Private Tour: Black Taxi Tour of London

London, United Kingdom

What could be better than a tour of London by black taxi? With your own personal driver guide, you'll see London at your own pace. You can stop whenever you like to take photos, decide how long you want to spend at each attraction, and you can even plan your own customized itinerary!

Your fully qualified and highly experienced black cab driver is the perfect guide to take you through the streets of London. London's taxi drivers have to sit the toughest taxi exam in the world, and their inside knowledge of London is unsurpassed. They know every alley, street and short cut in London, as well as all the historic sights, palaces, museums, galleries, shops and markets.

Taking a Black Taxi Tour of London offers unrivaled personalized and flexible service. Your taxi collects you from your hotel and drops you off wherever you choose in central London when the two-hour tour is finished.

Ask your driver to take you along a route specially chosen by you. Or let your driver guide you around instead, stopping off at the major sights and stopping on request to take photographs. Your driver also provides a full commentary, packed with anecdotes you won't find in any guidebook!

Design your own itinerary with your driver on the day, or see the following sights on a general tour:

• Tower of London
• Tower Bridge
• Trafalgar Square
• Buckingham Palace
• Westminster Abbey
• St. Paul's Cathedral
• Piccadilly Circus
• Leicester Square
• Soho
• Harrods
• Covent Garden
• Marble Arch
• Houses of Parliament
• Big Ben
• Whitehall
• Downing Street

This tour offers fantastic value for money, comfortably seating up to 5 passengers for one fixed price!

USD $40.89

Review by: RENEE S	March 2012
Highly recommended on any visit into London. The driver provided historical information and the mode of transportation created a comfortable atmosphere to sit back and enjoy the sites. I feel this tour is TOTALLY WORTH every cent.

Review by: Catherine W	February 2012
Our guide was OUTSTANDING! We learned so much and got to see so many things - things that we wanted to see, not just a set tour that someone else planned. Our guide was very engaging, and gave us recommendations of places to eat and things to see while we were in London. Absolutely would recommend doing this tour.

Review by: CAROLINE C	January 2012
good overview of london in a quick tour

Review by: Madeleine O	January 2012
The taxi driver we had was wonderful and this was a great way of seeing the usual tourist attractions and get our bearings on the first morning in London. Also great when you have already been travelling for weeks.

Review by: CHRYSANTHI M	January 2012
this was nice experience as well. we had a lovely long taxi tour. we got out of the taxi any time we wanted to take pictures! the taxi driver was amazing! he knew all about it! we even catch up the changing of the Queens guards! lovely!

Review by: Helder S	December 2011
Absolutely fantastic our driver went out of his way to show us the best guided tour of London. Not only did we see all that we wanted he took us to the top areas in the city. Make sure you get Micheal he is great!!

Review by: my derek	December 2011
Absolutely spot on, driver arrived early, excellent narrative on tour, great Cabby stories as only a London Cabby can Highly recommended. A most enjoyable 2 hours

Review by: Sally P	October 2011
Kevin was amazing. He was very knowledgeable and quite friendly. I some specific things I wanted to do and then I asked him to show me "cool" stuff and he did. I'm very glad I booked the tour and I'm very, very glad Kevin was my guide.

Review by: Rolf R	October 2011
It was really a great tour as we had requested to tour St. John's Wood, and Nottinghill and the areas nearby. The driver was very entertaining, knowledgeable and really added value to the trip. It happened to be on a day when Paul McCartney was getting remarried, so we saw a glimpse of the preparations at his home. The facts and trivia were relevant and memorable and we will do this again.

Review by: Jennifer H	October 2011
Thoroughly enjoyed our personalised tour, found the driver to be very helpful and informative. Highly recommend this tour

Review by: Faye D	October 2011
A little pricey but it went very well. The driver was great

Review by: Adriana M	September 2011
Excellent Service!!!!!

Review by: Geoffrey W	June 2011
This personalised tour exceeded our expectations. The driver/"guide" took us to places and provided a running historic commentary and detail that was perfect for us given the limited time we had in London. We highly recommend this tour.

Review by: Shirley B R	June 2011
Great tour. Very informative and enjoyable. Amazed what we covered in two hours. Highly recommend.

Review by: Janet	June 2011
Super fun tour!! Our taxi driver was extremely knowlegable and fun. We stopped at several sites so he could tell us the history and at the end, he dropped us off where we wanted to go. Really fun and worth the money to get personalized service. I would definitely do it again.

Review by: John W	May 2011
This was an excellent tour.

Review by: Carmen C	December 2010
Great value for the money.

Review by: DAVID B	August 2010
Driver was on time, knew his stuff, ahd was very professional. I would do it again. Viator has their act together.

Review by: Anonymous, United Kingdom	June 2010
Easy way to show people London

Review by: Paulette L, United States of America	June 2010
It was fun, easy and a great way to get an overview of London! Will definitely do again. Even though I have been to London several times, our driver still showed us things we have never seen. David was a great guide and really nice person, highly recommend.

Review by: Bonny P, United States of America	June 2010
Interesting and informative. Good orientation to the city.

Review by: Barbara P	June 2010
Interesting and informative. Good orientation to the city.

Review by: Anne U, United States of America	April 2010
Gerald was very engaging and most accommodating. We thoroughly enjoyed our time with him.

Review by: Ronald M, United States of America	March 2010
Our guide was wonderful. It was a good way to get the highlights in a short amount of time.

Review by: Anonymous, United Kingdom	January 2010
The tour suited our situation as one member of our group was disabled. The taxi can also take you to places that the tour buses can't. Overall a very good experience.

Review by: Wallace G, Canada	September 2009
Our tour guide was very friendly and professional. The tour was very informative and we enjoyed it very much. Would love to use this tour again on our next trip to the UK.

Review by: Gloria B, United States of America	September 2009
This was my first time to use the black taxi tour of London and I would most certainly book it again!

Review by: John G, United Kingdom	August 2009
An excellent idea, very personal and the driver was very knowledgeable! The taxi tour gave access to areas that can't be reached by the usual tour bus. Would highly recommend it!

Review by: Lorna G	August 2009
An excellent idea, very personal and the driver was very knowledgeable! The taxi tour gave access to areas that can't be reached by the usual tour bus. Would highly recommend it!

Review by: SANDRA T	November 2008
Taxi driver very good and friendly. Seemed to know a lot about London and the attractions, but took us to places we didn't ask to see, which meant we didn't have time to see what we wanted to see.

Review by: Raymond M, United States of America	September 2008
Took a "customized" private tour of North London's Hampstead Heath and Highgate areas. The idea was to see exclusive residential areas that were "off the beaten path". It truly was a most interesting tour. Our guide, an older gentlemen, was very experienced and right on time. He knew exactly what we were looking for. As the tour progressed, it was as if we were all old pals. Although expensive, if you're looking for something really unique to do, this is a great idea, and we would definitely do it again.

Review by: Chris M, United States of America	August 2008
The driver certainly knew his stuff, extremely informative and interesting, even handing us a pen to write a message on the wall outside the Abbey Road Studios!

Review by: Anonymous, France	June 2008
Great tour. Our guide was wonderful. Very flexible.

Review by: Anonymous, United States of America	March 2008
Loved the tour. The weather was cold and damp so traveling by taxi was the way to go. Will recommend to all.

Review by: Lynette P, United Kingdom	February 2008
This was fabulous. Our driver was really knowledgeable and it meant we could go directly to the most important places. We even got down side streets we never would have seen on a tour bus. Bit cramped for 5 but perfect for 4 or less.

Review by: Matthew P	February 2008
This was fabulous. Our driver was really knowledgeable and it meant we could go directly to the most important places. We even got down side streets we never would have seen on a tour bus. Bit cramped for 5 but perfect for 4 or less.

Review by: Benjamin V	February 2008
It was like a history school excursion. We wanted to see as many sights in the 2 hours that we could but instead our driver gave us a history lesson wasting time at one sight well over 30 minutes talking about something that he obviously was interested in. The tour was described as sights of London not history lesson. Waste of money not at all what I wanted.

Review by: Anne G, Ireland	January 2008
It was already our fourth day in London when we asked for the Black Taxi Private Tour. So we visited exactly only those places we hadn't time to see, away from the main tourist groups. And many many thanks to our driver!

Review by: Victoria P	January 2008
Car was comfortable. Tour guide was on time and very knowledgeable. By the end of the tour though we felt a bit overwhelmed by all of the facts we had been told throughout the tour. Would have preferred if he asked what we wanted to see and know about, but a very nice experience regardless!

Review by: Joyce W, United States of America	December 2007
We hired the same driver for two 2-hour periods on different days. He was well informed and eager to please. When we ran into a problem with weather, he quickly changed the plan to guarantee a great tour.

Review by: Michele M, United States of America	November 2007
I have been to London more than 20 times, but my traveling friend had never been out of the U.S. The tour was great and even showed me things I had not seen before. It was well worth the money and time. The driver was great!

Review by: Zeynep G, Turkey	September 2007
For the overall expenses, it's really worth doing. The driver was very highly skilled and gave lots of knowledge about London's history and sights.

Review by: Birgitta K	September 2007
While very expensive because we needed it for a Saturday, our guide was very knowledgeable about the city and willing to take us anywhere we pleased. If you will part with the money, it was way better than any crowded tour bus. We were able to pull right up front of major landmarks and hop out for pictures.