Sara

May 2, 2021

The Serial Killers and Cemetery tour is good and has a lot of great information about Philly history. Pros: Ted is funny, engaging and knowledgeable. He's a high school history teacher, so he knows his stuff and his passion for everything historical oozes from his pores. He's phenomenal! The stories and tidbits he shared were fascinating. Cons: The tour is just too long (2.5 hours, but mine was longer). Maybe it's because I'm more interested in serial killers than cemeteries, but the tour was about 50% cemeteries, 35% history, 15% serial killers. The workers at Christ Church take over the tour at that point. It would have been nice to know that earlier for tipping purposes. I believe we had Bob. He was knowledgeable but scattered in his delivery and he spent more time chatting us up than giving us pertinent information. He chatted for at least an extra 20 minutes and extended our already too long tour. Also, there was a chatty girl in our group who must have thought she was giving the tour. I do wish the guide had done a bit more to shut her down. Between the guide at Christ Church and the gabby girl, 30-45 minutes was tacked onto the already too long tour.

Christy

Apr 25, 2021

Ted was an awesome tour guide! The amount of knowledge he has was amazing!! He never made us feel bad for asking any questions

Kimberly

Sep 7, 2020

I am very unhappy. We were supposed to go IN the cemetery but we did not. I paid $78.00 to stand around listening to stories. And most of the stories were about philly history and Betsy Ross being "A nice piece of Ass". I will not be recommending this tour. We didn't go in anywhere and stood around for the most part listening about William Penn and the tour guide couldn't even remember half of his references and to top it all off he asked for a Tip! This was so disappointing .

Kathy

Dec 30, 2019

Our tour guide was great, he was a great story teller with very colorful language that was perfect for the type of tour we chose! LOVED IT! Tried to sign up for other tours but they were sold out...I see why!

Gina

Sep 10, 2019

Tour was very interesting and informative while the guide was down to Earth and very approachable with questions!

Kevin

Jun 22, 2019

Exceeded my expectations. Ted was an excellent guide. I highly recommend!

Katherine

May 26, 2019

Unfortunately, I was very dissatisfied with this tour. From the get go, he warned us that it would be long and probably end around 12:45. However, by 1 pm there was still another stop and two more serial killers to talk about. The stories were rambling and did not always have a point. For instance, he discussed H.H. Holmes for at least 30 minutes at the start and spent a lot of it on the Chicago aspect but never referenced the hotel that he built. He touched briefly on the Philadelphia connection but never got to the point. I had to ask him if the DNA results that were recently tested proved that it was in fact Holmes. Later on, almost into the 3rd hour, he made references to the French Revolution and Bastille Day and completely had his facts wrong. He said Bastille Day is in October. I chose not to correct as I just did not want to add any more time to the tour. Terry was a likeable enough individual but not a dynamic or interesting storyteller. And, as previously mentioned, not accurate. He also blatantly asked for tips which I did not really appreciate. The only part that I enjoyed was the segment in Christchurch cemetery where Bob took over and talked about two of the doctors buried there. All in all though, I cannot recommend this and was disheartened that 3 hours of my last day in Philadelphia was wasted on this banal and poorly rendered tour. Also, I would like to note that our guide also requested that we leave 5 star Yelp reviews. I was not going to go out of my way to bash him. But, in regard that I received this email and in hopes or better quality, I decided to respond and give my opinion.

Carra

May 13, 2019

Terry was knowledgeable, fun and thoughtful (in regards to finding us shelter from the rain). He made the tour fun, joked around with us and made sure we were all following along. He was so great, my boyfriend and I decided to take the 'sex, vampires and ghosts' tour on Tuesday night! We hope Terry will be our guide for that tour as well!

Angie

May 7, 2019

We spent hours planning and reserving itinerary plans. You cancelled the night before at about 9:00 pm, leaving us little time to re-group with our party. We ended up canceling the entire day and was told we couldn’t get a refund for a week. We are out both our time and the insurance money we paid in case something like this happened. That is IF we actually see the refund.

Lydia

Dec 30, 2018

Tour was fun and informative. Terri had a wealth of information to share.