Interesting and full of information - We loved our tour with Ute. She was interesting and full of information about the history of Nicosia and how the city is divided. She took us to see where all the checkpoints are so we can visit the north side at our own leisure, showed us what effect the 2012 financial crisis had had on the city, and the best bits of the city to visit. Highly recommend!

Nicosia private tour - Our guide was Miranda, she showed such enthusiasm and had researched everything we’d asked for in advance, the tour ran smoothly and she gave us great advice about the city and really helpful ideas for our stay here. We would highly recommend a private tour with Miranda.

Wonderful tour!! - My wife and I had a wonderful tour with Iliana! We've probably done a twenty or more private tours during our travels through the years and Iliana is one of the best guides we have had. That she has experience as a teacher helps tremendously, but what separates her from the average tour guide is her enthusiasm and great personality. We had a wonderful tour of Nicosia with Iliana and strongly recommend her.

Very personal day with a local - I must admit I had no idea what to expect before I met Ute. As it turns out, she was an amazing German lady who had lived through East/West Germany, allowing her to make many comparisons (and highlite the differences) to the current state of Cyprus. Also, helped smooth my pass through passport checkpoints, which was made unnecessarily difficult by the officers. I could not have ased for a better guide!

A walk with a knowledgeable friend - We much enjoyed our tour of old Nicosia, a city Nigel had visited as part of the UN peacekeeping force in 1970 and had ever since promised to show Jane. Of course it had much changed. The nature of the tour was such that we were able to discuss this with the guide, to talk about his own reactions to the changes and to ask to see certain places. We were met at our hotel and returned to our hotel, having done a circular walk, and having been taught much about the city. Jane took a lot of photos without feeling she was disrupting the tour. We felt as if the whole thing was for us and us alone, not part of a package learned by rote and imposed upon us.

I wouldn’t recommend - I admittedly already had a troubled and stressful arrival in Cyprus, but those feelings didn’t cloud my judgement of this tour. 1) I asked for the tour to exclusively focus on the division and how it impacts Nicosia. Despite my guide agreeing in his message, he continued to take me to sites completely unrelated to the conflict, perhaps most egregiously to a series of souvenir shops. I found more interesting things in random side streets than the exploits of the main tour. 2) He told me to meet him in the main square. I parked near the square and waited. Then he told me to go to a mosque and gave me directions. I followed the coordinates he gave me and I ended up in North Nicosia. He then told me the tour began in South Nicosia and asked me why I was in the north and where I specifically was. After I repeatedly showed my map coordinates, he told me he didn’t know where I was and ordered me back to the crossing point. 3) Due to asking for a 30 minute delay for the tour, added to the additional 30 minute delay due to the meeting point, I had to cut the tour short for timing reasons. 4) The guide was inattentive to what I told him, for example, asking me if I had arrived that day in Cyprus after I’d already explained in great detail my issues from yesterday in landing and finding accommodation. 5) Perhaps most importantly, my guide was noticeably unenthusiastic, walked completely without urgency, and relayed an extremely impersonal, surface level retelling of Cyprus history. I did not learn one thing from this tour. Perhaps for this reason you will understand the rating I provided.

Just a waste of time - We had the worst experience ever with the local guide that accompanied us on our Nicosia tour. We understand the concept of ‘going with a local’ to discover a city. We’ve done it plenty of times before, and it’s always been a great experience, which is why we were excited about this tour. But our tour guide was absolutely clueless. He claimed the Venetian walls were built 2500 years before they were actually built (and by a different civilisation), and mixed up the Virgin Mary with Queen Elizabeth. We had to interrupt our tour after 40 mins, we just could not take it any longer. The company was ok, they refunded us partially for the money we spent (A LOT of money for a ‘local tour’), although we thought we also lost out on our only half day in Nicosia and for that nobody can compensate us.