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Ruins of a Forgotten City: Historical Manhattan Walking Tour" TRIP HOBO: "Ruins of a Forgotten City: Historical Manhattan Walking Tour" My wife and I try to do NYC for a week stay every 2-3 years, and have thus covered pretty much the major tourist attractions, major museums, theater, etc. So this trip I searched for guided walking tours and found this EXCELENT one on from TripHobo.com. My wife loves city architecture and history so while in NYC I found this "boutique" VERY specialized walking tour of lower Manhattan. Starting at the iconic Flatiron building this tour takes you down many streets, and shows vestiges of what once was----with detailed and clear explanations (historic & rare pictures) of how things were---and what they changed into. The premise is to walk around modern NYC (lower Manhattan) and be shown little hidden architectural details you would walk right by....or remnants of how a bldg. / street originally was. Along with each building's original design comes it's history and stories of how life was inside. This tour was about 3 hours as I recall, and intrigued us with the title of modern day archeology. Rob (I hope I remember that right) was our EXCELLENT guide and has been researching the history of classic period architecture for over a decade. His mission is to document many fast-disappearing structures as they fall to redevelopment---and he really gives it 110%. Only with a guide as knowlegeable as him can one really become somewhat enlightened. HIGHLY recommend seeking this tour out your next NYC trip (for veteran visitors who have done all the "big" must-do attractions in past trips).

Spent 10 days in LA and rented a portable wifi hotspot. Easy pick up and retruns. Signal was great too!

We booked “Meteora Day Trip by Train from Athens” with A class train included (Monastery entrance extra, but very reasonable priced) for May 1st, 2018 while we were still in US. The booking process through TripHobo was very smooth and responsive. A few days before our tour date, while we had already been traveling in Greece, the OSE Train Company announced that they will join the National Stike of May 1st. Just as we started to wonder what was going to happen to our Meteora Tour, we received an email from Keytours, the Greece local contact of Viator tour suppliers, to inform us that we could choose to cancel/refund the tour, change the tour date, or to be picked up by bus from our hotel to go to Meteora. We chose to be picked up by bus. On May 1st, 2018, around 8:30am, Vangelis Kourelis, the Co-Founder of Visit Meteora Travel, showed up in our hotel lobby. He told us to get on the brand new Mercedes mini-bus (already full of many of their tourists) that was waiting in front of our hotel, hassle and worry free. So basically, we got the door to door service, with water bottles available to us. What a wonderful surprise! About four or five hours later, upon arriving Kalampaka, four of us were transferred to a smaller minivan, with Vangelis as our tour guide. So basically, we had a private tour including only four of us. This was a second wonderful surprise for us! Vangelis gave us an excellent overview of the history and culture of Kalampaka and the Monasteries at the beginning of the tour. He was very knowledgable, polite, courteous, and spoke perfect English. He pointed out many great attractions and gave us lots of opportunities to take photos of the breathtaking sceneries along the way to/from monasteries. We had the opportunities to visit three Monasteries, with enough time to see everything in the monasteries and to take photos. Around 5pm, we got on another mini-bus to get back to our hotel in Athens. We were dropped off in front of our hotel around 11pm. We were exhausted, but it was worth every minute of that long day. Over all, we had the most wonderful experience with Visit Meteora Travel. The tour operator was very professional, courteous, very knowledgeable and you can count on them for the tour.

We loved the "Valletta City Walk", Malta. It was a great start for our holiday, first thing we did in Valletta. Me and my 2 teenagers, had the opportunity to visit the most important places of the city. Our guide had knowledge and willingness to show us things, and to keep the right pace, for us to see a lot, but not get tired. I would do it again and I recommend it.

I wanted to book the "Small-Group Soho Legends and Pub Walking Tour" in London and by looking around a bit I found the best price for it on TripHobo. The price was about 25% lower than the other sites that were selling the same tour. I had never purchased a tour before from TripHobo but thought that I would give it a try. I didn't regret it and everything went smoothly with my booking. The tour was even better than I expected and I had such a good time that I would go again. I would also happily book more tours with TripHobo and can highly recommend this site.

We did 2 trips - Downton Abbey & Highclere Castle Tour & Blenheim Palace and the Cotswolds Tour. Both tours were fantastic. Everything went smoothly. The Guides were very informative and knowledgeable. Both tours were as described and I would highly recommend them.

I would highly recommend this tour. The guide ensured that everyone was well informed about the hike, the surroundings and the logistics of the tour.

We took the Elabana & Box Forest Falls hike. Not exactly what we booked -- we were pleasantly surprised on our pickup that we received a free upgrade. The forest was immensely beautiful. The hike was off the beaten track. We saw almost no one all day. One could walk around this area without a guide, clearly many locals do. But if you are from out of town and without a car, then this is the trip for you. Kaylene is an extremely conscientious tour leader. She paces the walk to her group, she brings snacks, she knows out of the way spots to stop, she is patient about photographers. She is also the minivan driver! She is an interesting person, full of wonderful anecdotes. It was a pleasure to spend a day with someone who really loves the forest and loves showing it off to others. This is not a big corporate tour on a bus, with a bored guide doing the same thing 10 times a week. Keylene offers a few different tours, she organizes them herself, and she takes full responsibility for the success of each trip. The groups are small --we had six -- the van might hold one or two more. She works hard for her money!