Double Decker Austin Single Loop Sightseeing Tour
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Austin, USA
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- 1 hour 15 minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes (approx.)
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
Save time looking up bus schedules and opt for this hassle-free Austin sightseeing bus tour instead. Travel on a loop around the city that passes by top landmarks in Austin’s downtown area. Along the way, listen to commentary from a guide, get great photos from the top deck, or sit in the climate-controlled lower deck. Highlights include 6th Street, The Driskill hotel, Texas State Capitol, and the Texas Governor’s Mansion.
- Tick off lots of Austin sightseeing spots in a short space of time
- Flexible seating choices—the bus has an open-air top deck and a lower deck
- Get your bearings of Austin, as well as learning about its history
- Pass by top landmarks such as the Texas State Capitol
What's Included
- Cold Water
- Sunscreen
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- 103 E 5th St., Austin, TX 78701, USA
Starting on March 8th: The new bus stop will be at 103 E. 5th Street.
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.Itinerary
Your Double Decker Austin sightseeing tour begins at the Austin Visitor Center on Bus on Red River Street between 4th Street and 5th Street.
Boar your double-decker bus and choose to sit on the open top deck or the climate-controlled lower deck. Sit down, relax, and travel on a loop around the top landmarks in Austin while listening to live commentary from your guide.
Pass by e6th Street, The Driskill hotel, Texas State Capitol, and other top highlights. Get your bearings, learn about local history, and end your tour back at the visitor center.
Boar your double-decker bus and choose to sit on the open top deck or the climate-controlled lower deck. Sit down, relax, and travel on a loop around the top landmarks in Austin while listening to live commentary from your guide.
Pass by e6th Street, The Driskill hotel, Texas State Capitol, and other top highlights. Get your bearings, learn about local history, and end your tour back at the visitor center.
6th Street (Pass By)
Austin Convention Center (Pass By)
Austin Fire Museum (Pass By)
Joseph and Susanna Dickinson Hannig Museum (Pass By)
O. Henry Home & Museum (Pass By)
The Driskill (Pass By)
Texas State Capitol (Pass By)
Texas Governor's Mansion (Pass By)
Capitol Complex Visitors Center (Pass By)
LBJ Presidential Library (Pass By)
Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium (Pass By)
University of Texas Tower (Pass By)
Bullock Texas State History Museum (Pass By)
Blanton Museum of Art (Pass By)
Harry Ransom Center (Pass By)
Congress Bridge Bat (Pass By)
SoCo District (Pass By)
Long Center (Pass By)
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking, unless booked within 1 hours of travel. In this case confirmation will be received as soon as possible, subject to availability
- Wheelchair accessible
- Pushchair accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Near public transportation
- Infants must sit on laps
- Most travellers can participate
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 35 travellers
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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During my visit to Austin Visitor Center we met two lovely women who work there while with my family. Atmosphere was welcoming and a staff created a pleasant first impression before the tour began the double-decker Austin single Loop sightseeing tour itself was entertaining Lively and genuinely engaging the guide delivered clear and interesting commentary highlighting Austin's history culture and major landmarks in a way that was both informative and enjoyable the overall experience was well organized safe and provide it an excellent overview of the city this tour offered a great balance of fun professionalism in educational value making it a memorable part of my Austin trip visiting my son with my sister a very memorable moment that I will never forget.
This tour was wonderful. We had a very short stay in Austin and wanted to see as much as possible. The tour was perfect! Appreciated the knowledgeable guide!
This is a great tour that provides a nice history of Austin. Our tour guide had a lot of knowledge to share and had a super personality. The tour hits all the main attractions and provides several places for that are the spots to hit. Although it was quite hot, the your on the upper deck of the bus was the way to go. The views were superb fron the top deck. Be sure to pay attention because there are a few tree branches that you will need to duck under. Overall a great tour and highly recommend for an hour and a half trip that gives any first timer to Austin a perfect start to your adventure.
Fun, interesting tour. Got some good sun, good conversations, and new places to check out thanks to the guide.
Chad was a great guide!!!
Nice sense of humor and knoweldgble. Would highly recommend to anyone wanting to get quick overbrief
Great narrative by our guide.
Friendly employees from checking in to people checking tickets(names) at departure to bus driver and tour guide.
Great experience that I would definitely recommend to friends.
Absolutely Wonderful!
The driver is so welcoming.
The guide is very knowledgeable.
A Must for visitors!
It’s not a true hop on hop off type bus if that’s what you’re looking for. It’s a regular tour. The guide was awesome and you don’t have to bother with those annoying headphones. He was really funny and knowledgeable about the area. Definitely keep a look out for branches though. Some of them could skewer you.
Fun and informative way to see the city. The driver and guide did an awesome job of navigating the city and keeping us engaged. I was with my husband but this would definitely be something safe and comfortable to do as a solo traveler as well.
Great time! Learned a lot about the city. Gave us some great ideas to check out during our visit. I would recommend early in the day as the sun gets pretty hot!
Great overview of the city and highlights of best places to visit. Very helpful!
Highly recommend you do it to get a plan of action for your stay in the city!
The bus offers air conditioning inside on the first level, and open-air seating on the second level. Our bus driver was very professional. Our narrator was entertaining and extremely informative! He gave us so much information about what we were seeing, as well as many excellent recommendations for restaurants and places to go. I just wish we had done this on our first day in Austin!
Tour guide was very knowledgeable and did an excellent job. I believe her name was Maggie. Tour showed many places in and around downtown Austin. We took the capitol tour after the bus tour.
This tour of Austin was perfect!! Our guide, Maddie, did a fantastic job of making our time fun and informative. Laurence our driver gave us cold water to drink.
So much fun:) they treated us very well! All of the sights were interesting and well explained. Would def recommend
Great views from the second level, but be careful for tree branches! It was nearly 100 degrees the day of our tour and the sun was hot and scorching. There's not much shade on the route, so I kept on my hat and long sleeve shirt. The tour lasted 75 minutes which was perfect. It was not a hop on/hop off bus. I wish I could remember our guide's name - he is from England and studying in Austin, and was very nice and interesting. The tour provided a good overview of the city of Austin. It started and ended at the Austin Visitor's center which has great gifts, a coffee shop, and super helpful staff. We got there an hour before the tour, so walked just around the corner for some delicious breakfast tacos. Our tour began at 11am on a Sunday, and we were surprised by the amount of traffic. The bus therefore moved very slowly, but the guide kept everyone engaged. Being up high on the second level of the bus really provided a much better view of things than if we had been on a regular bus tour.
The owners daughter was our guide and she was VERY KNOWLEDGABLE, FRIENDLY AND INFORMATIVE!!! Great fun!! Highly recommended!!
I am usually never disappointed with Viator recommendations, but I was on this one. The bus is so creepy and in such poor shape. You wonder how it even operates.
On the other hand, Our guide Jason was great! Very knowledgeable of his city and had a lot of anecdotes about Austin’s history.
Great experience in the areas I think that They have a lot to offer in information about the Austin Tx Areas
An excellent beginner level overview of Austin’s best sites and history! Our tour guide was awesome!
We did the double decker bus on 8/3/2026. This was a good tour experience. Our tour guide was knowledgeable and funny at times. Unfortunately, I am terrible with names, but he was a pretty young guy in a cowboy hat. We chose to sit up top, despite the August heat and brutal sun. He stood up there with us the whole time, giving good information and history about Austin and Texas in general. We saw the famous library, the university, the South Congress area, the capitol building, and some suggestions for food & shopping. The bus driver and bud ride was safe and steady. They also warned us when the tree branches were coming which was appreciated. The only thing was the time was a little short of what was said in the tour ad, but we didn't really mind because of the heat. Meeting point at the Visitor's center was easy to find and a nice shop to walk through afterward. It's also conveniently located across from a parking garage, but beware it was almost 100% full when we arrived at 11am.
For the most part, an enjoyable tour. Until a political comment about erasing Texas’ history in being part of the Confederacy. For those of us who have deep southern roots, we have Confederate roots in our family trees. You erase that, you erase our ancestors. We can erase history or learn from it so it doesn’t get repeated. Seems to me option #2 is the better choice. You choose to veer away from just facts and voice political comments on a tour, you run the risk of offending your clients. Offended clients don’t tip.
Very interesting and knowledgeable tour . Great tour guide. Beautiful city to visit. Would definitely recommend
Very interesting tour. You should do the tour before exploring Austin since they tell you all the places to go to. The guide was very knowledgeable and funny.
Wonderful trip, we have lived in Austin for 50 years, celebrated our 44 anniversary with you. We have done Hop On Hop off in NYC in Vegas and Galveston. All very educational and informative. Your trip was the start of a great day. We were surprised at all the things we did not know.
This tour was very interesting! We learned a lot about the history of Austin, the bat colony, and were given fabulous tips on restaurants. The only downside was the heat. Take this tour EARLY in the morning or in the evening, if it is offered. Bring sunscreen!
We had a great time on the Double Decker Austin Tour! It was a fun and informative way to see the city and learn about Austin’s history. The guide was engaging, and the tour was well worth it. We would definitely recommend it!
Fun, informative, great way to get to know the different areas of Austin. The staff were friendly, from the ones at the office/store to the ones at the bus. The store is a really cute one.
The tour guide was funny and really friendly. The tour wasn’t long and the atmosphere was very nice.
We are so glad we took the early slot for this tour. Just know that in Texas it’s extremely hot. Wear a hat and bring water.
Fun and interesting things for all. We enjoyed it very much.
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