Vienna City Tour: Hop-On Hop-Off Experience with Optional Audio Files for Self-guided Music Walk
3.6
870 Ratings

Experience the highlights of Vienna on a hop-on hop-off bus tour. Explore at your own pace and enjoy a self-guided music walk with audio files included.

Duration: 5 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights

RED LINE (Route)

Operating Schedule: Please refer to our current timetable for precise departure times and stops.
1. Vienna State Opera

2. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

3. Mariahilfer Straße

4. Rathaus

5. Liebenberg-Denkmal

6. Sigmund Freud Museum

7. Votivkirche

8.…

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What's Included
  • Choose from 24-, 48-, or 72-hour hop-on hop-off bus ticket options
  • Access to Green Line with 48- and 72-hour tickets
  • Audio commentary available in 16 languages
  • Enjoy a self-guided music light tour
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
Additional Information

Discover the best of Austria’s capital in a delightful and leisurely manner with a hop-on hop-off bus tour. Traverse Vienna on our buses, visiting iconic sites such as Hofburg Palace, the Vienna State Opera, City Hall, Schonbrunn Palace, Prater, and the Belvedere. With a 24-, 48-, or 72-hour hop-on hop-off bus ticket, you can design your own sightseeing…

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Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
3.6
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Luit2020r
Jan 25, 2025
Helpful but on the bus it's cold and some of the staff were unsympathetic. - Three tour lines (blue of a couple of hours on the Danube and the Prater - yellow of 1 hour to Schonbrunn and the Belvedere - red of 1 hour in the city center) that give the opportunity to get an idea of the city and to avoid the metro by taking advantage of the lines of interest. It's cold on the bus. Included in the Vienna Pass (for the duration of the pass) and the Vienna flexi Pass (for 72h). In Schonbrunn the bus had just left and we caught up with it a few moments later and the driver would not open the door. We had to wait almost 1 h for the next bus to arrive. The hop on hop off girl who was at the stop was very unsympathetic. 1h in cold and frost and with his dislike.
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Patricia_s
Dec 24, 2024
Nice trip - Long waits in between buses. Narrative on some bus lines just okay. Positive is it gets you from place to place.
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Carmen_p
Dec 14, 2024
Ok - The bus doesn’t come as regularly as I would have liked, the schedule was every 40-60 mins!, so we spent a lot of time waiting!
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975anjar
Apr 19, 2025
Children's guide unfortunately disappointing - Unfortunately a disappointment for us as a family as the audio guide for children is not particularly well designed. Sometimes a beeping AI voice speaks content, then the children listen to the adult content again. The only good part is spoken by a boy - but unfortunately he is not always heard. First and foremost, you hear a lot of classical music on the buses. Plus point: You can see a lot of the city on the bus, but we would not do the tour again, but rather ride with the public transport, which rattle off all the sights and are significantly cheaper. Free even for children during the holidays.
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Jessica_s
Dec 19, 2024
30 min wait - Hard to keep up with where on map we were . Had to wait 30 min at each stop. . Big tour bus is more organized easy to follow
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Legendhere
Dec 16, 2024
This Isn’t the Best - Not really impressed. For the amount of money €30(!) I could have done more. I have never been to Vienna before and wanted to got a sense of the city, I usually take these hop on/hop off tours all over Europe. This one was the worst. The audio was not synced to the tour. The WiFi didn’t work. Then, on my blue line tour the driver pulled over and asked everyone to get out. He told us another bus was coming in five minutes and he was on break. Everyone disembarked, which meant waiting in the cold for the five minutes. I don’t know why he didn’t just tell us all to stay on the bus until the relief bus came. Then, unbeknownst to me, the tour bus turned to red. Without an announcement or informing us we were disembarking a blue line to join a red line. When we stopped at the Opera House, I went to get off thinking I’d catch a red lined the driver rudely informed me I was ALREADY on a red line. Then he played the audio saying red line bus five or six times to drive home the point during the tour, meaning we weren’t synced. Not impressed at all.
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Robertaah1577bz
Apr 8, 2025
TO BE AVOIDED - It was a bad experience with this bus company: unobtainable stops, endless waits and exaggerated prices. Relying on this ad Hop on Hup off was absolutely useless, because Vienna is a city with efficient, safe, clean and inexpensive public transport. Spend your money in another way and be happy
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Elizabethmz9958pa
Mar 23, 2025
A disappointing and poor experience - I have done hop -on bus tours all over the world and I found this very poor. There is very little commentary and too much music is played. We passed numerous interesting and significant sights and there was hardly any, if any , information given- the music plays constantly. Surely tourists do these tours to learn about a city, not listen to music in the traffic? The music played most of the time whilst the bus drove slowly through the traffic, it is a waste of time and money. I walked around the Ringstrasse the following day and learnt much more with a guide book and Google.
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Sarahrx4785gi
Dec 23, 2024
Very bad - I use hop on hop off all the time but this was the worst experience I’ve ever experienced with them. To start off not one person came to talk to us when we came to the area to but the ticket. They were all too busy talking to each other. Second we asked when the bus ran and no one had an answer. So we got on the first bus that came, it wasn’t what we wanted but it got us to our first stop. There we spent over 45 minutes waiting and no bus should up. At this point we needed to go so now we are out 70 euros and have to walk to our next site. I reached out to Vienna site seeing and told them about this and that I would appreciate a refund but was denied because according to there records no bus was late. If you’re going or in Vienna use big bus company going forward, that bus passed by us about 4 times.
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E1936wxjanetc
Dec 18, 2024
Worst experience of hop on hop off bus in Europe - If i could give this company no stars, i would. It doesnt even deserve the one star it got. My Daughter and I paid 70 euro for day tickets. The audio wasn't synced, and the driver didn't stop at some stops on the route. It wasn't hop on hop off. It was hop off and wait an hour for another bus to come along. We spent our day waiting for another bus instead of actually sight seeing! On Wednesday the 18/12/2024 at 10:30am a red bus pulled up and two employees who were selling / scanning tickets stood in the doorway of the bus, chatting to the driver and blocking us getting on, we were quite confused but waited to get on as we assumed they would turn and scan our tickets once they were ready, the next thing we knew the bus drove away, I asked one of the employees (brown hair in a pony tail, small and an unapproachable demeanor, I would assume she hates her job) who had been blocking the doorway was that driver not taking passengers and she aggressively snapped at me saying "why didnt you just get on??" in a loud voice. I then explained that her and her colleague were blocking the door and did not usher anyone on or scan tickets, she was extremely dismissive and hostile and rolled her eyes and walked away. Please save your time and money, I would not recommend this company. Its unprofessional, the staff are extremely rude and most of all you see nothing!!!!
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