Reviewed by: CityDiscovery traveler
My guide was great and adjusted to my cycling level throughout the morning.
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Packages: | Bay of Islands Cruise with Lunch |
Posted on: | 2013/05/28 |
Reviewed by: CityDiscovery traveler
Our guide was great, her local knowledge of customs and history was good, she was very friendly and welcoming. The places we visited where excellent we would never have found them by ourselves and are very pleased we booked this adventure and the best thing was it was our own private adventure just the 4 of us and our guide.
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Packages: | Bay of Islands Cruise with Lunch |
Posted on: | 2013/05/28 |
Reviewed by: CityDiscovery traveler
I enjoyed my 1/2 day tour in Kyoto very much; my guide was great and spoke beautiful English. She had good knowledge of the sights and also gave me insight to the Japanese culture.
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Packages: | Bay of Islands Cruise with Lunch |
Posted on: | 2013/05/28 |
Reviewed by: CityDiscovery traveler
We had an excellent time biking around Kyoto! We would definitely tour with Urban Adventure again.
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Packages: | Bay of Islands Cruise with Lunch |
Posted on: | 2013/05/28 |
Reviewed by: 匿名希望
前にGWに京都でサイクリングしようとしたところ、当日は予約がいっぱいで自転車を借りられなかった。今回は必ず事前に予約していこうと思ったが、当日の天気が雨なら予約しても、お金が無駄になってしまう。そこで見つけたのが、雨の場合には無料でキャンセルできるこのプランだった。実際には今年のGWは快晴でキャンセルはしなかったのだが、このシステムは優れていると思った!
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Packages: | Test Package |
Attended as: | Couples |
Posted on: | 2013/05/02 |
Reviewed by: Jeremy
Great friendly staff, very knowledgeable about local shrines and enjoyed hearing the history of each place. Recommend to others!
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Packages: | Test Package |
Posted on: | 2013/02/28 |
Reviewed by: Ada
The guide in the morning was very professional and I really enjoyed the morning tour. However, in the afternoon I was given a seat at the back of the bus. Due to the engine noise at the back of the bus, and the noise of a kid sitting at the back, it was impossible to listen to the soft voice of the tour guide. I could not even hear the place we were going to visit. I knew the other travellers at the back had the same bad experience as I could see a couple requested to be changed to seats in the front and other guys also said they could not hear a word. Although I expressed my concern to the tour guide, I did not find any improvement. For the whole afternoon trip, I could not hear most of the thing the tour guide said on the bus. It was very frustrated and disappointed. It is a big bus. I hope you will consider improving the microphone and sound system on the bus and also advise the tour guide to speak louder and slower, so everyone on the bus can hear the useful information provided by the tour guide. I would also like you to point out to your clients that if they bring small children on the bus, they should be considerated to be quiet.
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Packages: | Test Package |
Posted on: | 2012/10/10 |
Reviewed by: George
A very well organised tour, covering a few of the most important places to see in both Kyoto and Nara. In the end, it is only so much that you can fit in one day...
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Packages: | Test Package |
Posted on: | 2012/09/27 |
Reviewed by: Payel
It was very nice. The guidance, the food, the spots chosen for the tourists - all were nice.
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Packages: | Test Package |
Posted on: | 2012/08/27 |
Reviewed by: Hali
If you want to sit back and leave the driving (and navigating Japan) to someone else, then this is the tour for you. I loved the fact that lunch was included in the full day option.
My daughter and I were very tired after two weeks of walking every day and taking multiple trains to our sightseeing destinations; the ease of the bus taking us door to door, and our (very wonderful) tour guide explaining everything we might not have learned any other way was very good for us.
I also appreciated the efficiency of seeing so much all in one day. I feel confident that we got to view some of the major sights of Kyoto. I feel like we made the most of our last day in Kyoto.
The guide KC (Casey?) was hilarious. We really appreciated his happy, outgoing personality. It kept the tour light and fun, even though the day get rather long toward the end of the trip.
I highly recommend this tour. The price was reasonable for the amount of sights and information we received. Sugoi! (excellent)
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Packages: | Test Package |
Posted on: | 2012/07/06 |
Reviewed by: Kyoto Beginner
This tour is a good start for someone like me; first time in Kyoto and clueless but curious!
As one of your classical bus tour, it goes to those major sites that can’t be missed! Plus, it gave me ideas on what to do and where to go in Kyoto for the rest of my trip.
The sweet lady that was my guide was wonderful at picking up the points on where to look. My personal favorite, was the Sanjusangen-do visited in the afternoon. It was first a little scary to have over a 1000 statues looking at you, but at the artistic talent taken to create the life-like statues of the Japanese idols is a personal must see!
Also the Kyoto Handicraft Center visited during lunch had some pretty cool stuff! Kimonos, artwork, jewelry, and even some anime goods. A great place to get an idea for what to buy for an “omiyage”!
Fun and overall interesting, after this trip, I can see why my friends said Kyoto is rich in culture.
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Packages: | Test Package |
Attended as: | Friends |
Posted on: | 2012/05/21 |
Reviewed by: Karen
Well organised interesting trip. Both guide in Kyoto and Nara were hepful and upbeat, fun and enthusiastic to share their knowledge. Lunch was very good for a mass produced meal. Thoroughly enjoyed the whole day.
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Packages: | Test Package |
Posted on: | 2012/04/22 |
Reviewed by: Norfaranina
The tour was interesting.. but the only lacking are the details. We didn't know that lunch is provided for a one day tour. As we are a muslim couple, it was too late for us to change our menu to a non-pork menu. So we didn't get to eat much...
We also wish that the tour guide would stick together, or announce where he/she will be as there was one part of the tour, we seemed a bit lost, especially at a crowded Kinkakuji Temple.
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Packages: | Test Package |
Posted on: | 2012/04/17 |
Reviewed by: Need 4 Speed
The tour teaches that the city of Kyoto is truly filled with history!
Far better than taking the bus or a train! The streets of Kyoto are filled with experiences full of scents and sounds that can only be experienced through a bike ride.
You really get a sense of how tall the Torii gate of Heian Shrine are when your ride right up to it!
Plus my guide was excellent!! Pacing me so that I was never bored or tired, she was full of knowledge, answering every question I had during the tour!
And when she caught those glimmers of interest in my eyes, she would quickly change the course such as showing me both the new and old Gojyo-bashi. Also when we happened to find a mini festival, she made a few additional stops for me to enjoy it!
The freedom you get when you have an excellent guide and a bike is your mode of transportation!
This course gave me the confidence to take on a longer course the next time I visit Japan!
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Packages: | Test Package |
Attended as: | Solo Travelers |
Posted on: | 2012/04/12 |
Reviewed by: Matthew
Great Tour for the time concious traveller, only had 1 day to spend in Kyoto, and was able to visit all the sites we wanted to see!
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Packages: | Test Package |
Posted on: | 2010/11/04 |
Reviewed by: Beverly
Morning tour guide was a bit soft spoken/hard to hear unless you stood very near.Gold Palace was WAY TOO RUSHED!! Maybe a change of order would be better. Afternoon guide was AMAZING!! He was so INFORMATIVE and funny!! Overall we would highly recommend this tour. The only way to see and learn about the top spots in such an efficient way.
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Packages: | Test Package |
Posted on: | 2010/06/04 |
Reviewed by: Emma
A very busy but very interesting day.
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Packages: | Test Package |
Posted on: | 2010/04/21 |
Reviewed by: Kristin
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Packages: | Test Package |
Posted on: | 2010/04/17 |
Reviewed by: Christine
It was a wonderful tour. However, lunch at the Handicraft Centre was a bit disappointing after having experienced the lunch provided on the Panoramic Tokyo tour.
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Packages: | Test Package |
Posted on: | 2010/04/10 |
Reviewed by: Dicky
I had not been to Kyoto before and this tour was the one to get a feel for the history of the city. The following days I did my own thing, and my experience was definitely enhanced by having first had the guided thing.
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Packages: | Test Package |
Posted on: | 2010/01/31 |
Reviewed by: Gary
It hit major sites in one day that we wanted to see, and the guides were good.
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Packages: | Test Package |
Posted on: | 2009/11/21 |
Reviewed by: Tanja
The one-day trip to Kyoto & Nara was definitely worth it. The highlights in Kyoto gave a first idea of the city, which was interesting, and lunch in the handycraft center was actually better than I had expected for a tourist group treat. But I particularly liked the afternoon in Nara - the space and green surroundings of the sights are perfectly relaxing and you really get into holiday mood while visiting magnificent historical places.
While I preferred the afternoon on the programme side, it was the opposite for our guides: the morning guide was great (perfect English & a very good mix of historical and country information), the guide in the afternoon was less helpful (not so good English, less information...)
Overall, definitely a good tour.
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Packages: | Test Package |
Posted on: | 2009/05/03 |
Reviewed by: Katherine
the morning and afternoon tour guides were very friendly and had a lot of information. A Very good day.
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Packages: | Test Package |
Posted on: | 2009/03/16 |
Reviewed by: Tanya
The tour was great. I enjoyed it very much. I would definately recommend this tour especially if you've never been to Kyoto before. It covers most of the highlights in Kyoto. The tour guide was very nice and was very informative.
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Packages: | Test Package |
Posted on: | 2008/04/01 |
Reviewed by: Hans Christian
It rained, but we appreciated the free umbrellas very much and used them often, later. For a visitor with little time to spend in Kyoto, this is the ideal introduction to Kyoto's heritage. The full-day trip allows you to submerge yourself in way which the half-day tours could not. Not visiting the Imperial Palace was a disappointment: it was not evident from information on the net that it would not be open on this particular Friday, which we had selected specifically to visit the Palace.
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Packages: | Test Package |
Posted on: | 2008/01/07 |
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Posted on: | 2007/11/15 |
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