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Meet the London Insiders
Local London guides sharing the city beyond the highlights, through walking tours, insider stories, and hidden corners most visitors never get to see.
Explore Our ToursWhy Explore London With the London Insiders?
When you explore London with us, you are not just following a route. You are walking the city with people who genuinely live here.
Our guides are London locals, historians, and storytellers who have spent years exploring the streets, pubs, palaces, and hidden corners of the city. Every tour is shaped by real experience, research, and thousands of conversations with guests from around the world.
This is what makes London Insiders different. We are not reading from a script. We are sharing the city as we know it.
Meet Your London Guides
Our guides are the heart of London Insiders. They are locals who live and breathe the city and spend their days walking its streets, leading tours, researching its history, and uncovering the small details that most visitors never notice.
Anze Rakar
Anze left a corporate job in the City of London to walk its streets instead, and he has been leading tours for more than five years. Having travelled to over 40 countries, he has a knack for making a huge, unfamiliar city make sense, with a particular love for the quirky history most people walk straight past.
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Mike Hayford
Originally from Kent, he moved to London in his early twenties and developed a fascination with the city's darker past, particularly the stories and mysteries surrounding Jack the Ripper.
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Edan Simpson
Edan swapped the north for London eight years ago and has been digging into its history ever since. With a background in history and a soft spot for the city's oldest pubs, he is good at making the past feel close rather than distant, and at spotting the stories most people walk straight past.
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London Insiders was born out of one simple realisation. There is far more to London than its famous highlights. After walking the city with thousands of guests, we kept seeing the same thing. People loved Big Ben and Buckingham Palace, but what stayed with them were the hidden stories, the strange details, the forgotten alleys, and the moments that never make it into a guidebook. That is what we focus on in our tours.
Our guides do not just show you London. They tell the story of the city in a different way. Through unusual history, local legends, surprising connections, and the kind of stories you only hear from someone who truly knows the place. Everything we create is built around that idea. Our walking tours, digital maps, articles, and itineraries all come from real experience on the streets. Every recommendation is tested. Every route is walked. Every story is shaped by years of guiding.
When you walk with a London Insider, you are not just ticking off landmarks. You are discovering a version of London that most visitors never get to see.