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Welcome to Bucharest! Want to know the best places to eat? Cool events in town? Which places to go to and which to avoid? Or simply get some help to navigate the city? Book this private tour with a local and get the perfect introduction to Bucharest to start your city trip on the right foot.

Destination

Bucharest, Romania

Category

City Highlight Tours

Duration

2 hours

Transport mode

Walking tour

Available languages

English, Română, Español, Italiano, Français

Included

• Private Guide
• Local Tips & Tricks
• City Orientation
• All Withlocals Tours are Carbon Neutral

Excluded

• Entrance to attractions

What you can expect

Choose your local

Get to know these 7 passionate locals, each bringing unique perspectives and talents. Choose your favorite, check their availability, and book to create an unforgettable adventure tailored to you.

This is the plan

Check out the plan below to see what you'll get up to with your local host. Feel free to personalize this offer with the host of your choice.

1. Meeting point

   Meet at Outside Restaurant Hanu' lui Manuc, the oldest operating hotel in Bucharest. - Bucharest to start your journey

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2. Itinerary

   This is what our experience could look like, but it’s not set in stone! Once you book, you can chat directly with your host to make small tweaks to suit your preferences.

3. City Highlights

   See Calea Victoriei, The Palace of the Parliament, and more landmarks and must-sees of the city. Your local host will take you to the main spots of the city so you can get the perfect introduction to what makes Bucharest so special

4. Local Hot Spots

   Along the way, your host will point out hangout spots and hidden gems that only the locals know about and will help you get acquainted with the city in the most local way possible

5. Food Recommendations

   Receive tailored recommendations according to your taste and where to go and what to eat while visiting Bucharest. Avoid tourist traps thanks to your local host!

6. City Orientation

   Learn how to navigate the city, and get the answers to your Bucharest questions that will help you in the following days making your time in the city much easier

7. Make it yours

   Want to tweak the itinerary? Book directly & chat afterwards with your host to adjust highlights, skip stops, or make small changes to fit your preferences.

   Book risk-free: Cancel within 24 hours for a full refund.

   Need something special? Personalize your experience for more time, alternative locations or a completely tailored plan.

Flexible cancellation policy

• Feel confident booking

  Cancel within 24 hours for a full refund. Even up to 7 days before your experience, you’ll receive a refund, minus the service fee.

• Change of plans?

  Reschedule your experience to a date and time that works best for you.

• Loved by travelers worldwide

  Simple and flexible – your plans, your way.

Reviews from guests

Jonathan

(About local Andrei & Andreea)

11 February 2025

I couldn't have wished for a better guide in Andrei for a very informed tour of central bucharest. It was like being shown round by a friend he told the history of the city in a very clear manner. We were locked in intense chat for the whole 2 hours ; we could easily have gone in for a third hour! Left great memories for visit the to the city. An amazing 2 Hours

Simo

(About local Nafiseh)

26 October 2024

Nafiseh was wonderful, so happy we choose her. Nafiseh was great communicating with us, flexible and very knowledgeable. Thank you for such a lovely experience.Highly recommended

Sigurd Fuglsbjerg

(About local Nafiseh)

20 August 2024

A lot of historie information, nice recommendations, and good planning.Nice walking tour with a historic angle

Todd Kellie🇨🇦 Canada

(About local Andrei & Andreea)

1 July 2024

Andreea was very knowledgeable and was very sweet, kind and soft-spoken. Doing the tour in a busy Saturday evening with lots of atmosphere and noise made it difficult to hear Andreea many times with her accent and soft spoken voice. She was approached by others and very kind to hear their stories about the palace/museum while we waited. I would try another guide next time where it's not so difficult to engage and hear.Quick intro tour of Bucharest

Valerie🇨🇦 Canada

(About local Alina)

23 June 2024

We only had a couple of hours to see the city and we contacted this tour last minute. We were lucky to have been paired with Alina. She was great in showing us around and provided lots of historical informational tidbits. It gave us the opportunity to have a better understanding of a deeply historical city that we would never have had appreciated otherwise. Alina was so friendly and easy to talk to and we felt like we were being shown the city by a friend rather than a paid guide. Thanks Alina.Lovely experience.

Karen

(About local Nafiseh)

3 February 2024

We had a very good time with Nafiseh! She was super nice and patient (we arrived quite late) and she walked as around beautiful places while introducing us to local history. She also recommended us a great place for dinero! Thanks Nafiseh!Very nice walk!

Ines🇪🇸 Spain

(About local Nafiseh)

2 February 2024

It was lovely to have Nefiseh as a guide tour when visiting Bucharest. She was very nice and showed us the main places in Down Town. She told us some funny and interesting stories about the city’s history😊 I would reccomend her 100%. Lovely tour in Bucharest!

Mari Loredana🇩🇪 Germany

(About local Toni)

4 November 2023

We booked Toni at very short notice. he got in touch immediately. He was very nice and told us a lot of informative things and showed us beautiful corners. We also got insider tips from him regarding places to eat. It was a pleasure.A really and informativ tour

Ad🇳🇱 Netherlands

(About local Toni)

29 May 2023

When we visit Bucharest on our first day we did a tour with Toni to learn more about the city of Bucharest. He showed us the most imported places and buildings in Bucharest as well as the best places tot eat and drink. This all with very much enthusiasm. We enjoyed it very much. I can highly recommend this tour with Toni as a great tour guid. A great way to get to know the city !

Peter🇬🇧 United Kingdom

(About local Toni)

8 April 2023

My wife and I booked a half day tour of Bucharest with Toni and we weren't disappointed. Toni drove us around all the main sights in the city and we had plenty of time to explore more closely on foot. Toni told us the history of all the sights, and gave us the political and cultural significance of what we were seeing as well his personal memories of historic events. He also answered all of our questions about life in modern day Romania. The tour was very worthwhile and we learned much more than we would have done by just following our guidebook. I would have no hesitation in recommending Toni to others who are interested in modern day Romania and the underlying history. Great tour of historic & modern Bucharest

Steven🇺🇸 United States

(About local Toni)

5 February 2025

Toni is a knowledgeable, experienced guide. He came with enlarged photos and a very historic video as well - to give deeper understanding about the history and culture of Romania. We walked the Old Town area together exploring bucharest; it was interesting and a great choice of morning activity. I am glad that I chose to tour with Toni and I recommend him as a guide. Great guide

Nadila

(About local ROBERTO)

21 January 2025

Três bien organisée, très bon guide Roberto, attentionné et nous a bien expliqué l'histoire de la Roumanie et visites faites.Day tour

Aretha

(About local Răzvan )

4 January 2025

If you want to try a truly unique experience this guide will be for you! Răzvan, in addition to being an extremely knowledgeable person on the culture and history of the city, is also a welcoming and helpful person who will help you discover the most interesting and iconic corners. Aretha Simona and Paola.Bucharest in a nutshell half day walking tour

Brad

(About local Răzvan )

26 December 2024

What an amazing tour! Razvan made the entire city come alive for us. We Weber very interested in the history of the city and its part in WW2. Razvan customized the tour to meet our needs and showed us the key areas to f the city. If you are ever in Bucharest make sure to take Razvan’s tourBucharest's scars of communism

Pascale

(About local Răzvan )

26 December 2024

Razvan was an amazing guide. He was very knowledgeable about the geography and history of Romania and made sure we learned about the country’s context throughout the day. Our tour was personalized and well organized. Razvan chose great niche boutique wineries that are family businesses and which had high quality wines. Although this was not expected, Razvan did most of the tour in French. We highly recommend this tour!Winery touring & private wine tasting

Elizabeth

(About local ROBERTO)

25 December 2024

Thoroughly recommend the Transylvanian castle trip - starting with Peles Castle, then Bran Castle and finishing with Brasov. Yes, it's a long trip but Roberto the tour guide was hilarious and Luciano was a brilliant driver and went out of his way to make sure we didn't get stuck in traffic on the way home. Make sure you bring a book/music for the drive but the scenery in the mountains was outstanding and kept us spell bound as did Roberto's commentary. Both castles were very interesting and perfect for photos and feeling caught up in the very different Romanian culture.Full day trip

Paul

(About local ROBERTO)

19 December 2024

I was in a 5 person group traveling with Roberto of Mr. Tripp from Bucharest to Bran and Brasov and back. Bran has the infamous Transylvania castle of Dracula fame and we also...Day trip to Dracula's castle

Tor

(About local Răzvan )

18 December 2024

Razvan was a supernice guide for us... With a lot of knowledge and very flexible regarding the program and very polite and with big smile. He knew a lot about community and society i Romania. , but also about arcitecture and art.. And Even Wine! He Made å good program for us! Bucharest by car full day 'stop&visit' epxerience

Mariam

(About local Răzvan )

13 December 2024

Great highly recommend. Specially with Mr. Razvan. He’s making the trip more fun.A day at the castles - Transylvania full day private tour

Curt

(About local Răzvan )

8 December 2024

5+ stars. Our tour guide, Razvan, put together a full day experience that was the highlight of our all too short visit to Romania. The boutique wineries each offered unique and exceptionally personalized experiences. We were impressed with the quality of the wines on offer as well as the extensive charcuterie plates featuring local ingredients that accompanied them. Just as important, the warm hospitality and education we received at each stop made for a truly memorable experience. Our thanks, again, to our guide for the day, Razvan. From the time of our first contact, his clear communication, organizational skills, and extensive knowledge of all things Romania allowed us to relax and enjoy a fascinating and enlightening experience. We would love to visit again soon.Winery touring & private wine tasting

Fernando

(About local ROBERTO)

5 December 2024

Roberto is the best tour guide you can have on a trip: he interacts with us, is extremely friendly, always available, super funny, with great knowledge and is a great driver His good humor is captivating, he made our trip much richer and made us fall in love with Romania and Bulgaria even more. I highly recommend this trip with guide Roberto!Full day trip

Kenneth🇬🇧 United Kingdom

(About local Nafiseh)

29 November 2024

Our family had a wonderful time out with Nafiseh. She was very friendly, knowledgeable and made our afternoon very enjoyable. Excellent food and drink choices customized to our family. The variety and quality of savory and sweet eats was amazing. And we learned so much about the city history.Bucharest Food Tour - Delicious!

MARY L🇺🇸 United States

(About local Toni)

9 November 2024

Toni was a wonderful guide and came prepared to provide the best overview of his city and country in the time he had with us. Because we were doing a tour of the Parliament right after his tour, Toni reversed his tour and started at the Atheneum, walking us down Victory Boulevard and into Old Town. Along the way, he explained royal Romanian history through Ceaușescu and the Soviets, giving an impartial view. And he brought video of Ceaușescu's last speech and the storming of his office to put things in perspective. He also spoke of his personal recollections as a child in those last years of Soviets reign. But the tour also focused on the regeneration of Bucharest in the past 30+ years and life today. I highly recommend Toni and this tour.Terrific overview of Bucharest/Romania

Carole

(About local Răzvan )

5 November 2024

Razvan was an excellent knowledgeable guide. He was very thoughtful about our wellbeing as the weather was extremely hot. He spent a lot of time explaining the historical context of the tour in order for us to understand the present.The Jewish heritage of Bucharest

Unknown

(About local Răzvan )

30 October 2024

If you want to do a guided walking tour of the old city of Bucharest or an excursion through Romania, Razvan is the best option. He is an encyclopedia, he knows so much and he can tell it in such a fun and exciting way. He has all the skills of the perfect guide: communication, impeccable time management and punctuality, humor and flexibility, and a lot of knowledge. Was a truly fantastic experience!Bucharest in a nutshell half day walking tour

Deb

(About local ROBERTO)

26 October 2024

We had a great day. Our guide was funny and knew the histories. Got to see everything we wanted to. Thank you Roberto.Full day trip

Frisco,

(About local ROBERTO)

26 October 2024

Half day tour of Bucharest and castles of Transylvania We booked 2 tours with Mr. Tripp, in English. On our first day, we toured Bucharest fort the first time. Our guide, Roberto, was very friendly, knowledgeable and thorough. He drove us around in a van, and we were the only 2 lucky tourists for him that day. We met up with business associates the next day and they were impressed at all the knowledge we had already gained. We toured the Village museum, which was very interesting, Old town, revolutionary square, and drove by many, many more museums, buildings and important sights. It was an excellent start to our trip.Discover Bucharest

Silvia🇬🇧 United Kingdom

(About local Andrei & Andreea)

18 October 2024

I highly recommend this tour our guide was fantastic, informative, friendly and kind. We saw very beautiful architecture of old down and learn a lot of history Amazing tour

Mariam

(About local Răzvan )

17 October 2024

È stata una bella esperienza, la guida molto preparata e gentile.The secret Bucharest - half day walking tour

Moshearg

(About local ROBERTO)

14 October 2024

Roberto was our guide for a 4 hour approx. Bucharest city tour. Was very informative, took us to the old town, village museum, palace of parlament (from outside), the revolution square, some church's etc.. 35 eur pp, 31 for student. We finished earlier than 4 hours, and we had a 35 minute break inside the village museum (I would GLADLY skip this break and earn more from the trip) he showed us a few restaurants with 'secret' terraces and was geuninely a great guideHalf day tour of Bucharest

Roberta

(About local Nafiseh)

10 October 2024

Nafi was a wonderful hide! We felt like we had a true taste of Bucharest and also made a friend. Delightful!

clive🇺🇸 United States

(About local Corina)

7 October 2024

corina is the most senior guide in bucarest. she is wonderfully experienced, knowledgable, flexible and above all enjoyable. all you could ask for in a guide. i definitely recommend. couldnt ask for a better guide

Eduard

(About local Răzvan )

7 October 2024

Razvan has taken us on a unique journey of Rumanian and Bucharest history; he perfectly adopted our interests and had a great mix of facts, myths and legends. He used his tablet to highlight and explain details of specific topics. Already before the tour we realised that he was really making a difference, while answering questions really fast, making additional appointments (the person in charge of one place we visited) or making a reservation for the palace tour, which we did as a part of our tour. If you plan a tour with Razvan, you will have a really good time and will get a good idea of the history of the palace you are visiting!Bucharest by car full day 'stop&visit' experience

sebastian.polly

(About local Toni)

3 October 2024

Great Job! Thank you Toni!

Anonymous

(About local ROBERTO)

1 October 2024

The tour with Mr Tripp was excellent from start to finish. Roberto was a very helpful and friendly guide, and used his local knowledge of the areas we visited in Transylvania and Bucharest to great effect. It was very sad when the trip ended as we had such a wonderful time. Would highly recommend Mr Tripp for Romanian tours.Transylvania revealed tour

Nadia

(About local Răzvan )

30 September 2024

Razvan was a wonderful guide full of knowledga and sharing it.We highly recommend him.He changed our whole experience pf BucurestiThe Jewish heritage of Bucharest

Jan

(About local Toni)

28 September 2024

Toni was our kind of guide: factual, to the point, knowledgeable, no waffling. I’ll recommend him whole heartedlyInformative walking tour with Toni

Malay🇺🇸 United States

(About local Nafiseh)

25 September 2024

Tried many Romanian foods. Nice walking tour of the city and Old City. Good historical perspective. Nafiseh was very pleasant and enjoyed being with her. Bucharest city ans food tour

Dov

(About local Răzvan )

24 September 2024

Excellent guide. Razvan Trancu. Unusually knowledgeable about history as well as geography, politics and current events. Turned out to be a good conversationalist, not a "by rote" declaimer, and let us progress at out pace according to our interests.The Jewish heritage of Bucharest

Giuseppe🇨🇭 Switzerland

(About local Corina)

23 September 2024

Zuleyma

(About local ROBERTO)

23 September 2024

Omg Roberto our tour guide was excelente! Friendly knowledgeable made our experience enjoyable!! We need more tour guides like him… 100000% recomended! Wonderful personalityDay tour

david🇺🇸 United States

(About local Corina)

22 September 2024

First time with a guide. Corina had a positive energy, was well spoken, and kept the tour moving. Her history talks sketched much of Romanian history so each location could be fit into the story as we walked. Corina was willing to learn about us without being intrusive. Nice touch was her sitting down with us for a quick list of Romanian restaurants and a ranked list of recommended sights to see. Only down side is my choice of three hour tour on sidewalks and streets was hard on our feet.Would book her again

Joshua🇦🇺 Australia

(About local Andrei & Andreea)

10 September 2024

We really enjoyed our tour with Andrei, he was knowledgeable, approachable and an all-round excellent guide. We enjoyed his sense of humour and his patience with our very curious son. 3hrs was a good length of time to whet our appetites for a deeper dive into Bucharest. We would highly recommend to anyone visiting for the first time.Excellent experience

Judianne🇬🇧 United Kingdom

(About local Andrei & Andreea)

17 August 2024

We did the hidden gems tour of Bucharest. It was excellent. We all really enjoyed it and genuinely could have gone on for longer. Andrei was interesting, very knowledgeable and the tour was a great way to start our trip in Bucharest. 🙏🏻 Excellent tour with Andrei

Merissa Joy🇺🇸 United States

(About local Nafiseh)

5 August 2024

This is such a truly memorable experience. I thank Nafiseh so much because she was very flexible about the schedule of my tour. I supposed to have a food tour on Saturday but because my flight was cancelled so i have to ask her to reschedule it. She normally doesn’t work on Sunday’s but she still rescheduled my tour on Sunday. I really appreciate her for her kindness. The food tour is a highly recommend. She introduced me for some delicious local foods and educated me on the history of the city and how that influenced the architecture. The highlight of the tour for me was in Caru cu bere, a traditional Romanian restaurant. The foods there are amazing!!!! Highly recommended

Derek🇬🇧 United Kingdom

(About local Nafiseh)

4 August 2024

I asked Nafiseh to organise a customised day with my son in Bucharest, which she did, combining highlights and food. She took very good care of him, communicated well with me, and ensured that he had a lovely day getting a feel for the capital. Thank you! Nafiseh is friendly and professional

David🇫🇷 France

(About local Andrei & Andreea)

18 July 2024

Andreea m'a réellement fait découvrir l'éclectisme, que je ne soupçonnais pas, de Bucarest. Architecture baroque, art déco, néoclassique, immeubles haussmaniens, bâtiments modernes mais aussi en ruine, verrues soviétiques se mélangent comme nulle part ailleurs. Quelques pépites comme le petit monastère Stavropoleos. Andreea connait bien sa ville et son histoire. Elle est très sympatique. Une vraie découverte. Merci beaucoup Andreea !Une révélation

Islème🇨🇭 Switzerland

(About local Andrei & Andreea)

23 June 2024

Andreea ist eine sehr kompetente und sympathische Führerin, die unglaublich viel über die Geschichte Rumäniens und Bukarests weiss und auch alle meine zusätzlichen Fragen beantworten konnte. Die Tour war abwechslungsreich und ging wie im Flug vorbei.Super Tour mit Andreea Maties

Scott🇺🇸 United States

(About local Corina)

22 May 2024

We met Corina outside the Amezi chiurch to begin our tour. We walked through town while Corina shared her knowledge of the city and the culinary highlights. As we continued, our conversations turned to daily life for Romanians following the end of communism. We learned so much as she shared the challenges of housing and working in this economy. We are grateful to have spent the evening with her. As for the food part, since we had already been to the restaurant she had chosen for us, she adapted and ordered new and better dishes. All in all, a lovely evening. Fascinating and enjoyable tour

Christian

(About local Corina)

20 April 2024

We enjoyed typical local food. Corina was amazing and answered all our questions.Amazing