Mount Vernon e Old Town Alexandria Day Trip da Washington DC

The actual experience at Mt. Vernon was fantastic. It was the poor touring company, Lobos Tours, that was unsafe and unprofessional. I have booked this same tour, through Viator, 2 years ago and had a fabulous experience. This was a different tour company and it was pathetic. The driver showed up and we had too many people booked for the size van he brought. We all had our tickets, so it was the tour company’s negligence. Instead of calling for a larger bus, he had kids sitting on laps of adults. If it was my child, I wouldn’t have tolerated it. Not only that, but these were children on a group tour without their parents. The adult chaperones should have insisted on a different vehicle. On top of this, at least 2 seatbelts that I saw were cut off and not even available. I’m not sure how this tour company keeps its’ license. I have pictures of the cut off seatbelts and would have uploaded for evidence, if that was an option. The driver, Franco, was not at all safe. He drove out of his lane, had many people honking at him, blew through a couple of stop signs, and made for a very unsafe experience. I was horrified about the whole situation. Viator would be wise to discontinue using Lobos Tours and they should not be allowed to conduct tours if they can have a safe vehicle and obey the road laws.

Although the tour guide was very knowledgeable and attentive, the transport van was lower end and cramped - two of the seat belts did not function bc their anchors were absent (appeared to have been removed). The time alotted before returning to the van was not quite enough to see all on the grounds.

Driver was knowledgeable and tried to keep us entertained! Kind enough to drop several of us off at the Union Station instead of the Hyatt.

Robert was very friendly, interesting, and informative. What more could you ask for in a tour guide?! My only suggestion would be to change the time from 11-4 to 10-3, DC traffic at 4PM is not fun. As much as he tried to take us on an alternate less busy route, I think it still would be better if you left Mount Vernon earlier.

The tour guide was very knowledgeable. Knew the area and its history very well. We enjoyed our time walking around Mount Vernon!

If you want to really see and experience Mt. Vernon don’t take this tour because you only have 3 hours. The attraction needs more time to see everything.

Our tour guide was good. Provided history and information in an entertaining way. I enjoyed seeing the house and grounds. We could have used a little more time to see everything.

Beautiful, great preservation, excellent and knowledgeable site attendants. Even the food was great. Totally recommend the site, and 30$ was well worth it; my only regret is that I could not spend more than 2 hours there. I felt that I learned so much from every corner and more. The only thing missing in the house are wax figures to make it over the top. However you can find them in the museum to bring Washington to life. The movie and displays in the museum are well worth the reading and has inspire me to look for more of the US history.

An amazing historic tour of Mount Vernon and the old town of Alexandria , that i highly recommend. The tour guide(Bobby) was friendly, knowledgeable and reliable.

The enjoyment of the ride out and back is the person who is narrating the journey. The gentleman that we had seemed very knowledgeable. However, he was very hard to understand. Maybe the volume or lack there of inflection in his speech. Most people fell asleep. I knew this due to the loud snoring. Coming from practically every row. Even my traveling companion fell asleep. I also was not keen on how he promoted his own tour trips given we were on a Viator trip.