Philadelphia: Hop On Hop Off Bus Tour & 27 Stops

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Duration1h 30m

GroupUp to 65

LanguagesEN

Mobile ticketAccepted

The bus is already moving when you board — 27 stops, one ticket, your pace

You board at your hotel and ride a double-decker bus past 27 Philadelphia landmarks — Independence Hall, Rocky Steps, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Reading Terminal Market, and more — with a live guide narrating the whole route. Hop off whenever something catches your eye, then catch the next bus when you're ready to move on. Hotel pickup and drop-off are included, so you start and end without navigating the city on your own.

1h 30m

Step-by-step itinerary

Philadelphia Hop On Hop Off Bus Tour

Start at Independence Visitor Center
Pass Betsy Ross House
Pass United States Mint and Ben Franklin's Grave
Pass National Constitution Center
Pass Chinatown and Fashion District
Pass Reading Terminal Market and Macy's
Pass City Hall and Love Park
Pass Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul
Pass Barnes Foundation
Pass Rodin Museum
Pass Eastern State Penitentiary
Pass Perelman Building of Philadelphia Art Museum
Pass Philadelphia Zoo
Pass Please Touch Museum and Fairmount Park
Pass Rocky Steps at Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pass Philadelphia Museum of Art West Entrance
Pass Franklin Institute and Logan Circle
Pass One Liberty Observation Deck
Pass The Bellevue Hotel and Rittenhouse Square
Pass Academy of Music and Broad Street
Pass Pine Street
Pass South Street and Head House Square
Pass Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Pass Hilton Philadelphia at Penn's Landing and Spruce Street Harbor Park
Pass Penn's Landing Waterfront
Pass Old City and Christ Church
Pass Faith and Liberty Discovery Center

The Experience

The double-decker bus pulls up to your hotel and the guide is already talking. That's how this works: you get on, find a seat upstairs if the weather's good, and the narration starts before you've settled in. The route covers 27 stops across Philadelphia — from the Independence Visitor Center down to Penn's Landing, past the Rocky Steps, through Reading Terminal Market, out to the Philadelphia Museum of Art and back. You don't have to stay on for all of it. Get off at the Betsy Ross House if you want to walk around. Hop back on the next bus that comes through. The live guide keeps talking the whole time, pointing out what's what, and you're not locked into a schedule the way you are with a walking tour.

The stops are spread across the city's main neighborhoods. You'll pass City Hall with its tower, the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, the Barnes Foundation and Rodin Museum if you're into art, the Franklin Institute, the Philadelphia Zoo up in Fairmount Park. South Street gets its own stop. So does Chinatown and the Fashion District. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is on the route. If you want to see the inside of any of these places, you'd need to buy separate tickets — the bus tour gets you there and tells you what you're looking at. The guide does the work of knowing what matters and why, which saves you from standing in front of a building wondering if you should care.

Hotel pickup and drop-off means you're not figuring out where to catch the first bus or how to get back at the end of the day. The bus comes to you, takes you around, brings you home. It runs year-round but the schedule shifts with the seasons, so check before you book what time the first pickup happens on the day you're going. The whole thing is built for people who want to see a lot of Philadelphia without renting a car or walking for eight hours straight.

What’s included

Hotel pickup and drop-off.
hop on hop off access at all 27 stops.
live guide commentary on board throughout the route.

Good to know

Easy physical level

Operated by Philadelphia TrolleyWorks

Is this one for you?Pick this if you want to see Philadelphia's main attractions in one day without arranging your own transport or planning a walking route — the 27 stops and hotel pickup handle both, and hopping off whenever you want means you're not stuck to a group's pace.