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What if you could explore the greatest city in the world with confidence, navigating the city like a pro and taking in the best sights, flavors, and sounds it has to offer? With a Beyond Times Square guided experiences, your group can relax and enjoy New York City with a savvy New Yorker at your side.
We offer multi-day programs and day trips, of New York City and the Hudson River Valley; combination tours are also available. We have created ideal itineraries, but if you have a specific site or experience you would like to add, our tours are easily customized to suit your needs.
Whether you want to snap a group shot in front of every postcard-worthy site, or discover the out-of-the-way spots New Yorkers would rather keep to themselves, Beyond Times Square can create the perfect tour for your group.
From food tasting tours to the historic mansions along the Hudson River, our programs are designed match your groups needs, whether it a day full of things to do or free time to do some exploring on their own.
Multi-Day Programs
Every visitor to New York City has a story, the kind of story worth writing home about. A celebrity sighting, a newfound appreciation for their ancestor’s immigrant experience, the discovery of street food, and restaurants with menus just for chocolate are just a few examples. In our fast-paced, thrilling city, there is an opportunity for a fantastic, story-worthy experience around every corner.
We know New York, but you know the interests of your group. Whether you would like to experience one of our tried-and-true itineraries, or allow us to customize a program to suit the unique needs of your group, Beyond Times Square makes it easy to see and do exactly what you want.
Our guided multi-day tours of New York City and the Hudson River Valley area offer your group an authentic New York experience.
Come find your own story.
New York City
With so much to see and do in New York City, you could spend an entire day just deciding where to go next! Booking a Beyond Times Square New York City tour ensures you group experiences the best that New York City has to offer. From the iconic to hidden gems, our fully guided tours give your group an insider’s view of the city’s five boroughs.
Because New York City is the backdrop to so many books, films, and television programs, everyone has their own dream New York moment. A stroll in Central Park, stopping in a deli for an egg cream and a celebrity sandwich, a night out on the great white way. In just a few days, your group can live the moments they imagined with the help of Beyond Times Square
See your group experience:
►Dining like (and with) the rich and famous at Tavern on the Green.
►Standing for an ovation at a Broadway show.
►Getting up close and personal with Monet’s Water Lilies and other great works of art at the vast Metropolitan Museum of Art.
►Taking a dinner cruise on the Hudson River.
►Indulging in a tasting tour of the city, with its world-class restaurants and seemingly endless array of flavors.
►Speak with a real Broadway performer
►Exploring people and tasting foods of other cultures
Hudson Valley
Just a short trip “up river” from New York City is the majestic Hudson River Valley. A region rich in history and natural beauty, the Hudson River Valley was designated a National Heritage Area in 1996. Within its more than four million acres are over 1,000 sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including the home of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Stretching 315 miles from New York City to the capital city of Albany, the Hudson River was discovered by Henry Hudson in 1609. Here you will find elaborate historic mansions and estates, as well as other historically significant sites dating back to the American Revolutionary War. Military tradition lives on in the Hudson River Valley at the West Point Military Academy, and the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor.
A taste of what your group will enjoy on a journey through the Hudson Valley:
►Lunch or dinner at one of five award-winning restaurants at the most prestigious culinary college in the world, the Culinary Institute of America, followed by a tour of campus.
►Franklin D. Roosevelt Historic Site, which includes his home, Springwood, the FDR Museum and Library, and the burial site of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
►Experience Kykuit, the awe-inspiring Rockefeller Estate that was home to four generations of Rockefellers. A 20th century sculpture collection, gardens, and vintage automobile collection are highlights of the tour.
►A tour of West Point Military Academy, with its museum, chapels, cemetery, cadet parades, and Constitution Island.
►A visit to the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor, which tells the stories of 1.7 million Americans wounded or killed in action.
►Wine tasting at the Millbrook Vineyards and Winery and others along the Dutchess Wine Trail.
►Accommodations at the historic, Gothic-style Thayer Hotel, built in 1926 to provide accommodation for the U.S. Military Academy and their visiting families. (other properties are also available)
►The outstanding art of Dia:Beacon and Strom King
►A Cruise on the historic Hudson River through the gorge of Strom King Mountain and past the remain of the castle on Bannerman Island
Questions? Ready to book your tour? Call
1-800-999-8160 for more information.
Click Here to fill out our
group proposal form.
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Day Trips
If your group is looking for a fun, short excursion, a day trip is the perfect idea. Even New Yorkers book our theme tours to learn more about a specific area of the city!
Our day trips are perfect for groups on short trips to New York, or those with other time commitments such as meetings, conventions, and weddings. Day trip tours are also perfect for groups looking to supplement their own sightseeing plans with an insider’s tour or in-depth theme tour.
Fully customizable half- and full-day trips are available. Our expert tour guides give your group the inside track on everything New York. Popular itineraries include a Noshing Through NY, Brooklyn, The Bronx, and two Hudson River Valley tours: Famous American and Fabulous Food and Military Traditions.
Noshing Through New York
New York City is famous for its food from around the world. Norwegian smoked salmon (a NYC Favorite) and knishes from Eastern Europe are just a few of the city’s delicious eats. Throughout the tour, the group will taste a variety of ethnic treats. This program includes sightseeing in Lower Manhattan, Little Italy, Chinatown, Greenwich Village, and the Lower East Side. The tastings will be served on the coach and are enough for lunch. This four- to five-hour tour is fully guided.
Brooklyn: The Real Crossroads of the World
Brooklyn: traditional and hip, city and suburb, historic and cutting edge, cultured and gritty. This borough in the county of Kings is full of contrasts. Brooklyn is a city unto itself (if it were to be a separate city, it would be one of the most populated in the USA and probably the most culturally
diverse). It is also home to the famous Brooklyn Bridge, Coney Island, the original Nathan’s Hot Dog and Ralph Kramden. Come discover what so many New Yorkers already know: Brooklyn is the real crossroads of the world. The tour is four to five hours in length and is fully guided.
• Lunch at a popular Brooklyn Restaurant is available
Meet me in "da" Bronx
Known best for its illustrious reputation from the movie Ft. Apache: The Bronx and for the House that Ruth built (Yankee Stadium), the Bronx still surprises even native New Yorkers. It has beaches, a New
England fishing village, a world famous zoo, botanical garden and countless historic sites. Over the years, it has been home to Tony Curtis, Anne Bancroft, Edgar Allen Poe, Colin Powell and Ralph Lauren, as well as the many different immigrant groups that have shaped the borough. The tour is four to five hours in length and is fully guided.
• Italian lunch on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx is available
Life Styles of the Well-Known and the Wealthy
New York City has always been home to the famous and the elite. On the Upper East Side, mansions and brownstones representing New York’s old money line the streets, while the lofts of TriBeCa are home to some of today’s biggest celebrities. Take a trip around Manhattan and discover where the rich and powerful of yesterday and the up-and-coming of today live, work and play. Your guide will also point out the filming locations of movies and television shows. The tour is four hours in length and is fully guided.
• Lunch available
The Historic Homes of Manhattan
When people think of New York City, they think of concrete skyscrapers and apartment towers. Before the New York of today, however, the city was full of country homes, farms and forests. Some of these treasures still dot the landscape of Manhattan. Explore the interiors of these homes with the curators who know them best, and see how people lived back in the day. Of the two homes visited, one dates back to 1765 and the other to 1826. Your guide will also point out other historic homes and landmarks en route. The tour is five hours in length. It includes entrance and tours of two historic homes, and will require walking and climbing some stairs.
Famous American and Fabulous Food
Many great New Yorkers have made their homes along the Hudson River. The Rockefellers, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Samuel F. B. Morse and Washington Irving are just a few. Let your guide share with you the landscape and its treasures. In addition, there will be a guided tour of the home of FDR, entrance into the FDR Memorial Library and an exterior tour of the Vanderbilt Mansion. The special treat is lunch and a tour of the Culinary Institute of America. The program is led by a professional Hudson Valley tour guide, is five to six hours in length and will require walking and climbing some stairs.
Miliatary Traditions
Some of America’s great military leaders—Eisenhower, Macarthur, Bradley, Clark, Patton, and Wainwright—were schooled at West Point Military Academy. Your guide will take you on a highlights tour of the grounds. Together, you will experience the daily life of the cadets. Just to the north is the new Purple Heart Hall of Honor. It is the nation's sole repository dedicated to the preservation of the stories of sacrifice of the more than 1.7 million Americans wounded or killed in action while serving in the United States Military. Explore the exhibits with your docent guide. The day concludes with time on your own in the river town of Cold Spring. The program is led by a professional Hudson Valley tour guide, is five to six hours in length and will require walking.
• Lunch at the West Point Club is available
Questions? Ready to book your tour? Call
1-800-999-8160 for more information.
Click Here to fill out our
group proposal form.
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