Excellent, excellent, excellent!! I liked it so much! I took the tour with Mike, who explained everything so well, plenty of details on the history of the city, the conquerors, the kings, battles and so much more. I defenitely recommend the tour and specially Mike.rnThanks!!

Fantastic tour, very informative.rnCristina, a lady from Argentina, was an amazing guide! She is passionate about the Medieval period and she explained the history of York in a very engaging and interesting way. I learned a lot!rnAlso, the tour is absolutely FREE just as advertised.

We did the tour on 04 August 22. Excellent and well paced. Due to the tour: we were able to walk around the city and appreciate the history and associated richness.

We went on a tour this afternoon, guided by Nick. There were about 15 of us in total, including 2 dogs and a baby in a pushchair. Nick was so interesting and informative and took us to places that we hadn’t realised were there. The 2 hours 30 minutes seemed to fly by!rnWe highly recommend a tour from these guys.rnThank you so much.

Our superb tour guide was Mr. Mick Popka. He did an outstanding job with a group of about 15 of us. My favorite part was that Mick was so informative. This was not a \dqthere’s a tower over there, it’s old,\dq but rather more in-depth with information. We went to York SPECIFICALLY because of its history, so we LOVED all the information and how he delivered it. He also answered our questions about where to eat local dishes and which pubs might be nice to visit on a certain day / time. We would most definitely recommend a tour of York by Mick!

Really enjoyed our tour thus morning thank you to our guide Frasier who obviously loves the city as he knew so much about it and was able to tell us lots of really interesting stories. rnHe spoke to everyone between the stops to find out about what brought us to York and managed to introduce us to others in the group through shared interests.rnReally great tour so much to see was very surprised at the end when our guide would not take a tip this \dqfree\dq tour Really is free unlike so many others we have been on when they do a hard sell at the end looking for something.rnCan’t recommend this tour highly enough.

Just spent a very enjoyable 2 hours being guided by Liz. She is a charming and knowledgeable guide and led us skilfully through the streets of York. She is quite rightly proud of her adopted city. Thank you Liz for an outstanding tour. We loved it. rn

I’d strongly recommend a tour from the AVG to orient you to York both for the landmarks but also the history. Wendy was able to answer our group’s questions and clearly has a great store of knowledge about York, its history, and its people. You can tell she loves bringing people around and sharing York with them. We were only in the city for two nights on a trip from the US and the tour and Wendy’s detailed information was a wonderful way to experience York. rn

This tour was so much more than we had expected. Our knowledgable and personable guide Debbie really made us feel welcome and gave us a great introduction to the history of York and a good orientation to begin our own adventures. Thank you!

Really enjoyed the tour on Saturday morning. I am a local but I learnt so much more about York due to a wonderful guide called Steve . He was very informative and made it all very interesting . I was amazed at his knowledge . rnWould highly recommend this tour with Steve. People of York go along and learn more of our wonderful city .rnThanks Steve .

Although we’re locals, I took my parents on the tour yesterday. Wendy was fantastic – warm, enthusiastic and very knowledgeable. We all thoroughly enjoyed it and would highly recommended to visitors and locals alike. Thanks Wendy.

A massive thank you to Wendy for doing an amazing and informative tour. We would recommend anyone to book a tour through herern

Thoroughly enjoyed our walking tour of York while on holiday from Scotland. Our guide John was very knowledgeable and informative. Took time to explain in great detail the history of York. Recommend these tours to any visitor to York.

We had an amazing tour with Mick. He is very knowledgeable and it was great to learn so much about the history of the city. A really great tour!

The three of us really enjoyed our tour with Liz today. It was interesting and informative and Liz was a knowledgeable and engaging guide. Thank you Liz your talk was a memorable part of our short stay in the wonderful city of York.

Thank you to our wonderful tour guide Liz. My work colleague recommended this tour and you did not disappoint us and the added bonus the weather was kind as well!

We joined a tour today, Wednesday 11th May 2022 and our guide was Alan and he was fantastic! He was so enthusiastic and knowledgeable throughout the tour, cascading information. My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed the tour and learnt sooooo much. Many thanks to the generosity of the tour guides to give up their own time to impart their knowledge. Thank you, Alan!

Visiting York for the first time for a long weekend with my partner, we planned to take this tour to get an overview of the city and its history. This is exactly what happened, but we were actually not expecting such an interesting guided tour, given for free. Our guide Neil is really passionate about the city, extremely knowledgeable and managed to make us feel like the tour had lasted one hour less! Highly recommended, even for people who know York already!

Mick was terrific rnHe may lose a noun but that was easily remedied!rnPlease thank him for telling us about General Wolfe’s mother and the pub

We had a great walking tour this morning with our awesome guide, Nick! He was super knowledgeable, enthusiastic and humourous. We learned so much about the Roman, Medieval and Victorian history of York. This walking tour is definitely a great way to start your trip in York. Thank you so much for organising these tours, AVG! Also to our guide, Nick for having us today!

Alan was awesome!

Myself and a friend joined a walking tour of York yesterday, Thursday 14th April at 1:15pm (the tour guide might’ve been John?). I just wanted to say a huge thank you to the organisation with special thanks to the tour guide. It was a fascinating tour, delivered by an excellent and engaging guide who so clearly knew his stuff and enjoyed sharing his knowledge and enthusiasm. I didn’t get a chance to give my thanks in person as I had to leave early. I didn’t want to make a fuss so we left discreetly before the end of the tour. Therefore sending this note in the hopes you will pass along the message.rnThank you so much

Thank you to Liz for a brilliant tour. Even if the sleet got really heavy whilst she was showing us the cats. Highly recommended to anyone you wants to bring the history of York to life.

We Joined a morning with a lovely lady whose name I forgot. Our guide was a wealth of information and her knowledge of York history was very impressive. We learned so much about Roman, medieval and Victorian history of York. Excellent. Very memorable and we gained so much from our 2 hour + tour in challenging windy conditions!rnThank you, Elyana and Hadas

We have just finished the afternoon tour of York and it was excellent in every way. Very full, interesting, humourous, well paced, clear with a friendly interested guide. Highly recommended. Thank you

Loved the guide! Nick was super knowledgeable. We wish there would have been more walking to see sights and less narrative history. We enjoyed our time!

Keith Knight was an excellent guide and provided a really enjoyable and entertaining tour packed with lots of information covering the history and architecture of York. Keith showed us parts of York which we would never have found ourselves and was very generous with his time and happily answered all of our questions. Highly recommended. Many thanks, Keith.

Excellent tour by Ken. Friendly, knowledgeable, funny, and lots of info- without being overloaded. Drew attention to so much we had not noticed. Very best way to get insight into such an historic town. Well done indeed.Thanks Ken and AVG team. rn

We had a fabulous walking tour of York with Kevin. He brought to life the city and its many layers of history. We learned lots, saw many interesting places we’d have otherwise missed and were greatly entertained. Loved it snd would happily have paid for such a worthwhile activity. Huge thanks.

Really enjoyed our walking tour today with Mike, very knowledgeable and informative, with humour. Will definitely recommend to others. Thank you

Excellent tour on Saturday led by Richard A. Very informative .rnThank you Richard for giving up your time and I hope you were not too late getting home!

My wife Sue and I were so impressed by the guide Ken.rnHe was such a knowledgeable guy with such a natural, gifted style of imparting his vast knowledge of the city.rnIt’s a wonderful gift for such a man to give up his time for free. Thank you so much Ken.rnWe hope to see you again should we return, I hope we do.

My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed the two hours spent with Wendy Baker today. She provided an excellent historical tour through the streets of York from it’s earliest days and highlighted many fascinating facts we would otherwise have spent years learning. rnMany thanks to Wendy. We hope AVG continues to provide this great service.

We really enjoyed our tour with Rod. He offered so much local information that only a real local would know. It made the rest of our stay in York all the better for what we had learned. Highly recommended.

We Joined an all female tour, as it happened, with guide Helen. Helen was a wealth of information and her knowledge of York history was very impressive. We learned so much about Roman, medieval and Victorian layers and the social history of York. Excellent. Very memorable and we gained so much from our 2 hour + tour in challenging windy conditions! rnThank you, Audrey and Julie, Derbyshire.

Really enjoyable tour with our guide Debbie who brought the history of the city to life for us despite the damp and cold. Great to see the mosaic map on the tour! Thank you so much from the Nottingham Trent University geographers.

Our guide John was absolutely fantastic, very knowledgeable and humorous, we really enjoyed the tour and are recommending it to our friends

Hello, A huge thank you to Liz who did our tour of York for us today. She was very knowledgeable and gave a fabulous tour! Thank you so much, The Milner family & Rolo x

We went on a tour today 21/2 with our guide Joan. The tour was excellent . Very informative and done in an informal amusing way.rnJoan is a credit to your organisation and long may it last.rnWell done ****

Just to say a huge thanks to our tour guide from the 10:30am tour last Friday, a charming and witty man whose name we cannot remember but he is a retired York university lecturer. Because of the high winds several places were not accessible to us but, that did not matter one bit as our hugely knowledgeable tour guide described in vivid detail what we could not see. Even the eventual rain and cold did not dampen our tour guides spirits or sense of humour. The 2.5 hours just seemed to fly by.rnMany, many thanks again for this wonderful tour and we highly recommend this tour to everybody, young and old alike….

We recently had the pleasure of joining a tour led by Margaret. My party thoroughly enjoyed learning, seeing and subsequently understanding more about the history of this amazing city. We would like to thank Margaret as her knowledge and enthusiasm on all manner of York’s history made for a very pleasurable tour.

I joined a tour on a very cold morning on Friday Feb 4th led by Nick Jones and would like to thank him for the most enjoyable and interesting such tour I have experienced. I even forgot how cold it was (nearly). Nick was friendly, approachable and above all incredibly knowledgeable about York and his sense of humour made the tour fun as well as educational. I grew up in York and have recently returned but I knew very little about my home city. Nick’s enthusiasm and grasp of history has changed that and given me the impetus to look more into the history of this wonderful city.

We would like to thank Margaret for a most enlightening and enthusiastic tour around York. We learnt so much from her and it was great to see how passionate she was about it’s history. Would thoroughly recommend the walking tour and on the donation note, perhaps the VG’s could between them nominate a different York based charity each year that walkers could if they wished to, make a nominal donation towards. Thanks again. Alison

An excellent tour completed on a cold January afternoon. The guide, I think his name was Kevin, was excellent, very knowledgeable and provided all of the information at a good pace wit realism and a sense of humour. Would highly recommend this tour. Disappointed that we were not able to give any financial contribution for his time and effort. It would be nice if the guides had a collection box for anyone who wished to make a contribution which they could give to any local charity and keep the money in York.

Excellent tour given by Helen. Good pace, packed with history and very relaxed. Thanks!

It was by far the best walking tour I’ve been a part of. Nick was our guide and he was incredibly enthusiastic, knowledgeable and prepared. It’s definitely a must when coming to York. rn

I would just like to say what an excellent tour was offered by yourselves . I booked 2 tickets for my sister & 1 14.1.22 , 1.15pm-3.15pm . We would like to express our thanks to your guide Ian . He was so knowledgeable & really engaging with the group . We had an amazing time & feel we know far more about York then we ever did . Thank you again to Ian for a memorable time .

I’ll just say about Richard A: WHAT A GUIDE! As someone deeply interested in history and culture, listening to someone speak with passion is crucial when going on tour. Richard was passionate, knowledgeable and extremely kind to the various visitors. He gave us tips and tricks around the city, introduced us to his fav spots, and through stories and facts showed us a side of York we hadn’t seen.