Bournemouth Bus Tour: Coastal City Exploration

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Experience the best of Bournemouth on a hop-on hop-off bus tour. Discover the city’s top attractions, from Bournemouth Pier to Sandbanks Beach, at your own pace!

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Red Route (Route)

Operating Schedule: The first bus leaves Stop 1 at 10am, and the last bus departs at 5pm. Buses are scheduled every hour.
Tour times may change without notice.
1. Bournemouth Pier (Stand DD)
Located behind Hot Rocks at Bournemouth Pier
2. Bournemouth Square (Stand X)
Bournemouth Square
3. **West Hill…

What's Included

Vouchers valid for 12 months from travel date selected at check-out
Audio guide in English
24 or 48-hour hop-on hop-off bus tour

What's Not Included

Hotel pickup and drop-off
Attraction entry fee’s
Food and drink unless specified

Additional Information

Discover the coastal resort town of Bournemouth with ease on a City Sightseeing hop-on hop-off tour!
Choose between a 24-hour or 48-hour ticket and explore the city by open-top, double-decker bus - enjoying panoramic views around every turn. See all the main sights of Bournemouth on the 90-minute narrated loop, or hop on and hop off at any of the 25…

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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984tonyd

Sep 19, 2024

First class bus tour - Would highly recommend this open top bus tour. The sights and commentary were fantastic. Well worth the price as you can get off along the route and get back on the next bus.

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Sep 4, 2024

Lovely tour with 25 stops - Great tour. Bus was on time. We stayed on for the whole circuit. Saw the huge houses in Sandbanks. It was a bit drizzly but we still sat on the open top. The driver was really friendly. Good value too. OAP and student rates.

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Nannachoc

Jul 20, 2024

Great bus tour with happy music too !! - This was brilliant !!! It took us all the way to Poole Harbour, Tour takes about an hour and a half, we sat upstairs and had such lovely weather . The commentary was very good, the music in between commentary great ! You are able to hop on / off , but we decided to do the whole hour and half . Lovely sights to see, enabled us to see so much of the surrounding area , far more cheaply than trying to get around them independantly , much more fun too! Great time . Tickets can be purchased at the bournemouth pier stop as we did , from a very helpful, very pleasant , conductor . Thank you for a lovely time !!

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Maxie_e

Jul 15, 2024

Tour around Poole Harbour - The tour around Poole Harbour was my favourite part of the trip.Booking the tour was very easy to do.Bus was on time from start location and driver was Very helpful and friendly.

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Myinvisiblefriend

Jul 4, 2024

Superb open-top bus tour. .! - This is a great way to explore the Bournemouth and the surroundings! There are multiple stops and you can get off and on as often as you like, and even go round again! We would particularly recommend Sandbanks, mainly because the beach is amazing, and of course you can dream about living there one day... 😋 We would also like to acknowledge our extremely friendly driver. He told us he had only been doing the job for a couple of months and that he absolutely loved it...he was a true advocate for the area...!

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Morganz

Aug 16, 2024

Great fun, but not sure value for money. - A great way of seeing the area. Each tour 1.5hrs and runs hourly-ish. So not easy to use multiple times in a day. The local buses were open top and were £2 per person a ride so may work out cheaper although you would miss out on the fun facts provided by the bus tour.

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Syed_a

Jul 29, 2024

Fun affordable day out - Fun way to see the whole city & area learn about its history. Clean, comfortable, well maintained bus.

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Christine_w

Jul 2, 2024

Knowledge of local area - Ideal for getting to see the local area and learn relevant history. Where and where not to go on next visit. Driver very helpful.

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363maryanneg

Aug 27, 2024

A few niggles but still worth it. - This is a great way to get around Bournemouth and Poole. I live here but took this tour with my parents who were visiting from abroad and they enjoyed. Saved me from having to drive around everywhere and faffing about finding parking. However, I do think that there are some better stops that could be offered. There is so much this area has to boast and the bus stops didn't facilitate this (Christchurch, Mudeford, Hengistbury Head). The stops are not easy to find (unless you're local and even then, the provided map does not have road names on it). When you are on the bus, there is no indication as to where you are on the map, so you have no idea which stop you are coming up to or when you need to get off if you want to visit a specific area. Having the bus come every hour is not the best in terms of hopping on and off willy nilly. Also, the bus was very late once and then at another stop it was 4 minutes early. So regular times and maybe every 30min would be great. The drivers were lovely, the information shared from the audio is also very interesting. A few things to improve, but I would still recommend booking a hop-on-hop-off tour.

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