
Voyzo runs 9 tours in Montevideo, covering 5 top attractions. A private tour means your own guide, driver, and vehicle and an itinerary built around your group rather than a fixed bus schedule.
Private Tours
A private, air-conditioned or electric vehicle and a local guide build the day around your interests — from Ciudad Vieja's Art Deco streets to the hilltop fortress overlooking the bay.
Private Tours
A private guide leads you through Montevideo's historic neighborhoods, green spaces, and coastal avenue, with optional add-ons like a traditional mate tasting or a local food tour.
Private Tours
A private walking tour through Ciudad Vieja's historic core — Palacio Salvo, the Artigas Mausoleum, Solís Theatre, the Cathedral, and Plaza Zabala — with a licensed guide, on foot rather than from a vehicle.
Private Tours
A private 3-hour city tour followed by an authentic Uruguayan asado in a typical home setting — light the fire, grill alongside your host, and finish with panqueques con dulce de leche and Uruguayan wine.
Private Tours
See the headquarters of Uruguay's Executive, Judicial, and Legislative powers, the Agricultural Market, Estadio Centenario, and a former quarry reborn as a waterfall lake, with a private local guide.
Private Tours
A private guide meets you at the port for a half-day tour of Montevideo's coastal barrios and historic center, with an optional extension to a real Canelones-region winery for a Tannat tasting.
Private Tours
A private, chauffeur-driven tour of Montevideo with a dedicated driver-guide, built for travelers who want a more polished, unhurried version of the classic city loop.
Private Tours
A private evening tour through Montevideo's main sights as the workday winds down, followed by dinner and a live show of Uruguay's own tango, milonga, and candombe traditions.
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A private half-day trip from Montevideo to Bodega Bouza, a real, well-regarded Uruguayan winery known for its Tannat and its on-site vintage car and plane collection, with a guided tasting and gourmet lunch.
Private tours in Montevideo are matched to your party size — here's the fleet we draw from for this region.
| Vehicle | Model | Capacity | Best For |
|---|---|---|---|
| Private Car / SUV | Toyota SW4 or similar | Up to 5 guests | A private car and driver for couples or small families — comfortable for a half-day loop through Montevideo's Old City or a full-day drive out to Colonia del Sacramento or Punta del Este. |
| Mercedes-Benz Sprinter Van | Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, air-conditioned | Up to 12 guests | The standard vehicle for private group tours across Uruguay — air-conditioned and comfortable for the coastal drives between Montevideo, Colonia del Sacramento, and Punta del Este. |
| Mini-Coach | Mercedes-Benz or Volkswagen mini-coach | Up to 25 guests | For larger groups touring together — a full-size mini-coach with one driver and one itinerary for the whole party, well suited to Uruguay's wine-country and beach-town day trips. |
Popular stops our guides build into Montevideo itineraries — tap any attraction to learn more.
Ciudad Vieja (Old City)
Montevideo
Montevideo's original historic core, laid out by Spanish colonists in the 1720s on a peninsula between the bay and the Río de la Plata. Today it's a dense mix of Art Deco towers, 19th-century government buildings, and cobblestone plazas, anchored by Plaza Independencia and Plaza Constitución (Plaza Matriz). It remains the seat of Uruguay's national government alongside its oldest surviving streets.
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Palacio Salvo
Montevideo
A landmark early-20th-century tower overlooking Plaza Independencia, completed in 1928 and briefly the tallest building in South America. Designed by Italian architect Mario Palanti (who also designed Buenos Aires' similar Palacio Barolo), it combines apartments, offices, and a distinctive spired silhouette that has become Montevideo's most recognizable skyline landmark.
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Mercado del Puerto
Montevideo
A 19th-century iron-framed market hall near Montevideo's old port, prefabricated in England and erected in 1868. It's now packed with parrilla grill restaurants serving Uruguayan beef straight off open charcoal fires, and is one of the most-visited real landmarks in the city, especially on weekend afternoons when locals and visitors alike pack its wooden counters.
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Rambla de Montevideo
Montevideo
A continuous coastal promenade tracing Montevideo's entire waterfront for roughly 22 kilometers, often cited as the longest uninterrupted sidewalk in the world. It links the Old City to the beachside neighborhoods of Pocitos, Punta Gorda, and Carrasco, and is where much of daily Montevideo life happens — walking, cycling, and drinking mate along the Río de la Plata.
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Estadio Centenario
Montevideo
Built in 1930 to host the first-ever FIFA World Cup, which Uruguay won on home soil. It remains the only stadium in the world that FIFA has formally declared a global football monument. The complex includes the Museo del Fútbol, home to trophies and memorabilia from Uruguay's football history, and is still used for the national team's matches today.
Montevideo sits in the Southern Hemisphere, so summer runs December to February (warm, often humid) and winter runs June to August (mild by most standards, but damp and windy off the Río de la Plata). Spring (September–November) and fall (March–May) are generally the most comfortable times to visit.
Uruguayans carry a mate gourd and thermos of hot water almost everywhere — on the Rambla, at the office, even walking down the street. It's a genuine daily ritual, not a tourist performance, and locals are usually happy to explain it if you ask.
As in much of the Southern Cone, dinner in Montevideo often doesn't start until 9pm or later, and restaurants may not fill up until closer to 10pm.
Cards are widely accepted at hotels and larger restaurants, but small market stalls, some taxis, and family-run spots may prefer Uruguayan pesos in cash.
The UNESCO-listed town of Colonia is about two hours from Montevideo by road (and also reachable by ferry from Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the other side of the Río de la Plata) — confirm which side of the river your day trip departs from before booking.
Uruguay's Tannat grape, originally from southwest France, has become the country's signature red — grown mainly in the Canelones region just outside Montevideo, a short private day trip from the city.
Montevideo is a low-key, walkable capital that rarely tries to impress you all at once — Art Deco towers and Beaux-Arts government palaces line the Old City, a 22-kilometer coastal promenade (the Rambla) wraps the whole waterfront, and the smell of grilling beef from Mercado del Puerto drifts through the old port most afternoons. It's Uruguay's political, cultural, and economic center in one compact city, and consistently ranks among Latin America's safest and highest quality-of-life capitals.
Voyzo's private tours in Montevideo are driver-led experiences — a private vehicle and local guide for your own group, whether that's a half-day loop of the Old City and Rambla, a hands-on Uruguayan asado experience, a visit to a real Canelones-region winery, or a full-day trip out to the UNESCO town of Colonia del Sacramento or the beaches of Punta del Este.
Tell us your group size and dates — we'll take care of the rest.