NYC GoGreen Tours

This is possibly the worst walking tour in NYC.
My husband and I took the Pub Crawl on Thursday night and opted out after one hour. We were the only two people on this tour, which should have given us a hint about the quality.
Luckily we had a Groupon so we didn’t need to pay full price for this silly, disorganized, poorly conceived tour. If you want to pay for a random set of facts about NYC while you pay for your drinks and Sean’s, by all means go. As Sean told us, «I get $ 50 a night of free drinks, what could be better?» For him nothing for the customers, it was a total waste.
Sean says that he was once part owner of the tour company and designed the tour… perhaps that’s true or maybe it was another one of his tall tales.
Wrote to the owner before I posted this to say, I’d like to speak to him by phone. He wrote back that we didn’t finish the tour (he wasn’t interested on why) and said that it was our decision. No comment.
We didn’t want our money back, just an apology.
There are WONDERFUL walking tours of NYC; this is NOT one of them.

Took the Gangs of New York Tour in Nov 2012. Was a nice tour, covered history and historic buildings, but the guide didn’t say anything about crime or gangs till the last 15 minutes of the tour, which is kind of why people take the tour. He said several times, «you know, you have seen the movie, same thing». Not really what I was looking for but the history of the area was interesting, but you would think with a title of Gangs of New York there would be more gang and crime stories…

I am very skeptical of the positive reviews for this company. While walking on our way to get a carriage tour in Central Park my group was stopped by a representative for this company who pitched us on taking a bike tour of the park instead of the carriage ride. While I normally would have steered my tourist family members away from people trying to get them to sign up for tours on the street (we were on 58^th and 7^th Ave), the guy had a good pitch and I am really against the carriage rides because I feel bad for the horses. Long story short, the guy changed his price several times and wouldn’t give us any paperwork to confirm the price would be $ 65 per person for an hour tour. We decided to walk at that point.
These pedicab companies are famous for telling tourist one price and then when the ride is over they tack on exorbitant extra fees, and I didn’t want this to happen to my family. Initially the sales guy told us he was the owner of the firm, and then had to step away for a minute, and another sales man from the same company approached us for the same tour at a higher price, oh yeah, he too identified himself as the owner of the company. I’m sure these guys would have ripped my family off if we had taken their tour. I would AVOID at all costs!

Great tour led by the owner. Ron.
i took the the Central Park Walking tour .
even new yorkers should take the tour. you will learn lots !
Go for it.

We booked two tours with this company. On the first day, Ron kindly waited for us (we were held up in traffic and arrived a few minutes late). He was nice, friendly, although a little brusque. He seemed knowledgable but complained that his employee just quit and he was having to do this tour for the first time in years. I didn’t find the tour very informational and he kept up a pace that my 68 year old mother in law found difficult. When it started drizzling, he parked us in a Starbucks for about 20 minutes. Although we saw a lot of NYC, I didn’t feel we learned a lot. He dismissed us a little early — which was okay. But he kept complaining he had «so many other things he needed to be doing.»
The next day Ron met us and introduced us to Matthew Cummings, who took us on a «Gangs of NY Tour.» It was fantastic! Very thorough, delightful sense of humor, I can’t say enough good things about the second tour. If you can get on one of Matthew’s tours — DO IT!
2 stars for Ron’s tour, 5 stars for Matthew’s.

went on a tour around midtown. i took the family when they were here for a visit and it was a great experience.
very easy to set up the tour (i needed to add people to the party last minute and it wasnt an issue).
great tour guide — funny, nice, charismatic, good with the parents.
overall excellent, recommended for anyone who was in a similar situation to me (looking for something to occupy the family’s time on a visit while i dont have to do any real work)

BUYER BEWARE!
Um, this huxter sold his wares on Groupon and when my husband and I just called to book a tour, he yelled at us for not taking the tour in summer and told us that there are no tours this season at all. He didn’t seem to grasp the idea about our Groupon being valid till Dec 30 of this year — he just kept yelling about us not having used it ahead of time. The conversation was getting nowhere so we just said we’d write about this experience online. And then the profanity began. The man is vile.
Luckily, Groupon promptly refunded us after we reported this nonsense to them.

This is a positive review for our tour guide Giovanni who led us on The Gangs of New York tour. He was on time and professional throughout in spite of difficulties he faced from other members of my tour group.
Such as a couple who joined our tour twenty minutes late then decided they had to leave ten minutes later to get a slice of pizza. They caught up with us but seemed to not be interested in the tour whatsoever. My question to them is why did they even bother going on the tour ?
The guide was fun and informed me a native New Yorker about several tidbits I found highly amusing. I would definitely recommend him to anyone interested in learning a bit about greatest city in the world.

I bought coupons for a Central Park tour through this company for a friend’s visit. The web site offers tours at 10:00 am and 2:00 pm. When I called to book we were told that there was only a 10:00 on the day we wanted to go and that we should meet at the corner of 56^th and 7^th avenue at 9:45 am.
My friend and I actually got there by 9:35 and were waiting when we saw a group of 4 ladies approach who were also there to meet the tour guide. One of them was on the phone with the guy and he said he was now meeting us at 10:30. He then called me to give me the same information. I asked why the delay and he said that some people had canceled. He proceed to holler at me through the phone, going on and on about how tours really start at 10:30 anyway. I asked him to stop yelling at me. I then said we would see him then. At 9:45 I called back after talking it over with my friend and he said I will be there at 10:05, in 15 minutes. I will be there. We left for a bathroom break and went back to the appointed corner at 10:00.
At 10:15 I got a call saying the tour was canceled due to cancellations and the weather (which was beautiful). I called him back and got the voice mail. He then called me at 10:17 and screamed in the phone «I am here, I have been here waiting for you since 10:15! Where are you? I am on the corner in the green shirt.» He then turned around and walked away before we could reach him. So I called him back and he screamed, «relax I said I will be there! Just relax lady» (at this point I was still pretty relaxed still). He came back to the corner and started a monologue about how tours didn’t start until 10:15 anyway and he is waiting for some ladies that are coming at 10:30. I told him the 4 ladies got pissed off and left. He started screaming at me again about how he can’t take 2 people, how someone got seriously hurt on the tour last year. He then said it’s canceled and did I know how much he makes on the tours? Only $ 6.00, and it’s not worth it to go with 2 people.
We said okay and Thanks and proceeded to Central Park on our own. After walking a couple block and making a stop (about 8 minutes) the tour guide ran up beside me and tried to explain again, screaming and carrying on about the parade. I asked why he was still yelling at me, and he said cause no one listens to him. He said that 1000 people bought coupons and no one is booking and he is mad. I tried to walk away, and he kept after us for a ½ block.
The dude is crazy. Go with another tour. I have been on many many tours all over the world and have never experienced this level of unprofessional behavior. Buyer beware – you have been warned!!!