A private guide builds your own custom loop through Phoenix and Scottsdale.
Work with your own private guide to build a 3-to-6-hour itinerary through downtown Phoenix, Scottsdale, Glendale, or other pockets of the Valley of the Sun, from Arizona State University to the Arizona Biltmore.
This tour is genuinely custom: you consult with your private guide ahead of time and build the itinerary together, choosing from real Valley of the Sun highlights like Arizona State University's campus, the historic Arizona Biltmore, the State Capitol area, downtown Phoenix, Glendale, or Scottsdale, for a small group of up to five.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Private pickup from your hotel or residence in the Phoenix-Scottsdale area.
Pass by the historic 1929 resort, one of the Valley's best-known landmarks.
See the real Tempe campus of one of the country's largest public universities.
Add downtown Phoenix, Glendale, or Scottsdale based on what interests your group most.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
Every group size is covered — from an intimate private ride to large multi-coach groups.
Up to 6
A fast, private ride for couples, small families, or business travelers — plenty of luggage room and a smooth, quiet cabin.
Up to 14
Comfortable, air-conditioned seating for small and mid-size groups — our most popular option for families and friend groups traveling together.
Up to 56
Our largest single vehicle — a full-size luxury motorcoach for large groups, conventions, and corporate events that still want one private tour, one vehicle.
Work with your own private guide to build a 3-to-6-hour itinerary through downtown Phoenix, Scottsdale, Glendale, or other pockets of the Valley of the Sun, from Arizona State University to the Arizona Biltmore. This tour is genuinely custom: you consult with your private guide ahead of time and build the itinerary together, choosing from real Valley of the Sun highlights like Arizona State University's campus, the historic Arizona Biltmore, the State Capitol area, downtown Phoenix, Glendale, or Scottsdale, for a small group of up to five.
Phoenix's own name has a real origin story worth knowing before you set out. In 1867, Jack Swilling organized an irrigation canal company at the foot of the White Tank Mountains to divert water from the Salt River, and by March 1868 that canal was carrying water to the first crops planted in the valley. It was Swilling's business partner, Darrell Duppa, who suggested naming the new settlement Phoenix — since it was rising, quite literally, from the ruins of an earlier civilization, the Hohokam, whose abandoned canal system the settlers were reusing — the same way the mythical Egyptian phoenix was said to rise reborn from its own ashes. The town was officially recognized on May 4, 1868, with Swilling serving as its first postmaster a month later.
If your itinerary includes the Arizona Biltmore, you're seeing one of the Valley's most storied resorts. It opened on February 23, 1929, with Albert Chase McArthur — a former draftsman under Frank Lloyd Wright — as its architect of record. Wright himself spent about four months on-site in 1928 consulting on the hotel's distinctive "Textile Block" construction system, pre-cast concrete blocks with a pattern said to represent a cut palm tree, which is why the Biltmore's design is still often mistakenly credited to Wright rather than McArthur. The resort was built by McArthur's brothers Warren and Charles, with chewing-gum magnate and Chicago Cubs owner William Wrigley Jr. among its early investors.
A stop at Arizona State University's Tempe campus puts you at the root of what's grown into one of the country's largest public universities by total enrollment, founded in 1885 as the Territorial Normal School decades before Arizona became a state.
And if your route swings through Scottsdale, you're in a town that's spent decades actively cultivating its Old West identity. Founded in 1888 by Army chaplain Winfield Scott, Scottsdale leaned into cattle-ranching history and, starting with a Chamber of Commerce campaign in 1947, built its whole downtown around a Western design theme and the slogan "The West's Most Western Town." The town formally adopted that motto when it incorporated in 1951, and the phrase was still distinctive enough to trademark in 2007.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.