Your private tour guide is waiting to show you the highlights of Bucharest - from the streets of the restored Old City Centre, to the grand architecture of the Royal Palace and Cismigiu Park. ToursByLocals features private tours to Bucharest that will show you the beauty of this wonderful city.

Nicolae Ceausescu's legacy, including the Parliament Palace (formerly called the People's Palace), which at 3.76 million square feet stands as the world's second largest building, provides an interesting introduction to the dictator's megalomaniac vision.

Regardless of when you visit, your personal tour guide to Bucharest can show you the buzzing cultural scene - 37 museums, 22 theatres, concert halls, opera house, 18 art galleries, jazz clubs and hip nightclubs.

Choose from the Bucharest tours offered by ToursByLocals, but feel free to suggest alternative places and activities. Your private tour can be customized by your personal guide to include exactly what you want to see and do in Buchar

Bucharest

Secret Bucharest Belle Epoque villas and urban mansions tour

To many visitors and tourists, Bucharest consists of a brief visit inside the (in)famous Palace of the Parliament, the Village museum and party until the break of dawn in the rejuvenated old town center. That's why we are on a mission here to put this secret side of Bucharest well and truly on the map.

On our hidden history walk, I will help you discover the true charms of the fin de siècle architecture and you'll understand better why Bucharest was once nicknamed the little Paris of the East.

So join me, your enthusiast local guide, author, and promoter of a step-by-step concept of discovering Bucharest, for an enchanting few hours in the course of which we will stray into an atmospheric hinterland where the beating heart of hidden Bucharest keeps time with our every step.

A walk back in time in only half day trip

Half day private tour to Snagov Monastery and the Mogosoia Palace

This half day tour gives you the chance to admire two unique sights full of stories and legends, Mogosoaia Palace and Snagov Monastery are hidden gems just a few miles outside city limits.
Tour starts from your hotel.

The first stop, of the tour will be at the Mogosoaia Palace. A retreat made for the rulers of Romania combining Venetian, Ottoman and Romanian elements. It belonged to the Brancoveanu family and they left behind a typical Romanian type of architecture- Brancovenesc.

This is also a typical weekend destination for people from Bucharest where I kike to go often to relax and take pictures.

Next will stop at the Snagov Monastery, located on an island in the middle of a lake, where you can see the tomb of Vlad Tepes, Romanian ruler that inspired Bram Stoker's book known as Dracula.

Otopeni tours

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Laura G.

$ 197 (USD)

Cristi S.

$ 183 (USD)

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