Cambridge City Sightseeing: Explore with Hop-On Hop-Off Bus Tour
3.7
129 Ratings

Your Cambridge City Sightseeing bus, an open-top double-decker, allows for unlimited hop-on and off experiences. It offers multiple stop options and completes the entire route roughly in 1 hour, excluding the walking tour. The bus arrives at each stop in an interval of 25-30 minutes. The tickets remain valid for 24 hours from the time of first use.

Duration: 1 hour, 20 minutes
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights

Red Route (Route)

Operating Schedule: Monday - Saturday, excluding Bank Holidays: First bus departs from Stop 1 at 10:10am. Last bus departs from Stop 1 at 6:10pm. Buses run every 40 minutes. Stops 12 - 18 won’t be in service after 6:10pm. Stop 4 Trinity Street and Stop 5 Market Street will not be in service. Sundays, including Bank Holidays: First bus departs from Stop 1 at 10:10am. Last bus departs from Stop 1 at 6:10pm. Buses run every 40 minutes. Stops 12 - 18 won’t be in service after 6:10pm. All stops will be operating

1. Silver Street
Silver Street

2. Downing Street
Downing Street

3. Chesterton Lane
Chesterton Lane

4. Bridge Street
Bridge Street

5. Trinity Street
Trinity Street - Only on Sundays

  1. Market Street - Only on Sundays

  2. Jesus Lane

8. Drummer Street
Drummer Street

  1. Parkside

  2. Hills Road

11. Cambridge
Railway Station

12. Trumpington Road
Trumpington Road

13. The Fitzwilliam Museum
The Fitzwilliam Museum

14. Silver Street
Silver Street

  1. Queen’s Road

  2. Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial

  3. Madingley Road

  4. Grange Road

Points of Interest

  • King’s College Chapel

  • Fitzwilliam Museum

  • The River Cam

  • Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial

  • Bridge of Sighs

  • The Polar Museum, Scott Polar Research Institute

  • Cambridge Junction

  • Light Cinema Cambridge

  • Cambridge Science Centre

What's Included
  • 12-month voucher validity from selected travel date
  • Multilingual recorded commentary in 9 languages
  • Complimentary coupon booklet
  • Flexible 24-hour hop-on hop-off bus tour
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Hotel pickup and drop off
  • Food and drinks, unless specified
Additional Information
  • Monday - Saturday, excluding Bank Holidays: First bus departs from Stop 1 at 10:10am. Last bus departs from Stop 1 at 6:10pm. Buses run every 40 minutes. Stops 12 - 18 won’t be in service after 6:10pm. Stop 4 Trinity Street and Stop 5 Market Street will not be in service
  • Sundays, including Bank Holidays: First bus departs from Stop 1 at 10:10am. Last bus departs from Stop 1 at 6:10pm. Buses run every 40 minutes. Stops 12 - 18 won’t be in service after 6:10pm. All stops will be operating
  • Vouchers are valid for 12 months from travel date selected at check-out. Mobile and printed paper vouchers are accepted on this tour
  • Mobile vouchers are accepted at Stop 1, but paper vouchers must be used if you first hop on at any other stop
  • Please note Stop 3 St. Andrew’s Street is permanently disabled. Stop 2 is a short distance away
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
3.7
(129 Ratings)
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Iwona_p
May 1, 2024
Amazing service! - Amazing service! Drivers so friendly, kind and helpful. Lots of fun! Thank you so much! Highly recommended!
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Timothyandrewbrown
Jan 15, 2024
A great introduction to Cambridge - Can't recommend this enough. Do it early on in your visit to Cambridge as it gives a great overview of the city. We did the entire trip in one go and then got off and did our own walking tour. Driver excellent, commentary good, bus clean, map useful for own walking tour.
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Wamish
Apr 28, 2024
Hopped on and stayed on. - An excellent way to get your bearings around a new city. The tour was informative and aimed at about the right level. One improvement could be to extend the ticket length from 24 to 48 hours to allow people to put their new found knowledge to use. This may require a price increase but would be worth it.
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Ken
Apr 19, 2024
Great trip, but avoid booking through TripAdvisor - Very good trip, the driver was very helpful and resolved a problem we had with our tickets. I would not recommend booking through TripAdvisor however, it was a complete nightmare, very slow and it is much easier just getting on the bus and sorting it out through the driver.
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Carlos_s
Nov 20, 2023
Good experience - The bus is very good, the places are beautiful, there are earbuds and flyer maps available. The only thing that I have missed is the Portuguese translation. We have many Brazilians and Portugueses visitors in UK, it would really be very nice to have a Portuguese translation as well, together with the other 9 languages translations. Only in London there are more than 200 thousands Brazilians living in.
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358alanc
Mar 20, 2024
Where's the bus? - I have no complaints about the tour itself. It was interesting, the commentary was informative and the tour about the right length at 1 hour 20 minutes. It covered most of the main sights of the city and gave you information that you would not otherwise have known. My main issue was the frequency of the service - one bus every 40 minutes is very infrequent for this type of tour and also buses do not seem to run to a timetable. There is no timetable printed either in the leaflet or on the stops, so when you turn up at the stop you have no idea whether you will be waiting for 5 minutes or 35 minutes for the bus. Needs to be better organised. I would certainly advise buying tickets from the driver rather than in advance, then if the bus doesn't come you can just give up!
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M4323ghkevinh
Sep 2, 2023
Poor - Cambridge Hop on and Off buses. Bus Timetables highly inaccurate and a driver that sees you but drives on. Very poor.
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Lee_f
Aug 29, 2023
The vehicle was so noisy... - The vehicle was so noisy one could hardly hear the commentary on the PA system. Other than the stop at the American cemetery, the route had little of interest. You might want to hop-off, but not hop back on again!
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Ganesh_r
Apr 1, 2024
Trip cancelled - Ride was called off by driver still time left for ride and we cancelled the trip immediately I know the policy but it was canceled by driver
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Michael_f
Feb 14, 2024
Don't use Viator for the Cambridge Hop On Bus! - I received the email that gave directions on where to redeem a voucher for the bus ticket. We followed the directions and it took us to the Queen's College reception desk, and they knew nothing of the sightseeing bus or where to get the ticket. Viator should do a better job of describing where to go to get the ticket. We had a frustrating 90 minutes trying to figure it out.
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