Great Private Tours

Fabulous day out. Simon our guide was a gentleman and excellent guide for our ladies long lunch wine tour. Choice of wineries and lunch venue was amazing A must to anyone visiting Tasmania. Can't wait to do again.

We had a fantastic day with Steve as our expert guide, Wineries, whiskery and fine dining after a seaplane ride to kick start the day. Highly recommend if you are looking for unique and fun experience.

We had a great 1-day-tour to Mornington Peninsula & Phillip Island by Great Private Tours. Thanks greatly to Steve and his professional team. Our vacation is short and so we can only allocate 1 day for Mornington and Phillip. However, most tours of Mornington or Phillip requires 1 day each and 2 days in total. Besides most tours in Mornington do wine tasting which we had no interest in. Steve tailor made an itinerary for us that compact the usual 2 day tour into a 1-day tour.

It was a long trip from 08: 15 to 00: 15 which last for 16 hours. Our Itinerary included Brighton beach, Arthurs Seat Eagle, Peninsula Hot Springs, Ashcombe Maze & Lavender Gardens, Nobbies Centre Antarctic Journey and guided-ranger-tour of the penguin parade. Our tour guide is Matt. He is very nice, knowledgeable and professional. Matt told us lots of interesting and useful information about Melbourne. Furthermore, thanks to the very comfy Benz with recliner chair, we had very good rest on the van and can finish the very long itinerary in 1 day.

We are so grateful that Great Private Tours who arranged such a comfy, efficient, fruitful, informative and relaxed journey for us. Therefore, we want to fully recommend them to everyone without reservation~~!

My family of 5 had 3 tours with Great Private Tours, and the guides were exceptional. Compliments to Errol, Neil and Mark for making the tours delightful and truly enjoyable. Also many thanks to Sue and Michael who help with our transfers from/to the airport.

Steve organised one of the best tours of my life. He was polite, knowledgeable and could understand exactly what the traveller wanted. He customised our tour to give us the best experience ever. We were a group 17 with kids and elderly people and Steve made sure he gives us all the help to visit the spots like Great Ocean Road and Philip Island.

I will give 10/10 to Steve and his associates for organising the tour and would highly recommend him and Great Private Tours.

Booked a snow tour with Steve up Lake Mountain.and he was absolutely amazing. Warm, welcoming and informative. I told him I was proposing to my partner and he was super accommodating. Gave me ideas and advice relating to the area and worked amazingly with me to provide a comfortable experience. I can’t imagine what it would be like to book with anyone else and he made a magical day even more amazing.

Booked a snow tour with Steve up to Lake Mountain and he was absolutely amazing.
Very accomodating, welcoming and informative.

Steve and his vehicle were awesome! Even after nearly
Missing out on our snow day due to the weather - Steve stuck by and have us many other options but in the end we were able to go ahead with our day as planned!
His vehicle is so comfortable, the seats, AC and also provided us wifi and USB for charging.
It was perfect with 3 kids and grandparents.

Thanks Steve we will be back!

Steve was amazing! The tour was amazing! Will definately book another trip with great private tours! Steve you are awesome! Keep it up!

MEMORABLE DAY ON THE GREAT OCEAN ROAD
We (family of 5 with teenagers) had an excellent time with Steve on our private tour of the Great Ocean Road. He was very knowledgeable about the areas we visited and allowed enough time for us to explore where possible. Seeing koalas in the wild at Kennett River was pretty special as was our visit to Loch Ard Gorge. Scones at the Lighthouse Tea Rooms in Aireys Inlet hit the spot for morning tea. Steve made sure we got family photos at all the right places. The 12 hours passed very quickly and were broken up by interesting stops along the way and by Steve's easy conversation. The van was comfortable, and we appreciated the supply of bottled water. I would highly recommend a private tour with Great Private Tours. We would certainly consider booking with them again.

Wine tour to the Yarra was excellent! Steve organised it seamlessly and was well executed by Brendan on the day of the tour! Thanks you both.
The upgrade to the 11 seater was great. Thanks.
Brendan was very obliging and good company all the way.
5 stars all the way!

I can't recommend Steve enough! We chose the Great Ocean Road tour with helicopter ride and I am so glad we did. Not only did we get to cross the 12 Apostles off our bucket list but we got to experience this from above in a helicopter. Unbelievable! What really made the tour was the great and interesting facts that Steve pointed out as we drove along. It really made it more personalised than a large tour group. Definitely recommend for anyone looking at The Great Ocean Rd to do this tour instead of driving yourself.

Best day out with Steve! My husband and I had booked the Mornington Peninsula Food & Wine Private Tour as our interest lies in exploring the wineries of that area and enjoying a Modern Australian meal. Honestly, Steve couldn’t have curated a better “menu” for us. We got to taste at least two dozen wines across Moorooduc Estate, Red Hill Estate, 10 Minutes By Tractor and Montalto Vineyard (this fourth and final stop was also where we indulged in a most fabulous late lunch).
Steve happens to have a wealth of knowledge about Melbourne and beyond, and readily shared plenty of interesting nuggets as he drove us around in the amazing comfort of his Mercedes Viano to visit the wineries. We had been picked up from the doorstep of our AirBnb in the morning and were dropped off there at the end of our grand day out.
If you are like us and much prefer high quality private tours, you should contact this company. They are able to customise itineraries that suit your interests and can include even the more exclusive experiences such as helicopter rides and sea plane flights.

Excellent tour guide and great experience for the family. I highly recommend this firm for the best private tour experience in Melbourne. They accommodated and went over and beyond what we expected in our trip.

I was part of a group of 4 and we went on a day trip to Yarra Valley. Steven was our guide - I thought he was very knowledgeable and since it was a private tour, he was able to structure a tour that could cater to the varied tastes and ages within our group. It was a premium experience. Beautiful wineries, excellent dining, and a very comfortable vehicle.

Steve arranged a private tour at a great price for myself and 3 fiends in the Yarra. Peter was our driver for the day and was awesome! Punctual pick up, professional and friendly manner. We had a really fun day. I'd highly recommend this to those who want a comfortable and enjoyable day out:)

Steve is a great private tour guide for our Philip Island & Moonlit Sanctuary trip. Highly recommended!

A well paced day with a variety of outstanding activities. Loved the William Ricketts Sanctuary.

Melbourne was our first stop after a long flight from the US. Moonlit Sanctuary, beaches and Phillips Island along with Steve’s fantastic tour made it memorable. We give him a 5 Star tour guide!

Late review but here goes, brought the family to tour Melbourne on the 12th of December. Steve our guide for 2 days was very knowledgable about the history and stories of where we went, which was the Great Ocean Road, Dandenong Ranges and the Puffing Billy steam train.

Steve was also very flexible. It was raining on the 2nd day of our tour, and it was the day of our visit to the Dandednong Ranges. The experience itself was very mystical, sometimes eerie even, with mist, rainfalls, and with the occasional streaks of sunlight seeping in from the branches of the trees. Also because it was raining, Steve made some on the spot decision making of what kind of activities our group could do (indoor stuff). Some include going to a cherry farm, and getting some genuinely amazing cherries, and to some of the wineries.

Could not go wrong booking Great Private Tours for your next visit.