Boston Freedom Trail Day Trip from New York City

We recently enjoyed this tour thanks to our wonderful guide - Jonathan who was so knowledgeable on all things Boston, NYC and USA history. I would recommend this tour to anyone looking to see Boston in one day from nyc!

Tour guide was very knowledgeable and friendly. Bus driver was lovely and humorous. They even gave us discounts vouchers for lunch. 5 stars service. Highly recommend.

worst ever day trip No way is Empire Vacations Professional when these tour reps turned up 6.30am lets starts with Pick Up...French and Italian first to get to buses that had been parked on other side of the road 3 blocks down then English speaking folk next along with 1 German we then had to cross 4 lanes traffic to get to our bus parked down a side street. I was met by a scruffy looking woman who said im your guide in English i started to wonder what she meant then she said to me and 2 Australians to go sit back of bus i said Why the back i was told that all the front was for Italians and French tourists Trip Itself...Nightmare constant talking with a microphone by Eddie the tour guide for the French and Italian this was loud and constant muttering i timed an episode of him talking and it was 40mins non stop i said to Christine the english guide can you ask him to stop talking as its constant and loud she said he is talking all about Harvard University and she would try to speak to him however this didnt happen and my ears were ringing from his constant talking . on the way back to NY i was so glad to be getting back to my hotel the English guide started on about needing Tips and they all depend on tips this was the most talking she did on the bus {saying that she couldnt get a word in edgeways with Eddie showing off talking French X Italian} The Bus Itself... The bus had No Seatbelts the 2 Drivers for the journey didnt hav any uniform on This Trip was Tacky and Unprofessional i Booked this trip Viator like many other trips i been on and this Trip was Sub Standard it said on booking information A Professional Trip English Speaking Please forward this on to Empire Vacations

felt rushed all through tour, guide was not so informative..it was a ok tour nothing special . Guide walked fast and way ahead of group and we all needed to catch up. Quincy Market was the only highlight and we were on our own for about 2hrs or so.

Too old to be college students too young to understand what it takes to guide a group of people nor how to behave as a guide instead of a baby sitter. English not up to par for a tour guide. Often not know what the right words to choose to describe what they want to convey.

We enjoyed seeing the sights. However, the guide had an accent, was hard to understand, boring and repeated himself. We speak English but the other translator was translating so half the time we couldn't hear. For $169 pp, we had higher expectations. Very disappointing.

I got an overall impression thanks to my own knowledge beforehand. Otherwise I would be wondering all the time . There were 4 English speakers but everything was explained only to the first row of seats, pictures were shown to them etc. Also guide`s English was far from normal and very hard to understand (when heard)

In all the visit was good but the van used for transportation is not adequate for such long distances, the seats are narrow and there is no place to put your handbags/backpacks or similar.

We really enjoyed this day trip. A snap shot of Boston but well organised and informative .Guide was good. Watched a DVD on long evening drive back to NYC.

Very disappointed with this day trip to Boston from NYC. Very disappointing! Our tour guide was from Japan and educated in China. Her English was not great. She had learnt most of her limited American History off of Wikipedia and basically parroted what she had learnt. The tour spent an unnecessary length of time at Service centres on the way and back. Time wasted could have been spent longer in Boston on the Freedom trail. She spent most the time chatting in Cantonese with the two Chinese customers and skimming over important facts. This tour would be better suited if the guide was American born and educated with a good command of American history and culture. Waste of money and time.