exclusive”. After all, the monument was the emblem of democratic Athens in which citizens enjoyed equality before the law.

“What this says is Greece is willing to give people who have money the ability to enjoy the Acropolis in a very exclusive way while leaving out those who simply don’t have such means. We’re utterly opposed to it,” Koutsoumba added.

Previously, only world leaders, royalty and the odd celebrity had been granted access to the site out of opening hours.

The public, with the exception of academics and preservationists, have one day – the August full moon – to savour the temples at night.

As opposition has mounted, critics have questioned the wisdom of the decision at a time when the wealth gap between the rich and poor has become ever more accentuated. “It’s plain elitist,” said Costas Zambas who headed restoration works at the Acropolis for over 25 years.

“The very notion goes against the spirit of a place that we associate with democracy. It doesn’t sit well.”

With Athens at the sharp end of the climate emergency, tourist guides have raised objections over the workability of a scheme that for the vast majority will mean the site opening at 9am instead of 8am. Last summer the Greek capital – continental Europe’s southernmost metropolis – experienced record temperatures of up to 45C (113F), compelling officials to take the unprecedented step of closing the Acropolis for several days.

“If they push back opening hours to 9am because of these private tours it’s going to be a disaster,” said Kriton Piperas, who until recently was the head of the 4,000-strong Panhellenic Federation of Tourist Guides. “For several years our union has been pressing for the Acropolis to open earlier precisely because of the changing weather. Don’t forget with the lack of shade it’s that much hotter up there.”

Increasingly, he said, Greece’s pro-business centre right government saw culture through an exclusively commercial lens. “They look at the Acropolis and anything associated with tourism as a product,” he said. “This idea of unique tours is like putting a price tag on the site, it reminds me of an auction where the highest bidder wins and is told ‘you can have it all to yourself’. It’s wrong and bound to lead to trouble.”

Ticket-holders on cruise ships, which are the source of ever more day-trippers to the Greek capital, often book months in advance and are on a very tight schedule. Most are waiting in line at the Acropolis by 8am.

In her office overlooking a central Athens boulevard, Valakou said the culture ministry had taken the criticism onboard. The tours, it is estimated, could bring in up to €40,000 a day, with proceeds going to cash-starved cultural projects.

“Revenues will be reinvested,” she said. “As the Acropolis will be the first for such tours it’ll be a pilot programme and we’ll be open to change.”

The omens are not all bad. The scheme has been met with delight by some in the Greek diaspora where the well-heeled have already suggested they will be signing up.

“I’ve heard from dozens of friends who’ve expressed interest in joining these bespoke tours,” said Peter Poulos, the executive director of the Hellenic Initiative, a global Greek diaspora philanthropic organisation.

“Why not relieve people of their money if it’s going to help protect and preserve our cultural monuments for generations to come? We all support the loftiest of ideals but at the end of the day ideals aren’t going to pay the hard costs needed to run a site of this magnitude.”

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5 of the Best Silicon Valley Tours

Renowned across the world as the epicentre of tech innovation, Silicon Valley can be discovered by joining a wide choice of guided tours.

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Situated in the southern San Francisco Bay Area of California, and home to some of the world’s most foremost technology companies including Apple, Facebook and Google, Silicon Valley is a popular stopping-off point for people travelling through the wider California region. If you’d like to spend some time exploring the famous tech hotbed, we’ve picked out 5 of the best Silicon Valley tours currently available.

Full-Day Private Tour to Silicon Valley

Learn the unrivalled history of Silicon Valley on this full-day private tour. During the day, you and your select group of family or friends will get to enjoy the cutting-edge modern architecture of Oracle, Facebook, Google, and Apple campuses, see Steve Jobs’ former home, and walk in the footsteps of Stanford’s illustrious alumni on a guided walking tour – all in the company of an expert guide. There’ll also be the chance to visit the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, and sit down to a hearty lunch in one of many restaurants on University Avenue in Palo Alto. The tour price includes hotel pick-up and drop-off, bottled water, museum entrance, and lunch. From $999 per group (max 6 people).

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Silicon Valley: Self-Drive Audio Tour

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Hop in your car and enjoy this self-guided audio tour of the birthplace of tech at your own pace and with no fixed schedule. Cruise through Silicon Valley while checking out the headquarters of tech giants and learn about the visionaries who’ve shaped the world, from Bill Gates and Steve Jobs to the controversies around Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos and the eccentricities of Elon Musk. All you need to do is get the tour guide app set up on your phone, release that handbrake and head on your way. After being purchased, your audio guide has no expiration date and is valid indefinitely. From $15 per person.

Private Redwood Forest & Silicon Valley Day Trip from San Francisco

Combine a memorable trip to Silicon Valley with a visit to California’s oldest redwood state park on this action-packed full-day tour. Featuring door-to-door service, starting and ending in San Francisco, you’ll spend half the day exploring the famous man-made wonders of Silicon Valley tech capital of the world before making the 50-mile drive southeast to marvel at the jaw-dropping natural beauty of Redwood state park, where 2,000-year old trees rise over 300 feet into the sky. Tours are suitable for everyone, including families with children. From $579 per group (max 2 people).

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Silicon Valley Private 2-Hour Driving Tour

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Want to see Silicon Valley but are tight for time? This whistle-stop two-hour private driving tour complete with audio guide may well fit the bill. After collection from your hotel in a comfortable vehicle, you’ll head off to see the area in quick-smart fashion, getting to know the stories, legends and landmarks of Silicon Valley as you visit sites including the Googleplex, Apple Park Visitor’s Center and the Hewlett Packard Garage.  Let your driver do the work while you kick back and listen to audio narrated by local legend Matt Chatta. The set-up allows you to listen on your own schedule, so you can pause if you want to take a break or explore further. From $51 per group (max 5 people).

Half-Day Silicon Valley Tour Private Day Trip from San Francisco

If there’s a Silicon Valley landmark that you’re particularly keen to visit, then this fully customisable five-hour private tour might well be for you. The trip puts you in touch with the pioneering work of global communications, computing and biotech companies and their impact on the region. Starting with pick-up in San Francisco, you’ll travel in the comfort of a private vehicle to the South Bay, learning from your personal guide how Silicon Valley has revolutionised the way our world works. The tour price includes your private driver and guide, pick-up and drop-off, bottled water and snacks. From $577 per group (max 6 people)

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Day trip from Vienna to Salzburg

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Sightseeing

Duration & price.

• Vienna woods
• Artstetten castle
• Lake region
• Traunkirchen
• Wolfgang See

Furthermore available with Wienguide private tours:

• classic private sight seeing walks in Vienna downtown
• private day trip to Vienna woods from Vienna
• private day trip to Budapest from Vienna
• private day trip to the Danube valley from Vienna

We will leave early in the morning to expolre the so called Austria lake district "Salzkammergut"!

The Salzkammergut fulfils the ardent desire for vitality and zest for life! Magical mountain world rich with evergreen forests and 76 unfathomably deep lakes, all with crystal clear water ... Hidden valleys, mighty glaciers and secluded trails . The landscape is some of Europe’s finest and the area is a true magnet for those seeking the best of Austria's Baroque heritage and a taste of subalpine scenery. 

Salzkammergut is a region of glaciated lakes and craggy peaks , straddling the border between the provinces of Salzburg and Upper Austria. The lofty peaks and the glacier-carved troughs that separate them make for some spectacular scenery. 

After our obligatory footsteps in Traunkirchen, St. Gilgen and where ever you want to, we move on to the city of Salzburg.

Salzburg's spoiled residents often fail to notice the unique charm of the Old City – a backdrop that's easily overlooked in every day life – until their guests are enraptured by its breathtaking beauty. The city of Salzburg - and especially its historic city center – is in fact one of the loveliest places in Europe, winning international acclaim in 1997 when it was designated a world heritage site by UNESCO. 

Your fantastic private guide will show you all this marvelous sights of the old city like: the Cathedral, Hohensalzburg Fortress, the Residenz, St. Peter's Monastery with its impressive cemetery, the Franciscan Church and Collegiate Church as well as the Large and Small Festival Halls and the Summer Riding School in the Festival District. On the right banks of the Salzach one should not miss Mirabell Palace with the romantic Mirabell Gardens (one of the city's most popular snapshot scenes, known from SOUND OF MUSIC) or St. Sebastian's Church with its charming cemetery. And finally the main sight of Salzburg, Mozart Birthplace!

After the walking tour you can spend a couple of hours in Salzburg for lunch, to do some shopping or to explore the city further on your own. Visit the Mozart museum or take a ride in the funicular up to the impressive fortress of Hohensalzburg. In the late afternoon your private guide will take you to Vienna and back to your hotel.

Enjoy the superior service and the personal atmosphere of this unique private tour to Salzburg .

Duration 12 hours

totally private

• Pick up from your hotel
• private tour with guide & Minivan or Limousine
• Photostops on the way
• guided tour in Salzburg
• time for lunch in Salzburg
• Drop off at your hotel

total price: € 1200,–

entrance fees, 

food and beverages

CANCELLATION POLICY

No cancellation fees!

0-3 days before the date 

100% cancellation fee

PLEASE CANCEL ON TIME

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