Private Shore-Excursion: 1-Day Fully Flexible St Petersburg Tour

Liza was an excellent guide, so knowledgeable about the history and background of the area. Great tour.

Ksenia was an amazing and flexible guide, the tour was incredible, she knew exactly where to take Petersburg newbies like us and took requests and adjusted the tour to our liking. There's a lot to see in St Petersburg on one day so take it slow and don't rush,you won't make everything anyway but whatever you see, enjoy it and take you time.

I decided to take a private 8 hour tour of St. Petersburg since I was concerned the Cruise tour offered would be to regimented and not worth the price. I was so happy with the choice I made to go with a private tour for my family of 6. It was cheaper and customized to how and what we wanted to do with lots of great recommendations by our awesome tour guide Elijah and his driver. Elijah spoke awesome English as he studied in the USA and he was full of knowledge. My family and I would definitely recommend this tour and request Elijah as you will be very pleased. It was a super smooth tour from the time we disembarked to the time we returned to the ship. Definetly the way to go as I heard from others on the cruise ship’s excursion tour that they spent way more and saw half of what we saw and experienced.

This company catered to exactly what we wanted for our day trip. We wanted photo stops at beautiful places, rest breaks and lunch outside of the touristy areas, and the ability to maximize our short time on shore to see as much as possible. Marina, our guide, was AWESOME and provided a tremendous amount of knowledge and insight to the many places we visited. Highly recommended!

We visited St Petersburg during a Baltic Cruise and 4 or us booked this tour, we did not want to do all the museums, we just wanted to experience SPB. It was brilliant. UKLO made the arrangements very clear and simple and they met us exactly as they said they would. Our tour guide Violetta was amazing, really friendly, helpful and interesting. It was so much better being in a small group as we were able to avoid the hoards of coaches at the tourist sites and had much more time doing the things that we wanted or that Violetta recommended. I would recommend to anyone it was far better than the large group cruise line tours where you spend most of your time getting on and off the coaches at each site!

Veronica our tour guide was absolutely amazing. She was so knowledgeable and answered all our questions throughout the tour and served as our private guide whether we were in the van, at an authentic Russian lunch, or even on other tours. Simply amazing. She even managed to fit us in time to get souvenirs, street art, and even visit Starbucks. She did an amazing job. Her and Pavlov, our driver, were so nice and professional. Highly recommend to anyone who is dropping by on a cruise for an amazing, private, and safe experience. Thanks!

This was a fantastic private tour, the guide took me everywhere I wanted to go and more. Very knowledgeable, Friendly and chatty

If you want to learn the history of St Petersburg then this is the tour for you. We had an excellent guide, Liza, who we spent two days with. I can't say enough about how wonderful she was. She was so knowledgeable and made sure that we saw all the important sights. She was accompanied by Sergei' who was the driver and worked as a team to get us to see all of St. Petersburg in comfort and a controlled pace that made this visit to Russia the trip of a lifetime. We would love to return to Russia and have Liza show us Moscow. She made everything so interesting even my 15 year old son cant wait to return.

Our family of 4 was on a cruise that stopped in St. Petersburg and decided to book a private tour. UlKO Tours was wonderful and Marina K. was the best tour guide imaginable! I was a bit apprehensive to book a private tour since the cruise ship expressed safety concerns, VISA difficulties and the possibility of a private tour running late, but nothing could have been further from the truth. I did extensive research and found that private tours are the best way to experience a new city and they go out of their way to ensure safety. ULKO tours was great at emailing and answering all of my family's questions before we departed. They even helped us with purchasing Hermitage tickets securely, which saved us time and money. No lines for our family! Marina K. met us immediately outside of customs and was holding a sign with our family name. She introduced us to our driver and we were seated in a comfortable, air conditioned Mercedes van. We felt like VIPs! ULKO tours and Marina K thought of everything, including bottled water. We were able to make the tour our own, and stopped when and where we wanted. Marina showed us the best photo ops and even took pics of our family as our driver secured and watched our bags inside the car. No worries or heavy bags to carry. Along our stops, we saw other people from our cruise and felt sorry that they were part of a crowded group that was herded from one location to the next. Marina impressed us with her knowledge and answered all of our questions. She walked us past the long lines at the Hermitage and was able to show us all of the important parts of the Hermitage that we could never have seen on our own. St. Petersburg is a beautiful city with so much to see. The eight hours flew by so quickly. I would definitely recommend ULKO tours and Marina K.

The guide Elena was lovely and a very good companion for our kids. She has good knowledge of the city and a knows the history very well. She made our tour along with a quiet driver Andrew made our tour very memorable. Thank you Elena and Andrew.