Rick Steves Audio Europe™

At the time of the world pandemic listening to these beautiful audio guides replaces actual travel and provides oh-so-necessary distractions to the mind dulled in the lockdown. One should also be grateful to Rick Steves who continues to pay his 100+ staff members despite the utter collapse of the travel industry.

Listening to this audio guide during my trips to Europe was a truly knowledgeable and immersive experience

We visited Rome and like most tourists booked the skip the line with audiotour. Especially at the Pantheon we got lost we the tour so swapped to this one; it was a great experience. Next we did the city walk and had a great day. Thank you, we are visiting London in April, looking forward to the tours there.

Rick, thank you for making my second stay here in Rome the inspiring journey everyone dreams of when visiting historical places like this. This is top notch, seriously funny and informative touring, you are the best!!

We found this app on or first day in Athens, when we where at the Acropolis. We where looking for an audio tour on or phone, because we wanted more information about what we saw overthere. The audioguide was better than we expect to find on the internet. We enjoyed our first walk with Rick so much, that we went through all the other opions in Athens aswell. We really enjoyed the walk around the city, because we saw more than we had without it. We also really liked the walk around the museum, because, with the instructions, we know where we had te look for the most intressting things and it made all more scense. We even wish there were more tours on the app in Athens we could do. In our next Europe citytrip, we defenitly will use the app again. It works perfectly. We defenitly would recomend it.

Read about this app on my third day in Rome and wished I found out earlier. Used it in the Vatican today and it’s just awesome. Makes the whole experience so fun and guides you right to the important sights in a good amount of time. Would recommend this to anyone instead of the audio tour of the Vatican itself. This one is fun and a lot less tiring in terms of the amount of information. App works good! Thank you Rick for this!

I’m just starting to use this app and I’m amazing at how outdated it is! The map is a pdf that you cannot soon in on in iOS (despite what the app says.) It’s impossible to know where any of the tour start unless you have laser eyesight or a magnifying glass! Not much of a way to start a tour? Why not integrate with google maps? Everyone has it on their phone. It would make much more sense than a static map.

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We tried to use the audio guides for the colosseum and roman forum etc. after seeing them recommended on several sites as good overview tours. I was very disappointed! The tours felt like they were more about making cheesy jokes than actually telling the history and significance of the structures and their details. It felt kind of disrespectful in a way. I learned more by listening to guides talking to their tour groups for about 20 seconds while they stood around us than during nearly the whole audio tour. Would not recommend. There is an official audio guide tour for the colosseum and possibly forum as well that comes with your ticket so that might be better—pay attention for info when you buy tickets. Unfortunately we couldn’t download the app on site due to connection issues so we couldn’t use the official tour and were left with Steve.

Rick and his guest try to be funny and entertain in some episodes and it comes off as pretty awkward and weird. In the Vatican tour episode they force you to skip a big portion of the museum for no reason. So you need to ignore some of their suggestions and/or lame jokes.