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Toronto Story Tours
Toronto skyline and CN Tower at blue hour

Private & Step-On Tour Guide Services

Your Vehicle. Your Schedule. Your Toronto Story.

Already have a chauffeured vehicle, limousine, SUV, van or motorcoach? Let Toronto Story Tours provide your private professional guide.

You choose the people you travel with. You have your own vehicle. We’ll provide the stories that bring Toronto to life.

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Private FIT to 56-seat coaches

Your vehicle and driver

Itinerary shaped around you

Toronto & Niagara

Private FIT & small-group guiding

A private guide exclusively for you

Whether you’re a couple with a private car and driver, a family travelling together, a small FIT party or a tour operator arriving with a full motorcoach, we’ll join your vehicle and create a Toronto experience around you.

Your guide can meet you at your downtown Toronto hotel or another pre-arranged location.

  • Couples
  • Families
  • Friends travelling together
  • Luxury FIT travellers
  • Private chauffeur and limousine clients
  • Hotel and concierge guests
  • Pre- and post-cruise visitors
  • Business travellers
  • Travel advisor and DMC clients
Private vehicles available for Toronto guests and groups

Guide-only pricing

Your vehicle. Our professional guide.

These rates cover your private Toronto Story Tours guide. You provide the vehicle and professional driver.

2 hours

$325 CAD

Private Toronto Guide

A focused city orientation, highlights tour or introduction to the neighbourhoods and stories that interest you most.

  • Private guide for up to 2 hours
  • Live commentary aboard your vehicle
  • Coordination with your driver
  • A tailored itinerary
  • Selected sightseeing and photo stops
4 hours

$495 CAD

Signature Private Guiding

Time to move beyond Toronto’s postcard landmarks and discover the neighbourhoods, people and stories behind the city.

  • Private guide for up to 4 hours
  • Personalized live commentary
  • Customized Toronto itinerary
  • Coordination with your driver
  • Sightseeing, walking and photo stops when conditions permit
Up to 8 hours

$895 CAD

Full-Day Private Guide

Make Toronto yours for the day, with the flexibility to explore at a relaxed pace, incorporate longer stops and shape the day around your interests.

  • Professional guide for a full day
  • A fully customized programme
  • Flexible pacing and longer stops
  • Driver and itinerary coordination
  • Additional guide time at $125 CAD per hour

What could your Toronto story include?

There is no single route

Architecture, food, Canadian history, immigrant stories, sports, arts and culture — tell us what interests you. We’ll build the stories around you.

Old TorontoSt. Lawrence MarketFinancial DistrictNathan Phillips Square & City HallUniversity of TorontoYorkvilleCasa LomaLittle ItalyChinatownKensington MarketEntertainment DistrictCN TowerRogers CentreHarbourfrontToronto’s multicultural neighbourhoods
Casa Loma, one of Toronto’s landmark private-tour stops

Already have an itinerary from your travel advisor, tour operator or chauffeur company? We’ll work with it, transforming the places you visit into stories you’ll remember.

Motorcoach step-on guiding

Two guests or forty — we make Toronto personal

Your guide joins your coach, works with your professional driver and provides engaging live commentary throughout your Toronto programme. The same guide-only rates apply: $325 up to 2 hours, $495 up to 4 hours and $895 up to 8 hours.

Ideal for motorcoach companies, student and educational groups, corporate and incentive groups, conventions, cruise groups, international tour series, private organizations and associations.

Travel advisors, DMCs & tour operators

Knowledgeable local guiding for your clients

  • Luxury travel advisors
  • Destination management companies
  • Inbound and international tour operators
  • Motorcoach companies
  • Hotels and concierges
  • Cruise partners
  • Corporate and incentive travel planners

Travel trade and contracted tour operator rates are available.

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Niagara Falls & Niagara Region

Continue with a licensed Niagara Parks guide

Discover Niagara Falls, the Niagara Parkway, Queenston Heights, Niagara-on-the-Lake, wine country and the people and events that shaped the region. Niagara programmes are individually quoted according to itinerary, duration and pickup location.

What’s not included

Unless specifically stated in your quotation, guide-only rates do not include:

  • Vehicle or transportation
  • Professional driver
  • Fuel
  • Parking or tolls
  • Attraction admissions
  • Meals or refreshments
  • Gratuities
  • Other third-party services

Private. Personal. Toronto.

Request your private guide

Tell us your date, group, vehicle and interests. We’ll reply with availability and a written quotation.

Certificate available on request