St Patrick's Cathedral Official Audio Tour

Overview

The 160-year history of St. Patrick’s Cathedral is shared by the men and women who know it best in this official audio tour. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Monsignor Robert Ritchie and others guide you around St. Patrick's. They tell their personal stories about what makes St. Patrick’s America's favorite.

City: New York City

Fri 24 Jan

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Starting at $25.00

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Fri 24 Jan

Starting at $25.00

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What's Included

St Patrick's Cathedral Official Audio Tour

Route and map

Meeting point

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New York City
50th Street & 5th Avenue, Wheelchair accessibility located off the corner of 51st Street and 5th Avenue

THERE IS NO TOUR GUIDE TO WAIT FOR PLEASE WALK IN TO THE CATHEDRAL AND CHECK IN AT TOUR DESK

Start your tour at the Main Gift Shop in the Cathedral on 51st Street. Our team will provide you with your VIP Tour Pass which also serves as your souvenir of your visit to St Patrick’s Cathedral. Your audio tour includes the use of our Samsung Tablets and free disposable 3.5mm headphones.

Should you wish to take the audio tour on your own device, our team will provide you with your VIP Tour Pass, supply you with headphones (if needed), connect you to Wi-Fi, help you download the TourPatron app and help you locate your code to unlock your audio tour. You may also download the app in advance of your arrival by going to the App Store or Google Play Store and download The TourPatron app. If touring with your own device, this step is required in order to take the tour.

All tours of St. Patrick’s Cathedral are self-guided through headphones to be respectful of the faithful in prayer.

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Additional Info

Wheelchair accessible
Public transportation options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Face masks required for travellers in public areas
Face masks required for guides in public areas
Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
Guides required to regularly wash hands

What To Expect

St. Patrick's Cathedral

The cathedral developed this audio tour from script to final production edits. It’s an ever evolving labor of love to communicate as much as we can about St. Patrick’s Cathedral to those who wish to learn. We hope this tour will entertain and educate our millions of returning visitors from around the globe. During the months St. Patrick’s Cathedral was closed, we had the opportunity to overhaul and upgrade the entire audio tour. We added hundreds of new images and audio segments. The tour is offered in English, Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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chuck_g

Sep 2021

Tour was cancelled with out notification.Want my money back.Nobody from Viator showed up!Never schedule another event thru Viator again.

Response from Host

Sep 2021

This tour was operating on September 11 and many passenger came and checked in at the gift store as voucher instructions. We do not have a record that you ever went and checked in at the gift store. We check and you reported a tour guide was a no show. This is a self guided audio tour and the description is clear that there is no guide that will meet you. This is an active cathedral where mass is held daily and we only allow the official audio tour and it will not disturb our patrons.

Steve_B

Jun 2021

Absolutely horrible & a complete waste of money!There was no actual tour. The people at the gift shop where we checked in had no information for us & did nothing but give us lanyard badges & said we could walk thru the church just like all the other people and that the tickets didn't give us any other added benefits. And the tour info desk inside the church was closed I guess to due Covid although we weren't informed of that. As it turned out we didn't take a "tour" & in no way needed to purchase tickets in the 1st place since there was no actual guided tour as we understood when we purchased the tickets. We didn't even need to have lanyard badges or more importantly we should have been told by your company that we didn't need to purchase tickets at all since we we able to walk thru the church like the hundreds of other tourists who went into the church to walk & look around. There were no other visitors who displayed lanyards other than my family of 7 & even the security officer at the church entrance told me there was no actual tour due to Covid & said we didn't need to have wasted our $ by purchasing the tickets since we could nothing more than the hundreds of tourists coming in & out. I should have been advised by your company at the time I purchased our tickets of the situation & that no tickets were actually needed for the 10-15 minutes we walked thru the church, As such we are extremely disappointed & feel very much cheated by your company & request a full refund from either you or the venue tour operators who took our money for no reason! We spent almost $2,000 on all of our tours with you & had also had one of the tour (911 Museum) closed without our knowledge when we got there which cause us to have to be on the phone with a representative from your company for almost an hour moving several of our remaining tours around to allow us to see the 911 Museum on a totally different day. That day was a disaster, waste of a trip on the subway, and a waste of one our vacation days altogether. My family was helping celebrating my wife & my 40th wedding anniversary in New York City so all in all we had a very horrible experience with your company & again expect no less than a total refund from you for the St. Patrick's Cathedral your which wasn't an actual tour & which we were deceived when buying our tickets. Steve Barba

MPOY_M

Jun 2021

was a great experience about all information about the church,sure I will recommend to other persons and family.