Glasgow Like a Local: Customized Private Tour

Our Lokafy guide was NOT a local like the description says. Lokafy appears to be the Uber of tour companies. They did not vet this guy, because he clearly had not lived in Glasgow long. Either that, or he was a hermit who never left his house. We told him we wanted to know about all the good local pubs and restaurants, must see history near the city center, and that we were huge football fans. We told him we were in town for the Champions League game, and he didn't ask which one. Huge bust right off the bat, when there are back to back CL matches this week, one being Celtic and the other being Rangers. Even a local who isn't a football fan would know about that rivalry. He was not even being a safe guide through the city, and almost got us hit by a car when rushing us to jaywalk across the street. We understand most people don't wait for the walk signal, but they at least look to see if cars are coming up to the turn before jumping into the road. He had no concern for our wellbeing or for walking at our speed or anything at all. At the end, when we found a polite enough excuse to cut the terrible tour short, we asked for a good restaurant to get fish & chips. He told us to go to the takeaway fast food chain in town, Blue Lagoon. You don't send people who have indicated their interest in local pubs and restaurants to the McDonald's of fish & chips. When we told him we would rather go to a sit down restaurant, he told us to go to the Blue Lagoon by our hotel and take it to our room to eat. I can't write out everything about how bad it was here, because I will lose the reader's interest, if I haven't already. Bottom line, it was a terrible excuse for a tour by someone who was definitely not a local and knew very little about the city as a whole. I was so hoping that we would get a good local guide for this, instead of one like the other 1 star review here, but we got a bad one. If you are on your honeymoon like us, don't risk getting a bad guide. Go for a more sure thing. It's clear that Lokafy doesn't vet their guides at all to make sure they are actual locals with enough time in a city to be a good guide to travelers.

We had a large list of items, and the tour guise ended up being assigned to us pretty last minute. But she gave us the exact experience, information, and recommendations we wanted.

We had a very nice walking tour with Anna as our guide. She asked if we had any special requests or limitations the day before our tour. We saw many historic buildings and learned some interesting facts about the city. The St. Mungo Cathedral and nearby cemetery were the highlights of the tour.