Romans, Vikings and Medieval Marvels in York: A Self-Guided Audio Tour

Good way of walking along paths you might not think it’s ok to go through-a little light on facts though.

The tour gave a good route to follow. It allowed us to take in the sights and find things we would otherwise have missed. We felt that the tour was very light on information - delivering it in one go with long periods of silence. Running the tour separately across 5 people’s phones was a little problematic as the voice clips play based on you hitting a specific location - nobody’s phones seemed to agree on this, so the entire group was spread along the street listening at different times, meaning it was hard to speak or discuss anything without interrupting someone. I wouldn’t do it again, but the route was good.

I could stop by shops I fancied during the audio guide tour. So I saved much time to go back and shop around there.

The surprise as you turn a corner and see a stunning building. Easy to follow guide and very informative.

Great experience, but the only problem was that a couple of paths we needed to walk along were closed due to strong winds so we had to try to find our own way to the next point on the tour. This meant us having to miss a few points. Overall very good though.

Thoroughly entertaining. Our guide was fantastic. Captivated from start to finish. We highly recommend to anyone visiting York

Very easy to follow and gave us a fantastic insight into the history of York. It was thrilling heading down alleys and passages we would never had found otherwise. App worked a treat with no issues.

Gosh I'm still speechless (except for when I'm raving about the experience to my friends and family which is all the time!!). Honestly a fantastic concept and a stellar execution of it, I was genuinely gutted when it ended. As a solo traveler in York for a few days I wanted to see the city but didn't fancy a proper guide and wanted to do things my own pace! I also love veering off course to go into interesting shops or linger/skip bits based on my interests so I didn't want to inconvenience anyone else on an actual tour. VoiceMap was an amazing companion to have with me, roaming the historical city, cracking jokes and sharing facts. Would incredibly highly recommend!!

Hadn't used VoiceMap before. We love Rick Steves' guides, but he didn't have one for York, so we figured we'd give this one a go. It was fantastic. Content and narration was great. And although at first it felt weird to cede control to the app to automatically play when we were close enough (rather than manually start the segment, as we're more used to with Rick Steves), it worked flawlessly. (You can manually start and stop as well, but we found we didn't need to!) We'll definitely use this again.

It's such a great way to explore the city. You learn a lot and I would even say that this is better than an actual tour guide, because you can go at your own pace.