New York Private Tour Guide

Frédérique Antoinette Barbier is a licensed tour guide in New York and in Washington, D.C., and has been showing New York to international visitors for over 10 years. Frédérique specializes in private customized tours for individuals and small groups, opera & cultural tours, incentive & corporate travel, and medical conventions. Born in Switzerland, Frédérique is French and studied comparative literature, philosophy, and opera in the U.S. and Germany before coming to New York. She is fluent in French, German, Italian, Spanish, and English. Frédérique emphasizes architecture, history, and culture in her tours which are always meticulously prepared and researched. She loves people and travel and frequently acts as tour manager/tour escort on trips of 7-14 days in the U.S. and Canada.

Recent destinations include: the East Coast from Washington, D.C., to Boston; Philadelphia and Amish Country; Ontario and Quebec including Niagara Falls; National Parks of the Southwest from Yellowstone to Mesa Verde; Cowbows and Indians in the American West; and Jazz, Blues, & Country from New Orleans to Chicago.

She is creative, intuitive, and very flexible.