Hop-On-Hop-Off Open-Top Double-Decker Bus Tour

I would not recommend this company for your hop on hop off tours around the Washington DC area. They drop you off a long way from the main tourist attractions and therefore you end up walking a lot! Their map showed a stop sort of near the Lincoln Memorial but they did not stop and instead turned and headed farther away. Everyone on the bus questioned the driver why he didn’t stop and the gal who sells the tickets said it wasn’t a designated stop. Everyone said it’s on your map so the driver just stopped in the middle of the road and let us all out and once again we had a long walk back to the site. It was difficult to find the places they pick up at. When we finally found the yellow line we needed to take and the bus came we sat on the bus for 20 minutes. We asked the gal selling the tickets and she told us it was a scheduled long stop so they could sell more tickets. They needed to announce that to everyone instead of keeping people wondering what was going on. We never did figure out where to catch the green line and instead used Über. We actually had to use Über several times because they just wouldn’t get you close enough. I would not use them again and would do more research and maybe would choose Big Bus Tours as we could see their buses closer to the attractions.

City Sights DC sucks. We were rushed onto a bus only to find that most of the headphone outlets did not work and when they did it was extremely hard to hear. Then when we changed buses we waited for almost an hour for a bus. There map is not well marked and many stops are not marked. Take a Circulator bus which goes from Union Station and around the mall for $ 1.00

Do not use city sights DC, use big bus instead. City sights didn’t even stop for us at Ford’s theater they just drove by. We walked six blocks to white house, been waiting thirty minutes with no ride while no less than four Big Bus tours came by for their people. Finally get on and the bus breaks down, we wait another 30 minutes for a new bus and their staff is confused. $ 120 wasted. We walked more than we rode, staff needs to communicate with each other better.

Choose another company, NOT City Sights for Washington DC! Buses are SO scarce. They tell you buses will pass every 20 – 30 minutes but that’s not the case. We saw several buses pass by from the BIG BUS company, or even the local «Washington Trolley — bus tour» or the «Duck tour» and no sign of the red city sights bus. The audio guide is full of defects and in one of the buses we took, the live guide’s microphone wasn’t working, so the guide had to shout all the way, poor thing. If you sit upstairs on the first row, the bar will be right on your eye level, limiting visibility. Even with a discounted ticket of USD50 for the 48-​hour tour with night tour, it was a complete waste of money. We were 4 people and should have saved our money and spent on taxis. What a WASTE. Drivers and guides are cordial, though, but they should look for another employer. We travel all over the world and can truly say that you’d be better off with another provider.

We are at a stop, bus passes by and didn’t even stopped!. been waiting for next bus for an hour now big waste of time and money. Called company to tell them about this and they put me on hold. Have seen the other company (Big Bus Tours) buses pass by more frequently. Dissapointed at this service and don’t recommend. Watch out the agents are in the street selling tickets making it seem like it’s better than what it really is.

Go for it if you don’t mind drivers who can’t see. A driver for this bus was driving along E st traveling west around Judiciary Sq today, where there’s a clear bike lane on the right. Still, this driver was spilling into the bike lane and grazed me with the huge bus twice– just 1 inch away. I had to swerve out of the bike lane to avoid getting hit. If there was no bike lane, fair enough because it’s harder to notice a someone riding. When i motioned to him there was a bike lane, he gave me the finger, laughing, started cursing and beeping every time he drove by me. All this while they were giving a tour.

Horrible service. Long wait between buses and sometimes they don’t even stop to pick up customers. We saw several Big Buses go by while we sat waiting. I do NOT recommend this service.

The name of this business is CitySights DC. We took the red line on a sunday around noon and i wouldn’t recommend that, lots of standing still in traffic and you see sights you could probably walk to in the same time it takes to ride around.
The only reason this is not a one star review is one of the staff volunteered to get us water from a street vendor.
The commentary is prerecorded and charmless.

Nur drei Sterne für die Bustour durch Washington.
Ganz ohne Zweifel ist es bestimmt die bequemste Art eine Stadt kennen zu lernen. Man sitzt bequem auf dem offenen Bus oder lieber im klimatisiertem Abteil und lauscht einer netten Stimme die viel interessantes zu den Sehenswürdigkeiten erzaehlt. Überall wo man möchte, kann aus– und zusteigen. Die Busse fahren alle halbe Stunde jede Station an.
Doch dies hat auch seinen Preis. Ganze $ 43, — für einen Erwachsenen muss man für ein 24-Std.-Ticket bezahlen. Kinder kosten immer noch $ 20,-. Dies ist natürlich für eine Großfamilie jede Menge. Man muss selber entscheiden, ob man diese Summe ausgeben möchte, oder man die Stadt ebenfalls sehr bequem und günstig mit den öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln wie Bus und Metro erkunden möchte.