Presented below are two examples of our most popular Step-On tours. With our experience, we would be happy to design a Custom Step-On tour to meet your needs or theme. Please contact us well in advance, to discuss your desires so that together, we can provide you with an exceptional visit to Richmond.
Half-Day Step-On
The Richmond Tour Guys have designed Customizable tours specifically for the Bus Tour Industry that begins with the foundational City Tour, weaving your way from one sight to the next, across the length and breadth of the city; downtown to and across the James River, back to Shockoe Bottom and from Church Hill to Carytown, seeing the sights and hearing the story’s of over 70 points-of-interest. This is the basic City Tour, designed to accomplish “seeing” the city. Since Richmond is the Capital of Virginia, most tour companies at minimum want their guests to walk Capitol Square, home of the 1780’s built, Thomas Jefferson designed “Roman Temple on the Hill,” the first Roman styled neo-classical building in the new world and still purpose-used to this day. Also here are a number of notable monuments and Virginia’s Governor’s Mansion.
Tour Length: 3 to 3 1/2 Hours Tour Cost: Begins at $350.00
Full-Day Step-On
Whether meeting your Guide at your hotel or picking them up in the heart of the city, your Full-Day Tour begins between 9:30 and 10 am and follows the route of the Half-Day Tour seeing the same sights, with the option for 3 Add-Ins and a hearty or light lunch included. There are three sights that are highly recommended. These are the Interior tour of the Capitol building; afterwards, walking the Capitol grounds followed by heading to Church Hill and touring the graveyard surrounding Historic St. John’s Church with a 30 minute tour of the church interior to learn about it’s mid 1700’s construction and what led up to a secret meeting, famously occurring here on March 23, 1775 with George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Peyton Randolph, Richard Henry Lee and over 100 former Burgesses to hear a resolution that if found-out, would have all arrested, tried for treason, ending in a guilty verdict and sentenced to death by hanging.
Again boarding the bus, a private lunch may be arranged at a downtown restaurant or if “on their own dining” is preferred, there are two areas suitable for large groups. After lunch, back on the bus, you head to the American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar which tells an all-people, all-sides story. In addition to the main display, there are short films and other displays to complete the story.
When finished with the museum, the group heads back to Brown’s Island, crossing near its western end to venture out , walking partway onto the T. Tyler Potterfield walking and biking bridge to look upstream at America’s First Highway, here viewed as the whitewater, roiling James River and its class III to IV rapids just over 30 feet below. Turning to walk back, the view is of the expanding Richmond skyline, spread left to right.
Boarding the bus, the group returns to their hotel or on to their next destination a short drive away.
Tour Length: 6 to 6 1/2 Hours including lunch Tour Cost: Begins at $500.00
Other Step-Ons
In addition to the tours described above, tours designated as Private Driving Tours are easily adapted to a Step-On experience including our popular Seasonal “Tacky Lights Tours” described under Seasonal Tours or a modified City Tour such as our newest “City Highlights Tour” described in detail under the Driving Tours section of our site. Give us a call to curate any of your needs.
LARGE GROUP TOURS
For community and school groups, reunions, corporate gatherings et al, The Richmond Tour Guys offers the same tours described throughout our website as both Private Walking or Driving tours for groups exceeding 7 people. In the past we have provided driving tours to as many as 250 people at once, using vehicles sized to handle the overall group. Likewise, we have provided tours at a lower rental cost by splitting a group and offering two separate tours, morning and afternoon. We can handle your group tour in a variety of different ways, that will meet or exceed your requirements.
We contract with a number of transportation companies to provide the properly sized vehicle for your tour. These options include sedans and SUV’s, Transit or Sprinter Vans, mini‐vans and buses of different capacity up to and including 50 to 55 passenger motor coaches.
For larger vehicles, pricing includes the driver and separate guide plus the cost of the vehicle
Please get in touch with us by calling 804 554 4865
CURATED TOURS
Over the years, The Richmond Tour Guys have been pleased to curate tours to meet the desires of a number of clients including, “New Hire” Familiarization Tours to provide an overview of the city together with neighborhoods where they may be moving to; “Author” Tours, that in two separate instances, provided insight to what the city would have looked like prior to and during the Civil War and for another, what the city would have been like during the late 1940’s and into the 1950’s; Family Tours where a grandmother lived during the 1960’s and places she worked, dined, etc for the family to gather and see these important locations. Numerous tours have been conducted for “Newcomers” who have decided to move to Richmond and want a sense of what the city is like.
In short, we specialize in creating these singular Curated Tours with a clients input, followed up by research and designing a route to satisfy the desires to conduct an unforgettable tour. Please call our office at 804 554 4865 to discuss your wishes.