Welcome to our extensive review of Get Your Guide, a booking website to tours and activities worldwide.
In this review we want to check how reliable the service is. Is Get Your Guide trustworthy, safe, easy to use?
This is an in-depth guide, useful for everyone interested in booking any kind of tours and activities online.
Good to know: No one paid me to write any type of review. This is 100% my own handwritten guide, based on my own experience using Get Your Guide and other tour booking provider.
Get Your Guide is a website (and also an app) which aims to make the holiday activity planning process much easier.
Have you ever booked a holiday only to feel completely overwhelmed with the amount of
activities and experiences on offer?
Then keep reading cause this guide will make your life easier!
I have used Get Your Guide many times during our travels, and many of our friends asked if Get Your Guide is a trustworthy company. That is why I decided to put everything together and review it.
Here I will let you know the pros, the cons, and how to use it.
On this article, we cover:
- What is Get Your Guide?
- Booking activities with Get Your Guide: from selection to payment
- My last Get Your Guide booking in The Colosseum (from booking to joining the tour)
- Is Get Your Guide reliable?
- Important things to check before booking
- Cons of Get Your Guides
- Discounts and offers
- Contact
- Other booking platforms
- FAQ about GYG
- Final thoughts
Good to know: We will write the name of the platform as Get Your Guide, GetYourGuide or GYG for short. It is always the same platform www.getyourguide.com.
1. What is GetYourGuide?
Get Your Guide is essentially a personalized online agency which allows you to book endless
activities, tours and experiences across the world.
It acts as the middleman between you and the travel companies.
Rather than searching on the internet for various activities and ending in different sites from different companies, you will have access to all the tours and activities in one single site.
Great right? Having all the activities and tours in a single platform will save you tones of time.
You will only have to concentrate to look which activity to join.
The truth is, Get Your Guide might not offer all the options you will have in some cities. There are always small companies which can only be found on site – especially on South East Asia or Central and South America.
Nevertheless, I found Get Your Guide is the platform with most activities, as well as many filters and marks which makes the decision process easier.
Especially when you have to prebook your tickets!!
Of course, if you want some adrenaline activities, there are better platforms out there, like Adrenaline Hunter, but if you are looking for the common activities: main sights tickets, bike tours, food experiences… Then Get Your Guide is your place.
2. Booking Activities with Get Your Guide
The process in booking an activity with Get Your Guide is simple and straight forward:
- You select the activity
- book with your name, email and credit card
- receive your confirmation email
Easy peasy and fast, I would say.
Before hitting the booking button, you will have to choose your perfect activity, of course. Some sights are listed multiple times. That is because it is different tours or just an audio guide and such. Make sure you read properly what you are about to book.
In our Step 2 choosing the right tour I go into detail.
What I really like about Get Your Guide is their information they show. For instance, they show highlights of the tour, what the tour includes (and what it DOES NOT include!) and the meeting point.
They also show “Important information” at the bottom. A great summary I wish many more websites would add. Here they summarize for instance what is not allowed on the tour. That can be “shorts” when visiting a church or mosque for instance.
Then they show “know before you go”, covering important notes like opening hours, the validation of the ticket and such. Very, very handy and easy to read!
Let’s see how to find, choose and book an activity on this platform step by step.
- Search and filter
- Decide which tour / company to join
- Look at some reviews (but don’t get crazy about that!)
- Select your tour and pay
- Receive your tickets
Step 1 – Search and Filter
When searching for your perfect travel plans on www.getyourguide.com, Get Your Guide has ensured that the process is
simple and straightforward for everyone.
All you have to do is type in your destination or preferred attraction and dates in the search bar and you’ll have all the activities and tours at your fingertips.
I just did a screenshot so you can see the website and where to type:
Filters you should use
With so many great options to choose from, you may be a little spoil for choice!
However, no need to worry as the guide offers a great filter system which allows you to create more
personalized options for yourself.
Make sure you use the filters.They will help you range the activities and find your perfect plan.
Here is the list of different filter options:
1. You can filter by interests such as:
- Tours
- Activities
- Culinary
- Nightlife
- Rentals
2. Activities and tours can also be filtered by languages – and they do offer up to 25 different languages.
3. Select your wished time periods for individual activities: they range from less than an hour to a full
day or even multi day.
4. Filters also include:
- Private Tours,
- Wheelchair Access,
- Hotel Pickup, and
- Skip the Line
5. You can filter also by get your guide reviews for individual activities by:
- Best rated,
- Worst rated,
- Most recent and
- Oldest
6. You can also filter reviews depending on the type of traveler such as:
- Couples,
- Family,
- Group of Friends and
- Solo Traveler
Labels
Whilst scrolling through options, several activities have different labels that will give you some insider information, these labels are:
- ‘Likely to Sell Out’,
- ‘Bestseller’,
- ‘GetYourGuide Original’
- Discounted prices
These different labels might help you choose the activity on your destination, or give you an idea when if you have to book earlier to assure your spot.
