My granddaughter brought 8 college friends home from Kentucky to visit Philly. I booked them on the Hop-On-Off City Tour. They thought the experience was wonderful. They stayed on the bus and took the whole tour only getting off at the Rocky Steps. They said the information given by the tour guide was really interesting. They learned allot about the city and loved hearing thing about Ben Franklin that they didn't know. It was a great way to see parts of the city that their legs would not have taken them in the time frame covered by the tour, nor would they have learned so much about our city. The Kentucky Girls were really impressed and are still talking about the experience days later.
Never having been to Philadelphia before we thought the Hop-On Hop-Off Bus would be the ideal way to look around the city. Bad Mistake. Once on-board the bus we were told that if we decided to get off at any of the stops and would have to wait for 45min before the next bus to arrive around again not good considering it was pouring with rain. We got off at the statue of Rocky and took a quick look around and then had to wait for around 50min before the next bus arrived. We were then told by the tour guide that we were going to wait there for about 5 to 10 minutes because he promised some passengers that he would wait for them while they had a quick look around. After waiting in the rain for so long thi8s pissed us off immensely as we were not given this option. I realize that the weather was uncontrollable but the bus company should be more consistent with all the routes. If they waited for one group why not all. Sorry to say that given the long waits between buses and the unhelpful guide this tour is not one I would be recommending to my friends.
Was a great tour. Nice and funny Z was a great tour guide.