My sister and I, who were out-of-town visitors to NYC, were approached mid-evening in the vicinity of Times Square by a smooth-talking sales rep from Top View Sightseeing. He "pitched" the nighttime bus tour to us at great length (and with great intensity), promising that it would include a crossover of the Brooklyn Bridge, a stop at the illuminated Empire State Building, where passengers could disembark if they so chose, and "great photo ops." We each purchased a ticket in the amount of $30 plus a $2 processing fee, for a total of $62. The actual tour delivered none of what the sales rep had promised. It never went over the Brooklyn Bridge nor did it stop at the Empire State Building. The driver instead took a route that offered only remote, partial-view glimpses of a few iconic structures. The bus never stopped anywhere, nor was it ever still enough to take even halfway-decent photos except when it happened to be mired in traffic; not surprisingly, these random stoppages didn't coincide with scenic locations. In addition, there was absolutely no narration by the driver or any guideperson during the tour. Toward the end of the allotted time, my sister inquired of the driver as to the lack of narration and the failure to make any of the promised stops, to which he replied that the nighttime tours didn't offer either feature. He advised that "ear buds" located next to the seats could be used to obtain commentary. The presence of these ear buds had never been mentioned to passengers by the guide, and in fact we saw only one person, on the entire filled bus, who was using them, attesting to the fact that, without somehow knowing they were there, one wouldn't have been able to avail oneself of them.