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Uncle Sam's New York Walking Tours
Uncle Sam's New York Walking Tours
Uncle Sam's New York Walking Tours
4.5
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Monday
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Wednesday
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Thursday
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Friday
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Saturday
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Sunday
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
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Uncle Sam’s New York offers daily New York City walking tours, pub crawls, and night club tours that immerses travelers in the history, culture, and glamour that make New York City the world’s greatest city. On our tours, New York City’s best tour guides will provide you a social, interactive experience that allows you to interact with the guide and meet new people.At Uncle Sam’s New York, we believe that a tour should become a bonding experience
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navnotay
London, UK2 contributions
Dec 2013 • Family
Took my kids to this and booked it from the UK. Very informative and really helped my kids understand what went on here... Great tour - highly recommended.
Written January 27, 2014
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Tom B
Palm ha3 contributions
Mar 2012 • Solo
The tour was informative & great 3hrs. Dennis was our guide and very good with relating with the different ages of the group. We started with loads of NYC history then each stop at the pubs the conversation turned to each of us. 10:30 rolled around and no one was ready break up. I visit NYC yearly and will do more of these tours.
Written April 4, 2012
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nymphodora
Munich, Germany3 contributions
Apr 2011
We went on a Greenich Village Tour with Annie. We loved it as Annie told us a lot of different stories about the architecture, the people and the spirit of this part of the city. Very funny and witty she led us through this two hour tour. Thanks again!
Written April 27, 2011
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glenn b
New York City, NY1 contribution
Sep 2020
NYC Highline walk.
No guide showed up.
No email to let me know it was canceled.
No phone call to let me know it was cancelled.
And to top it off, the Highline doesn’t open until 12 noon, not 10 am when the walk was scheduled for.
Wonder what they would have done with a group for 2 hours before it actually opened. If the guide had actually shown up?
No guide showed up.
No email to let me know it was canceled.
No phone call to let me know it was cancelled.
And to top it off, the Highline doesn’t open until 12 noon, not 10 am when the walk was scheduled for.
Wonder what they would have done with a group for 2 hours before it actually opened. If the guide had actually shown up?
Written September 27, 2020
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Jessica D
West Allis, WI1 contribution
Nov 2018 • Friends
This "club tour" is a joke and a waste of money. my group had 3, we arrived at 10pm.. we met at a pizza joint and got a glass of champagne while we waited for the others (which was nice...if you wanted champagne) we finished our champagne and asked if we had time for another drink (of our choice) we were told no by the tour guide, after waiting about 15 minutes, at about 11:00 we were finally off to our 1st club in a shuttle bus, NOT in a luxury Mercedes coach, we got in the club just fine but as it turned out, there were 2 clubs in the 1 building, and we ended up at the wrong one! After waiting in the dirty "vip" area with no drinks and the rest of our group missing for about 20 minutes without anyone letting us know what was going on, we were then told we were leaving, we went downstairs to the "club" we were supposed to be at, which was empty. they brought us a bottle of vodka and a jug or orange juice (also not our drink of choice) of which Dimitri (one of the guides) was in charge of pouring for everyone. also in our 2nd dirty vip area. we stayed for 1 drink and were whisked off to the 2nd club which was better, but small. Again,a bottle of vodka and orange juice, we ended up buying our own drinks of choice, while our tour guides just stood around looking like they were completely bored and confused. After a while, we were told by our guides that they were leaving...leaving to the next club you say? NOPE! THEY were leaving all of us there! It was 1:20! We were in awe as we asked "what about the 3-5 hours of clubhopping"? Dimitri asked..."where did you hear that"? And they left! What just happened here? We ended up taking the rest of the night not knowing where to go confused as to what we spent out $85 per person on?! Dont even bother wasting your money or time, you WILL be disappointed!....this is THEIR actual advertisement:
5-hour night club tour in New York City Experience hassle-free club entry with guaranteed priority admission to top nightspots Complimentary drinks and table reservation at each club visited Transportation by luxury Mercedes coach between the nightclubs Friendly, fun and reliable nightlife guides Choose the VIP option with private table and unlimited bottle service in nightclub A memorable night in the city that never sleeps!
5-hour night club tour in New York City Experience hassle-free club entry with guaranteed priority admission to top nightspots Complimentary drinks and table reservation at each club visited Transportation by luxury Mercedes coach between the nightclubs Friendly, fun and reliable nightlife guides Choose the VIP option with private table and unlimited bottle service in nightclub A memorable night in the city that never sleeps!
Written November 6, 2018
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Gez14
Preston, UK48 contributions
Sep 2011 • Couples
Below is the email I sent to Uncle Sams Tours after what was a rubbish experience. I got the odd email back after I chased them over the last 12 months but still nothing has been sorted out with regards to a refund on just the phone bill. AVOID.
Me and my wife were booked on the Uncle Sam’s World Trade Center Walking Tour on Thursday 5th May at 14:30. This tour had been recommended highly by my wife’s friend, who said it was one of the best experiences whilst visiting New York. She said that the guide had given a very personal account of 9/11 itself and how the day unfolded for him and his friends/colleagues, so much so she was moved to tears. With this is mind we worked the tour into our tight schedule. Her tour guide was named Michael and was not the person we received for our tour.
On the day of the tour it was also the day that President Obama visited Ground Zero to lay a wreath. We arrived early as anticipated large crowds, to which we were right but what we weren’t aware of was the amount of streets that had been closed off. As we feared that the tour might have been cancelled luckily I remembered I had your customer services number in my backpack and after consulting a nearby Police Officer we established that there were not any nearby payphones. I reluctantly decided to use my mobile phone and ring your company to find out it was going to take place or not.
I wish I had the name of the person who answered the phone but unfortunately, and in no way am I being discriminant just truthful, her English was appalling. At times when asking questions the responses I received were nothing more than beeping noises, I hope you have the conversation taped so you can hear it for yourself. I asked to speak to someone else as I couldn’t understand what was being relayed to me but I was informed all other staff/supervisor were at lunch. All I was trying to do was ascertain whether or not the tour would continue. After having not much luck I decided to leave it and wait and see what would happen.
14:07 #outgoing USA roam n 0:03:27 £4.40
We waited at the meeting point as requested and began the tour, which started in St Marks Chapel. We were encouraged to look around at all the displays and take photos and to reconvene at 15:00 at the front of the chapel. This is what we did but actually finished looking around at 14:55, so we went outside to wait. It was at this point that we noticed that there was no one else outside waiting let alone anyone that we recognised from the brief introduction before the tour began. I went back inside to check the same, and yet again no-one that I recognised, and more worryingly no Tour Guide. I went back outside again and checked further around the front of the chapel to make sure I hadn’t missed anyone the first time, and still no sign. I joined my wife back at the entrance and then she proceeded to check inside the chapel in case there was a room that we hadn’t seen but this wasn’t the case as you may be aware the viewing area is just one open space.
As my wife came back outside it was now apparent we have been left behind by our Tour Guide, not a very nice thought at all. As we racked our brains to try and figure out why a “Guide” would do this to paying customers, I circled the chapel to see if I could see where the tour had moved onto, nothing.
It was at this point I decided that I would ring the customer services again hoping to speak to someone else to resolve the matter and much to my dismay I was greeted by the same person as before. I was trying to find out where the tour / guide might be now so I could re-join them. After much nonsensical conversations later the person eventually understood and said there was no way of knowing where he might be and offered me a re-scheduled date. As I explained before this was not possible due to the length of our stay and the reason we booked it for this particular day in the first instance. I asked if she had the guide’s mobile number so she could contact him so we could re-join the tour. She agreed to do this and ring me back once contact had been made.
15:06 #outgoing USA roam n 0:05:21 £6.60
After nearly twenty minutes had passed, I hesitantly rang back again. Thankfully this time I was speaking to someone else, straight away they understood my needs and proceeded to ring the guide whilst I stayed on the phone. Unfortunately the guide didn’t answer the first time but then eventually answered the second and gave a very brief description of his current location. Thankfully I had a street map and was able to work out roughly were the guide was. We returned to the tour after 35 minutes of being absent, to which the guide had the cheek to say “Oh hello our lost friends”, we were not lost, we were left behind.
15:23 #outgoing USA roam n 0:04:38 £5.50
Obviously we had missed quite a lot and were in need of some form of catch up but we were offered none, unless we asked a specific question about something. The tour had already ruined for us and this was a shame as we had really looked forward to it. As the tour continued it was obvious the guide wasn’t knowledgeable at all about certain things, when we did ask questions we often got the response “I’m not sure about that, I’ll find out”, I assume he meant for another tour as we didn’t get those answers. There were also times were we had to wait while he read his notes before he relayed back what seemed to be paragraphs from a textbook/article, not very personal at all.
The guide said he would "make our time up" at the end of the tour. This consisted of just 10 minutes, during which we had to ask our guide to take us to very well known places as he wasn't actually going to show us these. All in all this was not useful to us at all.
This experience was by far the worst of our entire visit to New York City, we learnt nothing from our tour guide that we didn't already know, he didn't take us to many integral locations surrounding the World Trade Site, and to top of it off left us for 35 minutes in a location we had no knowledge of.
Me and my wife were booked on the Uncle Sam’s World Trade Center Walking Tour on Thursday 5th May at 14:30. This tour had been recommended highly by my wife’s friend, who said it was one of the best experiences whilst visiting New York. She said that the guide had given a very personal account of 9/11 itself and how the day unfolded for him and his friends/colleagues, so much so she was moved to tears. With this is mind we worked the tour into our tight schedule. Her tour guide was named Michael and was not the person we received for our tour.
On the day of the tour it was also the day that President Obama visited Ground Zero to lay a wreath. We arrived early as anticipated large crowds, to which we were right but what we weren’t aware of was the amount of streets that had been closed off. As we feared that the tour might have been cancelled luckily I remembered I had your customer services number in my backpack and after consulting a nearby Police Officer we established that there were not any nearby payphones. I reluctantly decided to use my mobile phone and ring your company to find out it was going to take place or not.
I wish I had the name of the person who answered the phone but unfortunately, and in no way am I being discriminant just truthful, her English was appalling. At times when asking questions the responses I received were nothing more than beeping noises, I hope you have the conversation taped so you can hear it for yourself. I asked to speak to someone else as I couldn’t understand what was being relayed to me but I was informed all other staff/supervisor were at lunch. All I was trying to do was ascertain whether or not the tour would continue. After having not much luck I decided to leave it and wait and see what would happen.
14:07 #outgoing USA roam n 0:03:27 £4.40
We waited at the meeting point as requested and began the tour, which started in St Marks Chapel. We were encouraged to look around at all the displays and take photos and to reconvene at 15:00 at the front of the chapel. This is what we did but actually finished looking around at 14:55, so we went outside to wait. It was at this point that we noticed that there was no one else outside waiting let alone anyone that we recognised from the brief introduction before the tour began. I went back inside to check the same, and yet again no-one that I recognised, and more worryingly no Tour Guide. I went back outside again and checked further around the front of the chapel to make sure I hadn’t missed anyone the first time, and still no sign. I joined my wife back at the entrance and then she proceeded to check inside the chapel in case there was a room that we hadn’t seen but this wasn’t the case as you may be aware the viewing area is just one open space.
As my wife came back outside it was now apparent we have been left behind by our Tour Guide, not a very nice thought at all. As we racked our brains to try and figure out why a “Guide” would do this to paying customers, I circled the chapel to see if I could see where the tour had moved onto, nothing.
It was at this point I decided that I would ring the customer services again hoping to speak to someone else to resolve the matter and much to my dismay I was greeted by the same person as before. I was trying to find out where the tour / guide might be now so I could re-join them. After much nonsensical conversations later the person eventually understood and said there was no way of knowing where he might be and offered me a re-scheduled date. As I explained before this was not possible due to the length of our stay and the reason we booked it for this particular day in the first instance. I asked if she had the guide’s mobile number so she could contact him so we could re-join the tour. She agreed to do this and ring me back once contact had been made.
15:06 #outgoing USA roam n 0:05:21 £6.60
After nearly twenty minutes had passed, I hesitantly rang back again. Thankfully this time I was speaking to someone else, straight away they understood my needs and proceeded to ring the guide whilst I stayed on the phone. Unfortunately the guide didn’t answer the first time but then eventually answered the second and gave a very brief description of his current location. Thankfully I had a street map and was able to work out roughly were the guide was. We returned to the tour after 35 minutes of being absent, to which the guide had the cheek to say “Oh hello our lost friends”, we were not lost, we were left behind.
15:23 #outgoing USA roam n 0:04:38 £5.50
Obviously we had missed quite a lot and were in need of some form of catch up but we were offered none, unless we asked a specific question about something. The tour had already ruined for us and this was a shame as we had really looked forward to it. As the tour continued it was obvious the guide wasn’t knowledgeable at all about certain things, when we did ask questions we often got the response “I’m not sure about that, I’ll find out”, I assume he meant for another tour as we didn’t get those answers. There were also times were we had to wait while he read his notes before he relayed back what seemed to be paragraphs from a textbook/article, not very personal at all.
The guide said he would "make our time up" at the end of the tour. This consisted of just 10 minutes, during which we had to ask our guide to take us to very well known places as he wasn't actually going to show us these. All in all this was not useful to us at all.
This experience was by far the worst of our entire visit to New York City, we learnt nothing from our tour guide that we didn't already know, he didn't take us to many integral locations surrounding the World Trade Site, and to top of it off left us for 35 minutes in a location we had no knowledge of.
Written August 24, 2012
This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Tripadvisor performs checks on reviews as part of our industry-leading trust & safety standards. Read our transparency report to learn more.
Maria G
2 contributions
Nov 2019
We booked a tour with Uncle Sam's through expedia for a tour of the 911 memorial. When we showed up at the agreed upon meeting place no one was there. We phoned the number given and were told our reservation did not exist and since we were there already we could just walk over to the memorial. He blamed expedia for not passing on the info, and yet when we checked with expedia they contacted the vendor and our reservation was found right away and money refunded. We were very disappointed with having the tour cancelled which we had been looking forward to and planned our day around it and extremely disappointed with the customer service response and that he lied about there being no reservation, even though we had proof and had prepaid.
Written November 18, 2019
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alanzavodny80
David City, NE22 contributions
Aug 2019 • Family
This museum is very well done it is tasteful and classy. It is a somber and sober reminder of the events of that day . I think it would be impossible to tour that museum without experiencing great emotions. It is a fascinating collection of historical objects and it tells a story from start to finish.
It has powerful images and it puts you right back on that day. The mixing in audio from that day also makes the experience more intense.
Being from Nebraska it was interesting to see the location of all the events of that day. The effort to clean up that site is nothing short of monumental.
Going here makes you sad; but it is an important thing to do.
It has powerful images and it puts you right back on that day. The mixing in audio from that day also makes the experience more intense.
Being from Nebraska it was interesting to see the location of all the events of that day. The effort to clean up that site is nothing short of monumental.
Going here makes you sad; but it is an important thing to do.
Written August 6, 2019
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WoodyB
Lindstrom, MN22 contributions
Jun 2019
OUTSTANDING!!! will bring tears to your eyes - come early (gets packed by noon) plan on 3hr+ lots of walking
Written August 2, 2019
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TravelinMom321
Charlotte, NC9 contributions
May 2019
While we didn't go to some of the more expensive stores, my teenage daughter and I did shop on Fifth Avenue closer to Grand Central Station - and we found some real bargains. I got a leather coat for $40. She got a Calvin Kline coat for $59. Granted, it was spring and they were on sale, but we can now say we bought designer name coats on Fifth Avenue - how cool is that!?!
Written May 16, 2019
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eileenia
Long Beach, New York
does the tour guide discuss the names at the reflecting pool or do they just leave you there at the end of the walking tour around the Wall Street area?
Written April 28, 2018
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