Top Savannah Half-day Tours

Explore Savannah with ease when you book this package that includes a guided trolley tour and river cruise. Board your trolley at Savannah’s Visitor Center and see the lush foliage and Victorian mansions, listening to colorful stories about the city's past. Then, embark on a scenic river cruise, learning about the city's historic connection to the Savannah River.

Discover the sights and flavors of Savannah—and explore beyond the typical tourist trail—on this small-group food tour. Learn about the city's long history, elegant architecture, and unique culture as you explore the Savannah Historic District on foot. Along the way, stop to savor tastings at several specialty food stores and restaurants, and discover more about the city's culinary heritage.

If you don’t have your own car, visiting Tybee Island from Savannah can be tough. This guided tour makes it easy to take the quick drive in comfortable private transportation—not to mention it means you don’t have to deal with parking at Savannah’s most popular nearby beach. Enjoy free time and a dolphin watching cruise when you arrive for a crowd-pleasing favorite experience.

Skip the standard history lectures and experience the eerie side of Savannah during this late-night ghost-tracking walking tour, which takes place inside the renowned Savannah Theatre late at night—an establishment dating back to the early 19th century. While other ghost tours simply entertain travelers with stories of haunted happenings and paranormal activity, this interactive experience includes ghost-hunting equipment such as EMF detectors, night vision cameras, REM Pods, and more.

Discover the flavors of Savannah on this lunchtime walking tour through the Historic Landmark District. With a food-loving guide and a small group of 14 people or fewer, explore both little-known haunts and well-known hot spots. During this outing, you’ll taste the dishes that make Savannah’s food scene so unique. Listen as your local guide fills you in on Savannah's distinctive culture, tumultuous history, and endearing quirks.

Explore beyond the Savannah city limits with a private beach day experience at Tybee Island. Get picked up at your hotel or the address of your choice in Savannah and travel in comfort to nearby Tybee Island. Relax on the beach for the day with all equipment including chairs, umbrellas, towels, and coolers stocked with ice provided for you. Return, private transportation to Savannah is included.

Discover some of the most haunted places in Savannah during a small-group ghost and pub walking tour. Meet your guide and set out on a city stroll that includes four popular pubs and bars. Learn about the history and haunted past of these watering holes as you raise a glass in each pub. Combine history with a night out during this walking tour.

Without a culinary tour of Savannah, you might miss out on some of the authentic Southern cuisine packing the city full of flavor. Try Lowcountry classics like shrimp and grits, plus Southern standbys including pimento cheese bites. As you walk through the historic district, your guide shares fun stories from Savannah’s past.

Step into Savannah’s history on a trolley tour taking you through the city’s cobblestone streets and elegant neighborhoods. Hear stories from the old South as you ride with a guide to point out the landmarks and mansions you won't want to miss as you pass them along the way. Trolleys depart at different scheduled times throughout the day from a central location in historic Savannah, so you can pick the one that works best for you.

Explore historic Georgia without the hassle of navigating on your own on this guided tour to two major landmarks: Bonaventure Cemetery and Wormsloe Historic Site. Along with pickup from hotels in Savannah's Historic District, you'll get guided access at both sites, plus you'll see the 18th-century Plantation Tabby Ruins. To top off the trip, you'll stop by Savannah Byrd Cookie Company headquarters for tastings of their famous treats.

Get your nose out of a guidebook and learn about Savannah’s history through the lens of the African-American journey—from slavery to freedom—with this themed bus tour. Take in key locations from the Antebellum period from the mid-18th century to the Civil War with narration by a Gullah Geechee “truth-teller” guide illustrating the fate of West Africans captured and sold as slaves in the city, and their fight for freedom.

Discover Savannah through its food on a small-group tasting tour connecting Lowcountry cuisine with the city's history and culture. Visit up to five local food spots, sampling Southern classics along the way, with enough tastings to make up a full lunch and an alcoholic drink included. With an intimate group size and local stories throughout, this is an engaging way to get to know the city beyond its historic streets.

The afterlife is alive and well in Savannah. Experience it for yourself on a Ghosts and Gravestones trolley ride through this grand old Southern city. Tour the streets, passing former battlegrounds, historic cemeteries, and old mansions infiltrated with the supernatural. Make a nighttime stop at legendary River Street, a hot-spot for wandering spirits. Your guide will regale you with stories of Savannah's sinister deeds and nefarious characters along the way.

Get an alternative view of Savannah and delve deeper than most into its fraught history of war, executions, murders, and mystery on this historical ghost tour. Guided by the glow of a lantern, follow your guide through historic squares and cobblestone streets, past moss-draped oaks, as they recount eerie tales.

Experience Savannah one bite at a time on our guided food tour through the city’s beautiful Historic District and iconic squares. As we stroll through charming streets, you’ll uncover Savannah’s rich history and stories while sampling beloved local favorites like pecan clusters, biscuits and gravy, fried green tomatoes, refreshing peach tea, and more. It’s the perfect blend of Southern flavors, culture, and timeless charm.

Flavors Food Tours is Savannah’s premier food tour experience, serving fresh local cuisine with an emphasis on Southern regional flavors in a small tour atmosphere. This adult-only tour is boutique and intimate, essentially dining with a friendly local who is going to show you around town. Our food tour menu is both Southern and “of the sea," highlighting Lowcountry staples such as stone-ground Shrimp n Grits and farm-to-table oysters hand-picked off the Eastern coast. When it comes to seafood, fresh is best. Wash it all down with a drink from Georgia's most famed and award-winning English Pub, the Six Pence & you'll understand Southern Charm. In between bites & sips at multiple tasting spots your fun guide will share the authentic side of Georgia's oldest city: its quirky personality, rich cuisine & interesting history. You'll leave with context and the behind the scenes story as to why we eat what we do. Join us and say “I ate my way through Savannah” with Flavors Food Tours.

This Savannah hop-on hop-off trolley tour makes exploring Savannah super easy. The trolley’s route stops at 16 stops around the city and passes by more than 100 points of interest along the way. Plus, there’s narration about the city’s sights and history that you can enjoy as you ride through Savannah. You can get off at any of the 16 stops and hop back on again at one of the stops, too.

Maximize time in Savannah with a half-day private tour in the Historic District and beyond. Get picked up at your hotel and set out on a tour that can be personalized according to your interests. See popular landmarks including the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, the Bonaventure Cemetery, and the Isle of Hope Marina. Learn about Savannah's history, heritage, and architecture during this private excursion.

Discover the culture, architecture, and heritage of the Savannah Historic District with a private walking tour. Meet your guide for a city stroll that can be personalized according to your interests and maximize your time in Savannah. Build an itinerary based on museums, historic sites, film locations, parks, artistic landmarks, and more. Hotel pick-up is available.

Shopping on your own is fun, but this Savannah Historic District Sip and Shop Tour combines shopping with drinking for a great day out in the city. While you sip on Champagne or wine, your guide takes you to some of the best shops in the district, and each stop provides a discount for tour goers. This experience is a great way to meet new friends who love to shop.

Maximize time in Savannah with a private tour that includes both the historic district and nearby Tybee Island. Meet your private guide for a half-day tour that begins in the squares and cemeteries of the Savannah Historic District before venturing out to Tybee Island. Visit the island’s lighthouse and Fort Pulaski National Monument. Learn about history, heritage, and culture along the way.

Step into the past on this captivating 6-hour private tour through Savannah’s most storied and sacred grounds. Led by expert guide, you’ll uncover centuries of Southern history, mystery, and memory while exploring seven of the city’s most iconic cemeteries. Your tour begins and ends at your hotel in Savannah with private transportation, allowing you to relax and fully immerse yourself in the tales of those who shaped the city — and the legends that still linger.

While public Bonaventure tours are very entertaining and in depth, Private Tours permit for greater exploring opportunities and direct conversation and question asking ones with Shannon Scott. You will just see more and learn more than the average tour taker. As Bonaventure is over 200 acres, public tours only cover a fraction of that whereas these tours take you into off the beaten realms.