Private Custom Walking Tour with a Local Guide in Dakar
Description
Dakar can sometimes feel inaccessible to foreign visitors, but exploring with a local guide transforms your experience. This private, customized walking tour begins with your guide contacting you beforehand to understand your interests, ensuring you visit the places that matter most to you. As you discover the city’s vibrant streets and cultural highlights, your guide shares insights into daily life, offering a clearer picture of Dakar’s rich heritage. This is a personalized walking tour where you will explore the exterior of key monuments, including museums. However, if you would like to include a museum visit, we can arrange a customized experience—just let us know in advance. Perfect for families, solo travelers, and couples, this tour provides deeper connection, expert knowledge, and a local perspective you wouldn’t get on your own. Explore Dakar with confidence and discover its hidden gems with a local expert by your side.
Tour Options
Itinerary
The local guide will pick you up at the hotel ( if located in Dakar ). Travelers can request the tour to start from any centrally located hotel. In case your hotel is outside the city center we will select a convenient meeting point in the city center. Tour may end at a different location from the departure point unless requested in advance of the tour.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
The local guide will pick you up at your hotel ( if located in Dakar ). Travelers can request the tour to start from any centrally located hotel. In case your hotel is outside the city center we will select a convenient meeting point in the city center.Tour may end at a different location from the departure point unless requested in advance of the tour.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- Wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(4)
A walking tour this is not. There are really no places to walk as the sites are all spread out over the city. The guide charged me another 85 USD to take his car so we could actually see something. This tour should NOT be sold as a walking tour. Don't waste your money on this. Take a scheduled tour with Visit Senegal instead
Hi, Thank you for sharing your feedback. We’re sorry to hear that the tour did not meet your expectations. Our team has already reached out to you via email to address this matter. We appreciate your input and apologize for any inconvenience caused. Warm wishes, Guydeez Team
The guide on the spot of Guydeez in Dakar had demonstrably not shown up to the meeting point at the port for the excursion. We waited 1.5 hours for him, looked for him and asked who might have seen him. All details were discussed in advance by e-mail. When I later wrote to the tour guide Becaye Guindo in Dakar, he claimed that he was at the port and did not find us. Thus he admitted that he was informed about the date and details of the booked excursion. The port has only one exit for passengers and pedestrians. We searched for him for 1.5 hours and addressed all the people if this is the guide. In addition, we were clearly recognizable as tourists so he could have found us in any case. We also called the emergency number of the booking/organizer Guydeez. There was also no help to get as a band announcement in Spanish came forward! The holiday time was wasted: Private tailor-made walking tour with a local guide in Dakar, 3 hour walking tour 10:00 EUR €84.00 Wed, March 06, 2024 2 adults And unfortunately we didn't get refunded either! Despite several complaints we did not get the 84 euros back! Be careful: Rip-off and cheating! From Tripadvisor/Viator I received standardized answers with canned texts via email. No reference had been made at all to my personal arguments. No detail or other information was provided. I was given a nice and general rejection by Viator. Viator did not comment on the fact that the tour guide knew about the event and did not appear as he claimed in the mail. Poor service and not a bit customer friendly! The money's gone! Be careful: Guydeez fends off with false claims!
Hallo, Es tut uns wirklich leid, von Ihrer Erfahrung mit Ihrer Tour zu hören. Wir verstehen, wie frustrierend es gewesen sein muss, zu warten und nicht den Service zu erhalten, den Sie erwartet haben. Bei Guydeez möchten wir unvergessliche Erlebnisse schaffen, und es tut uns leid, dass wir Ihre Erwartungen diesmal nicht erfüllen konnten. Wir nehmen Ihr Feedback ernst und haben bereits direkt per E-Mail mit Ihnen Kontakt aufgenommen, um dies weiter zu besprechen. Bitte wissen Sie, dass wir bereits eine Rückerstattung für die Tour bearbeitet haben und diesen Vorfall überprüfen, um in Zukunft einen besseren Service zu gewährleisten. Nochmals unsere Entschuldigung für diese Unannehmlichkeiten. Wir hoffen, dass Sie uns eine weitere Gelegenheit geben, Ihr Vertrauen in unsere Dienste wiederherzustellen. Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Das Guydeez-Team
I had an amazing tour with Bécaye! He was very friendly, warm and very knowledgeable about Dakar. We saw the top attractions in Dakar with ease and took some road trips. He’s very attentive and communicates well. Since I am English speaking, I was worried that I wasn’t going to navigate well around Dakar but Bécaye made sure I was well looked after! Please do book with him, you will not regret it!
This is an Excellent tour if you want to have an authentic experience with a local. We stoped at a restaurant and had a delicious lunch- I never would have thought to go there on my own.
