Glasgow Must-See Attractions Walking Tour with A Guide
Glasgow, Scotland
- 3 hours (approx.)
- Group discounts
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
What's Included
- Private or Small group tour available
- Walking tour
- In-person: English, Spanish, French, Italian speaking guide
- Help from our team to book the tickets for the desired visits.
- Tips (Optional)
- Drink and Food
- Entry to monuments and museums
- Transportations (The cost of using public transport during the tour is at your own expense)
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- George Square, Glasgow G1, UK
George Square offers visitors easy access to the city's main attractions, including galleries, museums, and shopping districts. With its bustling atmosphere and rich architectural heritage, it serves as an ideal starting point for exploring the vibrant city of Glasgow.
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.Itinerary
1
George Square
18 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
2
Glasgow Cathedral
18 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
3
The Necropolis
18 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
4
Merchant City
18 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
5
Tolbooth Steeple
18 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
6
St Andrews In The Square - Glasgow
18 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
7
People's Palace and Winter Gardens
18 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
8
River Clyde
18 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
9
Buchanan Street
18 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
10
Glasgow Green
18 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Near public transportation
- Surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Most travelers can participate
- It's a city tour and not a tour inside the monuments.
- Please note: A minimum of 2 participants is required for the group option.
- Recommended for all travelers
- This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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Reviews
4.5
based on 36 reviews
Horacio_D, Jun 2026
This is an introductory walking tour to the vibrant city of Glasgow. Bruce, our tour guide, was very informational and knowledgeable about the city and showed us every nook and cranny withing a walkable distance to Queens Street Station, a very central location. We were able to get a good taste of the city and left us with the desire to come back and spend more time!
Margaret_B, Jun 2026
3hours went very quickly . Michael was friendly and knowledgeable . Would recommend this tour of Glasgow
Premachandran_K, May 2026
Very good experience to know the important landmarks and the history of Glasgow. Sophie, our guide was very courteous and knowledgeable and was caring.
josee_p, May 2026
We walked for 3 hours and very little was explained to us on what we were seeing. Poor knowledge from our guide. His French accent was too strong for any of us to understand him. Very disappointed on the quality of this tour.
Robert_W, May 2026
Excellent tour with a lot of good historical info and local color. Nice selection of sites in the city centre.
Gary_D, May 2026
We had an amazing tour....but not with Michael, who was the tourguide who was assigned by viatour to show us Glasgow.
You see, Michael the assigned tour guide didnt show up for our tour.
He confirmed with us via whats app the day before, and advised specifically where we should meet (all good). But then, shortly after that exchange, he tried to change the time to 3.5 hrs later because he had just received (i kid you not) an "emergency tour request". I didnt see his request to change the time until later the evening before the tour, and suggested combining the tours. His response was "sadly they booked a private tour". He didn't actually confirm that he was canceling, so we texted him that we still planned to meet as scheduled. He never showed up, never responded to our "where are you?" pleas. Nothing. Incredibly unprofessional.
We met another tour guide at the site from another organization and she took us with her group on a great tour!
Viatour responded to us immediately when we contacted them to tell them we were abandoned, and immediately researched, attempted to set up another tour (timing would not work unfortunately) and then refunded our prepayment.
We have had several good experiences with Viatours throughout the world. For this particular tour they apparently were working with a third party agency. I will watch and try to avoid tours where they are using these intermediary companies on future trips. This was truly disappointing.
Watch out for Michael in Glasgow.
Nora_C, May 2026
City Experience w/off the beaten paths sites with nuggets of history.
Bruce was delightful, funny & inherently interested in Glasgows community. It was a great way to cover the city in a day and learn the city’s history.
Andrea_G, May 2026
Great tour!
Bruce was very knowledgeable and showed us a great time. We highly recommend this walking tour. Even followed up to a question I had about the clocks.
Kelli_N, May 2026
Sophie could not have been more knowledgeable and entertaining on our tour of Glasgow!! She clearly loves the city knows the history and is just a joy!!!
LauraDAgrosa, Apr 2026
Meeting at St. George square is tricky since it’s closed. We were lucky that Gary found us wandering around the square
Gary was a great guide. Very knowledgeable
Heidi_J, Apr 2026
Sophie was an amazing guide. She was so knowledgeable, kind, and fun. She more than adequately filled our time with the history and de development of Glasgow. Her love for her city was obviously. I highly recommended this tour.
Gary_P, Apr 2026
Be prepared to walk and climb. Our tour guide Sophie was knowledgeable about her city and gave us great insight into the development of Glasgow as well as the beauty of the botanical gardens
Leslie_B, Apr 2026
You walk a lot but our guide was accommodating to our needs. Our guide, Valentin, was extremely knowledgeable and easy to talk to. A great experience!
Charles_H, Mar 2026
We walked about the city but didn’t get much historical background or information We liked where we went but didn’t get the experience we wanted
Response from Host, Mar 2026
Hi Charles,
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us. We are sincerely sorry that the tour did not provide the level of historical background and information you were expecting, even though you enjoyed the locations visited.
Guydeez is about creating happy memories and because of this, we have already contacted you via your email directly to follow up. Once again, our apologies for this inconvenience, and we hope you will consider giving us a second chance.
Warm wishes,
Guydeez Team
James_K, Dec 2025
Lots and lots of walking. A somewhat interesting city but did not come across as a must see. Would probably not do again.
Response from Host, Dec 2025
Hello James,
Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us. We’re sorry to hear that the tour didn’t fully meet your expectations.
Guydeez is about creating happy memories, and we have already contacted you via email to follow up directly. Our sincere apologies for the disappointment, and we hope you’ll consider giving us another chance in the future.
Warm wishes,
Guydeez Team
Joanna_R, Oct 2025
Very interesting and informative
The guide was knowledgeable about life in Glasgow for locals and very accommodating
Courtney_L, Oct 2025
Very informative, and interesting. Guide tailored the tour with what our interests were. Only wished the stories told were done more as we continued to walk vs stand. Historial stories took a good amount of time and we may have been able to see more. Overall a very good tour.
CYNTHIA_Z, Oct 2025
Keith was info contact with us several week before our tour with him making sure we knew exactly where to meet him. He dedicated way more than 3 hours to us. He is a knowledgeable and pure blooded Glasgownian( hope I wrote that correctly). He shared the history,the architecture, the fortunate and unfortunate events that shaped Glasgow to what it is today. He spoke not only of the past but of the actual life in Glasgow. Very interesting and enlightening, we are so grateful to him for the xtra time he gave us and that his Spanish is impeccable making it thoroughly enjoyable.
jaisimha_i, Oct 2025
Keith is an excellent guide and made the walking tour of Glasgow an amazing experience. He is very knowledgeable, personable and a Glaswegian to the core. Strongly recommend this tour
Suzanne_S, Sep 2025
This was a fabulous tour! I think a lot of this tour depends on your guide. Ours was a PhD student in architecture so we got a lot of great insight into the buildings and structures in Glasgow. Noor was absolutely delightful and gave us a fabulous tour. We've been recommending it to everyone!
Peter_B, Sep 2025
Our tour guide was Kieth M..
This gentlemen gave us such a deep insight into Glasgows history. He was literally a walking encyclopedia of history - simply a pleasure to listen to.
My wife & myself thoroughly enjoyed every minute of the tour.
I would highly recommend this tour - and certainly with Kieth M if he is available.
Eric_F, Aug 2025
Chris is a great guide and provided a real inside view of Glasgow. His knowledge of local history was good and there was a lot of fun discussion.
Courtney_F, Jul 2025
I am visiting for the first time and had half a day here. Josh was our tour guide and he was amazing! He was enthusiastic , friendly, and asked for our input on if we had specific places we wanted to visit. He was very knowledgeable and was able to answer all of our questions as he grew up in the area.
Christopher_H, Jul 2025
My guide, Keith MacKenzie was a consummate pro. A native Glaswegian who brought historical knowledge, combined with his natural ability to "story-tell"...all of which results in an incredibly enjoyable experience.
David_R, Jul 2025
Keith was a very enthusiastic guide with a detailed and passionate knowledge about Glasgow. We saw and learned things that we had not expected to discover about the city. He happily changed times to suit us and insisted on waiting with us at the station at the find of the tour to make sure we got on the right train.
Edward_K, Jun 2025
Excellent guide, well informed and pleased to share her knowledge and to move at our pace. Excellent experience!
Daphne_D, Jun 2025
Our guide was nice but he didn’t tell us much about the history of the areas we visited - he basically just walked us to some of the key attractions: the cathedral, necropolis, art gallery… I didn’t learn much, mostly saw things. I could have just used Google maps to guide me around for free.
Response from Host, Jun 2025
Hi Daphne,
Thank you for your feedback. While we’re glad you found your guide pleasant, we’re sorry the tour didn’t offer the historical depth you were looking for.
We’ve reached out to you by email to follow up. Please accept our sincere apologies, and we hope to provide a more informative and engaging tour in the future.
Warm wishes,
Guydeez Team
Susanna_R, Jun 2025
Mada was very friendly and helpful with questions about our interests beforehand, and had many suggestions, which was very promising. We were on a private tour with her. We have been on many tours in different places, and on reflection, it could have been better. We have a few suggestions: She could have been more prepared with local history (i.e. when was Glasgow made a burg/village/city), and some basic knowledge of the most famous artists/ benefactors of the places on our tour. She obviously had not visited some of the other places she recommended to us, since she was unaware they had been closed/under renovation for some time. We mentioned we liked art, so our tour ended at an art gallery an hour early, but she did not have anything else to add at that point. It was apparent she had not researched the places on the tour in any depth, since we were all reading the plaques/information together and it seemed new to her as well. She had great potential, but needed to be better prepared.
Response from Host, Jun 2025
Hi Susanna,
Thank you for your thoughtful and constructive feedback. We're glad to hear that your guide was friendly and responsive to your interests, but we’re sorry the tour didn’t fully meet your expectations in terms of preparation and depth.
We’ve reached out to you via email to follow up directly. Your input is valuable and helps us improve, and we hope to have the opportunity to provide you with a more enriching experience in the future.
Warm wishes,
Guydeez Team
Linda_L, May 2025
Gary was the best very friendly and knowledgeable. He was very friendly and patient with my sister and I. It was our first time coming to Scotland Gary made sure to answer all of our questions. I really appreciated the time and care Gary took to answer all of our questions. I love Viator they make reserving tours and excursions super easy!
ELIZABETH_S, May 2025
Very good, enjoyable walking tour. Guide was very accommodating. Took us to great sights. He could have given us more about history and architectural styles and time periods.
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