Boston Tavern Tour: Historic Pubs & Landmarks

Experience the rich history of Boston through a 3.5-hour walking tour of historic taverns. Enjoy tastings, a ferry ride, and learn about iconic figures like Samuel Adams and Paul Revere.

Duration: 3 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • North End - All Food & Drink Tours start in the North End. The North End is Boston’s oldest neighborhood, first settled in 1630. Today, this area is affectionately known as Little Italy, and is home to some of the City’s very best restaurants, pizzerias and bakeries. From here, walk to historic Long Wharf to catch a scenic Ferry Ride across Boston…
What's Included
  • Explore 5 significant Freedom Trail sites
  • Complimentary snacks provided
  • Experience a scenic round-trip ferry ride across Boston Harbor
  • Relax with a drink at a historic tavern frequented by George Washington and Paul Revere
  • Visit the ‘Oldest Tavern in America’ with history dating back to 1795
  • Guided tour by a professional local expert
  • Enjoy two included drinks (choice of beer, wine or soft drink)
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
Additional Information

Raise a glass to the legendary figures of Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and George Washington as you experience nearly 400 years of Tavern History in Boston. This engaging 3.5-hour Walking Tour (approximately 2.5 miles) also features a Round-Trip Ferry ride across the picturesque Boston Harbor! Discover and learn about FIVE Freedom Trail sites. The tour…

Location
Modern Pastry - Underground
Hanover Street
Tours start in Boston's historic North End. Meet your Tour Guide at Modern Pastry Underground. Please DO NOT wait in line for the pastry shop - walk right in, and head downstairs!
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Sdsubiologist
Apr 27, 2025
Fabulously Fun - Big Al is AMAZING! We do tours all around the world and this one was top notch. Enjoyed every place we visited and Big Al made the history fun. He would answer any questions the group had and made great recommendations that we utilized during the rest of our trip. Highly recommend if you like to have fun.
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Liam
Apr 24, 2025
Hugely entertaining and well worth it - ‘Big Al’ was hugely entertaining and a fountain of knowledge. It was a pleasure to be taken around by someone with genuine passion and enthusiasm for what they do. We loved the pubs and the insider’s knowledge of the finer points of Boston food and drink scene! If we were staying longer then we would have looked at the other tours too. Hugely recommend.
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Caytemae
Apr 20, 2025
Best guide! - Our guide Al was fantastic. He made this tour fun and interactive. We had a great time learning more about the history of Boston and its historic residents. We would do another tour with Al anytime ! He even gave us some great suggestions of places to visit the remainder of our visit. Thank you Al!!
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Dawn_l
Apr 4, 2025
Na - Alvin was a great tour guide with a lot of history and fun to be around. He kept the group going and was open to questions. Worth the money
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Jessica_v
Mar 19, 2025
Amazing - I was visiting from Los Angeles for a day. I was the only one booked so they were unable to do the tour for just one person but I actually did the North End Pizza and Walking tour. The tour operator Martin was very good at communicating different options for me to still do some tour. My tour guide Big Al was amazing! He’s knowledgeable, funny, and you can tell he enjoys what he does. He really has a passion for the city and it shows! Whenever I come back to Boston, I’d absolutely do another tour! Also the food was DELICIOUS! Big Al won’t steer you wrong. Thank you for the great afternoon!
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Breann_d
Mar 15, 2025
You don't want to miss this tour - Big Al made the tour. Anyone can walk around Boston reading the placards, and taking in the sites, but they definitely won't have as much fun as they would if they were doing it with Alvin. His knowledge of the area is top notch and he made the tour so fun we felt like we were hanging out with a family member or friend. Plenty of food and the two drinks are icing on the cake.
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301sethg
Jan 28, 2025
Our tour guide Alvin made this great tour even better - Alvin is the absolute man! So I set up a bachelor trip party for my brother in Boston with 4 other guys. We all have a variety of interests from nerdier interests to sports and from beer and drinking, to less booze inclined. Each one of us had a blast with our tour guide Alvin. We saw bunker hill and discussed much of the history of the taverns. He was knowledgeable of specifically American colonial history as well as simply local history in general and know matter what ridiculous questions we asked or how the conversation changed from sports, to how a neighborhood changed, to where to find good pizza/seafood, he not only kept up with it, but added a ton of interesting information. The settings and discussions were mostly free flowing and easy and he was honestly just an all around great drinking buddy with a great sense of the area both historically and today. This trip is definitely worth it and if the people in charge see this review, just know Alvin is a fantastic employee and you definitely lucked out with him.
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Herbert_t
Dec 31, 2024
Boston Walk tour - So worth it !!! 2 drinks & 2 appetizers and a Cannoli at the end. BIG AL knew his history - was Passionate and funny all at one.
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Shawnmahf
Nov 9, 2024
History and Pub tour of Boston - This tour was so much more than we expected! Our guide-Al- was so knowledgeable and actually quite funny and was a ‘go with the flow’ type of person-we are too! Great way to see the city, hear some history and grab some beers in a few of the countries oldest pubs! Seriously well worth the cost and we can’t recommend it enough! Thanks Al for a fantastic experience! We can’t wait to meet you in Detroit!
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Jason_p
Nov 8, 2024
Alvin is AMAZING. - Learning about historic Boston. Walking through the North End. The ferry rides. The historic pubs. The whole tour was incredible.
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From $119
up to 12 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).