Hello We had the pleasure of meeting lovely Betty from apple greeters on wednesday 25.4.12. What a wonderful inspiring lady. This lady was brilliant. She engaged so well with the kids it was pleasant to watch this magic. Her knowledge was brilliant , her details of the 9/11 events was so vivid and passionate we gained a great insight from... More

Highly rated. Our greeter Joe F was fantastic. We are a Australian family 3 kids, ages 15, 12 & 10. A retired gent with a great love of New York, family and making people feel at ease. Joe arrived on time, listened intently on what we thought we wanted to see, then delivered in spades. We followed almost breathless as... More

Myself and my boyfriend visited New York from 11 April to 25 April to celebrate my 30th Birthday. It was my first time in the Big Apple and my sister had highly recommended a Big Apple Greeter tour as she had two tours before and she said it is the best thing to do at the beginning of your holiday... More

Charles greeted us at the front door of our B&B on the first morning of our stay to New York City, and first on the agenda was to teach us how to ride the subway. After the day with him we had the concepts of uptown and downtown, east and west under the belt. A trip to Central Park, back... More

Three were greeted by Nancy and given a fun morning from Grand Central to Alice in Wonderland in Central Park. Warm, energetic, and she walked our legs off! One of the highlights of our 4 day trip to the city for mom's 74th!

we were with our wonderful greeter for 16 hours. Sami S. was so knowledgable and knew his city so well. we visited the Intrepid, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Hi Line to chelsea Markets and Meatpacking District, Grand Central Station to name a few with a detailed history of all places mentioned Sami was terrific and made our stay in N.Y the... More

We were fortunate to be granted some time in Brooklyn with Prof. Bill Schumaker - a Brooklyn local with a encyclopedic knowledge of the wonderful history of the borough coupled with excellent communication skills and a library of amusing anecdotes. We thoroughly enjoyed our time with Bill and highly recommend Big Apple Greeters as a very useful and insightful introduction... More

We spent 6 hours with Lester Barnett on a recent visit. Lester was so informative and took us to places in New York we wouldnt have thought of going to. An absolute pleasure to be with and would reccomend him and the Big Apple Greeters to anyone. it was certainly one of the highlights of the trip Keep up the... More

We were lucky enough to be assigned a Big Apple Greeter for our visit to NYC this past week. And we were extra lucky to be assigned Michael S. Michael spent 4 hours of his time on a Sunday showing myself, my husband and our teenage son many wonderful sights. He took us to Battery Park, several churches, Noho, Soho,... More