Originally Posted by
Toshbaf
I have had two private guides that were not tour guides by profession but were local citizens that knew people that I knew. I suppose quality is potentially variable but both were good. One drove, the other did not.
This is basically how I met my guides. Not professional companies but being introduced by other people, or even just bumping into them. All that I have met have been good. One came from ShowAround.com but rather indirectly. (One guide had to leave her city on the day she was to guide me and recommended a friend.) All were good. I have heard reports of poor guides from others, but I haven't met such myself.