The Hahvahd Tour

This is a Harvard student-​ran tour of the campus and some of the surrounding area. Our tour guide talked kind of funny, like he was using a fake European accent, but the guy said he was from Jersey or something. Other than that it was a pretty good tour. Ends at the Harvard Student run store where they hope you buy some t shirts or sweaters.

An amazing and insightful tour around the campus of the famous Harvard University. Our guide Heather used extensive knowledge and witty humour to keep the tour both entertaining and educational throughout. The tour lasts around an hour and was very affordable making it a fantastic choice to explore this stunning world famous campus.

Really enjoyed our tour with Mary Sue (sp?). She’s a graduate student concentrating in education and was full of interesting facts and stories that really enhanced the experience. I don’t think we would have enjoyed seeing Harvard ½ as much with the stories and anecdotes.
The tour is all out-​doors, so unfortunately, we did not get to see inside the famed freshman dining hall or the library or even a sample classroom. The weather was gorgeous when we went. Not sure where this tour goes on bad weather days if it goes.

Just did the tour with Jake. He was truly enthusiastic and very generous with interesting info and stories about the buildings, people, and history. His theater background and fun attitude definitely made this a tour to remember.

We took the tour with Jake F, he was great and he really made the best out of the jokes he is a natural.
The tour is free you must donate 10 $ because it’s student run, and you get a lot of fun facts about the history and the buildings. Also a funny story about a late night host.

What a great idea… having Harvard students give the Hahvahd Tour. This was our first time but not our last time to take this awesome tour. Jake F. was our student guide. He had a wealth of knowledge and presented it with humor and fun, you could tell he loved giving the tour. We are definitely going to recommend this tour to family and friends. It’s a must see when you go to Boston and hopefully you will get Jake F. as your guide!

The tour was free with our paid duck boat ride, so we decided to give it a try. It was well worth it. It was a beautiful fall day, and our tour guide Jacob was wonderful. He was very knowledgeable and gave a great tour. The tour ends at the student run clothing store. Excellent shop.

Had a great time on our tour! Our guide (Vanessa) was friendly and fun. She hit the highlights of the school and provided lots of interesting historical facts along the way. She even offered to take pictures at important stops.

We took the «hahvahd» tour at 1pm on a sunny Friday. There was about 10 people with us on the tour which is led by a Harvard student and lasts about an hour, you stop along the way and they tell you the history and some inside info, it wasn’t too harsh on walking although if you want to explore the school in more depth on your own you may get tired, it’s huge!
Keep in mind where the tour starts so you can park close to that point, unless you don’t mind walking. The tour starts and you buy the tickets at Harvard square — there is street parking and also a parking garage (we paid 25 $ to park a couple hours lol) just follow the blue P signs to the garage if you don’t find street parking but be aware of any time limit.
On the tours website you can find the exact address of the starting point of tour and enter in your GPs and look for parking once there :)
I do recommend the tour because we are not from here and would’ve been quite lost without the tour telling us about the various spots.
It is 10 $ per person which tickets are bought inside a little mart. The tour guide people are outside next to the a sign wearing straw hats

A lot of fun and interesting facts about the history and the structures in the school. Our tour guide is Jake, a recent graduate. He gave us the history and fun facts about Harvard. I felt very well informed after the tour.

Loved our tour with Juan and Eric. They were both informational and entertaining. It is great to see students who are friendly, proud and enjoying what they at doing.

Very informative. Our guide, Eli, was absolutely perfect! Funny and knowledgeable as hell! Thanks for a great tour!

My wife and I wanted to see Harvard and took the tour. Our guide was Jake F. who is a quarterback on the Harvard football team. The tour is fun, interesting and Jake was the perfect guide — he even put up with my smartass comments.
Highly recommend, and if you get Jake as your tour guide, you’re going to have a good time.
WARNING — the jokes are really bad. LOL

The tour was one of my favorite things that we did when we visited Boston. It was a great way to see a lot of the campus. Our tour guide was Justin, he was very entertaining, informative & witty. I highly recommend this tour! You will learn a lot & will have a good time!

Great Tour, Easy to Find, and Even the Kids Love It
Climb the stairs of the main exit at the Harvard stop on the Red T line (you don’t even have to «pahk the cah in Havahd yahd»), and you are immediately met by several enthusiastic, bright Harvard students wearing boater hats, and you have arrived — at the «Hahvahd» Tour. My brother, his wife, and their 9-​year old were on their first visit to the Boston area (I’d been before, but many years ago), and Harvard was one of the most important places for my sister-​in-​law to visit.
Knowing this, I booked the tour on line, a very simple process, but you may just be able to turn up at the appointed time and join it (don’t assume this, do contact them first to be sure). I knew my sister-​in-​law would love it, fairly certain that my brother would as well, but I worried about my nephew while on the tour. He is 9, has a frighteningly short attention span, was excited to visit Boston because he loves the American Revolution (just about any war, actually) and had made it clear that he was not excited about this part of the trip.
He pouted when the tour began, but by the second stop our excellent guide, a rising senior who sings opera and majors in clinical psych, had completely grabbed his attention — a miracle. The wee one asked her many (too many?) questions and scrambled to keep up with her. To her credit she patiently answered everything he asked. Oh, by the way, he is now convinced that he will attend Harvard!
This speaks volumes about the people who concocted this tour, and who composed the spiel (probably in general similar no matter which of the students is your guide) that goes along with it. It is very smart (smaht?), very witty, and in the case of our guide VERY well and clearly delivered.
The tour takes a bit over an hour, starting just inside the main entrance to the university, covering much of the central campus including the John Harvard statue, the Memorial Church, the Widener Library (all of these stops remained at the exterior, no visits indoors fyi). Off the campus our fearless leader chatted about Farkas Hall (home to Hasty Pudding) and the athletic center. At some of the stops the tour-​ists can sit on steps in front of buildings while the guide explains it all for them, and the walk is not at all hilly or difficult. It was a rather warm day when we visited, but fortunately our wise guide conducted the tour as much as possible under the shade of the trees of Harvard.
I highly recommend this tour. As noted It is easy to get to Harvard (unlike getting IN to Harvard), a short ride from the city center on the T’s Red Line. You will learn a lot, even if you’re not into academics, and if your tour guide is anything like ours, you’ll have a rollicking good time doing it!

Laura our tour guide was really good! Made for a fun 1+ hour. Would recommend anyone coming to visit Boston to check this out, you can learn lots of fun facts such as how many fold up chairs can fit into the New Yard, or the story of the Widener library.

Our tour guide today is Jake. He’s definitely amazing. He knows what he’s doing and gives everybody laughs when introducing Harvard history, culture and anecdotes. Keep it up! MIT should do this as well.

This is a great tour! Oksana was our guide today and she did an incredible job. So much fun and unusual historical info combined with the modern experience of a student. Highly recommended for anyone!
(p.s. The tour is free with purchase of a Duck Tour)

Had a free tour because we purchased a duck tour. They meet in Harvard square where the red T stop is, so easy to find. Normally this tour is about $ 10. You are personally lead by an actual Harvard student and explained some great information you might not find in tour books. They kept our interest and we never felt bored during the trip. It is a walking tour so be prepared to walk about a mile. Wear comfortable shoes and be ready for rain, if it is in the forecast.
All in all it was a great free tour. Probably also worth the $ 10 if you have to pay for it.

If you have tickets for the duck tour they give you a free tour, which is like a $ 10 value! They didn’t even ask to see our tickets but gave us the «sticker» to indicate it was free.
I’m not sure how often they meet but we took the noon tour. They meet right outside the harvard square red stop where there’s a newsstand and starbucks and cambridge info booth.
Our tour guide was Emily and she was very animated and had a loud voice, which was necessary. We went through Harvard Yard and some of the upperclassmen dorms, which was cool. I liked that she mixed historical facts, interesting Harvard facts and pop culture references.
I love tours because they tell you things you would never had known if you didn’t read up on it or do your own research. It made Harvard come alive and was a great tour!
Definitely recommended for your tour to Harvard to get the most out of your trip.

Wer in Boston Urlaub macht, muss natürlich auch mal nach Harvard, oder wie der Bostoner in seinem Akzent sagen würde, Hahvahd. Direkt an der gleichnamigen Red Line Station kann man direkt Karten kaufen, $ 10 ohne, $ 9 mit Coupon. Die Tour startet auch direkt vor Ort im 30min Rhythmus bis 14:30, danach bis 16:30 noch stündlich. Uns begrüßte sogleich Sean aus Ohio, der gerade sein erstes Jahr als Freshman beendet hat. Sean machte seine Sache auf der einstündigen Tour richtig gut. Er war witzig, eloquent ohne überheblich zu wirken, antwortete offen und für die ganze Gruppe hörbar auf Fragen und fütterte uns mit tollen kleinen Anekdoten. Nun wissen wir zB warum Studenten nur zweimal im Harvard-​Leben durch das große Eingangstor laufen sollten, oder warum die Widener Bibliothek noch immer steht, obwohl sie schon viel zu klein geworden ist. Wer das gerne herausfinden möchte und natürlich noch ganz viel mehr, dem sei diese Tour empfohlen.