Boston Colonial Sites

Frankie, our tour guide was excellent. enjoyed getting out to Lexington and Concord.
the Boston portion was helpful for us to set priorites for our on and off trolley.

Doing what: The Total Boston Experience

IT was awesome! Mike did a fantastic job!!

Doing what: The Total Boston Experience

The first half of the tour was amazing! The second half of the tour not so much. All you do for the second half is ride around on the city trolley while it picks people up and drop them off. You just drive past places to see but you don't really have time to get off and look around unless you catch the next trolley. I definitely recommend the first half but not the second!

Doing what: The Total Boston Experience

wonderful..driver was outstanding and full of information and very mindful of all of our considerations..Highly recommend

Doing what: Cambridge, Lexington and Concord

Our group of 5 middle-aged adults enjoyed Ben’s tour very much and found it quite enjoyable and informative.

Ben is a pleasant, energetic, enthusiastic teacher of Boston’s history. He is a fountain of information, which gushes, forth for the entire tour. His tour is like a school without walls set right in the heart of old Boston. He personalized the tour for us. It was the highlight of our trip to Boston.

The fact that Ben is a distant relative of Paul Revere by marriage and has a long ancestral past with Boston. This adds a little something to the tour. He has studied his subject and knows it well. He has written a children’s book on Boston, which is quite nice.

The tour itself is outstanding. Ben’s selection of minor points of interest to compliment the major historical sites presents a nice balance and tempo. For example, the ladies really enjoyed sitting at the table and having their pictures takes at the table in the Parker House Hotel where John Kennedy proposed to Jackie.

It was nice to have a guide who really knows his subject and just doesn't make things up. Ben answered all questions and would say so if he didn’t know the answer to a question.

Ben’s ability to make an understandable oral presentation on various subjects and tie them all together is superb. His use of visual aids added much to the tour. Ben had visual aids in the form of pictures, maps and newspaper articles that were viewed and discussed during stops at various points of interest. Additionally, Ben gave us various materials after the tour to take home including videos and access to web sites, which discuss things seen on the tour.

Going the extra mile, Ben provided us with a written list of recommended restaurants, which was very helpful. The list was written from the point of view of a native Bostonian and thus was very insightful.

Doing what: The Total Boston Experience

Our group of 5 middle-aged adults enjoyed Ben’s tour very much and found it quite enjoyable and informative.

Ben is a pleasant, energetic, enthusiastic teacher of Boston’s history. He is a fountain of information, which gushes, forth for the entire tour. His tour is like a school without walls set right in the heart of old Boston. He personalized the tour for us. It was the highlight of our trip to Boston.

The fact that Ben is a distant relative of Paul Revere by marriage and has a long ancestral past with Boston. This adds a little something to the tour. He has studied his subject and knows it well. He has written a children’s book on Boston, which is quite nice.

The tour itself is outstanding. Ben’s selection of minor points of interest to compliment the major historical sites presents a nice balance and tempo. For example, the ladies really enjoyed sitting at the table and having their pictures takes at the table in the Parker House Hotel where John Kennedy proposed to Jackie.

It was nice to have a guide who really knows his subject and just doesn't make things up. Ben answered all questions and would say so if he didn’t know the answer to a question.

Ben’s ability to make an understandable oral presentation on various subjects and tie them all together is superb. His use of visual aids added much to the tour. Ben had visual aids in the form of pictures, maps and newspaper articles that were viewed and discussed during stops at various points of interest. Additionally, Ben gave us various materials after the tour to take home including videos and access to web sites, which discuss things seen on the tour.

Going the extra mile, Ben provided us with a written list of recommended restaurants, which was very helpful. The list was written from the point of view of a native Bostonian and thus was very insightful.

Doing what: The Total Boston Experience

brilliant, got to know even the sites of the beginning of the revolutionary war Lexington and Concord, very much information, good timing for stops and breaks, great overview over Boston sights, driver was guide at the same time

Doing what: The Total Boston Experience

Trip was really nice and the driver was very nice, I think Francis was his name, excellent trip and really worth doing.

Doing what: Cambridge, Lexington and Concord

We enjoyed the trip. It was very informative and we had a lot of fun learning about historical aspects of Boston. Worthwhile if you only have a short time in Boston.

Doing what: The Total Boston Experience

Our driver was the best part of this trip. He did anything/everything to make sure everyone was able to see what they wanted to see.

Doing what: Cambridge, Lexington and Concord

The tripa was really pleasant and the guide was really good.

Doing what: The Total Boston Experience

GREAT tour guide and driver.
Boston is beautiful.

Doing what: The Total Boston Experience

The majoriity of the tour was great. However, the lunch stop was not unitl after 2 pm and too much time was allocated for lunch shopping at Quincy Market. The result was by the time we arrived at the USS Constitution there was insufficient time to visit the ship. We were the first ones off the bus and due to the long security lines by the time we boarded the ship there was only 5 minutes before we were due to reboard the bus. All most everyone else on the bus gave up on trying to get on board. If visiting the ship is high on your list of things to do then you will need to make a separate visit. Can't blame the tour company for the long security lines but scheduling the Constituion for the end of day is not a good plan.

Doing what: The Total Boston Experience

We were a bit disappointed with this experience. The Lexington-Concord part was interesting (it would have been good to have more depth to it but we appreciate the time limitations). The advertising material had indicated we would be having lunch in Harvard Square, and we were looking forward to that, but we were deposited at Quincy Market instead. Then the afternoon tour of Boston was via a hop-on, hop-off trolley bus, which we hadn't expected, and it appeared to duplicate part of the morning tour so we did not complete all of it.

Doing what: The Total Boston Experience

A really interesting outing. We learnt a lot and were really well looked after

Doing what: Cambridge, Lexington and Concord