Tour Companies & Drivers We have Used
Everything listed here is something we’ve actually done ourselves — sometimes with a group, sometimes privately. If you spot a tour mentioned in one of our posts that isn’t here, it’s not an oversight: either we chose not to recommend it, or sadly, it’s no longer in business.
We’ll keep adding to this list as we travel, but we won’t be constantly re-checking every link to make sure it’s still active — so if you find a dead one, let us know. And wherever possible, we’re linking directly to the providers themselves rather than through Viator or GetYourGuide. Nothing wrong with either, we just like supporting independent operators directly.
Looking for food and wine tours instead? Visit our Food & Wine Tours page.
General & Shore Excursion Tours
Italy
- Verona Local Dreamer — see also our Food & Wine page for their Valpolicella wine day.
- Discover Messina — Castelmola and Taormina, Sicily. Read the post
- Simply Amalfi — Claudio’s private drive down the Amalfi Coast. Read the post
- CityWonders — Colosseum tour, Rome. Read the post
Greece
- Athens Walking Tours — small-group Acropolis tour. Read the post
Spain
- Spain Day Tours — Ronda & Mijas; a full-day Mallorca tour; Seville from Cádiz; Barcelona/Montserrat.
Croatia & Montenegro
- Dubrovnik Shore Tours — Stjepan’s day through Old Town Dubrovnik and Ston. Read the post
Portugal
- We Hate Tourism — Ana’s private day through Lisboa, Sintra, and Cascais. Read the post
Azores
- Green Visions Tours — Lisa’s small-group tour of the Sete Cidades crater lakes. Read the post
Canary Islands
- Feel Tenerife — Mount Teide’s crater and a Canarian feast. Read the post
Iceland
- Saga Travel — a full-day Akureyri excursion (Mývatn, Dimmuborgir, Godafoss). Read the post
United Kingdom
- Go Cotswolds — a village-hopping day from Moreton-in-Marsh. Read the post
- The Mayor of Bath’s Honorary Guides — free Classic City Centre walking tour, Bath. Read the post
North America
- Vantigo Tours — a VW bus tour of San Francisco. Read the post
Netherlands
- Captain Dave’s Canal Cruises Amsterdam — an early morning 90-minute canal cruise aboard a 1928 wooden boat, with guide Jan. Read the post
Poland
- Easy Gdańsk Tours — Klaudia’s private Tri-Cities day: Sopot, Oliwa Cathedral, and Gdańsk. Read the post
Drivers & Transfers
- Celtic Horizons — UK arrival-day driver, with stops at Avebury, Lacock, and Castle Combe. Read the post
- RomeCabs — airport and Civitavecchia transfers, often with a stop or two built in (the keyhole, Odescalchi Castle).
- PK Travel — Athens transfers, ship-to-hotel and hotel-to-airport.