Half-Day Private Glasgow Must-Sees Tour
Description
Enjoy our best-selling walking tour with a private guide. Discover the world famous Glasgow sights in one day and get a real feeling of the city! You'll see learn about about the city's most famous landmarks, hear stories about its history and development, and find out lots of interesting and fun facts. We'll go at your pace, and you'll have chance to have a drink and a snack along the way.
Tour Options
Itinerary
What happened to the statue of George III? What is the Statue of Liberty has to do with the square? Let's discover it together at the main city square where all the most important events take place.
What is one of the most bizarre monuments of Glasgow? What is the Scottish Highland National dress? Find out these and moreabout the fascinating building of the Gallery of Modern Art which ha been a house to many different organisations.
The district where wealthy Tobacco lords of the 18-19th century had their sumptuous mansions.
Where are the oldest civil building and ersatz-medieval house in Glasgow? What is Tontine faces? And why did Mary Queen of Scots stayed here? Let's find out!
The core of the historical part of Glasgow and one of the most recognised symbols of the city.
Inspired by a Parisian garden cemetery of the 19th century the Necropolis has become a landmark and the irreplaceable feature of Glasgow townscape.
What do ‘tron’ and ‘gait’ mean? What rules had the prisoners of the tolbooth? What is the contribution of the Britain’s first practicing woman architect? The answers are all around us!
Where is the largest terracotta fountain? Which Benjamin Franklin invention can you encounter in the park? Who flew over the Glasgow Green for the first time ever? For answers follow us!
How did St Andrew become a patron of Scotland? Why the Irish immigrated into Glasgow in the mid 19th century? Who delayed the building of the Cathedral? We'll unveil these mystreries and more on our way!
Once built for the workers of the East End of Glasgow this magnificent building has become a home for a collection that tells a story of its people and beautiful glasshouse that can compare to the one in the Botanics!
Why St Enoch is as important as the patron of Glasgow St Mungo? Why does Glasgow celebrate its subway system and how old is it? What do you need to do to participate in Subcrawl?
Why does it resemble Moscow Kremlin and what first lady had a Templeton carpet in her home? The answers are yet to come!
Who were Tobacco Lords? Who is the most renowned Glasgow architect and where can his works be found? Why Nelson Mandela is grateful to Glasgow?
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
If you're staying within 15 mins walk of the centre of Glasgow (George Square), our guide can meet you at your hotel. We can organise an executive vehicle and a driver to meet and greet you in the port in Greenock morning, take you in comfort and style to Glasgow city where you will meet your personal tour guide. After some wonderful Glasgow sightseeing, we'll get you safely back aboard later that afternoon. It's a separate cost payable on the day. We make no profit from this service, but we are happy to arrange it for you. We can also organise an executive vehicle and a driver to meet and greet you at the Glasgow Airport and take you in comfort and style to Glasgow city where you will meet your personal tour guide. It's a separate cost payable on the day. We make no profit from this service, but we are happy to arrange it for you.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Multi-lingual guide (English, Spanish, Russian)
- Please note that this is a walking tour without vehicle
- Glasgow Port (Greenock) pickup and return by private vehicle can be arranged for additional cost on request
- We can arrange vehicle hire for the tour for additional cost on request
Reviews(174)
We are three couples visiting Glasgow and were given a 4 hour city tour by Scott. Scott is knowledgeable and passionate about his love of the city’s history. He included facts and a few funny anecdotes and make the tour fun; we had a blast! Highly recommend Scott and this city tour for anyone visiting Glasgow. Cheers!
Without a doubt, Zhanna is the best tour guide I've experienced in 15 years of taking tours. She gave us so much information about Glasgow and it's history while keeping it upbeat, fun and it never felt like she was reading a script. She took our interests into account and in 4+ hours, we never got bored. And working with Nick to book the tour was as easy as could be.
Scott’s tour exceeded our expectations. As a guide Scott was personable, knowledgeable, and intentional about where we took us and the information he offered. We learned a great deal about historic and current Glasgow, covered a lot of ground, and went at a pace that was perfect for us.
Our guide Liberty provided us a beautiful half day of history and curiosities paired with humour and kindness. We learned a lot, see much and really enjoyed the grace and flexibility Liberty offered us.
Informed Guide, Nice person and fantastic tour. I would have given Scott six stars if I could. If you visit Glasgow then his tour is a must.
Elaine provided an exceptional tour! She was very knowledgeable about Glasgow history and answered all our questions. Would highly recommend this tour with Elaine.
The company made arrangements for a car to pick us up and take us back to port. Our drivers were wonderful James and Matt. . Our walking tour with Anna was amazing. She knew the history and took us to beautiful places. I think our favorite place was the City building. It had the largest marble staircase in the world! It was incredible. I had hip surgery and she was ok stopping here and there to give me a rest. We had a great time, she made the trip so memorable . Thank you.
Elaine shared much more about Glasgow then we would have experienced on our own. We went places the "tours" don't go. We experienced the Heart of Glasgow.
My family and I chose the half day walking tour with our tour guide Zhanna. It was the best walking tour. Zhanna was very knowledgeable about the area in Glasgow and described all subjects in details and easy to understand. We highly recommend Zhanna for all the tours in Glasgow.
We Loved the experience, our tour guide knew a lot of history and he made it very interesting. We loved all the highlands and the natural views
