The holiday season is often considered the best time of the year to visit New York City...and we'll show you why!  

From the Bryant Park holiday markets to the iconic Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, there's plenty to put you in the spirit of the season.  Grab a mug of cocoa or hot buttered rum and get merry with us!

Bonus points for anyone who can guess how tall the Christmas tree is!

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Love these guys! Fabulous guides. Great sense of humour. Work well together. Provide great information along the tour and excellent opportunities for photos!

Great tour. Loved the Saks Fifth Avenue show. Thanks.

Upbeat and interesting details. Loved the tour.

Great tour. Nice to “walk” the streets of Manhattan again. Thanks. 

This year, due to the Covid pandemic, was the first year in decades that I haven’t been able to travel to New York City during the holiday season. I have to thank Erin and Patrick for making me feel as if I was almost there last night! I enjoyed every minute of their entertaining tour and I wouldn’t hesitate to join them again in the future on another one.

Double act a bit noisy and  distracting but otherwise good

Amazing tour thank you both, light show on Saks was magical and that is the first time this year I have seen an outdoor skating rink really atmospheric  walk 

Aaron and Patrick are brilliant guides. Ive been on a lot of their tours more than once, this was my third trip on the Rockefeller tour.  fun , entertaining and informative. 

Excellent tour again - outta the ball park! 😀 Such a great virtual experience, gives me hope for the future. These tours are helping to keep me from slipping slowly into depression at a time of great strain. Many, many thanks. 🙏🙂

Very engaging guides with lots of information about NYC! I appreciated the virtual tour as I couldn't get up to NYC for the holidays because of the coronavirus restrictions. 

Enjoyed the virtual trip.  Now I want to do the real trip when we can fly again.  Thank you

I thoroughly enjoyed the NYC  tour so much so that I have booked the Brooklyn tour for tomorrow.  

Some technical issues on my end zooming in from Canada, but your energy, spirit and hype is what made it. I felt exited and even had some tapas and wine ready for this special tour. So thank you a ton!  Keep safe and Happy New Year's

Enjoyable tour seeing the lights of the Empire State Building ,Xmas tree at Rockefeller Centre and at Saks Dept Store. Will visit New York when all is clear to travel. Very good narrative from Aaron and Patrick.

Excellent Tour.  Aaron &  Patrick are extremely personable & knowledgeable.
Thanks!

As always very informative and entertaining !!

Took it last week but not in the dark...today mt time but EST time in the dark...Thanks, I enjoyed it again: daylight and nightlight!  Gail Rachor, Santa FE

Love these guys! Always go the extra mile to give us the best (virtual) experience. Highly recommend any tour they give.

Two words:  THE BEST.

These gents could make a funeral fun.  Can't wait for their next tour.

You guys did an amazing job of keeping us entertained. This tour was well worth it, and we are doing another one with you two tomorrow. Great job!

How I enjoyed Aaron and Patrick's tour. There's nothing quite like New York City at Christmas, and this was the next best thing to being there. I've been basically homebound since March, so this was a complete joy! Thank you both. Looking forward to the Christmas lights in Brooklyn tomorrow evening. 

love you two. thank you so much details and history amazing 

Fantastic! Very informative and entertaining!

Tour guides were fun, friendly and knowledgeable! Really enjoyed this and have already booked more. Perfect for a senior who is mostly at home right now. 

2 warm and friendly guides! Highly recommended ♥️♥️♥️

Excellent holiday NYC tour!  Please come back from PA & redo all of NYC as it's SOLD OUT!  Thank You, Both!!

They did an excellent job.  It was my 1st tour.  WOW - Great Job!

Loved this tour very much  My daughter & I have dreamed of coming to New York for many years  We had planned on 2019 but then I was diagnosed with cancer so was undergoing treatment so that changed our plans  This virtual tour was beautiful and has us dreaming about New York once again 
 Thank you so much!!

This was BY FAR the best virtual tour I’ve done. I’m looking forward to more from these guides and from this company. 

What a magical tour! My mom and I have always wanted to see NYC at Christmas and this tour made it possible. Aaron and Patrick were fun, kind, knowledgeable, and clearly love their city. Thank you so much! 

Great, lively commentary, loved walking thru the streets of NYC with you (lived there in a past life), my favorite time of year was always Christmas, so now that I've moved home to Hawaii your tour was a treat.  The only note for improvement would be to perhaps tweak your video resolution so that your visuals stream better.  Video wasn't too clear on my Mac screen.  Other than that, thanks so much!

This was awesome!!! I will recommend this site to everyone that I know. You have given me some suggestions as to places to take my little niece. Thank you.

True delight! Positive energy, great information, and great postcard shots--who could ask for anything more?


Loved it!!  Lots of great information.  It’s  very apparent that you both thoroughly enjoy showing us around, which makes it so much fun. 

Thank you gentlemen. You brought some great memories back from our time in New York. See you tomorrow for the next tour. 
A couple of things my son couldn’t join in when I sent the invite. It said he needed to book and it still didn’t let him in. 😢 I love that we had the camera to take photos that is amazing and I can share those with him.  Lastly, it would be great to get a wider view when possible for example of the Xmas windows.  Overall great job. Thank you!!!! ❤️

Thanks I enjoyed the whole tour. Happy New Year

I am so impressed with the both Aaron and Patrick. They both are so knowledgeable, personable and professional. I will definitely be recommending family and friends to attend their tours and check our virtual trips site for more tours. Thank you for helping create such wonderful memories during this time! Keep up the great work!

Such wonderful tour guides <3 You made me smile and laugh! Love you both! Such great energy and you really uplifted me tonight.

Aaron and Patrick are delightful and the perfect tour guides! I enjoyed the NYC Rock Ctr center tour so much, I did it 2X! Thank you so much, guys!

The guys are great and very knowledgeable about NYC history. They covered a lot of sidewalks that I didn’t have to walk from my couch!

Would have been better but the screen froze so I missed the last part of the tour:(

Fun and informative, interactive!  like your travelling with them. Great job guys! Thank you


Such an engaging couple and they showed us so many cool things! The highlight for me was the Saks Christmas lights show :) Thanks!

Great Tour  ~ Very Informative ~ Love you Guys! 

wonderful tour..so much fun to be able to travel without leaving home!!

Felt like I was walking the city with the group it was such fun

Amazing! Loved all the history they shared, they were super engaging, entertaining, and knowledgable. Felt like really being there. Thank you guys so much! Will definitely sign up for more :) 

Great tour of NYC Christmas favorites with Aaron and Patrick. Fun guides, responded to comments/questions as we toured. So interesting and fun that the 40 minutes was over in a flash.  Will definitely tour with them again!

Amazing tour which I thoroughly enjoyed.  Aaron and Patrick were a very good
double act and I found it both interesting (as never ever been there) as well as full of good humour and so full of fun.  Can't wait to undertake another one.  Merry Christmas everybody!

Every trip with them has been so much fun!

Nothing like seeing the Christmas 🎄 in New York virtually it was awesome I felt like Kevin in home alone thank you such fun 

They give a cheerful and warm touch to their  Christmas tour. They clearly enjoy it as much as we did.  The camerawork was sophisticated and smooth.  

Great tour, sorry we lost the connection before the end

These guys are amazing !!!!   they are always so up beat, kind and happy .
Love their tours, always such an enjoyable 30 or 45 min. of my day.
Thank you very much !!

They work so well together, and keep the flow of the tour going!

What a wonderful way to spend Christmas Eve (afternoon) a nice guided walk in New York and seeing the sites in the daytime. With added section to see where the New Years ball drops . Aaron and Patrick were awesome to include this when they realized that the Saks light show started later in the afternoon. Aaron and Patricks tours are like walking with friends Highly recommend ! 

Great personalities, knowledgeable, fun and engaging.  They are great tour guides!

You guys were awesome I would visit u guys again 

Great job - handled a lost connection seamlessly.  Great attitude and interacting with the virtual group.  

Excellent tour. Loved their enthusiasm to inform & entertain the audience. Great reception. Lots of interesting trivia. There was not a dull moment. I look forward to virtually traveling with them again! Quite memorable!

Patrick & Aaron did a wonderful  job! They were so spirited and positive and fun. Loved it!

Very well done. I will start following them.   Very proud of my sons❤️👏🏻

Guys, you're quite informed and you have such a great sense of humor!

A great tour by Aaron and Patrick!  Highlight for me was that Christmas tree:)  New York has been on my travel bucket list for a long time.  Thanks to Aaron and Patrick, I got to see some of the sights I`ve wanted to see.  They are excellent guides to NYC:)  

Great history of the building, sweet guys!

We loved it! For a short tour we saw a lot! We haven’t done a NYC trip at Christmas for a while, and I was in tears with the memories of Rockefeller Center. 

enjoyed you commentaries very much. looking forward to more of the same. thanks.

Aaron and a Patrick are so fab, another wonderful tour.  Thank you and Merry Christmas.

Great fun and games with the dynamic duo, thanks guys


Loved the tour with Aaron and Patrick. Fun, informative, bonuses and interacted with attendees. Also liked that I could take pictures.  Would highly recommend them and this tour.

Fun and festive! Aaron and Patrick are great hosts!

This was a perfect tour for today! Aaron and Patrick made it feel like we were walking right with them. Will definitely take more tours with them
Thank you!

Loved it; usually there at this time; signing up for 29th and forwarded to many friends. Thank you.  Gail from Santa Fe

Entertaining as ever! Thanks for a great trip.

Warm and friendly, felt connected with others which we all need in this time of Covid. Great balance of fun and facts

These guys are the real thing!  Very fun and interesting. 

I wish I were there with you two....you are so much fun. And thank you for the plethora of information during the tour. Can't wait to spend more time with you guys, Lori

OMG, what an amazing tour! I've done maybe 6 tours with Virtualtrips, and Aaron and Patrick were the best...their knowledge, their exhuberance, simply wonderful. My partner is a native Manhattanite and this was like being there for Xmas. Thanks SO much, guys!

Holiday Special - Christmas in NYC's Rockefeller Center

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