marvelous manhattan tours

Eating at Bubba Gump Shrimp restaurant and sightseeing was awesome.The parking is not great,but the trip to the "Big Apple" was awesome!

This tour was an excellent way to begin our NYC stay. The bus is small, therefore with a small group there are many opportunities to ask questions. Steve is a super guide....and even made a point of remembering all our names. We felt like we were driving around with a friend! Well worth the money for this tour.

I researched Trip Advisor on possible tours, and Marvelous Manhattan Tours got rave reviews. So the 3 of us in our family booked a tour on a recent trip to NYC. The tours are in small 12/14 people mini-vans, not the huge double decker tour buses. As fate would have it, the 3 in our family where the only ones that booked the tour that day. I was afraid that they would cancel since it was only the 3 of us, but the tour went on as planned! The tour guide, Steve, was all he was cracked up to be……….knowledgeable, witty, funny, entertaining and a GOOD driver. The best part of the tour, though, was the small group. It was like having a friend drive you around the city giving you a personable tour. You could speak out at any time and ask a question …. Unheard of on the big double deckers. Steve would let us off at a sight, tell us what to see, and when we were done and walked out onto the sidewalk, Steve would zoom up and pick us up at the curb. We felt like royalty. It was great considering it was raining that day and I felt sorry for the poor people in their plastic raincoats on the outside double decker buses.I wholeheartedly endorse this tour company and urge others to use it when in New York.

This Website was so vital to my trip plans, so I am happy to share our experience with other planners.Our first evening in Manhattan began with the trip from Newark Airport on a Sunday afternoon. The traffic was mind-boggling for country folk like us. I made the mistake of allowing our Dial 7 driver to choose his own music, and he spent the next hour dancing, directing, and singing to middle eastern belly dancing music. We didn't mind the loud music but would have been happier if he had paid attention to the road. I almost kissed the sidewalk of our hotel once we finally arrived. The Belvedere was our hotel, and we were pleased as we unpacked and headed to the streets for dinner and a "walkabout". Didn't stay out late as we had been travelling all day.Monday: breakfast was some snack foods we had picked up at a deli the night before. Our tour guide was Steve from MArvelous Manhattan tours. This was a six hour tour in a fourteen passenger bus, and Steve did a great job of presenting an insider's guide to NYC. Not only was he informative about the history of the city, but he was also helpful in explaining the layout of the land, especially Uptown, Midtown, Downtown, and Crosstown, as to selecting the right subway direction or walking destinations. It was a fairly good overview of the city which gave us a better idea of which places to return to later in the week. Lunch was at Katz Deli, which is an experience all in itself. Fortunately he provided instructions to us as to the ticket system and recommending splitting the hot pastrami sandwich between us. Good advice! Its an old fashioned deli. If you plan on going there, present your ticket to the employee behind the counter each time you order another item for lunch. You'll understand better once you're there! My favorite stop on the bus tour was Battery Park. After the tour, we rested for a while in our room before walking to pier 83 to take the Circle Line Sunset Cruise. We had purchased a NYPass coupon book weeks before, and it was included in it. May not have been wise to take two tours on our first day, but this was the only evening we had open. The ship filled up pretty well, so we were glad to be there by 6:30 for the 7:00 departure. Our tour guide on the boat was an older gentlemen (who didn't ask for tips) and was extremely knowledgable about NYC and NJ. It was a good tour and about two hours in length. We walked home and went to bed after our full day. I believe I'll stop with that day and continue tomorrow...