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Popular Tourist Traps | Other Tourist Traps Tips | All Tips (20) York Pullman coach tours. These leave from Bootham Bar (gate) and charge loads of money for a tour around the Moors or to Castle Howard.
Better take a day trip with Eddie Brown Tours. They have an office opposite Clifford's Tower where you can pick up a leaflet and book a trip. Much, much cheaper trips to all over northern England but especially the Dales. You don't get a coach full of tourists either but instead local pensioners without their own cars who want to get out and about and who can tell you loads of interesting stories about the places you stop at which are funnier than any tour guide can be. See their daytrips at http://www.eddiebrowntours.co.uk/ Leave a Comment
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Beware of the small print on the eat as much as you want offers. You will find that they are not valid on weekends and bank holidays.
If you are choosing from the ordinary menu prices are similar to branches all over the country but I have found that service tends to be a little slower.
Visit the salad bar and fill your bowl with as much as possible!
There are many good restaurants within the city. Or if you are after fast food visit the chip shop. Leave a Comment
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Do you like all the circa 19th centaury faux Britannia stuff? Do you really fancy queuing for ages to get into some ‘historic’ tearooms? Do you really fancy paying over the odds? Do you like being pressured to herd out to get the next load of suckers through? Are you over retirement age?
If the answer to all of these questions is 'no' then I suggest you walk over to the other side of the square to ‘Harkers’. It’s a great bar that does good quality food and coffee during the day in a younger, funkier atmosphere than the overpriced ‘death’s waiting room’ of Betty’s. Leave a Comment
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The Jorvik Centre: the long line-up makes lead you to believe that there is something extremely exciting inside. Not really. You can take a mini-roller coaster ride around the exhibits, hear the sounds of early settlers at work, and check out what people back then wore. On the way out, be sure to buy a scratch and sniff postcard (it captures the smell of the exhibit showing a Viking going to the bathroom). Disgusting and tacky? That's the Jorvik Centre. Leave a Comment
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The line to get into the Jorvik Centreeems perpetually long. If you must get in try early in the morning or a few hours before closing time. Leave a Comment
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Boat Tours on the River Ouse - there are quite a few big 'show boats' plying up and down the river, but give them a miss. There's not a lot to see on the Ouse, to be honest, although the bigger boats have licenced bars on them which is a bonus. Tours last about forty minutes, and you'll be none the wiser on disembarking. A better bet is to rent your own Red Boat for an hour and cruise where you want to go. Better still buy a bottle of wine or two and hire one for the day. You'll find Red Boats by finding the Kings Arms pub and following the river away from the town centre. They're about a two minute walk along the quay. Leave a Comment
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York Dungeon - It's not scary at all, but it does show the macabre side of York - which is different. The tales about the lost Roman legion, Dick Turpin, and the plague were somewhat entertaining - but probably not worth the admission price. Visitors take a self-guided tour through most of the York Dungeon. At certain points, employees dresses up in Halloween costumes give presentations about different parts of oh-so-scary York. One of the guides had some fun singling me out when she found out that I was from Texas.
More Info: http://www.yorkshirenet.co.uk/yorkdungeon/ Leave a Comment
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The York Dungeon...My uncle and I went here as he is an old horror addict and we were very disappointed...Imagine if you will an elementary school haunted house with a decent budget...I definitely don't think it was worth the money. We were dissappointed to learn the apparently, the London Dungeon is much better. Leave a Comment
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York, although having alot to see, overcharges and charges for just about everything. Dont go to the museums or into the york castle. They want more than it is worth. If you are going to London the museums are free and much bigger. Although some things will be different is it really worth it? Leave a Comment
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Definitely NOT a tourist trap! York's New Theatre (as was then called) was built on the present site in 1744 on the site of the old St. Leonard's Hospital. It was renamed the Theatre Royal in 1769 when the Management paid £500 for a Royal Patent. The stage that was graced by Sarah Siddons, Henry Irving and Edmund Kean has seen pantomime and opera, ballet and variety, tragedy and even Professor Cocker's 'fifteen educated horses'!
The theatre has been adapted so many times that it is difficult to know how much, if any, of the architecture is original, but you can still see the vaulted remains of the medieval hospice in the Theatre Club and backstage. Beneath the stage is a well, which we like to call Roman but is probably only medieval!
Until 1821 the building was essentially Georgian in design, almost certainly rectangular in shape like the Georgian Theatre in Richmond, Yorkshire. Gas lighting was installed in 1824; various refurbishments took place between 1835 and 1880, resulting in a new Victorian Gothic frontage. The main entrance was originally in Duncombe Place, as St. Leonard's Place was not created until 1835. Even as late as the 1960s, however, gallery-goers came in from Duncombe Place - keeping them separate from richer patrons! Leave a Comment
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