Downtown NYC Tour: Hop-On Hop-Off Plus Attraction
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31 Ratings
Experience the best of Downtown NYC with the Hop-On Hop-Off Tour. Choose from a range of top attractions and create your own sightseeing adventure!
Duration:
1 hour, 30 minutes
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
Downtown Tour (Route)
Operating Schedule: Departures 9am to 4:30pm, every 15-20 min
1. M&M’S New York
48th Street and 7th Avenue
2. The Knickerbocker
West 42nd St. and Broadway
3. Empire State Building
5th and 32nd St.
4. Flatiron District
5th Avenue and W 23rd St.
5. SoHo
Broadway and Spring St.
6. Chinatown
100 Lafayette St. (near corner with Walker Street)
7. Brooklyn Bridge
Park Row & Beekman St (across from 33 Park Row)
8. Charging Bull
Broadway & Wall St (Southwest corner near Rector St)
9. Statue of Liberty Vista Point
Trinity Place & Rector St (Across from the Trinity Cafe)
10. World Trade Center
Church St & Vesey St (across from the Post Office)
11. Hudson Yards
12th Ave & 30th St (north-east corner)
12. Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises
12th Ave & 40th St (opposite Pier 81)
Points of Interest
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Statue of Liberty
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Flatiron Building
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Empire State Building
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Times Square
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SoHo
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Greenwich Village
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Madison Square Garden
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One World Observatory
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Union Square
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Little Italy
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Noho
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East Village
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Financial District
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New York Stock Exchange
What's Included
- Choice of one attraction from the list
- Hop-on Hop-off Double Decker Bus Tour
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Food and Beverage
Additional Information
Plan your own sightseeing adventure with the New York City Hop-On Hop-Off Tour! This offer includes a comprehensive Downtown NYC Double Decker bus ride and also lets you select one attraction from a range of significant options.
Choose from the top attractions NYC has to offer, including:
-Guided 5 hour Manhattan tour
-The Edge
-The Broadway Museum
-All Day Luna Park Wristband
-American Museum of Natural History
- One World Observatory
- Rise NY
- Daytime Clipper City Sail by Manhattan by Sail
- NY Aquarium
- Museum of Modern Art
- The Whitney Museum of American Art
- Guggenheim Museum
- New York Botanical Garden
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Gold Pass Saint Patrick’s Cathedral Tour
-Admission to SpyScape
-Fotografiska New York - All Day Bike Rent NYC Rental
- Midtown Circle Line Liberty Cruise
- Headsets with pre-recorded tour narration is available in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Portuguese.
- Infants 2 years and under are free
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
3.5
(31 Ratings)
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Atr469
Oct 9, 2019
Worth every penny - Definetly worth the money if you plan on seeing the different attractions. Saved $$$ on entrance fees and got detailed explainations of the history and buildings.
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Sandy
Mar 21, 2019
Allan made the tour better! - We wanted to see the sites with the observatory ticket included. My husband and I have been to NY many times. Always use the Gray Lines...their groupon is def worth it. only down side was having to go to their office to redeem the groupon. But it worked out as there weren’t too many in lines. Got on bus with Allan France. He was tremendous on so many levels. Although some may have been offended, he used the ‘teacher technique’, as I call it (as I was one) of getting everyone’s attention to continue his remarks. I was VERY glad of this, because I wanted to hear what he said. And although we have been on this tour in the past, he added things that I had never known before. He was personable, friendly, and professional. And the fact that he was a Vietnam Veteran added to the mix!
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Tasma2018
Jan 5, 2019
Great - We bought a 3 day passed and used it all day for the entire 3 days great commentary and covers uptown downtown Brooklyn and also has a night tour - only thing is after 5 no guarantees of getting back on bus to get you back to where u started but well worth it
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Taylour_l
Dec 17, 2023
Fun way to save your feet - Great way to travel throughout several neighborhoods and save your feet! Some drivers are more fun than others. This is NOT a tour where someone guides you, it’s a guided tour via headphones, which is totally fine!
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Andreako6579ga
Aug 22, 2023
Meh - For everyone's information and to avoid the confusion we encountered, there is no one from "Gray Line" on the street trying to sell you tickets. However, although we felt like we were being scammed by the Big Bus people, apparently, they are the same for this. Bus was fine, but we opted to do the entire loop in the morning to get the lay of the land, and then were made to get off the bus ahead of M & M world and had to walk a block and get in line (a long line) to get on a different bus (we only did the downtown loop). Also the ticket to the One World Tower was not provided to us and we were told we could just go there, however had to way to access a ticket there and had to go to customer service to get it sorted out. Thankfully the girl there was on the ball and took care of us. However she told us that we were supposed to be given a pink ticket by the Big Bus staff for entry to One World. We were not. I did this tour years ago and felt that time was a better experience overall. Still a good way to get the lay of the land, but it could have been smoother.
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Q729krpeters
Jan 10, 2020
NYC traffic makes this dodgy - Bought the two day hop on/off ticket. Took the Brooklyn tour day 1. Used the center city route first to access the Brooklyn route. Traffic in NYC makes the time of the stops random and not really adherence to a schedule. Realize that if you do this around Christmas time, NYPD routinely shut down roads around Times Square and you should expect extreme delays and detours. We never even got close to the origination point and had to get dropped off several blocks from where we expected. And over an hour later than when we expected.
Lastly, one two of the routes, the tour guides were very good. On the center city route, the tour guide barely spoke English and he was VERY aggressive in trying to hustle tips, shaking the “tip bag” in everybody’s face.
I thought it to be a truly NYC experience, my wife was not amused.
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Chemtch
Nov 17, 2023
Not great value. - Not great value for the money. Regretted this purchase as the buses did not run as often as advertised and were slow getting places due to traffic.
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K9107wplouisef
Apr 25, 2024
Misleading and rude - The wording on the listing is quite misleading. There is a list of attractions which includes the Empire State Building. We were told by a rep from the company that the Empire State Building was included. However, we could not use this ticket there.
I called the bus company (from the Empire State Building, whose staff were amazing) to query it and was told it was for another attraction but that they didn't know which so couldn't help. I asked if we could swap so that our one attraction was the ESB and pointed out the listing was quite unclear, and the employee hung up on me.
We had to pay to get into the ESB separately and it ended up being a very expensive day.
The tour itself was fine - lots of interesting sites but a large part of the journey is coming up the riverside, without a huge amount to see. Given everything there is to do in New York, a better route is definitely possible.
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K7775xgmargaretw
Jan 6, 2024
NYC trip on Red Bus needs lots of work. - The Red Bus didn’t have stops near enough to the attractions in NYC. If you didn’t hop off, you didn’t see anything. I purchased am added event but when we tried to use it in the Empire State Building, we couldn’t and had to pay again. Very disappointing.
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Ben0810
Nov 19, 2019
Pushy sales people who threatened us - Really pushy sales people in Times Square. After being approached several time over a few days one of you sales people pushed it to far resulting in this review.
My family and I stopped to decide where we wanted to head for dinner. One of you sales people approached us and we told him we were not interested. He said to hear him out and we told him we were really not interested. He went on to state he was in a good mood and but he might just smack my wife. I asked him to go away and he raised a fist as if he was going to hit me and walked away.
If I ever considered going on you bus tour, I definitely will not now.
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