The explorer pass was a good idea, except we bought a 5 attraction pass but only used 4 of them. However we were not really impressed with the way things were handled in regards to some of the attractions. e.g the statue of liberty we had to get a ticket from the main office in Times Square then we were advised to get to the statue of liberty early on to avoid queing but when we got there at 8am we were told we had to get another ticket from someone else but she hadnt arrived yet! so we got there early for no reason. Very longwinded and unneccessary why couldnt we just use the ticket we got from the main office? Also the bus tours we used - we got on 3 different buses during the day and all had microphone issues so you couldnt hear the commentary. Very dissapointing.
A good way to see various attractions without having to line up. One of the tours I did was a tour of Radio City Music Hall - I found this tour to be very interesting.
i was a little disapointed that the uptown hop on hop off was an upgrade. last year it was included. otherwise we had a good time