All Of New York City Hop On - Hop Off Bus Tour
All of New York City Hop On - Hop Off Bus Tour
Explore the famous sites of uptown and downtown New York City on this comprehensive bus tour, which includes Central Park, the Met, the Upper West side, Times Square, the Broadway district, Little Italy, SoHo, Chinatown, the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, and so much more. Get on and off the bus at your convenience to see the sites you most want to visit.
Hop off the bus at Central Park to see beautiful greenery and one of the most famous parks in the city. This park is in the heart of Manhattan and covers over 843 acres of land. See the Central Park Zoo, a famous zoo located within Central park. Spend time viewing exotic animals from all over the world right in the center of the city.
Stops at the famous Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center are offered on this tour. Don't miss out on traveling up 86 floors of the Empire State Building to the observatory for a spectacular view of the city (not included in the tour price). The Rockefeller Center is a great place to stop and explore. Go ice-skating in the winter, or just take photos of the many attractions, including Radio City Music Hall.
Many famous museums are easily reached from stops on this hop on-hop off bus tour, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Guggenheim Museum. Tour over two million works from all over the world in the famous Met, or tour the works of the Guggenheim Museum to see expanding collections of the Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early Modern art.
Get off at Times Square to see the epitome of New York City's vibrant lifestyle. The colorful commercial lights will dazzle you as you walk the most well-known streets of the city. See the Broadway district, where hundreds of shows are performed each year.
Choose among New York's many neighborhoods to explore at your convenience. They all share the vibrancy of the city, but differ in culture. In Little Italy taste the influence of European immigration. Explore the streets of Chinatown for authentic restaurants and Asian stores. In SoHo enjoy the hustle and bustle of edgy New York fashion boutiques and unique shops only found there.
Please Note: (If departing from the pier, please take the shuttle transit bus to the city center (between 41st & 42nd St.) to exchange your voucher at the visitor center.) The exact location will be provided in your electronic ticket. There are two bus routes with varying schedules and tour durations. The Uptown Route runs every 25 to 30 minutes and it takes approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes to complete the route without getting off. The Downtown Route runs every 20 to 25 minutes and it takes approximately 3 hours to complete the route without getting off. Both routes are narrated in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Mandarin, Russian, Japanese, Korean, and Hebrew. First and last tour times vary by route and will be detailed in your electronic ticket.
The Uptown Route includes the following stops:
- Winter Garden Theater
- Hell's Kitchen - 42nd Street and 8th Avenue
- Restaurant Row
- Theatre District South
- Theatre District North
- Columbus Circle
- Lincoln Center
- The Dakota / Strawberry Fields
- American Museum of Natural History
- Quality Inn / Hotel Newton
- Upper West Side
- Cathedral of St. John the Divine
- Grant's Tomb
- Apollo Theater
- Malcolm Shabazz Harlem Market
- Museum of the City of New York
- Smithsonian Museum of Design / Jewish Museum
- Guggenheim Museum
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Frick Collection
- Central Park Zoo
- Central Park
- Park Central Hotel
The Downtown Route includes the following stops:
- Times Square North
- Times Square South
- Macy's
- Empire State Building 1
- Empire State Building 2
- Flat Iron District
- Union Square
- Greenwich Village
- Soho
- Chinatown / Little Italy
- City Hall / World Trade Center / Brooklyn Bridge / 911 Tribute Center
- Battery Park / Ellis Island / Statue of Liberty Ferry
- South Street Seaport
- Lower East Side
- East Village
- United Nations
- Waldorf Astoria Hotel
- Rockefeller Center / Radio City
- Winter Garden Theater
- Central Park
- Park Central Hotel
About Shore Excursions Group
Shore Excursions Group was created with one goal in mind: to provide exceptional travel experiences to cruise passengers in the ports they visit around the world. To accomplish this, we have compiled an exceptional array of tours delivered by local experts with decades of experience serving travelers and delivering excellent tours. Our owners and management team are comprised of seasoned travel industry executives who leverage their considerable experience to deliver memories of a lifetime.
We are experts in providing exceptional shore excursions. We understand that in today's fast paced world, vacations have become an increasingly important way to relax, reconnect with family and friends, and experience new and interesting places. With this in mind, we provide the highest quality tours by performing extensive research, and detailed reviews. While other companies also offer excursions, we strongly believe our expertise and approach set us apart. The large cruise lines sell shore excursions - typically in very large groups visiting high traffic sites. We focus on smaller groups visiting more interesting and authentic locations using more personalized local operators. While the cruise lines are experts in delivering cruises, we are experts in delivering shore excursions.
Our Approach
We believe quality service is not only highly valued by customers, but ultimately leads to better experiences and higher satisfaction. Unlike the cruise lines and other tour companies that rely almost entirely on websites, we encourage customers to call us. We want to invest our time answering your questions, providing input, and selecting the excursions that best meet your needs.
Our Tours
Our goal is to provide customers a wide array of exciting, appealing, and enriching tours. For those customers who prefer to travel in smaller groups with more personalized service, we offer a wide variety of small group tours around the world. These tours generally range in size from 2-12 people compared to larger tours which can number up to 50 people. While exploring the destinations and ports on this website, feel free to search for these "Small Group Tours". For those customers interested in private tours, we offer many outstanding excursions that allow you to travel with your party alone and, in many cases, to fully customize your tour. Search for "Private Tours" if you are interested in this experience. Our "Scenic" tours provide up close and personal access to some of the most spectacular natural environments on Earth from majestic glaciers in Alaska to spectacular reefs in the Caribbean. Our "Cultural" tours allow customers to experience local customs, entertainment and culinary delights ranging from tribal dances in Alaska to an outstanding local meal in Santorini, Greece. Our "Active" tours offer a multitude of exciting and adventurous ways to experience our destinations. Our customers can kayak the turquoise waters of the Caribbean, hike to a spectacular waterfall in Hawaii, or bicycle through quaint villages in France. Our "City" tours allow travelers to see the highlights of great cities around the world with unique insights provided by our expert tour guides.
Our People
In our experience, exceptional travel experiences are almost always delivered by exceptional people. With that in mind, we utilize a comprehensive approach to select and employ the leading tour guides and tour providers around the globe. We hold our people to very high standards which we measure by our comprehensive Quality Control process and, most importantly, by our customer feedback, which we will actively seek from each of our customers.
Our Owners
Shore Excursions Group is owned by seasoned travel executives possessing extensive experience across many sectors within the travel industry.
Bradford J. Miller
Mr. Miller is the former Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer for Abercrombie & Kent, the World's leading luxury travel company. In that role, Mr. Miller was responsible for contributing to Abercrombie & Kent's international growth through the development and acquisition of tour products and travel experiences around the world with a specific focus on cruising and land based experiences. Prior to joining Abercrombie & Kent, Mr. Miller held a variety of executive positions with Royal Caribbean International and Celebrity Cruises for more than a decade. These positions included Vice President of Guest Sales & Service, Vice President of Brand Development, and Vice President of Onboard Revenue (which included shore excursions). Mr. Miller also led Celebrity Expeditions, a collection of outstanding and unique tours around the World.
Michael Bonner
Mr. Bonner has over a decade of experience working in the cruise industry in a variety of roles for both Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. and Viking River Cruises. Most recently, Mr. Bonner was the Chief Operating Officer for The Scholar Ship, a Royal Caribbean program aimed at providing college students onboard educational programs in conjunction with enriching shore excursions around the world. Mr. Bonner also helped co-manage Viking River Cruises U.S. Operations, and he ran the corporate, strategic, and deployment planning functions at Royal Caribbean. While at Royal Caribbean, Mr. Bonner was responsible for forming Royal Celebrity Tours, Royal Caribbean's land-based tour operation in Alaska, which takes cruise passengers on multiple day tours through the interior of Alaska either before or after their cruises. Prior to working at Royal Caribbean, Mr. Bonner was a consultant for Booz Allen & Hamilton.
About Shore Excursions Group
Shore Excursions Group was created with one goal in mind: to provide exceptional travel experiences to cruise passengers in the ports they visit around the world. To accomplish this, we have compiled an exceptional array of tours delivered by local experts with decades of experience serving travelers and delivering excellent tours. Our owners and management team are comprised of seasoned travel industry executives who leverage their considerable experience to deliver memories of a lifetime.
We are experts in providing exceptional shore excursions. We understand that in today's fast paced world, vacations have become an increasingly important way to relax, reconnect with family and friends, and experience new and interesting places. With this in mind, we provide the highest quality tours by performing extensive research, and detailed reviews. While other companies also offer excursions, we strongly believe our expertise and approach set us apart. The large cruise lines sell shore excursions - typically in very large groups visiting high traffic sites. We focus on smaller groups visiting more interesting and authentic locations using more personalized local operators. While the cruise lines are experts in delivering cruises, we are experts in delivering shore excursions.
Our Approach
We believe quality service is not only highly valued by customers, but ultimately leads to better experiences and higher satisfaction. Unlike the cruise lines and other tour companies that rely almost entirely on websites, we encourage customers to call us. We want to invest our time answering your questions, providing input, and selecting the excursions that best meet your needs.
Our Tours
Our goal is to provide customers a wide array of exciting, appealing, and enriching tours. For those customers who prefer to travel in smaller groups with more personalized service, we offer a wide variety of small group tours around the world. These tours generally range in size from 2-12 people compared to larger tours which can number up to 50 people. While exploring the destinations and ports on this website, feel free to search for these "Small Group Tours". For those customers interested in private tours, we offer many outstanding excursions that allow you to travel with your party alone and, in many cases, to fully customize your tour. Search for "Private Tours" if you are interested in this experience. Our "Scenic" tours provide up close and personal access to some of the most spectacular natural environments on Earth from majestic glaciers in Alaska to spectacular reefs in the Caribbean. Our "Cultural" tours allow customers to experience local customs, entertainment and culinary delights ranging from tribal dances in Alaska to an outstanding local meal in Santorini, Greece. Our "Active" tours offer a multitude of exciting and adventurous ways to experience our destinations. Our customers can kayak the turquoise waters of the Caribbean, hike to a spectacular waterfall in Hawaii, or bicycle through quaint villages in France. Our "City" tours allow travelers to see the highlights of great cities around the world with unique insights provided by our expert tour guides.
Our People
In our experience, exceptional travel experiences are almost always delivered by exceptional people. With that in mind, we utilize a comprehensive approach to select and employ the leading tour guides and tour providers around the globe. We hold our people to very high standards which we measure by our comprehensive Quality Control process and, most importantly, by our customer feedback, which we will actively seek from each of our customers.
Our Owners
Shore Excursions Group is owned by seasoned travel executives possessing extensive experience across many sectors within the travel industry.
Bradford J. Miller
Mr. Miller is the former Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer for Abercrombie & Kent, the World's leading luxury travel company. In that role, Mr. Miller was responsible for contributing to Abercrombie & Kent's international growth through the development and acquisition of tour products and travel experiences around the world with a specific focus on cruising and land based experiences. Prior to joining Abercrombie & Kent, Mr. Miller held a variety of executive positions with Royal Caribbean International and Celebrity Cruises for more than a decade. These positions included Vice President of Guest Sales & Service, Vice President of Brand Development, and Vice President of Onboard Revenue (which included shore excursions). Mr. Miller also led Celebrity Expeditions, a collection of outstanding and unique tours around the World.
Michael Bonner
Mr. Bonner has over a decade of experience working in the cruise industry in a variety of roles for both Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. and Viking River Cruises. Most recently, Mr. Bonner was the Chief Operating Officer for The Scholar Ship, a Royal Caribbean program aimed at providing college students onboard educational programs in conjunction with enriching shore excursions around the world. Mr. Bonner also helped co-manage Viking River Cruises U.S. Operations, and he ran the corporate, strategic, and deployment planning functions at Royal Caribbean. While at Royal Caribbean, Mr. Bonner was responsible for forming Royal Celebrity Tours, Royal Caribbean's land-based tour operation in Alaska, which takes cruise passengers on multiple day tours through the interior of Alaska either before or after their cruises. Prior to working at Royal Caribbean, Mr. Bonner was a consultant for Booz Allen & Hamilton.