As with our All Loops Double Decker Bus Tour, The Classic Tour will show you the most popular sites in Manhattan and Brooklyn PLUS MORE! This 48-hour pass gives you access to four NYC Double Decker Bus Tours: the Uptown tour, the Downtown tour, the Brooklyn tour and the Night Tour. The tours stop at key attractions, allowing you to get off at the ones you want to see, or continue on the bus to others. IN ADDITION, the Classic Tour includes a ticket to the Ellis Island Ferry (which takes you to the Statue of Liberty), and an entrance to either the “Top of the Rock” Observation Deck or the Empire State Building.
Uptown Loop Stops include:
- Central Park
- Lincoln Center
- Rockefeller Plaza
- Radio City
- Fifth Avenue
- American Museum of Natural History
- Cathedral of St. John the Divine
- Harlem
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The Guggenheim Museum
- and many more!.
Downtown Loop Stops include:
- Empire State Building
- Greenwich Village
- SoHo
- Little Italy
- Chinatown
- World Trade Center Site
- Financial District
- Battery Park
- South Street Seaport
- Times Square
- Rockefeller Plaza
- Radio City
- United Nations
- Fifth Avenue
- and other famous attractions.
Brooklyn Loop Stops include:
- View of the Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan skyline
- Cadman Plaza / Brooklyn Heights
- Old Fulton Landing
- Atlantic Avenue
- Grand Army Plaza
- Brooklyn Museum of Art and Botanic Garden
- Fulton Mall
The Night Tour/Holiday Lights Tour
This fully guided tour takes you past the beautifully lit sights of New York City at night. These sights include The Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, The Manhattan Bridge and many more. Neighborhoods explored include Greenwich Village, SoHo, The Lower East Side and Chinatown. The tour also allows for a photo stop on the Brooklyn Promenade for breathtaking views of the Manhattan skyline. During the winter holiday season, The Night Tour becomes a Holiday Lights Tour, featuring holiday sights such as the famous Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. Unlike the other tours, this tour is not hop-on hop-off.
DETAILS:
UPTOWN LOOP
Hop-on, hop-off
Tour Length: Approx. 2 hours
Schedule: In 2010: Daily, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm In 2011: Daily, from 8:30am to 5:00pm every 30 minutes April-December; every 45 min Jan-March Daily except December 25 & January 1.
Departure: 8th Avenue between 46th & 47th Street
DOWNTOWN LOOP
Hop-on, hop-off
Tour Length: Approx. 3 hours
Schedule: In 2010: Daily, 8 am to 6 pm
In 2011: Daily, from 8:30am to 5:00pm every 10-15min April-December; every 30min Jan-March Daily except December 25 & January 1.
Departure: 7th Avenue between 47th and 48th Street
BROOKLYN LOOP
Hop-on, hop-off
Tour Length: Approx. 2 hours
Schedule: In 2010: Daily, from 10:30 am-3:30 pm every half hour
In 2011: Daily, from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm hourly.
Brooklyn Express service daily at 10:30am from the Gray Line Visitor Center, 777 8th Avenue. Daily except December 25 & January 1.
Departure: Battery Place and State Street, New York, NY 10004
NIGHT TOUR / HOLIDAY LIGHTS TOUR
NO Hop-on, hop-off
Can be taken on any one of the two evenings within All Loops Tour ticket's validity.
Tour Length: Approx. 2-2,5 hours
Schedule: In 2010: Daily, 6:00pm-8:30 pm, except Nov 25th, Dec 24-25, Dec 31 or January 1
In 2011: Daily except Thanksgiving (Nov 24, 2011), Dec 24, 25, 31 2011 and January 1, 2012. Departures every 30 minutes between 6.00pm and 9.00pm from May to October. Departures at 6.00pm, 6.30pm and 7.00pm balance of the year.
Departure: 1.) 7th Avenue between 47th & 48th Streets 2.) Times Square (7th Avenue between 47th and 48th Streets) 3.) 41st Street & 7th Avenue (front of Red Lobster)
Statue of Liberty Ferry: Tour length 4+hours, operates daily, 8:30am-3:30pm. Departure: Battery Park (Whitehall Street between Bridge & Pearl Streets)
Empire State Building Observatory Tickets: Average visit time 2 hrs, open daily 8am-2am (last elevator: 1:15am). Location: 5th Avenue & West 34th Street
Top of the Rock Observatory: Average visit time 1hr, open 8am-midnight (last elevator 11:15pm). Location: 49th Street beween 5ht & 6th Avenues.
Important Recommendations for Bus Tours of NYC:
Children of age 2 and under free and do not require a reservation for Double Decker Bus Tours.
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