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- Top Attractions: Highlights of Yorkshire
- Duration Range: 2-8 hours
- Group Size: Small groups (up to 15 people)
- Difficulty Level: Easy to Moderate
- Best Season: Year-round
- Recommended For: All ages and fitness levels
Average Tour Price: $75
Lowest Price Tour: $45
Highest Price Tour: $250
128 Available Tour Excursions in York
Don't get lost in the crowds. Explore York at your own pace and in private with one of our expert, fully qualified, personable guides. Delve deep into the medieval maze and discover secret corners few other visitors get to see. This is an entirely personal service - once you have made your booking we will get in touch to arrange where to come and meet you (such as any city centre landmark or hotel). We will ensure you don't miss any of the highlights - including the world-famous Minster (exterior only) medieval city walls and Shambles - but if you have any particular areas of interest, please get in touch. It's your tour and we want you to experience York your way!
Price: $202.64
Duration: 2 hours
NEW for 2025, from the multi-award-winning "Deathly Dark Tours" comes The Spookologist's Guide to Haunted York; a fascinating and engrossing exploration of the paranormal history of York, a city often claimed to be the most haunted in all of England. This small group tour features a blend of local history, infamous supernatural sightings and a sprinkling of paranormal science. Fans of shows such as Uncanny and Most Haunted, or those with an interest in the supernatural will find this experience especially enjoyable.
Price: $20.26
Duration: 1 hours
You will travel by Hot Air Balloon over the Historical City Of York and it's surrounding countryside. We offer Champagne Balloon Flights over the beautiful city of York from April – October each year. Our balloons are all multi coloured and look amazing both form the ground, from the air and in your pictures! Pilot Ollie says - "There’s nothing more peaceful and serene than watching the world go by as you fly over the countryside in a Hot Air Balloon. The most rewarding part of piloting balloons is being able to share the experience and excitement with others" Your ballooning experience will include: - 3 - 4 hour Experience - Detailed Passenger Safety Briefing - Opportunity To Help Set Up The Balloon - 45 minutes to 1 Hour Flight From York - Opportunity To Help Pack The Balloon Away - Champagne Toast - Flight Certificates - Optional In-Flight Photographs & Video (£20) - Minibus Ride Back To Launch Site
Price: $268.84
Duration: 3-4 hours
*IMPORTANT NOTE: This tour is offered in ENGLISH and in SPANISH. Please make sure you specify your preferred language when booking.* The Saints and Sinners Tour looks at the history of York through the eyes of those who shaped it. Meet the King, the Bishop, the Highwayman, the Chocolatier, the Martyr, the Terrorist, the Emperor, and the Artist. Do you know their names? What do you know about their lives? Where can you find their traces in the city? Were they saints… Or sinners..? I am your guide: Irene, an art historian born in Madrid and living in York for the last eight years. Join me on a fascinating walk around York to discover all this and more!
Price: $70.25
Duration: 2 hours
Dorian Deathly has been leading ghost tours in York at night for 10 years and has a lot of interesting tales to share, but sometimes he likes to come out during the daylight hours and enjoy a tour with a difference! York can be a noisy old place in the daytime, particularly at peak times so it can be difficult to be fully immersed in the terrible tales! We use a tour guide system with high quality over the ear headphones and a professional microphone system to ensure incredible clarity. You will be absolutely captivated by the stories, yet free to move around and explore the spaces as you like. The tour will cover a collection of some of the fouler fiends from York's darker past, blood spilled on these old stones that we tread upon. The tale of Death By Pancake! Questionable Victorian medical practices... History has never been so disgraceful.
Price: $8.78
Duration: 1-1 hours
Explore York on a guided e-bike city & surrounding area tour. Tours run daily and last around 2.5 hours Riders must be 16 and over and be competent riding a bicycle on UK roads. Bikes and helmets included
Price: $47.28
Duration: 2 hours
This tour will take you across the historic centre of York and stop at a number of independent businesses, each one of which will provide you with generous examples of their fabulous food & drink. You'll get to enjoy Yorkshire Cheeses, Fish & Chips, Tacos, Chocolate and Pintxos with Sherry before choosing a sweet or savoury finale with a well earned Yorkshire ale! While walking between the venues you'll hear a bit about the history of York and pass by several of the cities major attractions such as York Minster, Cliffords Tower and the City Walls. Your guide is a York based food writer who knows the city and its hospitality scene intimately. He's been featured in the Lonely Planet guide, is a coordinating judge for the Guild of Fine Food and helps run York Food & Drink Festival....You can recognise him by the cutlery tattoos!
Price: $87.81
Duration: 3 hours
As well as following in the footsteps of Anne Lister, we will visit some of the locations used in the recent BBC TV series Gentleman Jack
Price: $16.89
Duration: 2 hours
Explore Roman York, at your own pace with your own personal tour guide! This is a new private bespoke tour run by York Walls Tours - with over 100 5 star reviews for our other tours on Trip Advisor! Your private guide will take you on a informative and entertaining trip around York, discovering its fascinating Roman past, where for over 300 years the most dangerous province in the entire Roman Empire was governed from. Learn about the emperors who visited (and died here!), discover lost sites missed by tourists and explore the extraordinary history of this most iconic of Roman Cities, from Dark age battles to lost legions, crazed emperors to gladiator cemetaries, the private Roman tour of York has it all!
Price: $87.81
Duration: 1-2 hours
For group sizes of up to 4, 8 or 15 passengers, this Private Day Trip from York, just for your party, provides the opportunity to explore the stunning scenery of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, visiting Bolton Castle, Askrigg, Kettlewell, Pateley Bridge and the traditional Dales Market Town of Hawes, where you will have the opportunity to visit the award winning Wensleydale Creamery, the home of Yorkshire Wensleydale Cheese!
Price: $803.81
Duration: 8 hours
The City of York walls are the most unique and complete in the country. They have also seen their fair share of blood with heads spiked on Micklegate bar, a medieval Jewish massacre and cannon fire from the Civil War in 1644. Join award winning Mad Alice on a gruesome walk on the walls as she highlights some of the tragedies that have taken place on and around the ancient stones. This 2 hour tour will visit 3 of the 4 gateways as visitors have the option to complete the 2.5 mile circuit with the guidebook given by Mad Alice at the end or wander back to city centre if the truth has become too much to bear.
Price: $33.77
Duration: 2 hours
Join us for this half day walking tour of York, which gives you a great overview of this beautiful city in Yorkshire. This walled city has so much to offer, from Roman history, through the Vikings, to the Chocolate merchants and Harry Potter. Maybe you’re passing through the area, but if not it’s just a 2 hour train ride from London, it’s easily reachable for a day trip.
Price: $313.42
Duration: 4 hours
A welcome Hooting Owl gin, rum or vodka with mixer of your choice. You’ll tour our distillery where you’ll learn all about the distillation process and what makes Hooting Owl so special. Our Master Distiller, story teller and founder of Hooting Owl, Dom, will take you on a fun-filled, virtual ‘gin crawl’ known as the ‘Tour de Yorkshire’. You’ll discover the journey taken by Sir Owlfred Tyton Hodgins (The infamous Hooting Owl) as he created his discerning recipes many years ago. There’ll be a few insights into Dom’s colourful life, from his humble beginnings and into the present day of Hooting Owl. Throughout the adventure there will be at least four stop-offs where your glasses will be refilled with another one of Sir Owlfred’s artisan Yorkshire gins. This is Gintertainment at its best! A light-hearted, fun-packed adventure that you’ll never forget.
Price: $60.79
Duration: 2 hours
Mad Alice has created a unique walking tour all about the rogues and rakes of the Georgian Period. Visiting the site of the rope maker, the courthouse, the Georgian prisons and many of the execution grounds, learn about what would happen if you were found guilty of a crime and what other methods of executions besides hanging took place. Stories of executions, highwaymen, murders, witches and a Drunken Hangman, this tour is slightly different than the current tours available. Join your award winning guide Mad Alice on a crime tour of York that will have you horrified and belly laughing!
Price: $17.56
Duration: 1 hours
Let your own private guide take you around the world famous city of York, which is at its most beautiful during the Christmas season. Your bespoke tour will include visiting some of the key sites of the city, in addition to a number of our hidden gems usually missed by tourists, with your well informed and friendly guides.
Price: $87.81
Duration: 2 hours
A great, unique and memorable Tour of the city of YORK, the most spectacular Medieval city in YORKSHIRE AND the North of England. Founded by the Romans in 71 AD, York was occupied by Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, and invaded by the Normans! Its great Gothic Cathedral: the York Minster, the ruins of a Medieval Monastery, its Castle, its wall, and public gardens, Georgian and Victorian Architecture... something to discover and explore at every step during our walk. One of the most photogenic and picturesque cities in the UK. York still preserves a large group of buildings, churches and market for more than 600 years, taking us on a journey to the Middle Ages. Let's climb the defensive wall, and walk a portion of this magnificent structure, with the best views of the city. Discover York with me, you will learn everything about the city and its importance to England since it appeared on maps 2000 years ago.
Price: $54.04
Duration: 3 hours
From the Roman Empire to the Industrial Revolution, via Vikings, the Norman Conquest and the Wars of the Roses, the history of York is the history of England. This city has been at the heart of the action for nearly 2000 years. With York’s Hidden History, you’ll be at the heart of the action too, in the expert company of our local guides. Using knowledge and humour they'll tell the city's secrets whilst showing you the famous sights. On the York History Walk: Royal Route we’ll ramble regally through 2000 years of amazing history. Starting outside the Yorkshire Museum, in the shadow of the city’s ancient stone walls, we’ll explain how a Roman military outpost turned into imperial Eboracum. Making our way across the city via York Minster, The Shambles and Jorvik, we’ll tell tales of conquests and massacres, empresses and queens, before finishing our walk beneath Clifford’s Tower, in the heart of York Castle. See the sights of the city with York’s Hidden History!
Price: $16.21
Duration: 1-2 hours
From the Roman Empire to the Industrial Revolution, via Vikings, the Norman Conquest and the Wars of the Roses, the history of York is the history of England. This city has been at the heart of the action for nearly 2000 years. With York’s Hidden History, you’ll be at the heart of the action too, in the expert company of our local guides. Using knowledge and humour they'll tell the city's secrets whilst showing you the famous sights. On the York History Walk: River Route we’ll take a waterside walk through 2000 years of amazing history. Starting outside the Yorkshire Museum, in the shadow of the city’s ancient walls, we’ll explain how a Roman military outpost turned into imperial Eboracum. Making our way across the city via St Mary’s Abbey, the River Ouse, and King’s Staith, we’ll tell tales of fights and floods, monks and merchants, before finishing our walk beneath Clifford’s Tower, in the heart of York Castle. See the sights of the city with York’s Hidden History!
Price: $16.21
Duration: 1-2 hours
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