Big Bus Tours Paris Reviews 

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The bus although expensive for what it is, was pleasant enough although I wouldn't recommend getting on and off regularly as you will not find a seat on top. Sitting inside really sux, you don't see... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Myself and the group of my friends visited Paris this April. We have decided to take a tour of Paris on Big Bus, but when we reviewed the company web site, we changed our mind and took the tour with... See more

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

The 48 hours’ ticket is so good! It is worth to buy! One of your colleagues : NILABH was so kind, polite and tolerant. He was helpful! I recommend the company to give him something to acknowledge his... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

We had tickets for the Big Bu in Paris for Tuesday September 26,2023. We were going to get on at the d’Orsay stop #4 at approximately 10:30 am. The first 2 busses were completely full. Finally got ont... See more

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Our Paris bus tours are the perfect introduction to the world's most romantic city. Take in panoramic views of all the iconic sights, from the Eiffel Tower to the Arc de Triomphe. Hop off the bus whenever you wish to absorb the culture and live Paris your way.


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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Thoroughly enjoyed this experience

Thoroughly enjoyed this experience. And your app actually helped us find a stop we had not been to... Excellent commentary ! Stopped at almost every stop.... highly recommend!
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23 June 2019
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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Not for those who are disabled!!!

Before booking, back in England, I checked that your buses were wheelchair accessible, and I was told, Yes about 1in 3 have ramps, so I faithfully bought tickets for myself and my wife. This is our first visit to Paris and for a special anniversary.
However we stood for about 1 hour and 40 minutes, and were passed by 4 buses that were inaccessible. After going for a coffee we eventually were able to get on the 6th bus, lifted on by the driver.
We did the tour, stopping only at the Eiffel tower. We didn't have time to do the blue tour, eventually ending at 6.45.
All in all a very disappointing experience, and a waste of time and money

22 June 2019
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

The tour was fine but I suspect you…

The tour was fine but I suspect you should advise visitors of how torn up Paris is and how long a loop can take with the traffic. We have young kids and could have used that information as we were stuck in several construction zones for quite some time.

David Buetow

21 June 2019
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Good overall

It was a great experience. My only difficulty was the busyness of stop 4 trying to take the blue route. We had my elderly mother with us abd opted to take a taxi instead. The night tour was oustanding!

18 June 2019
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Outstanding experience

Just when we’d think it couldn’t possibly get any better, there were yet more spectacular buildings and sights around each turn while on board. Martin was a terrific live tour guide! We highly recommend Big Bus Paris! Love from 3 happy customers from
Canada

17 June 2019
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great Introduction to Paris

Paris was a first-time experience for us (we got married on this trip!) and the Big Bus is the ONLY way to see as much of Paris as is possible. The drivers educate, inform and entertain with interesting facts and anecdotes that one doesn’t get from walking tours or taxi drivers.
We took both day and night tours , and the highlight of the night tour was the driver’s perfect timing to see the on-the-hour strobe light show on the Eiffel Tower!!

15 June 2019
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

This was a nice tour

This was a nice tour. The buses weren't that packed and were clean considering the amount of people on them. They provided patrons with a free set of headphones to listen to the automated tour guide. In between the tour guide talking it was nice to hear the music they were playing. I really enjoyed listening to the history of everything in Paris.

I gave 4 stars instead of 5 for a few reasons. The first one is because they apparently give out ponchos on rainy days, but when we tried to get some they were out. 2. That day we could only find one bus with a live guide and every time we tried to meet it at a stop the bus was full and our family of 5 could not fit. 3. although the pre-recordings were nice and did the job it would have been nice if there was a little more information given and/or they switched up the music. I heard the same few songs over and over again.
4. although the bus takes you to many fantastic stops in Paris, it kept driving past the area with tons of restaurants and cafes. To get back to the food it was a 15 minute walk from the louvre. Normally that walk isn't bad, but when it's raining (unexpectedly) it is, combined with the fact that they were out of ponchos made for a not so fun experience.

Overall, it was a good experience and I would recommend Big Bus Tours to others. If they were to fix some (or all) of the things I had issues with it would make for a better experience for customers.

15 June 2019
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Perfect

For us, it was the only way to go. We would have never been able to cover all the ground that the bus did. We really enjoyed it! Thank you for the servuce you offer.

12 June 2019
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Paris night tour

I and a group of my friends did the night tour of Paris on big bus, we had a guide named Lou, the tour was about 2 hrs, Lou did a fantastic job of covering almost everything you can know about Paris from a tourist point of view, she was informative, helpful and humorous

11 June 2019
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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Red line top blue line flop (no service)

The red line runs very frequently and this route is very well organised.
For the boat trip there has been nobody at the bus stop to guide us where to go. However we managed with the company reference on the tour map.
The real downside has been the blue line, which -in the middle of the day- was not available for at least 50Minutes (maybe longer but we gave up!!!). So we missed some interesting areas of Paris and this was really disappointing. All other bus companies busses were running frequently during our waiting and even completely empty red line busses passed, which could have been Easley converted to the blue line????
Will try another company next time most likely and cannot recommend Big Bus Paris to our friends.

7 June 2019
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars

The schedule said we could ride till…

The schedule said we could ride till 10. At 8:45 the bus driver stopped and said he was done and we had to get off the bus. We were 10 miles away from our place. We were not happy and will never use this service again. There were 9 in our group.

6 June 2019
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Fantastic!

Fantastic hop on hop off. We did both lines and it was a great informative way to see Paris. There was distribution on one of the days we did a tour but the drivers and staff were great at informing us and did their best to get us as close to the locations as they could considering the traffic was banked up with Taxis demonstrating. Would recommend this service to anyone travelling to Paris.

5 June 2019
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

With Paris being so big it was the best…

With Paris being so big it was the best thing we purchased to see things and get around,Only negative thing to say was that the bus stops were not that well marked and unless you had been around once they were hard to locate even with the App,but all in all an excellent service

4 June 2019
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

My parents and I loved it!!

My parents and I really enjoyed taking Big Bus in Paris! It made our trip easy because the bus stopped all the major spots we wanted to visit and it was easy to hop on and off!! My parents said the recorded Japanese guide was helpful. We definitely use Big Bus again!

3 June 2019
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