York Walls Private Walking Tour: Personalized, Compliance with Social Distancing Rules

Experience a personalized and socially distanced walking tour of York’s famous city walls. Explore at your own pace with a private guide, and enjoy food and drink along the way.

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • York City Walls - The walls of York have a rich and bloodthirsty history stretching back nearly 2000 years. Whilst free to walk on, visitors can often leave the city having missed out on discovering the secrets of the walls, and the city they have protected for so long. These personalised tours provide a totally unique, bespoke and entertaining…
What's Included
  • Tour escort/host
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off (by foot, city centre hotels only)
What's Not Included
  • Entrance fees (2 small museums located around the walls are available for entry separately)
  • Food and drinks
Additional Information

Your own personalized tour guide, taking you on a spectacular trip round the world famous city walls! You are provided a unique guided tour experience - you will be picked up at your hotel, or in town at a place of your choosing, at a time to suit you. You will be taken around the walls, no big groups to tag along with or time schedules to keep, and…

Location
Roman Column
Minster Yard
Outside York Minster near the entrance to the gift shop is the Roman Column. Its easy to find and right in the centre of town, a great place to meet!
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Seaydot
Oct 13, 2024
Walking the York Walls - We walked most of the existing walls around York. Beautiful views!!! There are a lot of steps and no provisions for handicapped.Well worth the time!
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Mwwildcatfan
Oct 12, 2024
Best walking tour we have taken - What a fun and informative walking tour. Unlike any we have experienced. Our guide, John, was funny and so filled with unique facts. His deep understanding of York history made our stay here far more enjoyable. Highly recommend!!!
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Michael_s
Oct 8, 2024
Walk with John! - John is a wonderful guide. Lots of great info and very friendly. Highly recommend John and this tour.
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Safari16761515630
Oct 7, 2024
Really pleasant walk - It was a fine sunny day, not too hot snd the walk around the city walls was so pleasant and relaxing. It's not at all strenuous and you get to see York for a different and interesting aspect.
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K8mnstrcommerce
Sep 21, 2024
Fantastic Tour with Focus on Archeology (and Some History) - John was a great guide. He was very funny and animated while also clearly have a mastery of his area of scholarship and practice. He had some interesting insights and thoughts about debunking some commonly held beliefs and oft repeated stories about UK history and culture (but not in any way outlandish or offensive). He took us (not far) off the beaten path, as well as to all the things we were expecting to see. We felt entertained and educated.
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Margaret_k
Sep 15, 2024
Lovely tour of the wall - An excellent tour with lots of history. John was very knowledgeable and we enjoyed his many stories. Great learning experience for us yanks!
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13neilb
Aug 16, 2024
A nice walk - Often walk round the walls stopping off a various pubs on the way. Lots of sights of york you don't usually see from the street.
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Pugpug1212
Jul 2, 2024
Beautiful sights - Lovely looking over the sights of york when you look over the castle walls. It is worth doing when you visit york. It is great for people who love walking long distances.
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422dancem
Sep 30, 2024
Nice walk - The first thing time visiting here since moving to the area. Lots of sights to see and a good day out my family really enjoyed the trip
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Linda_r
Sep 19, 2024
Not private and not as described - I had booked this tour, but wasn't given a meeting time. Emailed and called the operator and heard nothing, so at 8:00pm the night before our tour, I booked an alternative tour. At 9:45am morning of our tour, I got a reply to my email that we were meeting at 10:00am. Met our tour guide not long after and told him about the lack of communication, and he blamed Viator. Regardless, we started off on our tour, but he then told us that he had another tour booked in at 11:00am so we would have people joining us. So much for a "private tour". Turns out they had booked a viking tour, which we are not remotely interested in, so once they joined us, the tour turned into a viking tour! Definitely not what we booked! The tour description on Viator says it can be personalised for what you are interested in, and that we could be met at our hotel. No offer to meet at hotel, nor any question of what we were interested in at the start. It also shows approximately 12 places that we would attend on the tour. We went to about three of those. The tour guide spent most of the time talking about the history of the walls, which yes was interesting but went on for far too long, however as the tour description says, the tour was included to a walk on the walls. Didn't happen. I ended up telling the guide that we were going to join the other tour I had booked (which was too late, as it had left an hour before). Total waste of money. We spent $235 on this tour, which I consider a total waste. After leaving the tour, we went on the hop on hop off bus, and learnt far more and saw way more than we did on the tour. I suggest you avoid!
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From $65
up to 15 guests
1 Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).