City Sightseeing Reykjavik Hop-On Hop-Off Bus Tour: 24 or 48-Hour

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Explore Reykjavik’s iconic sights at your own pace with a hop-on hop-off bus tour. Discover the city’s popular locations and enjoy panoramic views from the open-top deck.

Duration: 1 hour

Cancellation: 1 day learn more

Highlights

Red Route (Route)

Operating Schedule: 9:30am - 4:15pm, every 45 minutes.

1. Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre
Discover this unusually brilliant building, that is nearly as eye catching as the natural surroundings!

2. Old Harbour Souvenirs

3. Reykjavík Maritime Museum

4. Whales of Iceland
Explore this fascinating museum that is dedicated to the giants of the ocean.

5. National Museum of Iceland

6. Lækjargata

7. Laugavegur

8. Reykjavík Art Museum Kjarvalsstaðir

9. Hallgrimskirkja
Hop-off at Hallgrimskirkja, to see one of Iceland’s most iconic structures. This church is beautifully unique in appearance, so have your camera at the ready!

10. BSÍ

11. Perlan

12. Marc O’Polo

13. Hilton Reykjavik Nordica

14. Laugardalur

15. Skarfabakki Harbour

16. Hofdi House

Points of Interest

Hallgrimskirkja
Perlan
National Gallery of Iceland (Listasafn Islands)
Laugardalur Park
National Museum of Iceland
Sun Voyager
Reykjavik Maritime Museum
City Sightseeing Reykjavik
Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall and Conference Centre
Reykjavik City Hall
Hofdi House
Kringlan Mall
Whales of Iceland

What's Included

Free Wi-Fi onboard
Unlimited hop-on hop-off privileges for 24 or 48 hours
Multilingual audio commentary in 8 languages plus complimentary headphones

What's Not Included

Gratuities
Hotel pickup and drop off
Food and drinks, unless specified

Additional Information

Explore Reykjavik’s attractions at your leisure with a hop on hop off bus pass valid for 24 or 48 hours! On a spacious double-decker bus, you have the liberty to step on and off as many times as you want during the validity, tailoring your own sightseeing itinerary. The route encompasses the city’s major hotspots, comprising the Old Harbour, Hallgrímskirkja Church, Harpa Concert Hall, Laugardalur Valley, and so much more! Experience picturesque views of Reykjavik from the roofless top deck and enrich your knowledge about the city’s heritage and culture via the enlightening audio guide, delivered in 8 different languages.

This tour operates all year round, except for 17th June, 6th & 20th August, 24th & 31st December.
A full loop of the tour takes approx. 45 minutes (winter), 60 minutes (summer)
Tours depart every 45 minutes from 09:30 - 16:15
Mobile and Paper Vouchers can be redeemed at any of the tour stops along the route, with the first being the hop-on hop-off bus stop at Harpa Concert Hall
With your voucher, enjoy flexible access for up to 12 months from the travel date you select at check-out.
Please note Stop 10 is closed. You can catch the bus at stop 9, a short distance away

Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings

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Morgans278

Sep 12, 2024

This company never disappoints! - Great value for money, the tour was longer than we expected, lots of info given on the recording, convenient places to board

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Karla_r

Aug 31, 2024

Tour - Paul was an excellent guide nice tour of the city multi lingual with the headphones Good way to see the city

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Kailesh_p

Sep 10, 2024

Bird eye tour of City - Only difficulty we had was Viator app won’t open and on clicking to open voucher to show it to board, it would force me to open Viator app which would force me to login with one click email which was going in circles and not opening. This forced me to call Customer Service of tour operator using expensive international calling.

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Evelynkh2138ee

Aug 31, 2024

Hop on Hop off bus tour - Good overall tour however limited busses run and finish early in the summer at 16.30. Space on busses are limited when cruise ships are in port

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Howardph111

Sep 6, 2024

OK but ... - Weather was appalling, which probably taints my review. We only hopped off for the Hallsgrimskirkja Cathedral (open from 10am) and the fabulous Perlan Museum (allow 2.5 hours). The bus pick-up was reliable about every 30 minutes, but much of the route is past suburban apartment blocks, The recorded commentary is a reasonable history of Reykjavik, but the earphones and plugs are dodgy. My complaint is that the first 2 buses pulled over briefly at every stop, but the last driver sped past our hotel stop. When I queried he said we need to press a Stop button to request, when there is no signage to advise, and the other drivers stopped. The only reason to use the Hop-On for our stops is that taxis are expensive, so take the Hop-on as a cheaper shuttle alternative.

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Alisonot2853ug

Sep 1, 2024

Avoid cruise day - We got the 2 day ticket, 1st day we got on the bus upstairs, and stayed on for the full tour, it was very hot, it was a nice sunny day ,roof was closed and heaters were on, someone went down to ask for it to be opened which he reluctantly did, 2nd day give yourself plenty of time as after 1st stop we went to get back on and we had to stand for 2 stops before we got a seat, and next stop we got off we couldn't get on the next bus, driver just said busy day,,and next bus is only 10 mins, it was half hr , on our way back we stood to allow 2 elderly to sit and they said couldn't get on the previous bus either, so didn't risk our next planned stop, we hadn't noticed how busy it was on our 1st day as was upstairs, if there for longer avoid cruise day ,

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Art_l

Sep 11, 2024

Great way to see a city without having to do alot of walking - No one told us or offered the earphones for the audio portion of the tour. So we missed hearing a large portion of the tour until we used our airline earbuds.

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Wendy

Aug 31, 2024

Waste of money - Using this bus wasted a lot of our precious time in Reykjavik. Didn’t realise that earphones were available (staff could have offered them as we entered the bus) so missed the commentary during the first few stops. When we were able to listen there was very little commentary anyway. The person selling the tickets sat at the front of the bus - another ticket seller later got on and sat beside her - thus blocking the forward view for passengers. Some of the stops were pointless and considerable time was spent just waiting at them. (Bus station for one). We got off at the cruise terminal, had a leisurely stroll, took a few photographs - by the time we returned the bus was still waiting there. At one stop the ticket seller went into a shop to buy food and drink for himself and the driver - whilst all the passengers had to wait! It really is no wonder that we had to wait absolutely ages for a bus to come. The one bus broke down … another delay.

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L33b

Aug 29, 2024

Overcharged by driver - 1 adult, 2.children. ok trip but the driver charged us for 3 adult tickets and we didn't realise until later with the currency conversion showing up on the bank card. Poor service given it is already so expensive.

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Parkinsm2012

Aug 25, 2024

Don't waste your money, no working tour, no communication poor service - Don't waste your money, sound doesn't work on the tour. Bus just stops and waits in random stops for no reason. I have done numerous of these tours all around the world and this by far is the worst tour I have ever done. You be better getting just using a public bus and looking as round at fraction of the cost

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