Melbourne Hop On Hop Off Bus Tour (24-hour ticket)

A great day. The bus is easy to use and enabled us to see many of the highlights of the city.

We used the bus for our Melbourne trip. We did the city and St Kilda Tour. The staff were very helpful, especially Jessica. The tour was extensive, approximately 2 hours, and it was a great way to see the city in a short period of time. The commentary was very informative and it went into great detail. It was really easy to hop off at locations you wanted to tour and hop back on and head off to the next stop. I would definitely recommend it.

We use hop on hop off tours to quickly get to know a city new to us and then can decide which bits we want to explore later. We did the Melbourne City Tour first which lasted about 2 hours and followed that with the St. Kilda tour. The recorded English commentary was loud and clear and perhaps a little over enthusiastic at times. The only down side was that these old buses did emit quite a few smelly diesel fumes when stopped.

The city traffic is too congested and the bus frequency is too far apart. We were on time for one scheduled pick-up which didn't happen so we walked instead. Later, after finally catching one bus and getting off, we waited for a return pick-up that never arrived.

We enjoyed using the hop on hop off bus for the day and really loved the river cruise. Highly recommend this.

The drivers were very friendly and helpful, the timing of the bus is almost as close to punctual (due to unavoidable reasons). Me and my family had a great time discovering Melbourne city on the first day of our holiday, great way as intro.

Great tour, covers most of the important spots in the city. The commentary is also good. It is a must to do if you are new to Australia/Melbourne.

We took 30 people from our club on the bus yesterday and they thoroughly enjoyed the trip. So much so, that they want to do the St Kilda tour next year. So we will see you again!

We bought the one-day pass, but in hindsight, we should have gone with the two-day pass as once you hop off a couple of times, the day is gone – and there are two tours included in the ticket price (city and St Kilda). If you plan to visit any of the sights, such as the MCG, it’s worth buying the combo ticket. Siting upstairs is great for the views, but it can be hard to hear the commentary because of the noise of the bus.

We purchased the 48 hour ticket and were glad we did. The bus was new, clean and nicely configured with the open top. We took both the red and black line tours and saw a good part of the city, which is what we like to do to get an overview of a place we're visiting.

Nice trip around the city. Very hot day 40+ so nice to be offered cold water bottles and ice. Thanks friendly bus drivers.

The bus company was actually alright. Staff were nice and the bus was OK. We tried to do both circuits in one day just to get a feeling for the city but our 'get a quick look around' plan didn’t work out due to the absolutely awful traffic. The first route down to St. Kilda was alright, but then we tried to do the city tour in the afternoon and that was terrible. We thought Sydney had congested traffic, but Melbourne doesn’t have it much better. The traffic is of course neither the driver’s, nor the salespeople’s fault, maybe not even the fault of the management or whoever sets up the timetable. However, some legs of the tour taking twice as much as it said on the timetable was definitely an issue that ruined our experience. At one place, between stops 4 and 6 I believe, we spent about an hour in traffic sitting in front of various construction sites. We were pretty much fuming around stop 8 and decided to get off the bus and just walk to where we wanted to go. We bought a 48-hour pass, but today we’re going to skip the bus completely.