We really enjoyed our tour with Ken. He was really engaging, knowledgeable and demonstrated interest in those he was taking on the tour. That he does it all voluntarily is really amazing and deserves a special mention. Thank you Ken.

Joanna was our guide, she really loves York and its history and knows it well. The tour goes up and down many steps some very steep. Joanna gave a good lecture on the places we stopped and gave us a good overview of the history, the tour moved a a brisk pace which didn’t leave a lot of time for questions. Taking pictures often meant you would need to hustle to catch up. It was great for the price…

Our tour guide, Ken, was very knowledgeable, enthusiastic and entertaining. The route was great and he kept the energy high and took the time to answers questions and share interesting facts with the group.

It was a mixed group with a range of nationalities and he was incredibly friendly and clearly enjoyed sharing the city’s rich history with us. Thank you for a great tour Ken.

Five star review!! I went with my best friend yesterday morning and our tour guide was the lovely Richard. He was very friendly, very knowledgeable and lots of fun.

This is a fun thing to do in York and it’s free! I never have any loose cash anymore as I wanted to leave Richard a tip, but I hope my review is just as good!

Many thanks, will definitely go on the tour again as I’m planning on coming back to York as soon as I can!

Great tour. Our guide, Mike, was lovely. He really knew his history and made it engaging and fun. Highly recommend this tour if you are interested in York’s lengthy and varied history. Saw lots of sites that you cannot possibly see on your own.

It was a very informative tour with our lovely guide Richard of York. I would recommend anyone coming to York to do this tour to learn the history of this beautiful city.

Tom was an absolutely brilliant guide who was fun and incredibly informative. There were places he took us to that I would have missed despite watching numerous YouTube videos and multiple google searches about the area.
What a fabulous place York is and how lucky are we, that local people like Tom are willing to volunteer their time.
Thank you very much Tom!

Fantastic free tour, Our group really enjoyed the tour of York on Saturday morning given not by a Yorkshire person but by a Scot called Fraser. The tour was brilliant helped by the great weather Fraser told us it never rains in York when tourists are visiting but I’m not sure we believed him! We were shown everything from Abbey ruins, to strange trees from a very small window to a huge one, from ancient walls to modern buildings, museums to Churches at every stop there was a story and just enough detail to keep everyone entertained and informed without overloading us. Do this tour if you come to York you will not regret it. Big thanks to all the group who do these free tours and to our Scottish guide for the day THANK YOU we really enjoyed it.

Thank you Ken for a great, informative and entertaining tour. We all loved it and learned a lot too. Your knowledge and enthusiasm made it very memorable!

Amazing tour, very informative from beginning to end. As first time visitors to York, we learnt things we never would have just walking around by ourselves. Our guide Kevin was friendly, funny, informative and was especially adept at helping us get into the Dean’s private garden in order to retrieve my mother’s phone which she’d dropped from the Walls!! I would highly recommend this to anyone who has wants to know more about this amazing city.

We loved the walking tour with Fraser and would highly recommend one of these tours. Fraser was informative and made the time with him very interesting. It’s a great way to see some of the city.

We loved the walking tour with Fraser and would highly recommend one of these tours. Fraser was informative and made the time with him very interesting. It’s a great way to see some of the city.

Our tour was with Fraser on a beautiful sunny spring day but even if the weather had not been fine I am sure that Fraser’s knowledge, enthusiasm, humour and love for all things York would have shone through. I really enjoyed the tour, learned a lot and would totally recommend this as a way to see York.

We had a wonderful tour of beautiful York with Fraser, a fantastic and knowledgeable tour guide. We loved his tales of historic York and would highly recommend him to anyone looking to spend two hours learning about York’s past and present.rnA five star tour, from a five star guy. And completely free.rnWould highly recommend.

Your feedback: Wonderful tour with Keith this afternoon’interesting history, great walking pace and a few chuckles as well. What a treasure this Association is for York and for visitors like myself. Thank you doesn’t do it justice. A grateful Canadian!

What a great tour! We enjoyed it very much.rnJim gave us lots interesting information about York. Would definitely recommend.

Amazing tour guided by Jim. We learned a lot about the history of the city. Highly recommended!

A wonderfully relaxed and informative tour of places that we had previously walked past without noticing! Thank you Margaret for your time and knowledge.

We had an excellent tour with Margaret this afternoon. So knowledgeable and pitched at exactly the right level for us. Many many thanks for showing us a York we would otherwise have missed. rn

I had the privilege to have my tour with Richard (the York lol) and it was excellent. Very complete, funny, interesting and enjoyable. I recommend it !! rn

Fantastic Tour lead by John Gallery. Very entertained and full of anecdotes of every spot we had stopped. He easily hooked with the audience.

Our tour led by Richard was very interesting and enjoyable.rnI would definitely recommend.

We had a wonderful morning touring the sites of York with ‘King’ Richard. He was very knowledgeable and provided some entertaining stories.

Amazing tour by Richard on Saturday. I was in York with 6 friends and we all thoroughly enjoyed learning about the incredible history of this amazing City as well as finding out lots of fun facts. I highly recommend this tour to anyone visiting. Thank you Richard.

What a fabulous tour! Jim gave us lots of entertaining and interesting information about the history of some of the buildings of York. Would definitely recommend.

A wonderful way to get to know a lot about the city! Fraser was a great guide, full of fascinating information and spending time in his company was a pleasure rn

How refreshing to have an articulate and interesting guide who really wanted to share his extensive knowledge of York to everyone in the group – no dumbing down here and I loved it! Martin was very accommodating – I’d actually booked for Sunday, the next day, but preferred to go on the Saturday and, fortunately, I was able to join a tour to fill in for a ‘no show’. We followed an interesting and well chosen itinerary with clever selection of foci from different eras. Martin was approachable and inspired confidence. Thank you – really helped inform my stay in York.

Great Tour ! ‘. Nick our guide showed a real passion for his beloved York. This guy was full of knowledge plus he kept us entertained with his humour .. rnWe thoroughly enjoyed every minute. It was a shame we had to cut it short to catch our train .. Thank you Nick ! rn

Had a wonderful and informative afternoon with Ian Drake.rnLearnt so much local history in the nooks and crannies of this wonderful and our favourite uk city rn

Excellent walking tour by Richard (of York) – informative, interesting, full of facts (some funny, some gory, all fascinating). Can thoroughly recommend this ***FREE*** tour – we were taken to places we literally would have walked past if we hadn’t had a guide. Some useful places suggested to visit at leisure too. Thank you Richard. rn

Despite the unfavourable weather, we had an enjoyable 2 hour tour with Nick who was very knowledgeable and enthusiastic! His knowledge on the city was amazing and we really liked that he drew our attention to quirky features and the city’s snickleways (alleys). We were impressed they don’t accept tips so really do it for the love of the city. What a great service to York. Highly recommend!

Jim was great and we really enjoyed his personal anecdotes and fun facts. Good sense of humour and it provided a good overview of the main spots of York. Only suggestion would be having a little bit more of a chronological narrative of York to hang the various historical stories off. Thanks for the great tour though! rn

Really enjoyed the tour. Guide David was knowledgeable, humorous and clearly had a genuine interest in the history of York. Tour is highly recommended.

We thoroughly enjoyed our guided tour around York today. Our guide, Helen, was extremely knowledgeable and sprinkled the content with humour which also made it fun. We found the tour very interesting and highly recommend it. Thank you.

Thank you to Helen for a very enjoyable and informative tour this morning. Helen was friendly and professional. The tour being free meant we felt welcomed to York by a volunteer who was pleased to show us round and share their city.

Excellent tour guide , very informative and entertaining ,telling the history of York

Excellent, informative walking tour of York. Thanks to our knowledgeable guide, Richard.

Really informative and enjoyable tour. John had a passion for history and enormous knowledge and seemed delighted to chat about all sorts. Great starting point for a weekend break in York. Highly recommended.

We had a great guided walk with Frazer. Really informative, interactive and fun. AVG is doing a fabulous job. We take a guided walk every time we go to a new city. This was as good if not better than many of the paid walks that we have gone for.

Joanna our guide was so knowledgeable. There were a few sites that were closed for Christmas, so she took us on alternative routes, through snickelways and to other lesser-known places. The Dutch House was a highlight. Definitely recommend her to others.

Kevin Briggs guided us this morning. He was great! Passionate about the history of what he showed us & very informative. Made our two hours really worthwhile. Very special. Angelos & Helen

It is a well time spent. We walk through York from a historical point of view, which makes us appreciate the beauty of this town even more. We also want to give credit to our guide, Mel, for the kindness and generosity to share his knowledge about York.

A really informative and knowledgeable tour with Kevin this afternoon. We discovered a lot about the history of York and was a wonderful walk around the historic buildings. Would highly recommend booking this tour!

Excellent tour with Kevin this afternoon. We learned so much about the history of York in just a couple of hours. It was a great introduction to this beautiful city. rn

Excellent tour today with Joan. She was friendly, knowledgeable and an all round brilliant guide.rnPlease tell Joan how much we appreciated her tour

Wet and windy day but Mick was there and took 6 of us on an interesting walk. He obviously loves York and disapproves of the way the Shambles has turned out. Some interesting nooks and crannies we went to.

Excellent tour with Helen. Just the right amount of information and pace and she was very knowledgeable about York and its history. Thoroughly recommended.