Welcome to sunny Odessa, where you can have a great time embracing sun, sand and the city's cosmopolitan energy. Take a private Odessa tour with a friendly local guide to uncover the best of the city's highlights and hidden gems.

Head to Arkadia Beach, not to swim, but to people watch and stroll along the café-lined boardwalk. Wander down Bul Prymorsky - this charming pedestrian area is the heart of Odessa - then make sure to walk down the famous Potemkin Steps, as they sweep down to the Black Sea. The city boasts numerous renowned museums, focusing on everything from Jewish History to Fine Arts. In the evening, your guide can help you secure tickets to a performance at Odesa's architectural and cultural jewel, the breathtaking Opera and Ballet Theatre.

Your guide wants you to make the most of your time in his hometown and will happily customize an Odessa tour to suit your unique interests in this fascinating Ukrainian city.

Odessa

Odessa Highlights: Private Shore Excursion Tour

Welcome to Odessa. During this amazing full day tour you will see all the most popular sights and experience the best parts of the city with a local guide.

This tour is for people who are visiting for the first time. We'll see all of the things you would see on an ordinary tour - they're certainly worthwhile. But I will also show you the special things that make Odessa great.

The city center where the tour mainly takes part is the oldest part of Odessa with the most beautiful architecture, monuments, stores, theaters and other objects of activity and interest. This is where I grew up in the 1980s, in Rishelyevskaya Street across from the main synagogue, and I know this area extremely well and love it.

Discover the secrets of Odessa with a knowledgeable local guide

If someone want to go outside of Odessa, don't loose your chance to visit one of the best saved Fortress in Ukraine - Belgorod-Dnestrovskaya Fortress
During this tour, you will know more about nationalities who lived at odessa region, see one of the famous fortress in Ukraine, historical and architectural monument of the 13th-14th centuries

Visit both, Odessa and Akkerman fortress

Odessa - Akkerman Fortress Full Day Tour

Welcome to Odessa. During this amazing 6 hour tour you will see all the most popular sights and experience the best parts of the city with a local guide.

We'll see all of the things you would see on an ordinary tour - they're certainly worthwhile. But I will also show you the special things that make Odessa great.

As your private tour guide, I can adjust the schedule, duration and activities to meet your needs. Please let me know of any special requests you have.

Odessa Private Guided tour with Yuriy lunching in tipycal Odessa Yard

Odessa Private Guided tour with Yuriy tasting local drunken cherry )

Odessa Private Guided tour with Yuriy Founder of Odessa Hose De Ribas behind

Odessa Private Guided tour with Yuriy near Opera House

Odessa Private Guided tour with Yuriy.Pushkin and 2 unknown poets )

Discover the secrets of Odessa with a knowledgeable local guide.

Odessa Full Day Tour Shore Excursion

Right after its foundation Odessa became attractor for tourists, travelers and adventurers from all parts of Europe and Middle East. There was something inexplicably magnetic in this young city.

Odessa is situated between Mediterranean and fertile Ukrainian steppe and just within fifty years gained iconic status of the huge commercial and cultural center, well known in the whole world. A lot of world famous artists as Mark Twain, Ivan Bunin, Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Tito Ruffo visited Odessa and lived here.

Discover the main attractions of this city.

Highlights of Odessa - Half Day Tour

This is a full day tour. It gives you a possibility to compare Odessa downtown with its suburbs. You will be taken to historical region, to Moldavanka (Jewish and old region) and to a resort area of the city. During the tour you will see Odessa architectural ensembles and visit one of the city's museums. I offer you Archaeological or Fine Arts museum. Except for the main city sights, like Potemkin steps, Opera House, Primorsky Boulevard etc. , you will observe the biggest city park with the Alley of Glory. Resort Odessa region (Arcadia) and aristocratic area (French Boulevard) will surely impress you. You will see palaces and theatres, splendid buildings and hospitable nature. During the tour you will get complete picture of what Odessa is with all its sights and faces.

Get a complete picture of the many sights and faces of Odessa

Odessa City Highlights Tour

If you have Jewish roots you may find it interesting to visit Odessa as this town once had the biggest Jewish community in the Russian Empire, and later in the Soviet Union too. In fact, there was a saying in Odessa: who is not a Jew in Odessa? While there have been a host of other nationalities in Odessa, and the language which is mainly spoken here is Russian, it cannot be denied that the Jewish influence on the culture and history of Odessa is great, and many of native Odessites do have Jewish ancestors even if they claim to be Russian or Ukrainian. Actually, the Russian language spoken in Odessa is quite different from that used in Russia, not the least because of the Jewish flavor.

There are many locations of Jewish Heritage in Odessa like synagogues, monuments, hospitals founded by Jews, etc. Some of the locations are historical but there are some that are used now like synagogues where you can meet local members of the Odessa Jewish Community. There is a museum dedicated to Jewish History of Odessa.

Explore Jewish sites in Odessa

Odessa Jewish Heritage Half Day Tour

Your first meeting with Odessa - Half Day Tour

I highly recommend this tour to everyone as it will give you good chance to visit some of the most interesting places. We will not be in a hurry, just good weather, my knowledge of history, good pictures and your first steps in Derebasovskaja, Primorskiy Boulevard, good pics near the monuments.

What I like in this tour is that during short time, you will see the historical part of the city.

View of Odessa

Welcome to Odessa. During this amazing 3 hour tour you will see all the most popular sights and experience the best parts of the city with a local guide. I would like to give you understanding of modern life of Odessa and history as well!

We'll see all of the things you would see on an ordinary tour - they're certainly worthwhile. But I will also show you the special things that make Odessa great.

Odessa Half-Day Shore Excursion

Back in the USSR, Tairovo Tour - Half Day Experience in Odessa

We will visit typical Soviet lodgings as "khruschevka" and "cheshka", school and hospital, shop and cinema. The tourists will learn about Soviet real estate market, how Soviet citizens purchased appartments and houses, about Soviet system medical care and education.

Tour to everyday life in the Soviet Union

Odessa was always famous as "Small Israel". Starting from 19th century it had 33% of Jewish people. Later on with pogroms and holocaust the number of Jews reduced drastically. Despite that there are still many places important for Jews.

During this tour you will visit them all. I will take you to the houses of famous Jews and then you will visit Jewish hospital and 2 existing synagogues (Habad and Main). Then Brodsky synagogue is waiting for you. Later on I will take you to Moldavanka, the Jewish region of Odessa and you will see the Alley of Righteous Gentiles, Road to Death and Holocaust memorial. During the tour you can optionally visit private museum of Jewish history (additional entrance fee on a spot).

Jews in Odessa

This is an alternative tour, certainly not for everyone but for the brave, for those fed up with the nicety of well trodden tourist paths who want to explore more… Odessa is a beautiful city and tourists are usually shown the nicest locations. But there is another side of Odessa, real Odessa. Some locations are not so nice and look like WWII only ended yesterday. After this tour you will have learned Odessa in full and will really know it; not just the nicest part!

During this dark tour you will see the least attractive parts of Odessa and hear gruesome stories. Bad neighborhoods, decrepit or burned-down buildings, deserted factories, cemeteries, areas you would not like to end up at night, very bumpy and muddy roads and backstreets. Gloomy history, Soviet heritage, corruption, neglect, selfishness, poverty, destruction, desolation, drugs, prostitution, crime, massacres, killings, trash, dirt — that is what this tour is about. If you have been to North Korea, Chernobyl — you will certainly like this tour.

Not-So-Bright Side Of Town

Depressive Odessa - Half Day Tour

This tour is for multi - day.
If you plan to stay more then 3 days. You will be able to have tour everyday to different places.
Its good to save money, have private guide, car and driver all the time. You will see the whole city, some unusual places, markets and even be able to go outside.

Multi Day tour ( more then 3 days)

Odessa "Per day" ( Multi Day tour)

Odessa's catacombs stretch more than 2500 km (4000 km according to some records) underground, in a real parallel world.

Underground works in our region have been performed since the 1830s, when stone was used for the construction of the city. Multi-level labyrinths were created at random and, as a result, these stone quarries are a real lost world, only parts of which has ever been explored. An area in Nerubayskoye village is in the vicinity of the oldest of Odessa catacombs. It was there that the Partisan Resistance detachment was stationed under command of V. A. Molodtsov-Badayev during the first months of German occupation of the city. For this reason an excursion to the Museum of Partisan Glory is not just a tour of the land museum (which includes such relics as the death letter of Komsomol member Yasha Gordiyenko, head of youth intelligence group in Molodtsov's detachment).

Almost all of the excursion is occupied by a tour inside the underground labyrinth, accompanied by a guide.

Discover the underground world of Odessa with local guide

Odessa private guided tour to Catacombs

Odessa played very important role in the life of Jewish people and become a steppingstone for creating the State of Israel. In its turn Jewish people played one of the key roles in the history of Odessa and maid significant contribution in Odessa subculture. This city tour tells about everyday life and history of Jewish community, synagogues and Jewish schools
You will visit the places where lived prominent Jewish artists and politics as famous poet Hayim Bialik, Leon Pinsker, Isaac Babel, Ze'ev Jabotinsky and poor Jewish district Moldavanka, where Jewish gangs flourished under the guidance of their "king" Mishka Japanese (Moisey Vinnitsky). Duration of the tour is 4 hours.

Discover the Jewish History in the city

Jewish Heritage in Odessa Half Day Tour

I will show you around the most beautiful city in Ukraine. You will stroll along Primorsky Boulevard with all its beauties: Richelieu monument, Tiger cannon, City Council and the shooting place of "Battleship Potemkin" movie. Then, Opera and Ballet theatre is waiting for you. Being the pearl of Odessa this magnificent building will remind you Vienna. Next sights for you are Passage and City Garden. Here you will feel the joyful atmosphere of Odessa heart. The City Garden is situated on the main street, called Deribasovskaya. It is the Russian version of the Spanish name but you'll get used to it very quickly. Except for that you will observe and visit Transfiguration Cathedral and its beautiful square. The tour includes not only general downtown sights but also unusual, typical only for Odessa, monuments, like Mother-in-law's bridge, monument to the chair and some others.

Stroll across the most beautiful city in Ukraine

Odessa City Highlights Walking Tour

Book this if you would like to be greeted at the airport by an English-speaking person and driven to the safety of your hotel in Odessa. You may need this tour if you are coming to Odessa for the first time, do not speak Ukrainian and are concerned with security.

Some additional time needed to get around is included (two hours total after your plane arrives), so in fact this is indeed a tour: after driving you to the hotel and helping to accommodate there I can take you around and show things that you may need: nearest restaurants and cheap cafés, stores, good currency exchanges and ATMs, bus stops, help you buy the city map, some medicine, get a local SIM card, etc.

After you are picked up at the airport you will be driven to your location and shown some parts of the city on the way. You will be able to see old and industrial parts of the city, and as we drive to the city center you will the difference.

You can also book this tour if you want to be driven back to the airport from Odessa.

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Igor

$ 310 (USD)

Helen

$ 320 (USD)

Yuriy

$ 260 (USD)

Alexander

$ 100 (USD)

Natalia I.

$ 519 (USD)

Igor

$ 250 (USD)

Helen

$ 170 (USD)

Yuriy

$ 140 (USD)

Alexander

$ 100 (USD)

Natalia I.

$ 523 (USD)

Igor

$ 250 (USD)

Helen

$ 620 (USD)

Yuriy

$ 160 (USD)

Alexander

$ 150 (USD)

Natalia I.

$ 348 (USD)

Igor

$ 110 (USD)

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