First and foremost John was great. He knew his stuff, rolled with a ton of punches, and was entertaining. As a DC-ite I learned a lot which is what I look for on tours like this.
That said, DC Ghosts has A LOT of work to do. Our tour group for Boos and Booze was massive, so big that we weren’t allowed in to a lot of bars on a Saturday night. Half of the lure of the tour was a haunted pub crawl and I wouldn’t call it that with how few bars we actually saw. I got one drink during the entire experience at the first bar and the second bar that was willing to serve us was at the end. By the time the server came around at the second bar the tour was over and my family wasn’t interested in sticking around. The tour group had to split up to go into the first bar to get drinks and then come back out to the lobby where John was telling the stories. I missed a bunch of interesting stories at the InterContinental because of this. The group was so big it also made it hard to hear in some places, like the hotel lobby.
DC Ghosts should either cap the Boos and Booze experience to about 10 people (not the nearly 20 that we had) and have reservations for tour groups at the bars or not sell a haunted pub crawl. I had such high hopes for it but the logistics made it hard to enjoy at times and I felt bad for my family who were visiting that I chose this tour for them.