Yesterday we attended the guided tour of York with Charlotte (I think). We are very grateful for the service provided.rnIn the same way, we would like to congratulate you on the initiative of the association of volunteers. Thank you very much, Ana Cudos Rosales

Thank you! I went on the 13.15 tour today and I just have to say it was absolutely fantastic! There were 2 tour guides (one took a group of Spanish tourists and the other took the rest, including me) ‘ I can’t remember her name but just thank you so much! Amazing and I will definitely be doing one of them again. Wonderful guide, very friendly with an amazing amount of knowledge! Natalie Cox

An interesting and informative tour; well managed with a lot of people. Our guide, Geoff, would not take anything at all. We went back to Holy Trinity Church to make a further donation on his behalf. Thank you to Geoff and the Guides of York. David Owen

My wife, three children, and I joined Jeff, our tour leader, in the 1:15 PM tour on 1st July. We had a small group overall, maybe a dozen people total. It was a warm day, but Jeff’s energy and no-nonsense style kept the group, including our 12- and 14-year old boys, captivated and moving from site to site. Jeff’s commentary painted an excellent history of events at York, from the earliest Roman involvement clear through visits by the royal family today. In many places he added his own interpretation of history to bridge gaps and connect things, but he was always clear when doing so. We left with a whole new appreciation of the significant role York has played in England’s history, and consequently the deep history it offers. In a brief chat after the tour, Jeff explained that he’d gathered much of the info he presented from his own reading, which he said make more sense the more you read. We also discussed a few general questions that we had from our earlier travels in England, which I appreciated. Thank you to Jeff and the Association of Voluntary Guides to the City of York for this engaging and very interesting tour. We highly recommend the tour to others. Victor Impink & family

I took this FREE tour on 3rd July together with my wife and two American friends; we found it exceedingly good and very informative. The guide, Richard, was excellent, giving the information clearly while holding the interest of the group. The most amazing part of this enjoyable experience was the refusal of any gratuities offered, which in this day and age is truly remarkable – free really did mean free! Well done AVG and the City of York for providing such a first class service to tourism in your City. L Walker

Hi. I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed the tour I took with Margaret. She was so knowledgeable about everything and showed me so much around York. Thank you for offering this service to your visitors. It is much appreciated! Amy Teichman

The walk and commentary today was great! The guide (forgotten his name) was brilliant – full of info, knowledge and fun. I know a lot of folk would be happy to donate to some charity or other even if the tours are cost free, and a ‘labour of love’. This was the highlight of my trip to York. I have 2 brothers who have lived in York for 40 years and they both said if I had time to go on one of these tours – glad I did! Down from Aberdeen for a visit and have visited York on many occasions but never knew I was so ignorant of its history. Many thanks indeed Rob Peaker

\dqOn behalf of the Jaguar Drivers’ Club, East Midlands please accept our sincere thanks for the guided tour around the City of York on Saturday 14th April 2018. Allan, our guide, was very knowledgeable, extremely interesting and obviously very passionate about York. Everyone on the tour appreciated his style. Thank you again.\dq Robert & Jenny Ayres

I just wanted to pass on our thanks from the whole group for our walking tour with Neil yesterday. He was extremely knowledgeable and really friendly, making for a very enjoyable experience. He was patient with us for being a little late (trying to get 16 girls out of the house on time is near impossible!) and was clearly very passionate about York and all it has to offer. I’m sure I’ll be back to York at some point for another of your tours and I will recommend you to my family and friends. Thank you again, please keep up the amazing work 🙂 Caroline

An excellent tour… We had a fantastic tour with Barry at 10:15 on April 5. Barry mentioned that he had been a history teacher and he must have been an excellent one. He combined interesting stories, personal connections, and a wonderfully dry sense of humour to make the argument that York has been the location for a variety of turning points in history. We appreciated his enthusiasm – he is an excellent tour leader and we were so glad we were able to do this. Thank you, AVG, for this remarkable (and free) service. And thank you, too, Barry!

Thank you very much for the walking tour last Friday with Martin our guide – he was amazing!! We (6 Dutch people with one wheelchair) enjoyed York. The weather was very cold, and that was a little bit sad, but The Blue Bell was a very good (warm) tip!!! Thank You very much Martin!!! Kind regards, the Dutch friends from Arnhem.

Our walk around York yesterday was fantastic! Neal combined much knowledge with humor and energy. Visiting from the States again, we wanted to do something in the North. We weren’t disappointed! Thank you! Greg Carlson

I want to express my sincere appreciation for the guided walk my students and I received yesterday, led by guide John May. Our group of 22 university students is from Norway, and it was their first time in York. Although it was cold and damp outside, and my students didn’t all show up at the meeting point as planned, John led the tour with considerable skill and humour. He was well-informed about local history, and his enthusiasm carried the students through the afternoon. Generous with his time, he changed the usual order of the tour to meet my \dqlost\dq students midway, which was really appreciated. I know I speak for my whole group in thanking the association and John especially for a lovely afternoon yesterday. Jessica, Nord University

Just to say how much we enjoyed our tour with Peter this afternoon. He was very informative and the two hour plus tour past all too quickly. Will highly recommend your free tour to friends. Thank you

Hi, I’d just like to say thank you to all who provide this wonderful voluntary service. I did a 2 hour free walking tour with Jim yesterday and it was terrific! He was so knowledgeable and kind, sharing his time freely to show our group the wonderful city of York. He was apologetic about going slightly over 2 hours but I could have listened to his stories and information all day. Well done Jim and all the York walking tour volunteers!

Thanks, Margaret, for the great tour tonight!! Have fun with all the tours to follow. If you are ever in The Hague I will give you a tour of the city! Kind regards, Lobke

We joined the walking tour with Keith as our guide yesterday. His knowledge of the history of York and its many historic buildings, people and places whether in Roman Medieval or Victorian times was so impressive. By walking with him he was able to point out and we were able to appreciate places buildings and signs that would otherwise have been meaningless. He made the tour a pleasure to go on. We were so enthused by his way of bringing the past to life that in the afternoon we joined him for a tour of York’s historic pubs.

I would like to say a big thanks to our guide last Monday (14th August). He was wonderful, and amazing. The job of this organisation is huge, and I recommend the walking tour with these volunteers.

Wonderful! I would like to thank you for the most wonderful and insightful tour I had. Five stars, very highly recommended.

I just wanted to say a big thank you to Barry for a truly wonderful tour today. My boyfriend and I attended the 2:15pm (23.06.17), and were delighted with the content, delivery, pace and ambiance of the tour. So very engaging! I lived in North Yorkshire until I went away to university at 18 and ashamedly realised how much I didn’t know about my local city!! Thank you for reigniting my love for the city of York, and I have already recommended your tours to my family!

We applaud John for his splendid tour Sunday, May 21, 2017. We learned so much about the fascinating history of York as well as efforts to preserve said history. He moved us along, but not too fast for seniors, and held our interest so well we stuck with it for 3 1/4 hours! Thank you, John, & to the organization. Bravo! Kathy and Al from San Francisco

Dear all, my husband and I did your guided tour in March 25th, 2017. It was marvellous, we learned a lot of things about York city, with a lot of historical details, an also, we had the weather on our side, we are grateful for your time and for sharing your knowledge!

I visited York from Nottingham with some friends to celebrate my 22nd birthday last weekend. We joined on to the tour at 1:15pm on Saturday and I just wanted to say thank you to our tour guide (a lady who said she used to be a lecturer for archaeology at York University, I am afraid I did not catch her name) as the tour she gave was well presented, engaging and highly informative! The fact that not only her, but all your tour guides do this so routinely and free of charge is fantastic and highly impressive, so thank you and keep up the good work!

Some friends and I took the morning guided tour of York on Saturday, March 25 . Ray was our guide and she was great! We had a very pleasant and informative tour. It was excellent!

My husband and I took part in the 10.15 guided tour of York yesterday and had a great time. Our guide was John and he was excellent. His knowledge and enthusiasm was fantastic. It was very interesting and informative. This was our first visit to York and we’d highly recommend one of these tours. Thanks.

Many thanks to Peter for an excellent and most instructive walk.

The tour with Helen on Saturday was marvellous!

Just a brief note of thanks for an very informative and interesting tour . The enthusiasm of the guide for the City and its history is infectious and the enjoyment was in no way marred by it being on a chilly and slightly damp day . I would consider it an experience well worth repeating and one which I would definitely recommend. Many thanks to the guide for taking the time to share his knowledge,

We took a tour led by John. He was very informative and we very much enjoyed the tour. We have been to York a number of times before, so were pleasantly surprised to discover new things about the city on this tour. Thanks very much.

I’d just like to say a big thank you to Frank (originally from Aberdeen) for giving my husband and I, a very informative and enjoyable tour around York on 22/11/2016. He was brilliant.

My wife and I, and some friends, have just spent a very enjoyable, and informative, morning in the company of Harvey on the morning guided walking tour. He was very well informed, brought history to life, and injected some humour to keep us all riveted on a very cold morning. Thank you Harvey.

I just wanted to take a moment to let you know how much we enjoyed our tour with Chris through York. He was a wonderful guide, very informative and a lot of fun. Our students really engaged with the history of York and appreciated Chris’ guidance through the city (and dinner tips!). It was such a pleasure to work with him. Thank you for providing such a wonderful service. We look forward to booking future tours with AVG.

Dear AVG I have been asked by the Ilkley U3A group on Tour 1640 yesterday to give our very warm thanks to Alison and Nick for the excellent quality of the guided tours. Members were competing to find the most compelling compliments: expert, informative, humorous, lively, finder of unexpected gems, fuel for my next trip with visitors, truly enjoyable, well paced. In the end Nick got the ultimate accolade: ‘knight in shining armour’ for his exploits in reaching a stick dropped over the wall. We really were very impressed and will recommend you to other U3A groups.

On behalf of our whole group, I just wanted to send a heartfelt thank-you to Chris, whom we had the pleasure of meeting last Saturday afternoon for a guided tour of York. He was absolutely excellent and we all had a fantastic time following him around the sights of York. He really made history come alive and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, so thank you very much! We shall be recommending him to family and friends for any future visits to York.

We went on the free tour today at 2.15pm. John was our guide and was fantastic. Incredibly the tour is free! I have a disability and can be a bit slow when walking but I easily kept up. The tour is supposed to be 2 hours long but John is so enthusiastic it ran a bit longer. If you do nothing else in York please do this tour. Thank you John

I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the tour. It was both enjoyable and very interesting. Two and a half hours just flew by. Please pass on my thanks to our guide, Nick.

I would like to thank John who did the 18:15 walking tour on Sunday, 21 August 2016. His knowledge, his expertise, his worldly experience gave such a beautiful insight into your City of York. He explained things in such a way that I understood the history of York so clearly. He was so helpful and was able to answer questions that were asked of him. Thank you again, with love from this Sydney girl – Carmen.

Thank you so much from all of us Harry for such a lovely and informative day. It will help us enormously when we come to run our own day out in York, which we feel confident will prove to be a great success, only made possible due to all the wonderful help that we have received from all the people of York. It is a great job that the volunteers do for the city and we wish you all the very best for the future.

We joined the 6.15 tour on Wednesday with Sandra and just wanted to say we thought it was excellent! Sandra is very knowledgeable and had a great way of telling stories and keeping us entertained. I was wondering if you collected for charity or is there anywhere we could make a donation to your organisation? We didn’t get a chance to say to Sandra before she left. Again thank you so much for a wonderful tour

Charlotte is a top-rated guide. We had such a wonderful guided tour, she was so knowledgeable and witty too. Highly recommended

We appreciate so much the tour that Helen gave us on 11 June 2016. Since it was a large group, we were so pleased that she made arrangements for the group to be divided in two. The information that she gave us provided us with a great introduction to York so that we could then make our way back to the important sites we wanted to visit. She was easy to hear and to follow and the pace was just right.

We have just been on the walking tour of York with Barry. Absolutely brilliant! What an interesting tour, with a very knowledgeable guide and a great group of people. And all for free – totally recommended!

Thanks to Johana we could have an excellent approach to York’s history and views.Even though the tour was in English we could understand everything. Congratulations to your association and special regards to Johana.

Huge thank you to Sandra from the Aussies for her insight sprinkled with her humour. Never been on a walking tour before and loved it.

We’ve been on a tour of York today with our young family and Ian the guide was super his knowledge of the city and sense of humour made a very fun and interesting afternoon walking the walls and seeing and explaining the beautiful sites of York. Many thanks we will do this again when we have the chance.

Huge thanks to your association and our guide John for sharing his love and knowledge of your historic city. It was a delight to learn so much in a casual but informative manner ….. I’ll certainly be back to learn some more and see places we didn’t manage to visit. Your association is a great asset for tourism.

Dear AVG (particularly Fred and Chris), thank you so much for our tours and talks on Wednesday 10th February. We very much enjoyed the sights and stories, and hopefully our students have become a little more aware of the need for socks and gloves in February…!! Thanks again, you really offer an excellent service.

Me and my partner did a tour on 7.1.16 at 1.15pm. Despite the the rain and there only being 3 tourists attending the guide was enthusiastic and very knowledgeable. She answered all of our questions and more. Thank you for the experience.