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Never knew I could learn so much on a 2-hour walking tour and stay so engaged the whole time! The tour was packed with so many fun facts that made you go aha! – I was not bored the whole time. Our guide was Mike, and his deep knowledge of history and presentation of the stories made it so so enjoyable! And definitely inspired me to go read up on more facts about York and the English history.

Lisa W

10-06-2025

Such an informative tour. I have travelled the world and paid top dollar for city tours, and this was head and shoulders above the rest and FREE. Amazing. Thank you so much.

Yvonne

02-06-2025

Amazing tour! Wendy was great! Red really enjoyed it!

Manuela

26-05-2025

Our guide Wendy was very knowledgeable about the history of the beautiful city of York. Recommended to get a good feel for the city and learn something along the way!

Jonathan van Noppen

26-05-2025

Just a quick email to say a ‘Big Thank You’ to your wonderful tour guide Debbie. She was very informative, humorous and made the whole tour yesterday very enjoyable. We had friends with us who had travelled from New Zealand and were very enamoured by it all.

Kindest regards.

Gev Nichol

24-05-2025

Joined the afternoon tour today with guide Mick Popka. This tour was fantastic and I couldn’t recommend it more. Mick was a great guide and very engaging and very knowledgeable. I would recommend this tour.to anyone visiting York 10 out of 10.

Michael B

23-05-25

What a wonderful tour and experience this is. John W our guide was very knowledgeable and really knows his history, not just about York itself. I would highly recommend this tour, you’ll actually see York and places that you wouldn’t otherwise see or appreciate without the extra bit of history/information. Thanks John from the couple from Wales.

Teresa

20-05-2025

Wow! Our guide Wendy was delightful and shared the history of York that captured our attention and peaked interest to learn even more. Our time in York is a highlight of our 10 trip around England. Thanks Wendy!

Laura

18-05-2025

We had a wonderful and highly informative tour by Kevin. His knowledge of the history of York is extensive and his blending of facts with humor and interesting anecdotes made the tour so very interesting. Great way to understand the history of the area and its inhabitants.

Jim and Lee Mahoney

16-05-2025

Fantastic tour from Pete today. I learnt so much and he pointed out many little details you would normally just walk past. Highly recommend this tour, York is a fascinating city.

Jackie

15-05-2025
  1. 4 travellers from Canada. Fraser was a great tour guide and very knowledgeable.
    Highly recommend!

Nola

13-05-2025

Best walking tour I have ever been on! Richard was friendly, informative and a gread advert for York. Would highly recommend 🙂

Kayt

10-05-2025
Dear Ken,
I’m so glad you and Kashif put our students through their paces- quite literally on the tour yesterday.
I just wanted to let you know that aside from a few sore legs,  I’ve heard nothing but glowing recounts of the tour, including from Kashif, and the student cohort. They were particularly impressed at your knowledge, and even some students are looking to create mini-films of the tour to upload on LinkedIn, as long as this is something you’re comfortable with. I’ve heard “wonderful experience” and similar emotives, which I think is a real testament to the preparation and effort you and Kashif put into delivering the session.
A testament from Ali Hamza, an MSc Project Management student who joined the tour
“Thank you so much for organizing such a wonderful trip! Everything was planned to perfection — from the destinations to the smallest details.”
This was a rare experience for our masters students, budgets are tight and as such we do not have lots of opportunities to get our and do day trips like this. However, I’m positive that their tour with you will form a lasting memory of their time studying in UK. For that, I want to say Thank You.

Dr Efan Johnson

07-May-2025

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.

Kerie Exall

10-May-2025

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…

Joan

07-May-2025

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.

Emma Leach

26-Apr-2025

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!

Dara Cura

25-Apr-2025

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.

Joseph Guy

23-Apr-2025

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.

Ibrahim Frawan

22-Apr-2025

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!

Tara

20-Apr-2025

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.

Aimee

12-Apr-25

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!

Karaline

12-Apr-25

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.

Liz Bailey

05-Apr-25

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.

Janet Field

12-Apr-25

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.

Janet Field

12-Apr-25

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.

Nigel Borthwick

12-Apr-25

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.

Ros Borthwick

12-Apr-25

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!

VAL

11-Apr-25

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

Gustavo

08-Apr-25

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

Maria

08-Apr-25

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

Katie King

03-Apr-25

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

Valerie Fairbrass

03-Apr-25

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

Maria

21-Mar-25

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

Fernando

22-Mar-25

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

Anette

15-Mar-25

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

Wine and Walking

15-Mar-25

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.

Lisa Percox

15-Mar-25

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.

Clare Knapman

15-Mar-25

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

Ian and Marianne

05-Mar-25

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.

Helen Cox

08-Mar-25

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

Karen Harris

07-Mar-25

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

Jamez

06-Mar-25

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

Peter Osborne

01-Mar-25

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!

Joanne and David

23-Feb-25

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

Kel

15-Feb-25

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

Paul Grasske

12-Feb-25

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.

Helen T

29-Jan-25

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.

Suzy

15-Jan-25

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