PRIVATE & VIP TOURS · AROUND THE WORLD
The velvet rope, already lifted.
Private desert safaris in Dubai, the pyramids before the crowds in Cairo, a helicopter over the Las Vegas Strip, the Colosseum arena floor in Rome. Reviews of the private tours and exclusive experiences worth booking, in the cities worth seeing properly.
Worth the trip for the access alone
Three cities that roll out the carpet.
Some places you simply visit. Dubai, Cairo and Las Vegas you experience from the inside: the private dune dinner, the pyramids before the buses, the night flight over the neon. These are the cities travellers come home raving about.
United Arab Emirates
Dubai
No city does the grand gesture better. A private dune drive ends with a candlelit desert dinner and a falconer; a chartered yacht slides past the Marina towers and the Palm; a fast-track lift opens the top floors of the Burj Khalifa with no queue below. Dubai turns a tour into an occasion, and you keep the whole thing to your own party.
- 1 Dubai: Desert Safari with VIP BBQ and Optional Quad Bike
- 2 High Red Dunes with Camel Ride, Sandboarding, Falcon Show and VIP BBQ Dinner
- 3 Dubai Red Dunes with Sandboarding, Camel Ride, Falcon & VIP Camp
Egypt
Cairo
The Giza pyramids reward the traveller who arrives early with a private Egyptologist: the inner chambers, the quiet hour before the buses, the stories the signs leave out. Add a felucca at sunset and a dinner cruise down the Nile and you have a day at the oldest wonder on earth without the scrum the rest of the crowd settles for.
- 1 VIP All inclusive Best of the best Giza Pyramids,Sakkara,Memphis
- 2 Private ViP all-inclusive Giza Pyramids,Sphinx,Inside Pyramid
- 3 VIP Meet and Greet Private Hotel Transfer from Cairo Airport
United States
Las Vegas
Vegas is a city best seen from above and after dark. A helicopter lifts off for a low night pass over the Strip, neon spread out below, then on to the Grand Canyon by day. Back on the ground it is cabanas, private transfers and tables held for your name. The brightest city in the world, handed to you with the velvet rope already lifted.
- 1 Las Vegas Helicopter Night Strip Flight Tour with Optional Dinner
- 2 From Las Vegas: VIP Los Angeles/Hollywood Day Trip
- 3 Las Vegas: 3-Hour VIP Hoover Dam Small-Group Mini Tour
If you only book one
The one experience more travellers rave about than any other.
Out of every private tour and VIP experience on the site, this is the one that sends people home telling everyone they know to book it.
The standouts
The Most Popular VIP Experiences Right Now
Dubai desert safaris, Giza by private guide, the Strip by helicopter, the Colosseum arena floor. The bookings travellers are happiest they made.
Start with a city
The best private tours, city by city.
Dubai for the desert and the towers, Rome for the skip-the-line classics, Cairo for the pyramids. Pick the city you are headed to and we will show you the private tours worth booking there.
Where to go first-class
Three corners of the world worth the splurge.
Not sure where to start? Pick the kind of experience you came for. Each of these is a region the site covers deeply, and a very different kind of VIP day waiting at the end of it.
Dubai
The city that does the grand gesture.
Dubai turns an afternoon into an event. A private 4x4 carves into the dunes for a candlelit dinner under the stars; a chartered yacht slides past the Marina towers and the Palm; a fast-track lift opens the top of the Burj Khalifa with no queue below. Every one of these is yours alone, on your own schedule, with a guide who makes it look effortless.
See the best Dubai private tours →Rome
Walk out onto the arena floor.
In Rome the best tours buy you access, not just a ticket. Step onto the Colosseum’s reconstructed arena floor where the gladiators stood, slip into the Vatican before the public doors open, and have the Forum and Palatine explained by a guide who knows which stones matter. The crowds queue outside; you spend the morning in the rooms.
See the best Rome private tours →Cairo
The pyramids, before the buses arrive.
A private Egyptologist meets you at Giza in the quiet hour after dawn, takes you into the inner chambers most visitors never enter, and fills in the stories the signboards leave out. Cap the day with a felucca at sunset and a dinner cruise on the Nile. The oldest wonder on earth, on your own terms, while the crowds are still on the coach.
See the best Cairo private tours →Venice after dark
The Doge’s Palace, after the gates close.
Venice empties of day-trippers by evening, and that is when the city is yours. A private after-hours tour walks you through the Doge’s Palace and across the Bridge of Sighs with no crowds, then out to a waiting water taxi. St Mark’s by lamplight, the Grand Canal to yourself, a guide who unlocks the rooms most visitors only glimpse.
- 1 Legendary Venice: Doge’s Palace, St Mark’s & VIP Terrace Access
- 2 Venice: After-Hours St. Mark’s & Doge’s Palace VIP Tour
- 3 St Mark’s Basilica & Doge’s Palace with Secret Passages Access
By access
How far behind the rope do you want to go?
Priority entry in Rome. A private day in Dubai. The pyramids to yourself in Cairo. Pick the level of access that sounds like your kind of trip.
Skip the line
Rome, straight past the queue.Priority entry to the Colosseum, the Forum and the Vatican, with a small group and a guide who knows the rooms. You spend the hours inside the sites, not outside them in the heat.
Make it private
Dubai, just your party.A private 4x4 into the dunes, a chartered yacht under the Marina towers, a fast-track lift to the top of the Burj Khalifa. The city at its most generous, on your own schedule with your own guide.
Get behind the rope
Cairo, the pyramids to yourself.A private Egyptologist, a dawn arrival before the crowds, the chambers most visitors never enter, and dinner on the Nile after. The most-guarded wonders, opened up for your group alone.
Las Vegas
See the Strip from a helicopter.
Las Vegas was built to be seen from the air and lived after dark. A helicopter lifts off for a low night pass over the Strip, the whole neon valley spread out beneath you, then trades the lights for the red rock of the Grand Canyon by day. Back on the ground it is cabanas held by name, private transfers and the tables that are hard to get. The brightest city on earth, with the rope already lifted.
See all 25 Las Vegas private tours →By city
Pick a city to see from the inside.
Dubai for the desert and the towers. Rome for the arena floor. Cairo for the pyramids. Las Vegas for the helicopter. Venice for the palace after dark. Istanbul for the Bosphorus.
More cities
More cities worth the upgrade.
New York from a helicopter, London by private black cab, Paris after the museum closes, the Red Sea by yacht in Hurghada. The rest of the map, ready when you are.
Three cities, three VIP days
Pick a city, plan the day around the access.
A private Bosphorus day in Istanbul, a guided medina in Marrakech, the Louvre after hours in Paris. Three cities, three very different ways to spend a day with the rope lifted.
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