Best of New York - Personal Photo Tour

This was the highlight of our trip. Marc was excellent! He was very personable, seemed interested in us, and took 150 pictures of us around the city. We had a great time.

Our tour guide Marc was wonderful, not only was very knowledgable, he was friendly and funny. He took the time to listen to our requests, make great suggestions and give us much more information about the city that I am certain any other tour guide would have since we were full of questions. Marc's photographs were great!!! It really captured the fun we had. In addition, when it was time to go, Marc made sure that we got a cab, suggested a great place for lunch, WE TOOK HIS SUGGESTION AND WE LOVED IT. Ended up staying for a few hours and enjoying discussing the tour and the cites. I would definately recommend this tour again and, if you could ask for Marc it would be even better!!!! See ya next time New York!!!

This was absolutely one of the funnest items we did on our trip, and we did a lot. Coming into the Phototrek tour, we really wanted to take advantage of the incite and knowledge that a local would give to us, and Marc went above and beyond our expectations. He was very knowledgable, personable, and a fantastic host to his hometown of New York. We will be recommending this trip to all of our friends that visit the great city of New York. Thanks a million Marc!

Would highly recomend this activity, we had a great time and the photos were good even though the weather was not as it rained for most of the day.

Marc was fabulous and the pictures were fabulous. Highly recommend this tour!!!

Although some of the photos taken on this "tour" were some of my favorite of our vacation, they were no better quality than others taken by strangers we handed our camera to on the street. Yes, the photographer had a nicer camera than ours (though not a professional camera), but many of the photos he took were out of focus. One of the locations we went to had no usable photos. Also the web site suggested that there would be many famous locations included in the photos when actually there were only three. In that location there was not time enough to even look around. The photographer took no time to get to know our likes and dislikes or interests. He shot his "stock" spots but did not even point out the large "clump" of my hair that was across my forehead until the last few pics of the entire shot. Many of the photos would have been great if not for that one detail. As far as a "tour" this was anything but. The photographer spoke incessantly about the subway and how to use it (despite my husband telling him he had lived in the city in the past). He did not let us get a word in edgewise, not even to speak to one another. When we did ask about landmarks other than the most famous, he did not know anything about them. Overall, I would call the photographer amateur while, for the price, one would expect a professional. It was nice to have someone to take pictures of us together without having to ask a stranger to do it, although we accomplished this quite easily on our own by asking other tourists to take pics of us with our camera. If I had known ahead of time that it would be that easy I would not have booked a photographer. Because of that and the amateur quality of many of the photos, I would not recommend this service.

It was just the two of us, so it was wonderful to have someone take pictures of the BOTH of us instead of either having just one of us in all of the pics, or bugging other people to take pictures that may or may not be any good. The pictures are beautiful. Also, being first timers to NYC, he gave recommendations about certain areas and restaurants we would personally enjoy and also REALLY helped us learn the subway system. That was one of the best parts of this tour. We learned so much that we would have had no idea about, if it weren't for him. (By the way Marc~ if you are reading this, we ROCKED the subway system the days after your tour thanks to you!! We even rode the bus and knew to use our metro-card.) ~ Kerissa & Danielle Knoxville, Tennessee

Marc is very friendly and flexible. I asked him whether we could change the schedule from Sunday to Saturday, since the weather forecast said that from Sunday to Wednesday will be raining, and he said OK. We could make our happy family pictures in eye catching places in New York City in 2 hours. Marc knew the places from Rockefeller Center, Times Square, Central Park and Brooklyn Bridge. We will do photo tour next time if we are in NYC with our other 2 children, who couldn't join us on this trip. They are in school.

Our photographer knew that we were hoping to get a good Christmas photocard picture from our time together. He did such a good job that now we're going to have trouble trying to decide which to choose. Aside from his great photograhy skills, he was also very knowledgeable about New York and the sites we visited with him. He was flexible in accommodating our interests and had an array of itineraries from which to choose. He was very engaging, and we enjoyed our conversations together. We just couldn't be happier with Marc and our time spent with him (and we received the photographs on a cd that night at our hotel!). We would recommend Phototrek to anyone.

This was a great tour!! We travel to New York quite a bit so this tour did two things for us. We got great photos in a city we love. We also got to go and see places we hadn't been to before. Marc really caters to what you want to see and do. He also has a wealth of info of history of the city and what is going on in the time frame that you are there. We would definitely recommend this tour.