![]() I spoke with our guide about skipping the Old Corner Bookstore-it sounds like a situation in which the group was running behind, so the guide mentioned the site in passing but did not make a full stop. Sometimes due to folks' questions or the walking speed of a group, guides may have to pass over particular landmarks. In addition to our narrative approach, the 2.5-hour tour is designed to provide guests a view of all 16 landmarks on the trail. In defense of our guide, however, we aim to avoid point-and-shoot tourism that simply lists every site on the Freedom Trail, instead diving deep into Revolutionary Boston from 1765 to 1775, and introducing guests to lesser-known names like James Otis, Jr. Your guide has never received feedback of this nature, so your concerns have already been addressed directly with the guide. I will reach out directly via private message to learn more about your experience and potential solutions to the issues you raise. As you mention, we've collected years and years of great reviews on TripAdvisor, Google, Yelp and beyond, so I'm exceedingly disappointed to read about your tour experience with us. As a small, local operator, we take our quality reputation on the Freedom Trail quite seriously. Hi Andrew, this is Ted Clark, owner of Hub Town Tours. I don’t care about the money spent, we only had one day in Boston and I feel like our time would have been much better spent doing a self guided Freedom Trail tour. If he even acknowledged it I didn’t hear it and he didn’t break stride. We walked right by the Old Corner Bookstore. ![]() Once we started walking only the first six or so people could hear what the guide was saying. He gave us a multiple minute description of James Otis’s personality. I liken it to someone who has tirelessly studied American history from 1765 to 1775 and wants to prove that they memorized every detail. And he repeated himself with the restating of a sentence with use of synonyms or repeated sentences with adjectives added. I found the minutiae that the guide brought into the stories completely uninteresting. ![]() My wife and kids asked if we could leave and I wasn’t arguing. An hour and 45 minutes in, at the bathroom break, we left the group and didn’t return. ![]() I booked based on the great reviews, and maybe this isn’t the tour for me, but I greatly disliked it. I found it incredibly boring, redundant, and many of details given were inconsequential, in my opinion. I love learning about history and love tours, so I was really looking forward to this tour. ![]()
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