History Lantern Tour - Plymouth

My mom, sister, and I decided to do this tour the night before we'd see the dayhtime tourist stuff that Plymouth has to offer. It was a wonderful tour that took us through the downtown area of historic Plymouth. Since the tour is in the evening, we did not have to worry about other tourists than those in our group. It also helped us navigate Plymouth in the daytime since we had already been there once. I would definately recommend this tour to anyone who is interested in the history of Plymouth, at least more than the plaques provide. We did not even notice the time slip by.

Nice to focus on the real history instead of tourist stuff

We were a group consisting of 3 adults and 3 children ages 3,7 and 10. The tour guide was great with the kids he kept it upbeat and very interesting. He kept everyone invovled by asking questions. He was very informed and really enjoyed it himself. Would recommend it.

the tour that we booked was for the lantern tour but when we got there we really wanted to go on the ghost tour. We explained the error to our guide and we asked if we could switch our ticket for the ghost tour and they had no problem doing that for us. The woman who took us on the tour was great and had a tremendous amount of knowledge to share with us. She also shared quite a bit of the history of Plymouth with us. We really had a very nice time with her.

Despite the rain, we had a terrific tour. Our guide is a terrific storyteller and historian and made everything interesting. He answered all of our questions. We were a group of teachers just starting a 12 day trip and he made the long plane ride worth it. We would recommend this tour to any family or group who wishes to gain an overview of Plymouth.

We had a wonderful guide who even in the rain gave us more than we expected. I am a history teacher and this guy knew his history as well as great local information that I didn't know. I would do it again, even in the rain! We even bought our lanterns to take back to the clasrrom.

My mother, sister and I were in Boston to take on the Freedom Trail and other historical sites. I had decided to look into Plymouth to see the Mayflower II and the Plimoth Plantation (both worth seeing). While checking the website for other Plymouth activities I found the Lantern Tours. After spending the day at the other sites this Lantern Tour was a great way to finish out our historic interests as we were able to fill in the gaps with information that we had not obtained throughout the day. Our tour guide was incredibly knowledgeable of the area and was very receptive to answer our individual questions. We were very pleased with the Tour and recommend it to all who would like to get a glimpse into the past of this country.

The tour was pretty good, but not terrific. Our guide was a little late, and was not in Pilgrim costume, as advertised. She was quite knowledgeable about the Pilgrims and the area. She told us some good stories. I felt that there wasn't a whole lot to see that we couldn't have seen on our own, since the original settlement is pretty much gone, and it's now just a modern town area. I am a History teacher, so I found the tour somewhat interesting for the closer contact with the Pilgrims. I think if you knew very little about the Pilgrims and hadn't visited Plymouth before, or you are a hIstory buff, you might find it interesting. But if you have little interest in History, I wouldn't recommend it.

This was one of my highlights of travel in Mass. I loved it !!!

Our guide was very enthusiastic about the history of Plymouth. He was a wealth of information and made the tour a lot of fun. We had a group of high school students who were interested the entire tour, and we hated to see it come to an end.