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Lyon Local Tour: Discover Hidden Gems
4.7
112 Ratings
Lyon
Experience Lyon like a local with a customized private guided tour by passionate Lokafyers. Discover the city through a local’s eyes and make travel about the people you meet, not just the places you see.
Experience Lyon like a local with a customized private guided tour by passionate Lokafyers. Discover the city through a local’s eyes and make travel about the people you meet, not just the places you see.
Duration:
6 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Lyon - This is a personalized walking tour. The specific itinerary will be tailored to the duration and your interests. Kindly share your preferences ahead of time.
- Lyon - This is a personalized walking tour. The specific itinerary will be tailored to the duration and your interests. Kindly share your preferences ahead of time.
What's Included
- Customized private walking tour
- Local guide (‘Lokafyer’
- Customized private walking tour
- Local guide (‘Lokafyer’
What's Not Included
- Personal expenses
- Tips and gratuities (optional)
- Entrance fees (if you choose to visit paid attractions)
- Food and drinks
- Local transportation (this is a walking tour, no transport provided)
- Personal expenses
- Tips and gratuities (optional)
- Entrance fees (if you choose to visit paid attractions)
- Food and drinks
- Local transportation (this is a walking tour, no transport provided)
Additional Information
Bypass the typical sightseeing tour and explore Lyon from a local’s perspective.
With Lokafy, each tour is private, unscripted, and tailored to your preferences. Your Lokafyer is an enthusiastic local who shares stories, hidden treasures, and genuine advice not found in guidebooks. They are not professional guides with rehearsed scripts; they are locals…
Bypass the typical sightseeing tour and explore Lyon from a local’s perspective.
With Lokafy, each tour is private, unscripted, and tailored to your preferences. Your Lokafyer is an enthusiastic local who shares stories, hidden treasures, and genuine advice not found in guidebooks. They are not professional guides with rehearsed scripts; they are locals who adore their city and want you to experience it as a friend would.
Whether your interests lie in food, art, history, or simply wandering through neighborhoods beyond the usual tourist paths, your Lokafyer will customize the walk to suit your interests. By the end, you’ll feel at home in the city, equipped with insights to continue exploring independently.
- Lokafy tours provide a general overview of the city with practical information from a local’s perspective, not detailed historical facts
- In case travellers would like to include a visit to an attraction, they would need to cover the cost of entrance for themselves and also the Lokafyer (local guide)
- Tours are entirely personalized, please provide the start time, meeting place and information about you so that we can organize the tour
- This is a walking tour. We recommend wearing comfortable shoes
- Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
- Children below 3 years old are free of charge
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
Location
Office du Tourisme et des Congrès de la Métropole de Lyon
Place Bellecour
Travelers can request the tour to start from any centrally located hotel. If your hotel is outside the city center, we’ll suggest a convenient meeting point.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.7
(112 Ratings)
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89abigailg
Nov 9, 2025
Great ride 🌲 - Beautiful discovery of the city otherwise, interesting anecdotes and secret passage guaranteed with Noémie D. The bucolic places allowed to take height on the city and discover it differently 😀
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698michaelal
Oct 30, 2025
Successful activity - We were on two days four hours each with Jörg in Lyon. He showed us the most important sights of the city in time and could tell us a lot about it. In addition, he could give us good tips for further excursions and restaurants. Overall we felt very comfortable with and with him
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Karen_s
Oct 22, 2025
Highy Recommended - Highly recommend this Lyon tour with Joseph. We learned a great deal viewing the architecture and learning the history of Lyon's city center and its historic district. And by walking with a local this commentary came alive with our guide's love for his city and the life it has provided for him.
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Maura_g
Oct 2, 2025
Beautiful Lyon - We travel from Paris to Lyon by train. We reach the meeting point by taxi to met Mimi our guide for the day. We started at the tourist office close to the Louis XIV statue. We passed the bridge over the Saone river to visit the Saint Jean Baptiste cathedral and then took the funicular to the Fourviere hill where we visited the magnificent church Our Lady of Fourviere dedicated to the Virgin Mary. We took back the funicular, and walked to the Gallo -Roman theater. Mimi was very knowledgeable and kind and helped us by taking some pictures of us. We walked trough the old Lyon. We couldn’t see the traboules , as the door was closed. We saw the puppeteer clock and visited the small Guignol museum. Also visited the Miniatures museum. Entrance to museums, funicular or subway, not included in the tour but worthy. Stopped for snacks, in our way to see the Fresque Lyonese. We visited the place de Terreaux , where we saw the Opera house, the Bartholdi fountain and the Museum of fine Arts. Mimi arranged very well the scheduled and we appreciate it, as we were there go a day trip. We took the subway to go to the Lumiere museum, which we enjoyed, and that was the last part of the tour.
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Curious39569320860
Sep 25, 2025
Joseph empathetic and professional guide - Joseph a great guide who empathically made us a great rejoicing with wonderful places, great panoramas and good narrative
Although the tour was contracted in English it made us favor doing it in Spanish with total command of the language.
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Troy_t
Sep 15, 2025
Lyon Guide - Fabulous guide of Lyon. Customized to our preference and pace. Super helpful guy - even helped with translating a call to secure a rental car on the next leg of our trip.
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Kristi_c
Sep 6, 2025
See many sights in a short amount of time - Very customizable. Very easy to hear our guide with it being a private tour. Lots of “fun facts” and hidden views about the places we saw.
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Thea_r
Aug 28, 2025
An exceptionally pleasant experience - An exceptionally pleasant experience. My local guide was Noemie. Extremely friendly, polite, flexible and with professional knowledge. The three-hour walk was preceded by thorough preparation, during which I expressed my wishes and Noemie adapted them to our itinerary. I am grateful that Noemie introduced me in detail to one of the important sights of Lyon -
Basilica of Notre Dame of Fourvière.
In addition, at my request, she also agreed to introduce one of the larger cemeteries in the city. Noemie spoke interestingly and answered various questions. She shared practical tips and helped me buy public transport tickets. These three hours went by very quickly and were very interesting and useful. I had never been with a local guide before, but now I think I will definitely use this opportunity in the future.
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Pam_m
Nov 2, 2025
Welcome to Lyon - The tour was great for our first days in Lyon. Gave us direction on where else to visit. Would have liked more history
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Brian_g
Sep 17, 2025
Ok, but less than expected - Our first guide dropped out unexpectedly so our replacement probably had little time to prepare. So there was no prior communication back regarding what to expect (tour plan). We enjoyed this tour but reflecting on our experience it was overpriced for what we received. Our guide was very pleasant, personable fun to talk to. We learned about Lyon and her experiences in Lyon which made it worth while. But if you’re looking for more in information and depth then you might want to choose a different tour. We would be reluctant to recommend this to others l.
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