Gray Line Tours offers a four-hour fully-guided sightseeing tour around Manhattan that takes visitors past highlights such as the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Harlem's Apollo Theater, Rockefeller Center, Times Square, the Empire State Building, Greenwich Village and the South Street Seaport. Since the guided tours do not make stops with time to explore, they can optionally be combined with a ticket for the company's hop-on, hop-off double-decker bus tour. However, the hop-on, hop-off tour is only available in English. Korean tours depart daily in the morning except Tuesdays and Wednesdays. German, French, Italian and Spanish tours depart every morning. Foreign language tours operate throughout the year except for the week between Christmas and New Year's, and all tours depart from the Gray Line Visitor Center near Times Square.
Gray Line Tours
777 8th Avenue
New York, NY 10036
800-669-0051
www.grayline.com
CitySights NY offers a Multilingual Upper and Lower Manhattan Tour. It is a fully escorted, half-day journey that hits the highlights of the island such as Central Park, Lincoln Center, Museum Mile and the United Nations. It is available in German, Spanish, French or Italian. The Multilingual All Around Town Tour bundles the foreign language Manhattan tour with an English-only package of tours. The tour package is valid for 48 hours and includes a hop-on, hop-off tour, night tour, Brooklyn tour, Circle Line harbor cruise and admission to the Museum of the City of New York. Tourists select only the tours they want and can take them in any order. The Multilingual Super New York Tour includes all of the above plus additional tickets to either the Top of the Rock Observation Deck or the Empire State Building Observation Deck and a ticket on the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island ferry. Tours depart from the Visitor Center in Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Times Square.
CitySights NY
1430 Broadway, Ste 507
New York, NY 10018
212-812-2700
www.citysightsny.com
OnBoard Tours specializes in smaller shuttle bus tours, rather than large motor coach ones. Though regularly scheduled tours are only given in English, all tours can be booked privately in other languages, including Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese and Chinese. Private tours can be booked by individuals or groups, are fully customizable and can include VIP access to the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building. Tour options include a comprehensive full-day tour, pub crawl and a variety of walking tours. Basketball enthusiasts might enjoy the Private Basketball Tour that visits renowned street basketball courts, Madison Square Garden and the NBA Store.
OnBoard New York Tours
7th Avenue at W. 50th Street
New York, NY 10019
212-852-4821
www.newyorkpartyshuttle.com
