City Sightseeing New YorkReviews of citysightseeingnewyork.com

Äußerst vielfältiges Angebot an Touren und Sehenswerten zu einem akzeptablen Preis. Allerdings entscheidet der Tour guide über die Qualität der Tour. Wir durften alles Qualitätsstufen erleben, vom leb- und sprachlosen Exemplar über den informativen und unterhaltsamen Typ bis hin zum enthusiastischem Sänger. Im letzten Fall waren wir absolut begeistert. Bei Gelegenheit sollten man überdenken, ob für jedes Ticket wirklich eine komplette Tapetenrolle geopfert werden muss.

Loved your tour guide that changes hats throughout the tour. He is an asset to your business.

We experience New York via bus and boat tours. The boat tour was fantastic and the bus tours were also very good - if not a little cold and wet. Could do with some part covered double deckers as other companies do. The tickets are a problem if you have more than one, as they give you reams and reams of paper tickets stapled to a pamphlet. This felt very out dated and was actually a problem for us to figure out what was what and when to use them. So much so that we even managed to lose 1 of the attraction tickets as we had to tear it off to give another portion up for the Empire State building. I would recommend City Sightseeing New York, but the company needs to update the ticketing system as it is not fit for purpose. Staff on the tours are superb as you would expect.

I purchased the tickets online and waited too long to pick it up at the main place and they did not have enough staff. The places where pick up or drop off were ok. Enjoyed the tours somewhat but you can explore the city by walking and taking public transport if you are an adventurous. If you have older folks and walking is not much of an option these type of tours are great for them, as it is a good option to see the highlights of the city. Also you need the 3 day pass to really enjoy all the routes. Missed some because of timing and the traffic in the city does not help much sometimes. :)

We experienced everything from Taylor Swift being described as 'yum' (coming from a man in his 50s or 60s) to being recommended to not experience Korea town because their food is gross. He spent the whole tour hitting on women on the bus! We didn't learn anything about the city except where the lingerie stores were that had good window displays! We were horrified >:(

First mistake - I bought tickets online. That left me with a voucher. Smart money buys the tickets from the man on the street in front of the bus and boards the bus. A voucher means you have to stand in line to get a ticket. But I'm getting ahead of myself. When I showed up in front of the company's ticket office, this loud rude man in a CSNY suit gets in my face asking me 100 questions about what I want to do. I'm still mentally taking in Manhattan so processing his adrenaline took me a moment. To add insult to injury, some street hawker had handed me a brochure from a competitor tour bus so a$$hole starts telling me I am at the wrong bus since that brochure is not "theirs." I finally get a word in edgewise and tell the gentleman if he would just calm down, I will tell him what I to know. Did not go well but he did tell me that the vouchers I had earned me a place in a 50 foot line of tourists waiting for tickets. So...about an hour later, we get actual tickets. We go and load the bus and it's not that bad...ish. We go to the top and we listen to the tour guide and see pretty much what we wanted to see. Of course, at each de-board, the tour guide has to go into his song and dance about how it is customary to tip but I suppose his life is worse than mine so... We eventually get off the bus on the south end of Manhattan to see the 9-11 memorial, the new towers, and the Statue of Liberty. Once done with all that, we reboard the bus near Battery Park and the tour resumes. Again - not bad for riding around in a bus and listening to the tip begging but both guides were knowledgeable and that's all we wanted. Oops! There is bad traffic in Manhattan and a road is closed.. OMG!!! How did this happen in a sleepy town like NYC? Near the Waldorf, the bus staff is clearly agitated. How a company that drives a huge bus in Manhattan 7 days a week can possibly be thrown by traffic and construction is beyond me but these folks were clearly out of their element. They have no alternate route and the dispatcher (someone back home I presume) just tells them to stop the tour, put all of us off on the street and leave. No apology, no explanation, and no ride back to the beginning of the tour. Just done. I suppose the lack of tip begging at the last stop was pleasant but, dude, really?

Excellent, highly recommended to see many of New Yorks attractions in a day without the hassle. Very entertaining on board as well!

I like the tour guides giving trivias, and the buildings in the Manhattan borough are really fantastic.