City Sightseeing: York Hop-on Hop-off Bus Tour

We had a great adventure and experience learning about the history of Old York. As we are from New York! It was so easy to hop off and then hop back on at many places on the tour.

It was a wet day out in York but thankfully the hop on hop off bus provided us with some welcome cover and an interesting narration as we followed the circular route. Leaflets were plentiful so we knew where to get on and also where to pick up a bus to continue. We started outside the railway station and got off firstly at the York minster and then took a short walk to the beautiful Shambles area to enjoy the market and quaint shops. We paid online for 24 hours and just showed the QR Code on the phone to the bus driver to be issued a ticket. The buses were clean and came along quite frequently. I must add that each driver was so cheerful and chatty it took me aback a little on such a wet gloomy day! I would recommend this to save walking so much, it worked perfectly for us. We ended at the Railway museum which I didn't really think I'd enjoy but I was just so impressed at the actual size of these beautiful magnificent trains. There is a shop and a cafe too. All this for a donation, amazing. Note we had to walk a long way from the bus stop to enter the museum as there's massive work/improvements going on so the desk provided us with taxi numbers if needed to return to catch our train home.

Easy to get tickets, tour was fun and easy to hop off, explore, eat, and hop back on. All in all I can recommend this red bus tour as a great starting point.

Bus stop was near our hotel, and we didn't wait for long before a bus appeared. Excellent view around York, and information about the places of interest. Good start point for a city visit.

The on bus commentary was superb and well synchronised. Also it changed enough each time we used the bus to get us to learn something different each time.