During the warmer months of spring and summer, guests on our free Boston walking tours will often ask about how to take a cruise around the city. To make the process easier to understand, we created this article which provides details about how to get tickets for Boston boat tours and similar services, including sightseeing […]
Love Jimmy Fallon? Well, I do! Whenever I can, I try to see the show taped live. In this post, I'll explain how you can get free tickets for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. I'll give you the inside scoop on requesting tickets, and tips on increasing your chances of getting them, and what […]
Charleston is widely considered one of the most haunted cities in the United States of America. This post reviews and compares the various Charleston ghost tours. There are many options, including walking tours, carriage trips, prison visits, and pub crawls. Disclosure: While we think you should take our tour, we have listed several other options. Our […]
This post compares the various different riverboat tours, paddleboat tours, and cruises available to you in New Orleans to help you choose the right one from you. Disclosure: While our recommendations are always unbiased, we may receive a small share of sales through some of the links below at no cost to you. See the full text. […]
Times Square has many iconic features: the Coca-Cola advertisement, Broadway show billboards, the New Year’s Eve Ball, and… a man wearing only underwear, a cowboy hat, and a pair of cowboy boots. Ladies and Gentlemen, meet The Naked Cowboy! The Naked Cowboy was born Robert John Burck on December 23, 1970. He started off his […]
If you plan on shopping in NYC and want to save money, this post will lead you to the best shopping outlets. When I lead local walking tours here in NYC, many guests ask me about shopping outlets in the city or nearby. As a native New Yorker who has been budget shopping for decades, […]
In diesem Artikel findest du 9 hilfreiche Tipps, wie du die New York City Subway richtig nutzt. Wenn du dich im New Yorker U-Bahn-System zurechtfinden willst, kann es mitunter sehr frustrierend sein. 10 TIPPS FÜR DEINE FAHRT MIT DER U-BAHN IN NYC Die NYC Subway wird von der Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) betrieben, das Nahverkehrssystem besteht […]
With so many NYC Tourist Passes to choose from, this post can help you decide. See in-depth details on many passes as well as our analysis of them.
This post is about the Flatiron Building in NYC, including its history, how to get here, tips on the best photo spots, and nearby attractions. WHERE DID THE NAME FLATIRON BUILDING COME FROM? When famed architect Daniel Burnham's design for the George A. Fuller's company's office building was completed in 1902, it was named after […]
In this post, we tell you how long it takes to walk Central Park. But, of course, it depends on what you mean. We include the amount of time for several different routes so that you can see the options available to you. As local walking tour guides, who lead daily walks of the park […]
This post compares and reviews tours to and from Muir Woods National Park. We include organized bus tours from in and around San Francisco as well as how to visit the park on your own via a shuttle. Let's explore! WHY VISIT MUIR WOODS The Muir Woods National Monument is an area just a short […]
Whenever I have a tour guest ask for a recommendation of a neighborhood to visit while in NYC, I will almost always answer, “Harlem!” Full disclosure: this is the neighborhood I have called my home for almost all of my adult life. So I am a little biased. But I know that I am not […]
The first planetarium in the Western Hemisphere, now a National Historic Landmark, lies here in Chicago. It's the Adler Planetarium. I and many fellow tour guides, many of us long time residents of the city, have fond memories from childhood of visiting this copper domed "sky theatre." Recent renovations have meant the addition of more […]
This post is a summary of the March weather in New York City. Not only am I your tour guide, but I'm also a retired meteorologist. I leverage my experience to provide you with accurate weather forecasts for this month. We include snow and rain expectations, with tips on what to wear and things to […]
This post is about Battery Park, how to get there, and things to see and do once you are there, including getting great views of the harbor and the Statue of Liberty. Let's explore! HOW TO GET TO BATTERY PARK You can use this Google map to get exact directions to the northern entrance to Battery […]
Walk through the haunted streets of Greenwich Village. Stand above the hidden tomb of 20,000 yellow fever victims, catch a glimpse of a turn-of-the-century revolution set on an endless loop, hear tales of modern tragedy and murder, and trace the steps of our famous forefathers, who tend to linger past their expiration date. Almost every step through the West Village encounters the ghosts and spirits of New York City’s past
