| Rating |
Date Attended |
Reviewer |
Gender |
Age [v] |
Where From? |
Group Type? |
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Bright, garish, tacky....wonderful
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| Sun, Dec 28, 08 7:00 PM |
kobe2256 |
Female |
50-59 |
International Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| Loved the lights, hated the Mona Lisa Bakery. Worst, overpriced coffee in America.
Awful cakes. Incredibly bad service: some people from our tour sat at their table for the whole hour and never got served at all. |
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A unique, fun, festive experience
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| Fri, Dec 26, 08 7:00 PM |
stephmac |
Female |
50-59 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| Not as much Brooklyn info on this tour as on the pizza tour, but this more than satisfies the objective of seeing the famous Dyker Heights (and Bay Ridge) lights. It's an easy and relaxing holiday treat. Plenty of time to walk around, take photos. The Mona Lisa Pastry Shop and Cafe is a very nice way to end the evening. The best cannoli I've ever had. And the Italian Hot Toddy will become my new favorite wintertime drink! Driving back to Manhattan after a very satisfying evening, we watched clips from some classic Christmas films and listened to Christmas music. Bing and Frank sang The Christmas Song as I looked out at the Statue of Liberty to my left and the white, green, and red top of the Empire State Building to my right. Priceless. Thank you Tony. |
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A Magical Night
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| Sat, Dec 20, 08 7:00 PM |
RobertDonlan |
Male |
50-59 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| Oh boy!! It was cold. The night sky was heavy with impending snow. The waiting bus was clean, warm, and welcoming. The hosts were personable, enthusiastic , and overflowing with Christmas spirit. The decorated homes set a tone of over the top cheer and bright, positive feeling. In a phrase- it was a wonderful night. Whoever put in the order for snow to accompany the walking segment should be awarded a holiday award for atmosphere. We loved the trip! |
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Would do it again
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| Sun, Dec 14, 08 7:00 PM |
Express16 |
Female |
50-59 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Group of Friends |
| Highly recommeded. Tony was great! |
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disappointed with the optional stop
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| Sat, Dec 13, 08 7:00 PM |
bxw2721 |
Female |
50-59 |
Local |
Group of Friends |
| Bus : great and I'm glad he had gotten the larger-size bus that knees.
Bus driver: great & able to make those tight turns plus knows his way around.
Video presentation: great.
Audio: disappointed that we were not able to connect the radio channel to be in sync with the lights at the final house, hence a disappointing finale.
Optional: Mona Lisa Bakery: very poor rating. [ I would add that we have some in our group that had lived in Europe, been to Italy and grew up in NYC's Little Italy!]
Lousy food, bad service, but large cups of coffee.
Guide: OK, but can show a bit more enthusiam and passion. Some bare facts had already been mentioned on the other tours.
[ FYI, these are the usual specific comments that we ask our travellers]
I am a professional Travel Agent with over 20 years of experience.
Sincerely, Linda Loo |
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Fun trip, but overpriced
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| Fri, Dec 12, 08 7:00 PM |
lsiebenhaar |
Female |
50-59 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Group of Friends |
| Much of your experience will depend on where you call home and what you are used to seeing at Christmastime. We live in Utah where electricity is cheap and there are single-family houses galore. A large majority of the population decorates their houses with Christmas lights. Thus, we felt like this excursion merely showed us the same things we can see by driving around our home, but at a rather costly price.
However, we must say that if you live in a big city such as Manhatten, where there are few homes, this would be quite a scene. There were people on our bus from Australia who loved it and took 10 photos of each house.
One hint for Tony, if you're going to play vintage Christmas music, turn it down a bit. It was obnoxious after a while. |
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Brooklyn in a new light (Christmas that is....)
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| Sun, Dec 7, 08 7:00 PM |
jcm1967 |
Female |
50-59 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Other |
| We had a wonderful time viewing the Holiday Lights of Brooklyn. Our guide was very enthusiastic and knowledgable and also sensative to and accomodating of our issues with the "cold" weather last Sunday night. The light displays were fantastic!!! We would definitely recommend it. |
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Christmas lights, SNOW and Tony...fantastic!
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| Sat, Dec 6, 08 7:00 PM |
texasgals |
Female |
50-59 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Group of Friends |
| This tour was one of the top highlights of our week long stay in New York! As two best friends from Texas celebrating 40+ years of friendship, we couldn't have asked for a more perfect evening. Tony, our guide, along with Big Mike as helper, were just fantastic....so personable and fun! The videos which explained the origin of the Christmas lights was a nice (and helpful) touch, and we enjoyed the really great Christmas music that Tony was playing on the bus. We had the BEST group of fellow passengers onboard....really fun and enthusiastic crowd! But the crowning touch was that it began to snow as we drove into Dyker Heights....I realize the tour company had nothing to do with the weather...haha!...but it was almost like out of a movie....walking around the neighborhood, viewing the Christmas lights, in the falling snow! Fantastic!! We got to stop at the Mona Lisa bakery on the return trip and then Tony showed us some old TV Christmas specials that were just great and brought back so many memories of past Christmases with family and friends. We would HIGHLY recommend this tour to anyone who loves Christmas, Christmas lights and just "getting into the holiday spirit"!! Thanks, Tony and Mike....you're the BEST!!! |
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Fantastic!!!
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| Sat, Dec 29, 07 7:00 PM |
Feimster |
Female |
50-59 |
Unspecified |
Unspecified |
| Worth doing again next year! |
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the lights are truly beautiful.
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| Sun, Dec 23, 07 7:00 PM |
ricksilverst |
Female |
50-59 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| it was so unexpected that some of the home owners actually came outside to greet us. |
