Kabayan, may guide kayo
Filipino tour guide in Paris — the one who drives you there too
Yes, kabayan — you can have a Filipino tour guide in Paris, and ours comes with the van. Licensed Filipino chauffeurs who plan the day, drive door to door, and tell you what you are looking at, in Tagalog or English. Nobody walks eight kilometres. Lola sees everything.
Tagalog · English · Taglish · Licensed VTC chauffeurs · Based in Paris · Serving all of Europe
Driver-guide, explained
A guide who drives, not a guide who walks
Our tour guides are licensed VTC chauffeurs who know Paris from behind the wheel. Here is exactly what that means for your day — and what it doesn’t.
Plans the day with you
Your dream stops, your dates, the ages in the group. Your guide shapes them into a day that flows — the right order, the right hours, the café stop exactly where it belongs.
Drives you door to door
Hotel to the first stop, stop to stop, and home at the end. No métro maps, no taxi queues, no counting heads on a crowded platform.
Explains what you are looking at
Why the Eiffel Tower was nearly torn down, which bridge is the one from the film, where kabayan gather on Sundays. Told from the front seat, in your language, as the city goes by the window.
Takes the family photo
The one with everybody in it, at every stop. Your guide already knows the angle where the tower fits behind the whole family.
Knows where the van can wait
Paris was not built for parking. Your guide knows the spot by Trocadéro, the drop-off at Versailles, the wait at Disneyland — so the van is there the moment you have had enough.
Comes with you where the van goes
Trocadéro, Montmartre, the Seine-side stops: your guide steps out with you. Inside the Louvre or Versailles you explore on your own, at your pace — or we point you to the official guided visits inside.
To say it plainly: we are driver-guides — not walking guides, and not state-licensed guides-conférenciers. Nobody on our team leads groups through museum galleries, and we won’t pretend otherwise. What we hold is the French VTC chauffeur license, professional passenger insurance, and years of showing Paris to families like yours — from the seat where the whole day is easier. That is what people mean when they look for your private Filipino driver in Paris; we simply add the stories.
Walking tour or driver-guide
Lola does not walk eight kilometres
Paris is wonderful on foot — for the ones who can do the eight kilometres. A Filipino family trip usually has someone who can’t, and someone in a stroller.
A walking tour
- Three or four hours on foot, six to eight kilometres, one quartier
- A meeting point across town, reached on your own
- The stroller bumps over cobblestones the whole way
- The group’s pace, not lola’s
- Ends where it ends — you find your own way back
A driver-guide
- The whole city in one day, seated between stops
- Pickup at your door, in Tagalog, on time
- The stroller rides in the trunk and comes out at each stop
- Your pace — merienda stops happen, naps happen
- Ends at your door, with the kids asleep in the back
If a walking tour of one quartier is what the barkada wants for an afternoon, take it — we drop you at the meeting point and collect you after. For the day with lola, the kids, and the pasalubong that multiplies, the van wins every time. It is the whole reason kabayan look for a pinoy driver in Paris in the first place.
One day, six landmarks
A Paris day, in the order that walks less
This is the day we run most often. The sequence is the point: each stop is a short walk from where the van drops you, and the hills are done on wheels.
- 01
Trocadéro
The photo first, while the light is soft and the crowds are thin: the Eiffel Tower framed behind the whole family from the terrace. The van waits close by; you walk a hundred metres, not a mile.
- 02
Eiffel Tower
Down to the foot of the tower — under it, beside it, up it if you have booked tickets. Your guide drops you at the closest point and tells you which entrance has the shorter queue that morning.
- 03
The Louvre and the Tuileries
The pyramid, the courtyard, the gardens — outside is where the photos are. If you want to go in, this is where you walk on your own: we drop you at the entrance and are waiting when you come out.
- 04
Notre-Dame and Île de la Cité
Lunch on the island, then the cathedral and the Seine from the bridge. Your guide points out the Left Bank as the van crosses it, so nobody has to walk it.
- 05
Montmartre
The van takes the hill so nobody takes the steps. Sacré-Cœur, the painters’ square, the view over all of Paris — and the merienda that is not optional.
- 06
Champs-Élysées at dusk
Down the avenue to the Arc de Triomphe as the lights come on, one last photo, then home to the hotel.
From €475 for the whole van, private, door to door. The Paris and day tours page has the full service, and our Paris itinerary for a Filipino family stretches this into three or four days at a humane pace.
Beyond the city
Versailles, Disneyland, Giverny — with the same guide
The day trips every kabayan family asks about, without the RER, the transfers, or the long walk from the station.
Versailles
Pickup at the hotel, the van as close to the gates as the road allows, before the queue builds, your guide waiting while you tour the palace and gardens — on your own, or on the château’s official guided visit — and the ride home when the fountains stop.
Disneyland Paris
Door to door with the kids: car seats arranged, stroller in the trunk, the van waiting when little legs give up. Your guide’s job here is simple — get you there rested and bring you back asleep.
Giverny
Monet’s gardens, an hour from Paris, in the season when the water lilies are out. The gentlest day of the week, and the one lola talks about afterwards.
Good to know
Language, price, and how booking works
In your language
English, Tagalog, or the Taglish most families settle into by the second stop — and enough French for tickets, restaurants, and anything Paris throws at the day.
One price for the van
Paris days from €475 for the whole van — never per person. Six kabayan share it; so do two. Versailles, Disneyland, and Giverny are quoted the same way, all-in, before you commit.
One conversation
Booking is one Messenger chat. Tell us your dates, your group, and what you dream of seeing; we reply with a plan and a clear price. Nothing is confirmed until you say so.
Straight answers
What kabayan ask before they book a guide
- Are you licensed tour guides?
- We are licensed chauffeurs, not licensed tour guides. Every driver holds the French VTC license — the professional requirement for private passenger transport — with professional passenger insurance. None of us hold the state guide-conférencier card, so we don’t lead groups through museum galleries and we never claim to. We guide from the wheel and on foot at the outdoor stops; inside the Louvre or Versailles, you visit on your own or with the museum’s official guides.
- Is the tour in Tagalog?
- If you want it to be. Our drivers are Filipino: Tagalog, English, or the Taglish most families settle into by the second stop. Lola gets the story in Tagalog and the grandchildren in English — in the same sentence, if needed.
- How much does a Filipino tour guide in Paris cost?
- From €475 per day for the whole van, driver-guide included — not per person. Day trips to Versailles, Disneyland, and Giverny are quoted the same way. Entrance tickets and meals are yours; the van, your guide, fuel, and parking are in the price, and every figure is agreed in chat before you commit.
- Do you do walking tours?
- No. We are driver-guides: we walk with you at the outdoor stops — Trocadéro, Montmartre, the Seine — but the day moves by van. If a walking tour of one quartier is what the barkada wants for an afternoon, Paris has good ones; we drop you at the meeting point and collect you at the end.
- Can we combine with Versailles or Disneyland?
- Yes — Versailles as its own day, or a morning of Paris followed by an afternoon at the palace. Disneyland is best as a full day of its own. We tell you honestly when a combination means rushing, and plan two days instead.
Usap tayo
Tell us your dates. Your guide does the rest.
Your group, your dream stops, your dates — and we reply with a plan and a clear price, usually the same day. Nothing is booked until you say so.