Auckland Explorer: hop on, hop off-tour

It was a good way to see the highlights of the city in a short time. There did not seem to be alot of stops compared to our experience in other cities however it was nice. I liked the fact you could here the narrative in the bus without earphones.

Four long time friends, all of us senior citizens, walked for ten minutes from the cruise terminal to stop number 1 to catch the first bus of the day leaving at 9 a.m. We arrived at about twenty past eight and booked tickets on the website on our mobiles which cost us one hundred New Zealand dollars for two adults. We soon received emails with QR codes, then shortly after a member of staff arrived to scan the codes and issue tickets. The bus arrived and set off bang on nine. The first bus of the day was an open decked double decker, but we had various different types of buses as we got off and on during the day. One thing we were left wondering about was the supply of earphones, but they are not needed as the commentary comes out of speakers and was only in English. The service wasn't bad at all, and we did not have long to wait for another bus when we got off to explore. We really do think we got good value for money and would use this service again.

Gute freundliche und informative Einführung durch tschechischen Landsmann. Leider waren die Lautsprecher schlecht eingestellt oder vielleicht auch veraltet, so dass man Schwierigkeiten hatte, die Stadtführung akustisch zu verstehen. Und das ging nicht nur uns so, sondern auch unseren Sohn, der aufgrund seines einjährigen Aufenthaltes in NZ keine Sprachprobleme aufweist. Deswegen nur 3 von 5 Punkten. Für einen Tag ist das Angebot ganz in Ordnung, man wird zu den wichtigsten Punkten in Auckland gebracht. Wenn man mehrere Tage in Auckland verweilt, würden wir aufgrund der guten Verbindung des öffentlichen Busnetzes auf dieses verweisen und dadurch unabhängige Touren planen, die dann auch in die Abendstunden hineinreichen können.