City Sightseeing New York provides hop on, hop off boat tours on New York City harbor. Our fleet of sightseeing cruises provides you with the best view of Statue of Liberty, NYC skylines and bridges. Come ride with us on a cruise to learn more about the famous city. The twilight cruises provides views of illuminated NYC skyline and bridges that is awesome.
City Sightseeing New York (citysightseeingnewyork.com) has 85 customer reviews on Five Star Index, with an average rating of 3.1 out of 5.
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citysightseeingnewyork.com
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Activities & Tours
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New York, New York
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2026
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The Passes Service of City Sightseeing New York is best. I purchased some passes from city sightseeing in a very reasonable price. I started my journey with my friends towards New York for two days and these two days in new York become a very beautiful memory of my life.
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Sue W.
Do not waste your money on this…
Do not waste your money on this company.
Cancelled whole day of my ticket due to "a storm". It was clear blue sky and sunny.
Said they may cancel night before due to 6-8 inches of snow.... any excuse. They obviously didn't want to run that day. No refund was offered. Told to take up with them when I returned home.
Did that lot of times and have not had a single response. Ignored every email.
SAVE YOUR MONEY BOOK WIT SOMEONE ELSE WHO WANT TO WORK.
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jason R.
Disorganized shady
Rip off. Shady company. We purchase 5 attraction flex passes and used 4. On the 5th it said passes were no longer valid. They had us scanned in an area we never visited (no refund, they didn't care). Everywhere you use these they scan the passes and take a picture of them. I suspect one of the pictures was sent to someone else. Spent all day in one area but somehow used a pass on opposite side of the city... You've been warned.
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Ben
messed up the whole day!
After hopping off the bus to visit Lincoln Square we tried to hop on again at the same bus station, but that did not work: Several buses from the same line passed us without stopping, several had no capacity to get on. A large crowd of people wanting to hop on, had had shaped at the bus station and begann to become frustrated with the situation. It took us several hours to get on a bus but we had to sit downstairs inside of the bus, in the heat, with no view of the city at all. We were told we could move upstairs as soon others would leave but that did not happen, so we went around central park, through Harlem without actually getting a view. Also the staff was rude.
It messed up the whole day, I had spent a lot of money on those tickets and my sisters had come a long way to spend a weekend in New York.
Obviously NYsightseeing is selling too many bus tickets for too few buses in order to accommodate all costumers appropriately.
I would not recommend it. For $168 we could have taken a lot of cabs!
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Thea
The MOST money I have ever spend on FRAUDULENT services!!!!!
To whom it may concern,
This email is in reference to complaint #52673 filed on July 25 2017. Attached you will find photos of our city bus sightseeing tour tickets.
As our family has been out of country since the 25th we have not had staple access to email and this is the cause of this delayed complaint.
On July 25th our family was visiting New York City. We were approached by over 6 sales representatives for your company "city sight seeing new york". We were solicited a hop on hop off tour of new York City with various tour options all accompanied by a live voice guided tour. Buses were to arrive at each stop roughly every 20 minutes and there was an option to be seated below deck or above deck- both having the option to plug in PROVIDED headphones to hear the live guided tour.
As you will see our first issue arose when purchasing tickets. The paper ran out half way through printing our tickets and the sales rep could not re print the last unprinted ticket again once he re-filled his machine. This lead to a lengthy phone call to his supervisor who after many failed attempts to print the last ticket (which was already paid for on our visa,) advised that the sales rep re print our tickets and say that we (the customer) paid cash (even though we paid visa) he then kept the half printed tickets and reprinted all of our tickets.
We immediately found a pick up location and we had to wait and watch 2 busses load up and leave as there were too many passengers. NOT a great start as this was over a 50 minute wait "because traffic was bad". We finally boarded a bus and the only seats left were below deck. This would have been disappointing enough on its own considering the bus is wrapped in your advertising decals, making viewing out the covered windows difficult at best. To add insult to injury the bus was so full we had to stand. Because of this we could not hear the guided tour nor see out the windows. This was beyond disappointing. We stayed on the bus for about 20 minutes debating getting off, but being discouraged by the fear we would not get back on a bus as they were so full and "running behind schedule". We got off anyway because the tour in the fashion it was being delivered at that point was pointless. We toured a cathedral and then grabbed a bite to eat. We located our next pick up location as shown on your tour maps (given upon purchasing a ticket). We waited 40 minutes at this stop, still no bus. We decided to walk back to the cathedral down the road where we were dropped off ( as we walked we watched for busses to pass on this route, as it was a straight shot from one stop to the next. Not one of your busses passed us on our journey down the road). We waited at the next stop for another 40 minutes. Finally, a bus came and yet again we were on the bottom of the bus on a bus so full that there was hardly enough room to stand. Again we heard and saw nothing. No A/C on the bus and absolutely jam-packed with other frustrated customers of yours. We took the bus back to an area somewhat close to our car. At this point, I called and made my complaint. I understand that things happen when running a business, however, to falsely solicit a service in the way that your company did is criminal. We not only were let down by the absolute waste of money this was but we LOST an entire day because of it. Time is precious for those of us who earn an honest living and even though we tried to make the best of our time, we were left stranded by you in a city we knew nothing about for an entire day of our vacation.
Because of this, we are requesting a refund for the services you promised and that we purchased but that were not provided to us.
Both tour guides apologized and admitted that they oversold tickets and did not have enough buses running and as we respect their apologies, they did not get back the time and money we lost that day.
TO DATE: follow-up emails x3 and phone call x2 - keep being put on hold and disconnected.
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Thang N.
Poor Transport Organisation-Buyer Beware!!!
We booked onto the Super Saver Ticket to Woodbury on Monday (14th August) which had set departure times of 9am and returning at 4:45pm. We arrived well before 9am and waited in line for the bus. However we were advised that the first bus was full and the second bus would be arriving in 30 mins which means a departure of 9:30am. Firstly I want to note that we had to wait in line for 30 mins and the company representative at the bus stand was rude and did not provide any clarification/confirmation when asked whether the 30 min delay could be made up at the end? He didnt even care nor made any effort to clarify this with anyone in the company and basically left us waiting on the footpath and never returned.I would expect more professionalism from a company like this. Secondly if the company knew that many people booked in at this time, why wasnt a second bus already arranged in advance to ensure a timely departure for all? Overall I was not happy with the experience and would not be recommending this to anyone. Preference would be 0 stars!
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Pablo B.
Great way to know the city
We bought the tickets online and redeemed them for all the vouchers, we got to see the most important NYC attractions. It was great!
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Felix
Had a great stay with Sightseeing Pass
We purchased the Sightseeing Pass online and got it immediately on screen. It was easy to use via QR-Code on our mobile or printed on paper. Staff in the center or guides on the streets were very friendly and helped us to find locations. We had a 7 day unlimited pass which offers a variety of sightseeing tours and good places to see for a really good price.