| Rating |
Date Attended [v] |
Reviewer |
Gender |
Age |
Where From? |
Group Type? |
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Good Overview with Enthuiastic Tour Guide
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| Thu, Jul 24 3:00 PM |
davestrip |
Male |
50-59 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family With Children |
| The tour does a good job of explaining how a scene is set with an outside shot for a few seconds and the following scene could be inside that building or of some Hollywood studio. The tour involves highlights and glimpses of Manhattan's favorite movie/tv filming sites or scene setters as you shuttle and scurry through New York city downtown traffic. It's amazing how many movies/ shows use the same sites and the pamplet should handed out earlier to follow along - often the clips were shown long after passing up the site along the tour route.
The ratio of bus touring to walking the site should be changed in my opinion - now it is about 80% bus touring to 20% walking sites. I would make it about 50/50 ratio. For instance I would do a Broadway/Central Park/ Plaza Hotel dropoff by starting along the Circle at Central Park and proceed east in the saftey? of Central Park winding up at the Plaza Hotel fountain area. Like wise I would do a Spiderman scene setting in Mid Manhattan and a circle/block around the Flatiron Building and Court Buildings. The City Library would make another nice stop, but the Firehouse is too small of a scale to waste a stop for. Maybe set the mood in the bus with scene clips and then walk the walk at the site.
The Gossip Girl references were lost on someone of my age and maleness. |
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Great tour, very informative
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| Thu, Jul 24 11:00 AM |
thegame724 |
Male |
20-29 |
International Tourist(s) |
Couple on a Date |
| I really enjoyed this tour. Not only do you get to see sites from some great movies and TV shows, but the guides give a ton of extra info about the movies/shows, actors, the industry, etc... |
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Enthusiastic Tour Guide
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| Thu, Jul 24 11:00 AM |
murray73 |
Female |
20-29 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Other |
| Gary was awesome! He seemed to know everything you'd want to know about locations in New York and would also share with us interesting facts that we didn't realize we wanted to know at all! He seemed to really enjoy his job and have fun with it. The 3.5 hours flew by and we enjoyed every minute. This was my first time to New York City, so my reality of it was from movies and TV, and Gary brought those places to life for us! Thank you for providing such a fun tour and having such great people to lead them.
Also our bus driver John was great! |
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Australian Highly Recommends....
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| Wed, Jul 23 11:00 AM |
KatherineTK |
Male |
20-29 |
International Tourist(s) |
Individual |
| I recently did the New York TV Sights and Movie tour whilst on a recent trip there. I thoroughly enjoyed the content of the tour and the places visited. I highly commend Rosemary for being a fantastic tour guide, she was funny, witty but still serious. I would highly recommend this tour. |
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NY Movie and TV Sets was good
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| Wed, Jul 23 11:00 AM |
hikie1 |
Female |
50-59 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| There was a lot to see on this tour. The only complaint I have is the group was so large that at one point, it was impossible to hear the tour guide when we got out of the bus. She was yelling but the street noise made it impossible to hear her. The people at the back of the group with me just shrugged their shoulders and only wished we could hear. Maybe this tour needs to invest in a megaphone so everybody can benefit from what is being said.
Other than that, we thought this was a good tour. The guide was very well informed and gave lots and lots of great facts about the different neighborhoods we went through. |
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On Location Tour Fabulous
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| Wed, Jul 23 11:00 AM |
lizbarker |
Female |
40-49 |
International Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| The pick up location was very convenient, at Ellen's Stardust Diner, as this is a great place to have brunch before the tour. Our tour guide, Kim, was wonderful - good humoured, a wealth of information, very professional and enjoyable delivery. We really enjoyed the little clips of movies and shows that played as we were driving between sites - excellent memory refreshers! This was very good value for the money and a delightful way to spend 3.5 hours (the air conditioned coach was most welcome as the day that we took the tour was stinky hot - 96 degrees, sunny, humid...). We would highly recommend it. |
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Depends on what you're looking for...
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| Wed, Jul 23 11:00 AM |
hilaryhammer |
Female |
20-29 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| The tour was fun, but I think we could have seen more of NYC if we had taken one of the guided site seeing tours on the double-decker buses. I'm not all that interested in Ugly Betty and Sex in the City sites... |
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Great tour
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| Wed, Jul 23 11:00 AM |
hollyrey |
Female |
50-59 |
Local |
Family Without Children |
| My Mom and I (who are originally from NY) took this tour. It was alot of fun to see the city from a "tourist's eyes" We really enjoyed it. I would definitely recommend it. |
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Great Tour !
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| Tue, Jul 22 11:00 AM |
jonath_72 |
Male |
20-29 |
International Tourist(s) |
Group of Friends |
| It was a fantastic tour... Brian Taylor is so funny !
Jo |
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TV/Movie site tour
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| Mon, Jul 21 3:00 PM |
bschornack |
Male |
50-59 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family With Children |
| tour was very interesting and our guy Gary was great. |
