Private Riga City Tours & Shore Excursions

Estonian Experience provided my extended family of 18 a very memorable experience as we visited Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallin, Riga, and Copenhagen. The guides were all very professional and knowledgeable, and their love and passion for their homeland and culture was evident in the way they introduced us to their culture. They were all prompt or early (always awaiting us, never us awaiting them), and very flexible in accommodating our group’s desires and needs. Booking with Estonian Experience for the multicity tour took out a lot of stress of coordinating with what would have been 5 different tour companies. Eva-Maria and her team were very pleasant and easy to work with, not to mention accommodating, and Eva-Maria herself attended a couple of our tours that had itineraries that were new to the company.Estonian Experience is highly recommended.

We arranged 5 tours and transfers via email with Eva-Maria. Some were complex, as we traveled from Tallinn to Riga to Vilnius using their service, with luggage transfers, and tours in between the cities for our group of 4. Every single thing was perfect, and Eva-Maria arranged things for us that were not on their web site. We were also lucky enough to get Eva-Maria herself for our tour of Tallinn. Every guide was excellent, every driver was professional, and every bit of logistics was perfect. City tours? No problem. Riga-Hill of Crosses-Vilnius? No problem. Just use them.

We arranged 5 tours and transfers via email with Eva-Maria. Some were complex, as we traveled from Tallinn to Riga to Vilnius using their service, with luggage transfers, and tours in between the cities for our group of 4. Every single thing was perfect, and Eva-Maria arranged things for us that were not on their web site. We were also lucky enough to get Eva-Maria herself for our tour of Tallinn. Every guide was excellent, every driver was professional, and every bit of logistics was perfect. City tours? No problem. Riga-Hill of Crosses-Vilnius? No problem. Just use them.

We were two couples on a cruise, and booked a private tour through Estonian Experience for Tallinn and Riga. Both were excellent! In Tallinn, our three-hour walking tour of the upper and lower old city went by in a flash. Britta, our guide, was a delightful young woman with extensive knowledge of the city, its history, folklore, politics and whatnot. She also gave us recommendations for other places to visit outside the old city and directions how to get there. In Riga we were met by Edita for a 5-hour tour of Jewish Riga. Edita was also extremely knowledgeable and as we walked (or drove) she gave us background about the city, the politics, the Jewish connections, which is what interested us. We visited the synagogue in the old city where we were treated to a wonderful monologue by Mishke, the guard/caretaker/custodian. We also visited a memorial site next to a synagogue that was burnt by the Nazis. The final visit was to the memorial to Zanis Lipke, a port worker who saved 60 Jews from the city by digging a bunker under a shed and hiding them there. He is considered a Latvian hero.
All in all, our two tours were excellent and are highly recommended!