Private Tour Services in Pakistan
Private tour services
Eight kinds of private trip, arranged on your dates, your route and your pace.
National Planners of Pakistan runs private tours for couples, families, companies, schools, small specialist groups and film crews. Nothing on this page has a fixed departure date. You tell us who is travelling and when, and we build the itinerary, the hotels and the transport around it. A private tour can start with two travellers when the party is a couple, and a private group of friends or an extended family travels from 12 upward.
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Private tour or public group departure?
Both are ours. The difference is who sets the dates and who shares the vehicle.
A seat on our own departure
We run a public group tour every week, at a fixed per-person rate on the dates we publish. You join in Lahore or Islamabad at a time we confirm before the trip and travel with other travellers, usually 12 to 20 of them. On Hunza that is PKR 23,500 per person sharing for five days, with longer versions that add Skardu, Deosai and the Skardu road. If your dates can move, this is the cheapest way to see the north.
The whole trip, built for your party
Your dates, your pickup city, your stops, your pace. A private group needs at least 12 travellers, or two when the party is a couple, and it is quoted on the number of passengers, the vehicle that fits them, the hotels you choose and the season you travel in. A family of six in a Hiace and a company of forty in two Coasters are working to different sums, so we quote rather than print a number.
Tell us your dates and party size and we will say which of the two works out cheaper for you. There is no obligation and no deposit to ask.
The eight categories
Eight kinds of private tour we run
Same country, very different trips. These are the shapes our private work usually takes. If yours does not fit one of them, it still belongs here.
Romantic & Celebration Tours
Honeymoons, anniversaries, milestone birthdays and proposals. Hunza in apricot blossom or autumn gold, Skardu’s cold desert lakes, a quiet weekend at Khanpur Dam, or a Naran cottage with the river outside. We arrange the room on arrival, a private dinner where the setting allows, a photographer for the moments you want kept, and a pace with room for nothing in particular. Couples travel from two people, and a wedding and honeymoon can run as one trip.
Read the full Romantic & Celebration guide
Photography, a short cinematic film and drone footage can be added to any of these trips: see how the couple shoot works.
Family & Social Group Tours
Cousins’ reunions, parents and grandparents travelling together, friend groups from the same neighbourhood or the same office corridor. From 12 travellers upward we split the party across family rooms and adjoining rooms, mix a coaster for the highway with 4x4s for the last jeep track, and keep the day short enough for the youngest and the oldest in the group. Meals, laundry stops, prayer breaks and a seat that does not involve a six-hour climb are planned in from the start.
Corporate & Business Tours
Team retreats, incentive trips, client hosting and conferences with a day out attached. Murree and Nathia Gali for a two-day offsite, Islamabad for something closer to the office, Khanpur for a single long day on the water, Lahore for culture and food. We book the meeting room and the projector, the single rooms the finance team asks for, the airport pickups at different hours, and the dinner that has to be good because the whole point is the dinner. Invoices and a single point of contact come as standard.
Educational & Academic Tours
School and university groups travelling for history, archaeology, geography, geology or architecture. Taxila and the Gandharan sites, Harappa and Mohenjo Daro, the Mughal city in Lahore, the Karakoram and its glaciers, the fault lines and the rivers that shape the plains. We work to the numbers a school actually has: a budget per student, a teacher to student ratio the administration can defend, packed lunches, first aid on the bus, permission letters and a briefing before departure.
Special Interest & Passion Tours
Trips built around one thing the traveller cares about. Photography in old Lahore and on the Karakoram Highway, architecture from Gandhara to Mughal to colonial, qawwali at a shrine on its appointed night, truck art and textile workshops, the food of a city walked street by street, birds and raptors in the northern valleys, or a night sky with no town for forty kilometres. Small groups, a guide who knows the subject, and the patience to wait for the light.
Adventure & Wellness Tours
Trekking and jeep journeys for people who want the walk, not just the view: Fairy Meadows under Nanga Parbat, Rakaposhi base camp, the Deosai plateau, Chitral’s side valleys, rafting on the Indus and the Kunhar, paragliding over Hunza, mountain biking on the old highway. At the other end, slow trips built around rest: a yoga or meditation retreat with a valley view, long mornings, good food and no itinerary until lunch. Season, fitness and permits decide what is possible, so we say what is realistic before you commit.
Artist or Celebrity Tours
Film and television shoots, music videos, brand campaigns, editorial and fashion work, and travel for performers, athletes and public figures who need the trip to stay quiet. We scout and hold locations, move crew, talent and equipment as one convoy, apply for filming and drone permissions where they can be granted, keep the hotel low profile, and put one coordinator between the production and everything on the ground. Discretion is part of the brief, not an extra.
Special Event Tours
Concerts, cricket, festivals, expos and Eid trips where the date is fixed and everything else moves around it. League nights in Lahore or Karachi, the Shandur polo in July, the Kalash festivals in Chitral, trade fairs at the Lahore and Karachi expo centres, and the Urs at the great shrines. Tickets at face value plus the fee we actually pay, rooms near the venue rather than near the sights, a car that waits until the last song, and the two days either side planned so the flight earns itself.
Every category below can include the wedding, the shoot or the conference itself. For full wedding planning see destination weddings in Pakistan, and for the pieces we can bolt onto any trip see our travel services.
How it works
From first message to last drop-off
Tell us the essentials
Who is travelling, roughly when, which cities or valleys you have in mind, and the band you want to stay inside. A voice note is enough.
We draft the route
A day-by-day outline with the driving hours, the nights in each place and the options that change the price, so you can choose with the numbers in front of you.
A written, itemised quote
Hotels named, vehicle named, what is included and what is not. Nothing is booked until you say yes, and nothing is added afterwards without your word.
We run it
Driver, guide, permits and bookings are confirmed before you land. Your coordinator stays reachable on WhatsApp for the whole trip, including the change you decide on the road.
The money
What a private tour quote covers
A private tour has no price list, because the same seven days cost different amounts in a Corolla and a Coaster, in a guest house and a five-star, in April and in October. What does not change is how the quote is written: every line named, and the total explained.
Usually inside the quote
Hotels with breakfast, a private vehicle with driver including fuel, tolls, parking and the driver’s own stay, a licensed guide for the days you want one, airport transfers, permits and entry tickets where we have agreed to handle them, and a coordinator reachable throughout.
Usually quoted separately
Domestic and international airfare, lunches and dinners unless you take half board or full board, travel insurance, visa fees paid to the government, optional activities such as a jeep, a raft or a paraglider, drone and filming permissions, tips, and a single supplement if someone wants a room to themselves.
Travellers coming from outside Pakistan are quoted in US dollars, either from the packages on our Explore Pakistan page or as a custom route built from their own dates and party size.
Where we work
Where we run private tours
Northern Pakistan
Cities and culture
- Lahore, Islamabad and Rawalpindi
- Multan, Bahawalpur and Uch
- Karachi and the Indus delta
- City breaks across Pakistan
- Cultural and heritage tours
- Ancient architecture tours
- Spiritual and sufi darbar tours
Who travels with us
The trips behind the eight categories
Before you ask
Questions we get about private tours
What is the minimum group size for a private tour?
Twelve travellers for a private group, or two when the party is a couple. Below twelve we can still build a private trip, but the per-person cost rises because the vehicle and the guide are yours alone. Families of five or six often take that trade, and we will show you both sums.
Can we choose our own dates, route and pickup city?
Yes, that is the point. Private tours run on your dates, from the city you land in, through the places you want, at the pace you set. We will tell you when a route does not work in the season you have chosen, and offer the version that does.
Why is there no price on this page?
Because a private tour is priced on the party size, the vehicle that fits it, the hotel grade, the season and the route. Printing one figure would be wrong for almost every reader. You get an itemised written quote instead, before anything is booked.
Do you run private tours for travellers coming from abroad?
Yes, and most of our private work is for them. International travellers are quoted in US dollars, either from the twelve regional packages on the Explore Pakistan page or as a custom route. We also handle the visa paperwork, the airport pickup and the permits that foreign nationals need.
Can one trip cover two categories, such as a wedding and a honeymoon?
Often it should. A nikah in Hunza followed by a week in Skardu, a company offsite with a family add-on, a shoot that ends in a short trek. Tell us both halves and we will build one itinerary rather than two.
Can we book transport only, without hotels or a guide?
Yes. A car and driver for a day, a coaster for a week, airport transfers at odd hours, or a jeep for the last stretch. The same applies to hotels on their own, a guide on their own, or a permit we file for you.
Can you arrange women only or family only groups?
Yes. We can allocate a female coordinator or guide where one is available, keep the vehicle private to your party, and plan the hotels and stops around what the group is comfortable with. Say it in the first message and it is built in from the start.
How far ahead should we book?
Peak seasons and school holidays fill the good hotels first, and a large party needs more lead time than a couple. For a group of twelve or more in summer, or anything involving a wedding, start the conversation as early as you can. Outside the holidays a few weeks is usually enough.
Next step
Tell us who is travelling
Send the dates, the number of travellers, the cities or valleys you have in mind and the category that fits. You will get a route and an itemised quote, and we will tell you honestly whether a public departure would serve you better.
National Planners of Pakistan, Gulberg II, Lahore. WhatsApp +92 344 7181087.