Hop-on hop-off sightseeing bus is an excellent option for tourists to see the major attractions of a city in a day or two, but travellers usually don’t opt for them. Therefore, I have created a list of some very useful tips to use hop-on hop-off bus as a traveller.
You can follow my tips that I have bundled up from my experiences and mistakes :
Use as your transport:
Bus stops are right in front of the attractions which saves time in a tight schedule of exploration. If you are anything like me who cries if a place is missed to see, then you want to hop on a hop-on hop-off bus.
Also, in cases when:
- subway is not your choice of transport because you want to see the city and not tunnels,
- cabs are expensive,
- walking is off-the-limits at some point because city is big & wide,
- local transport seems complicated due to foreign language and shortage of time
you might want to opt for this bus as your transport system.
Do nothing, just observe:
This is my favourite pass time. After I am done exploring the city on my own, what I do is, hop on a bus, catch the top seat with open view and just watch the world pass by. I don’t only travel to explore places, I travel also in the search of humanity. I love watching people living their day to day life so I do that from the bus until it finishes a full round and then hop off from where I started.
“As I always say, don’t just travel to have fun, travel to educate yourself, feed your thoughts with positivity and let the world come and hug you.”
Photography:
You must be thinking that I am crazy, telling you to take pictures from a moving bus, but this one of all tips to use hop-on hop-off bus as a traveller, will change your views about it. If you grab the front seat of the upper deck, you will get a fantastic low flight bird’s view. Great pictures of streets or buildings can be captured from here. You can also take your own pretty pictures and just have fun living your life and breathing the foreign air. Here are some of them I have captured from the hop-on hop-off bus.
Shopping:
Oh yes, you read it right. Don’t forget, these bus drives through the most popular areas of the city and you can stop by anywhere you want plus you will not have to walk with those heavy shopping bags. My mom have this travel tradition of her own; wherever we go, we have to go to at least one shopping street and she has to buy something for the house, either a cutlery or furnishing item. We can have our very own unique travel museum at our house with a chopping board from the U.K., a kitchen towel from Finland and even a sieve from Australia. I do love her for this though. She makes our trips memorable and the memories are enliven when we see those things.
This is going to be your favourite of all tips to use hop-on hop-off bus as a traveller.
Because, there is a great benefit with these hop-on hop-off bus passes. In most cities, you also get a free booklet of amazing discount coupons with the bus passes. You can make the most of their collaborations and get discount on your favourite items. Isn’t that cool?
Eat/Drink:
This is one of my most favourite tips to use hop-on hop-off bus as a traveller.
And, yes, you guessed it right. That booklet of discount coupons also gives you some great restaurant deals and you can choose according to your likes. Moreover, some eateries generously offers free ice-cream and drinks. Also, how will you get there from where you are or from your stay, of course by hopping on a hop-on hop-off bus. Who wants to let go off a free perk, right?
They also allow you to eat and drink on the bus. So you can also browse through some places of your choice, grab a take-out and enjoy your meal, again from the top seat, I suggest, and be entertained with those great views of the city passing by. After all life is a holiday and you have to have a great time living it.
Lastly, I want to add up one important thing:
To take advantage of those discount coupons’ booklet, you will have to book your passes online in advance or buy from the main office of the city. There will be many other small booths around the bus stops which lets you buy passes on the spot and on last minute but minus the coupons. So check it online on this website https://www.hop-on-hop-off-bus.com/ before reaching to your destination and try to make most of those passes.
I hope you enjoyed my article and found my list of tips effective. If you have any other handy tips on how we can use hop-on hop-off bus as a traveller, which I might have missed, do comment in the box below. I would love to hear from you.
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Happy Hopping, you guys! Good Luck 🙂
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