Chernobyl Private Tour

ChernobylX Tours start early in the morning at your address in Kyiv where your personal guide and driver is waiting for you with a comfortable Mercedes/Toyota SUV or van (Mercedes Vito/Sprinter) with A/C and WiFi. We welcome you with a smile and an airline level of disinfection according to the Corona-free tour manual. You will be given recycled newspapers from 1986 and in just 2 hours of driving, while watching a Chernobyl documentary or having a chit-chat about your tailored tour program and preference, you will arrive at the spot of the largest nuclear energy accident in the history of mankind.


Before your worldview will be turned upside down by the Chernobyl legacy, we will make sure your Chernobyl Private Tour will be super safe by doing the radiation’s safety, best practice and getting you your personal Geiger Muller counter (dosimeter). You and your guide design the expedition exactly the way you want it with respecting all the constraints of the Chernobyl Zone. Your Chernobyl trip will be a time travelling experience with first hand stories, bullet-proof facts and meeting and talking to real witnesses of Chernobyl – liquidators and Chernobyl babushkas. 

 Private Chernobyl tours became the most popular option during the 2020 pandemic and they remain the preferred choice as they are: the most compact, the longest, with NO GO places for regular group tours, and supersafe. Visit the iconic Chernobyl places at the time when nobody is around, go deeper and cherish a moment of Soviet nostalgia. The Pripyat Ferris wheel, Pripyat hotel, Swimming pool, elementary school no. 1 or 3, Kindergarten, or any rooftop of a communistic block of flats will drag you to the Cold War era with its beauty and evil. Whether you are a “location” hunter who wants to visit most of the nearly 200 Chernobyl tour places we handpicked for you, or you are a thoughtful living being who just wants to feel the presence of the past and now, in the very few and unique spots with goosebumps when they start to “talk” to you, you are at the right address.

We love to explore just like you, let’s feed your curiosity by places in Pripyat that have rarely been visited like the morgue, secret Jupiter factory, open-air dance floor, abandoned tank ISU-152, radioactive grab, underground shooting range, gasmask storage, radioactive soil laboratory, greenhouses, houseboat, abandoned cranes, the unfinished power plant units No.5 and 6, and many more. Not enough? To really time-travel back to the Soviet Union you are welcome to drive the legendary Soviet car, the Volga seen in the Chernobyl series and, even dress up like a liquidator.

  With this Chernobyl tour you can treat yourself with the unlimited possibilities of exploration, learning, photoshooting and drone flying. If there are any secret passions you are afraid to request – from fishing, to shooting a music video clip, bike riding, or simple painting, do not hesitate to ask. Also, ask us about the rules – in case you are not sure if something you love to do is illegal. ChernobylX will do whatever it takes to make your Chernobyl tour as edgy, as you wish. You will have enough time for your breathtaking pictures, finding spots which nobody else ever shot, and sure, we can still discover with you places and artefacts untouched since 1986.   

Chernobyl will uncover the hidden stories only when you talk to people who were there back in the 1980s. Thus, a favourite part of the Chernobyl private tour is to meet and talk to a Chernobyl liquidator who will accompany you together with your guide when visiting Pripyat, as well as meeting the Chernobyl babushkas – the lovely people who returned after the evacuation and decided to live in the Chernobyl zone until their very last day. Some of them may become your second grandparents as it happened to all of our guides.

You decide whether you want to spend your night in Chernobyl, or if you want to sleep outside of the zone – perhaps wanting to see the “New Pripyat” – a city which was built for the evacuees from the Chernobyl Zone, many of them are still working in the Chernoyl Power Plant. We recommend you experience all the nice Ukrainian dining and hospitality on your Chernobyl tour – whether a Chernobyl babushka will cook for (or with) you, you will dine at the Power Plant canteen with the engineers sitting next to you, or a decent restaurant will tease your tongue. And yes, you are welcome to try the local wine, beer and spirits as well – at the end of the day of course 😉

With 1,2.. 5 or even more days in Chernobyl you might fall in love with this epic, derelict place. You will become an insider, a person who will write his or her Chernobyl story. Do not forget to take your friends with you – not just to split the costs, but mostly because of the unforgettable moments together that will glue your friendship for the rest of your lives. How many? ChernobylX can design a tailored Chernobyl tour to any number of travelers (the maximum so far is 150 people in one group, can you beat that?). And remember: Every 10th explorer is FREE of charge!

BONUS

Virtual Reality on your Chernobyl private tour! The super comfy VR set will show you what the Zone looks like from above or from the inside of some of the buildings that cannot be entered today. Thanks to this unique experience you can fly over the Amusement park, stand on the top of the Duga Radar, or walk through the grammar school, hospital, or even kindergarten. The shivering moments that enhance your Chernobyl private tour.

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