While I would agree that the truly BEST way to do this is right at the beginning of your trip...reason being, it gives you a great overview to help plan your later visits to different attractions. For us, however, the weather did not cooperate and we did this the 3rd day of our visit. It was still great. That Amy must work a lot of hours! She was our guide and did a fantastic job. We went with our 11 and 14 year old sons and they had no problems keeping up......my only small criticism is that some people are sooo clueless about bike riding,.....but it by no means diminished our enjoyment of the overall experience. If we had more time we would have loved to go back and rent bikes and/or do the monuments at night tour. A very high quality organization and well worth the expense. Amy also had some great suggestions for lunch!

We took the Monuments tour last Friday night. I would largely echo what others have said, but the time at each monument was not adequate in my opinion. It felt a little rushed.

So, if you think you will be satisfied by just seeing the monuments, hearing a tid bit or two, and moving on, then it is great. However, if you want to go about it a little more leisurely, I would suggest just renting the bikes and hitting the sites on your own. i'm sure the place could give you the order in which to see the monuments.

Our tour was about 2 and a half hours. I could have used 4 hours. The kids liked it though.

The people at the Post Office Pavillion site were helpful and great to work with. I am very familiar with the District and wanted only wheels, no tour. The equipment was in good shape. Call me old fashioned though. I do like a paper trail and found having no receipt at the time of rental a little different than what I'm used to. Also the drop off process could be streamlined. It was cumbersome to have to wait in line with those booking tours and rentals when I was just there to return the bike. I will however rent from you again on return trips and will look for your company in other cities when we travel.

My father (56 yrs old) and I did this tour over the weekend. We had a wonderful time. Amy was our guide from San Fran who knew more than most locals. She made us laugh a lot and learn fun tidbits about DC. I wish I had time to do all of their tours like the one in Alexandria. Take the Monuments Tour if you want to walk in and around the stops. We took the Capital Sites Bike Tour since we wanted to cover more ground and come back to visit the monuments on our own time. Top 5 things to do and see in DC.