Exceptional tour experience - We took a one-day small-group tour of Gyeongju with the Busan Tourism Center, which included lunch and all the main tourist attractions. Since no other families registered, my family was given a private tour in a nice air-conditioned Hyundai Staria van. We had an absolutely wonderful experience with Chris Choi as our tour guide! His English was fluent, knowledge of Gyeongju was impressive, and he shared fascinating stories and insights that brought history and culture to life. He was attentive to our needs, answered all our questions with patience, and went above and beyond to ensure we had an enjoyable time. His passion for the job truly shined through, making our tour both educational and fun. Highly recommend Chris Choi to anyone looking for an exceptional tour experience.

Great tour! - Chris was an outstanding guide! He was very knowledgeable and friendly. We loved the scenery, walking tour, and in one day saw most of the major sites on our list. Korean food at lunch was excellent. Overall a great experience!

Best City Tour Ever from Steve! - Long overdue but here goes. We had Steve as our tour guide and he was absolutely the best. We weren't originally sure what to expect for this tour as I had been to Gyeongju as a child while my partner (from America) had never been to Korea before. Steve, who was completely fluent in both English and Korean, gave us such a fun tour and we are so glad we signed up last minute. For someone who did not grow up in Korea, Steve was extremely knowledgable and had a lot of interesting facts that you normally might not get from touring the city on your own even if you were educated in Korea. Steve is very easy-going, thoughtful, and makes sure that the tour he gives fits the agenda you are looking for that day. Whether you are Korean or not, speak the language or not, or knowledable in Korean history, we would absolutely recommend hiring Steve for the day and you can relax while you let him take you around. As the historic capital of Korea, he definitely had an impact on how we viewed the city by the time we left in the hopes of younger generations sticking around to keep the history alive in such a beautiful historic city.

A day out in Gyeongju - Our tour guide Steve was really engaging and brought to life the ancient history all around Gyeongju.

Gyeongju - Steve was great. Two very different groups and he managed both well. We saw a ton in a day and we would not have been able to enjoy all of the sites without Steve. He had bottled water for us and all tickets were included. It was a great day!

Great - It was 4 ppl very small group and the guide was very knowledgeable and gave many info. There was a driver dedicated as well who will drop you off in front of gate and pick you up so it will minimize walk. We did total of 11,000 steps on this day which was lower than expected. My husband and I enjoyed the trip!

Well-paced, informative, and fun day in Gyeongju - My partner and I enjoyed this tour. We were only stopping in Gyeongju for 1 day and a half plus we didn't have a car, so we found this tour to be the most efficient way to see the main sites...which were truly lovely and beautiful!. Chris was a great guide; he was friendly, engaging, shared some educational info on the area, and was a safe driver.

Awesome - Steve was awesome. I would highly recommend to everyone. He was very attentive to our situations and was very knowledgeable.

Recommend - The announcement of meeting time I had got 3 hours later, when tour was ongoing , that 20 minutes for waiting the tour bus in my hotel was quite nerves time . Guide spoke very good English , but maybe it is better to talk little bit more about history of the historical sites , what we visited and to answer to every question

A disappointingly short experience - Our tour in Gyeongju started early (we were picked up at 7:30am) but it also ended really early as well (we headed back to Busan at 3:07pm and arrived at our hotel at 4:37pm). Considering the hefty price we paid (Sgd 270 per head!!!) for this tour, I am utterly disappointed. Our tour guide, Chris, passed by Bulguksa while driving around 3pm and noted the long queue of cars heading to go in. Despite it still being rather early in the day, he simply mentioned that "the queue was too long, we probably will take 30 minutes to enter" and then drove past it and sent us home on our way. Note that they use the terms "guaranteed to skip the long lines" so this can in fact be considered false advertising. And more importantly, considering we paid so much to be able to visit all of the famous attractions in Gyeongju, I am very upset that we were unable to visit what was arguably the most famous one of them all (Bulguksa) which also happened to be the one being shown as the main photo for this tour. This is pretty much false advertising as well. Also considering the price we paid, I expected our tour to be more in depth and hands on. For most of the attractions, Chris gave us some short history about it at the start (5-10 minutes) and then waited for us near the entrance while we were left to explore the rest of the place on our own. I noticed that most of the overly positive reviews mention another tour guide "Steve" instead, so I'm not sure if it would have been the same had he been the one to be our guide for this disappointing tour. I do not think my expectations are entirely unreasonable. There were local Korean tour groups and the guides were present even within the attractions to provide explanations about the details of the place. Overall, the tour was a huge disappointment for the price we paid and I would not recommend it. You are much better off taking a group tour with a bus (see the tours available on Klook) for less than half the price of this tour or even just renting a car and driving on your own. The only benefit I can think of was the fact that the tour was rather unpopular so we had the car all to ourselves.