This was AWESOME! Marshal was incredibly knowledgeable! Great time all around! I would do it again!read more

Really fun tour and super informative!…read more Great for big group or small groups. We had 4 people in our party but the tour total was about 25 people & by the end of the tour we had gotten to know everyone and were all friends. At least half of our tour were locals from NY which right off the bat was a great sign this isn't your typical touristy thing. Such a great activity to do with out of town friends b/c It feels like a local secret, you learn a lot about the history of beer in NYC, and you drink a lot of tasty beer. We went on the Express Tour. I cannot wait to go on the regular tour next time!

Amazing tour and Ethan and Jon were both amazing!!! The tour was great and very informative. I…read morefound a few beers I really like that I thought I wouldn't and got to find two new places I never knew existed and was drunk by mid day! Will definitely do this again with more friends.

Jonathan was really fantastic during the tour, really fun guide and didn't even see the time goread more

I've known Tania for over 15 years. I own Airbnb's, a restaurant, and a wine tour company for…read moreItaly and Mexico. Locally, I like to refer my guests and clients to Tania for Hudson Valley tours. Each time I have recommended her, the guests give me rave reviews and thank me for a great time. Tania knows all the Hudson Valley hot spots. Her "Take Me to the Vino" tour is great. It's much more than wine. It's food, entertainment, games, raffles etc... Don't hesitate to call The Little Wine Bus for a wine tour in the Hudson Valley.

Tania and her crew do an exceptional job, from first contact till the hug goodbye. Already planning…read moreour next tasting for the fall.

I HAD to go back to this because it's such an amazing experience. I'm sure they do more than "Fall…read moreFoliage" trips but that's when I visited in the past. Despite my best efforts in the past to do Fall train rides, which turned out to be disappointing only because there was never any good colors on trees, this by far is the very best fall foliage experience I've ever had in my life. You get great views of the tree color transitions and just great photo opportunities. It does get cold on the water so bring a jacket. Experience is as excellent as last time with beverages and snacks for purchase. If you enjoy fall colors, great scenery and boats then you have to do this at least once.

A peaceful Hudson River cruise from Peekskill to Bear Mountain. Beautiful views and a truly…read morerelaxing experience! Such a wonderful way to spend the day. Very pleased with this cruise!

Are you wondering is a food tour in NYC fun and delicious? It is! Book one with Brian! His tour…read morewas full of culture, history, stories, and the most wonderful tastes (BIG tastes) of NYC neighborhoods. He has a great voice you can hear through his mask. Walking along, greetings were exchanged between Brian and neighborhood residents. Charming. Safe clean toilets at one of our stops. Here's where we dined as part of our tour: Fried Dumpling Upside Pizza (Upside Pizza.com) Yonah Shimmel Kish Bakery (Knishery.com Loreley Beer Garden (Loreleyncy.com)

Our guide for our Brooklyn/DUMBO tour ANGELO was the best tour guide we've ever experienced. My…read morehusband and I are regular tour takers in every city we visit. Angelo's secret weapon is his animated storytelling. He brought Brooklyn to life for us by highlighting the lives of historic and powerful women and other minorities who built the incredible city and fought to keep it locally owned and inclusive of all. Every tour stop was not only a great photo spot, but also a moment in history. We ate a wide variety of local food from pizza to dumplings and left with a profound sense of place and full bellies. Thank you, Angelo!

Five stars for Scott's Pizza Tours, and that's only because six is not an option Yelp provides…read more Imagine a man who has taken the idea of pizza, which most people treat as a thing you fold in half on a street corner, and decided it deserves a Rosetta Stone. That man is Scott. We met him at Keste in the Financial District, and before he said much of anything, I noticed something unusual. Several of the people on our tour had done it before. They were back for more. That seemed as telling as anything else. People do not go on vacation and repeat the same bus ride unless something extraordinary is waiting for them on the other end. Scott does not work from a script. He looks at the group, he looks at the day, and then he consults the secret weather system in his head. Out came our route. Four stops, starting at our meeting point in Manhattan's Financial District and three more scattered like wayward toppings on the city map. Queens. The Bronx. Harlem. Lucky us. Scott told us that combination hardly ever happens. To him it was chance. To the rest of us it was magic. The stops themselves were like chapters in a book. At Keste we learned about the precision of Neapolitan tradition. At Patsy's in Harlem we felt the weight of history, coal ovens burning with the same stubbornness they have for generations. At Mario's on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx, an owner with stories longer than the line outside the door talked to us like we were old friends. At Philomena's in Queens, Scott was so at home that he even took a customer's order when the restaurant was swamped by our presence. Every stop had its secrets revealed. Oven temperatures. Dough hydration percentages. Family feuds. Bake times. Flour suppliers. How long a pizza can sit before the soul leaks out of it. Scott called over owners, opened kitchen doors, and invited us to peer inside the fiery mouths of the ovens like pilgrims gazing at sacred relics. Scott himself is difficult to explain without sounding untrustworthy. He is a human encyclopedia with a perfectly tuned sense of joy. He has a Rolodex in his brain that seems to contain the phone number of every pizza maker on earth. I mentioned Hamilton and he talks about Papa's and DeLorenzo's as if we were neighbors. Others mentioned Seattle and Las Vegas, and he told them where to eat, who to meet, and when to go. He casually suggested lowering the water percentage from 66 to 63 for another guest's home pizza dough, as if adjusting the tides. Then he mentioned that after our tour he would be home making 16 doughs for his guides, who were planning to test a new oven. I believed him. He also radiates decency. He runs Slice Out Hunger, a nonprofit that takes the love of pizza and turns it into meals for people who need them most. It is good to know a person can devote their life to melted cheese and still be entirely serious about kindness. This tour filled us with more than pizza. It gave us a sense of belonging. Everyone, from my ten year old to a pizza shop owner who happened to be along for the ride, was entertained and educated and full. Scott's Pizza Tours is not just about pizza, although the pizza is wonderful. It is about a man who has built a community, and who invites strangers to step inside it for a few hours. If you are a casual eater, a home chef, or someone who has already built your own pizzeria, this is for you. Five stars. The highest recommendation.

This private tour was a Christmas gift for my wife, a native New Yorker and pizzaholic. We traveled…read morefrom Houston and did Pizza School NYC on a Saturday and Scott's Pizza Tours on the following Monday. Our guide, David, was marvelous. We could tell that he has studied the history of the places he took us to, but he also knew quite a bit about the science of pizza making. Further, he was extremely polite and just generally a fun dude to hang out with. It was very obvious that David did not consider this to be work, even though it's his job. We chose to have the majority of our tour was in Greenwich Village, and it included some rich, historical pizzerias. We had our favorites, but every location was clutch. And we returned to the hotel very full! We are national and international travelers, and we have taken our fair share of tours. Scott's Pizza Tours and our guide, David, rank near the top of our experiences.

TEP deserves more than 5 stars for the amazing start to finish service we experienced on our 7 day…read moreadventure to Peru to hike the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. From the time we signed up, to the time we boarded the plane to return home, TEP took care of every detail. We commented amongst ourselves that we felt like kids on vacation with our parents, as we didn't have to worry about any of the details - just show up and follow Neptali (our guide). From airport pickup in Cusco in luxury Mercedes vans where we were promptly served Coca tea to help with the altitude acclimation, to group dinners at amazing Peruvian restaurants, to historical tours and education on the history of the Inca - everything was covered and taken care of for us. And that was all before the amazing trek along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu! Of course the trek itself was the highlight of the trip, and although it was extremely challenging for us, TEP's unbelievable attention to detail did not fail us on the trail. With nearly a 2:1 porter to trekker ration, our every need was met on the trail. We dined like kings every meal, and were consistently amazed with the quality (and nutritional appropriateness) of the food our chef and sous chef were able to put out with minimal kitchen conveniences. The thing I felt was most special about TEP's approach to this trip was the focus on gaining a cultural and historical appreciation for what we were experiencing. Every step along the way, we learned about the native people of Peru, the Inca civilization, the many ruins we came across, the vegetation we saw and how it was and is used, and the history of modern Peru. It was the trip of a lifetime, and have the help of The Explorer's Passage made it so much more enjoyable, and so much more memorable. The value of what they provide is amazing for the cost....rather, for the investment. I highly recommend them!

What a fabulous tour! I did the "Washington in NYC" tour in June 2017 and it was such a wonderful…read moreexperience! So much fascinating historical information that I can't wait to share with all my friends now; such a great group of fellow explorers; and all so perfectly run - well planned, perfectly on time, with a great variety of sights and insights for all types of travelers. I recommend this tour highly - and will be on the lookout for future adventures from The Explorer's Passage! :)

DON'T do this tour. There are plenty of other food tours in NYC that you can do instead which will…read moregive you a much better value and experience than Adrienne's. Where to begin... I did the Carroll Gardens tour, aka Cool Down on Court Street, on Sat July 28 with two friends who had a gift certificate. Our first stop was Milk bar, which I had been to before, but I was excited to try other things I hadn't tasted yet. All we were given was a sample size dollop of cereal milk ice cream, served in those small taste tester cups you get at a fro yo place. That was it. Our second stop appeared to be a local Italian deli, but I can't say for sure because we weren't taken inside. As we stood outside on the sidewalk, Adrienne pulled a container of soppressata out of a paper bag that she had been carrying and passed it around for us to try. She said it was from the same deli, but who knew if that was true? It became very clear at this point in the tour that she was being incredibly cheap, and that we were going to get the tiniest sample portion at each stop. Not to mention that soppressata is supposed to be stored in a refrigerator. Given that it was a hot summer day, Adrienne created a potential food safety concern by not storing it properly. Who knows how old it was?? I hope no one got sick! The next stop was at a pastry shop, where we had a pastry that was like a cross between a bagel and a biali. For a group of 8 people, she bought 2 of these and cut them into four pieces, so that each portion size was a few bites. She did the same thing at the sandwich shop. By the end of the tour, we were all still hungry. At our last stop, a sit down restaurant, we asked Adrienne if we could order more food because we were still hungry, and she told us that she was ordering dessert and that we'd be fine. We each got half of a dessert, a small piece of chocolate cake that was split into two. The tour was advertised as 2.5 hours, yet we arrived at the last stop only 1.5 hours in and were expected to sit at the restaurant for the last hour. The little amount of food we received at each stop did not nearly justify the $50 cost for the tour, so PLEASE find another tour - there are great ones in NYC for the same price where you don't leave hungry and dissatisfied at the end. By the way, I emailed Adrienne to explain my dissatisfaction and to ask her for a 50% refund, and she was most unprofessional in her response. So here I am writing my first Yelp review instead. I suspect the positive reviews that are on here are written by her family and friends (indeed her mother wrote the first one, as she says herself). Adrienne's dad was on the tour with us, along with another guy that was clearly a friend, so take that as you will. Whatever you do, avoid this tour!!!

Please note - I HAVE A CONFLICT OF INTEREST HERE: This is my daughters enterprise…read more That being said, those of you whom know me, will understand, I have my integrity to protect, so I'm not going to steer you wrong! Adrienne puts together a very interesting, and more importantly entertaining tour, that not only gives you a slice of NYC, sights and history, but a taste of NY and it's edible culture too. Her tours are very good value, and in addiition to feeding your mind and your body, you get a little walking excercise in the bargain. A great way to experience the magic of this city.

A+ all around. I used to drive many hours in the wee hours of the morning to get to the slopes for…read moreopening, ride into the afternoon and then muster up every bit of remaining energy to drive back home. I recently discovered OvRride and what an experience it was. Got on a brand new coach bus at 3 am, kicked back the seat, dropped the down the foot bar and dozed off for about 4 hours, woke up as we drove into Vermont and enjoyed a soft wake up before arriving at Killington, a little after 8am, bright eyed and bushy tailed. Spent the day snowboarding, grabbed lunch and drinks (without having to worry about driving later) and then got back on the bus at 4:30pm, dozed off and was back in the neighborhood by 10:30pm - bus stopped for a snack at service station that offered Panera Bread, Shake Shack and Chic-fil-A; prime choices IMO. What more can one ask for? Sleep, enjoy the slopes, food and drinks on the mountain, and then more sleep! The cherry on this sundae was the trip leader, Saed. Great guy and trip leader - made sure all were comfortable every step of the way, gave us the lay of the land on arrival and even offered to ride with those who flew solo that day. Highly recommend and will definitely be doing this again in the future; bus over drive from here on in, give it a try and I promise you'll agree.

I took OvRride when going up to Hunter for snowboarding. Let's start with what went well: the staff…read moreare extremely friendly. Everyone is so kind, bringing you waters, beers, and snacks. The trip goes by relatively smooth. The only problem I had was with the bus capacity. They had overbooked the bus by at least 8 or so folks. Because of this, the overbooked people had to be dropped off at another bus while standing in the aisle space. It did create some delays, but the staff handled it well and apologized profusely. Overall, good experience and the pricing was solid.

Love O'Donnells pub! Bartender is great and the Guinness is even better-best bar ever!read more

They have such a nice chill vibe here, you will really enjoy yourself. For the holiday season, they…read morehave some great window Christmas displays that add to the ambiance. Bonus points for a solid Guinness, a nice shot of Jameson, and Touch tunes serving up the jukebox jams. It's good for groups or a nightcap with a date. Unique beer selection, too.