We've done Hop On Hop Off tours in a number of locations but this was the first time with just the pre-recorded guide. NYC is an ideal lcation for this sort of tour with so many iconic sights to see. And on previous tours, our live guides were very well informed and added a NY flavour to the tour with their insight and humour. The pre-recorded guide offered some insight but they tried to couple that with humorous bits that really weren't funny at all and grew tiresome real quick. While you're passing interesting sights and are reallly curious about them but forced to listen to a panfully unfunny simulated quiz show that has very little to do with what you're seeing, it gets old fast. The low point was when passing the Central Park Zoo, the guide was pretending to interview the animals, (Hello Mr. Llama... ) It was torturous. There were five channels on the controls. Two were the this recording and the other 3 were other languages. I would suggest that they keep the current one, create another one heavy on the historic angle, and have somewhere where the channels are labelled because you had to figure it all out yourself. All in all, a worthwhile tour that has areas that could be improved.
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Apr 2022
Hello Greg,
Thank you for your feedback! We are sorry you did not enjoy the commentary but do appreciate your review. We take our guests' feedback into account so we can improve our service, so this is vey helpful. We hope you at least were able to enjoy the sights and had a nice time on the rest of your trip!