Local Experts Tours: twenty-five expert guides reveal the best kept secrets of the Basque Country
Local Experts Tours: twenty-five expert guides reveal the best kept secrets of the Basque Country
Founded in 2015, Local Experts Tours is a Basque incoming travel agency that has managed to distinguish itself thanks to the demanding and rigorous training that its 25 guides receive. The agency’s strict requirements when hiring cicerones and the extensive training they receive from the company itself (including courses on winemaking taught by a sommelier) have led them to cover a broad geographical area: the Basque Country, Navarre, La Rioja, and the French Basque Country.
Local Experts Tours is mainly aimed at two types of clients: couples, families, and groups of friends seeking a day trip and those who wish to leave the organization of their entire stay in the hands of these masters of travel. For the former, the company has a very extensive range of activities available in English and Spanish: guided tours of the medieval town of Hondarribia and of San Sebastián (especially highlighting the Romantic district and the bustling Old Quarter), a visit to the estuary of the Nervión River crossing the famous suspension bridge that links Getxo with Portugalete, cultural tours through Bilbao with access to the Guggenheim Museum, an excursion to La Rioja with a wine tasting event at a winery and a traditional meal, a day visiting the most stately towns in the French Basque Country, and a trip to the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve with a visit to the Islet of San Juan de Gaztelugatxe.
For those families or groups of friends aiming to rid themselves of the (sometimes cumbersome) work of organizing their entire vacation, the agency can take charge of coordinating the whole stay – including hotel and restaurant reservations (being able to get tables at the most demanded Michelin-starred establishments), the organization of private activities, and transfers. For transfers, the agency has its own fleet of eight vehicles, to which they will add two new Mercedes Vito vans this year.
The versatility and agility of Local Experts Tours when it comes to coordinating activities (being able to tackle complex requests overnight), the training of the company’s guides (who are the true ambassadors of the agency and the region), and their ability to adapt to the specific needs of some groups (which may require, for example, simultaneous translation into Japanese or other languages) has earned these leaders in their field the trust of clients from all over the world.
Local Experts Tours
Tel.: +34 644 979 289
