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    Context: Tours & Tickets

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    New York City, NY
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    Context Travel offers cultural and historical tours and activities led by deep subject-matter experts in over 50 cities around the world. With coverage of lesser known locales as well as main city sites, our experts take clients through in-depth...more
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    Reading Wikipedia would have been more satisfying
    I booked a walking tour for Jewish foods of the Lower East Side. The guide sounded fantastic from her profile, but in person she was completely uninterested and uninteresting. She had absolutely nothing to say about Jewish life or history -- or even food. At each stop -- we went…
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    Date of experience: November 2019
    Walk in the Financial District and discover the "real" Alexander Hamilton!
    Glenn Grasso was prompt, courteous and above all knowledgeable! We choose the walking tour in FiDi (Wall Street financial district) because both my husband and adult son are American History buffs. Glenn was observant enough to notice when my husband needed a "bench break"…
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    Date of experience: July 2018
    Always excellent, this tour is a MUST
    My partner is an industrial designer and across architecture so it was always going to be a tough gig keeping him entertained but the docent certainly managed ! The tour includes the usual stage sets of the mega movies filmed in New York but included incredibly interesting…
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    Date of experience: June 2018
    MOMA Master Class
    My husband loves modern art - so I bought this tour for him. After our fabulous tour, my eyes are completely opened to this wonderful style. Context did not disappoint. I would never have appreciated the art without our docent, Irina. We cannot wait to come back for her…
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    Date of experience: June 2018
    Response from ContextTravel, Manager at Context
    Responded 10 Jun. 2018
    Hello, Many thanks for taking the time to post your feedback regarding your recent experience with us on our MoMA Master Class walk. We are so pleased to hear that you enjoyed your time with Irina. She has been working with Context for many years and is truly an asset to our New York program. We will happily pass along your kind words to her! We hope that we can continue to impress on another Context walk soon and we look forward to assisting you with future travel plans. Warm regards, Context
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    Excellent and very knowledgeable guide!
    I and my two teenage kids had an excellent tour of The Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Our guide, Mandy Edgecombe, was very knowledgeable and engaging. Highly recommended!
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    Date of experience: March 2018
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