Aberdeen city bus tours are run by Whytes coaches as part of their Scotland Explorer experience which provides organised day trips around Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire, including a castle bus tour. The Aberdeen City Bus tour leaves and returns passengers at Broad Street. Timings are available at the Scotland Explorer website.

These Granite City tours include a guide that tells passengers about the history and culture of Aberdeen city along with the opportunity to view key tourist attractions.

For more information or to buy a ticket online to this Aberdeen City Bus tour visit the Scotland Explorer website at www.scotlandexplorer.co.uk

At the time of writing this Aberdeen City Bus tours review the cost of a ticket was £7-50.

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Open Top Bus Tour Aberdeen

During past summer months First Group Aberdeen buses, in conjunction with City Sightseeing coaches, operated an open topped bus sight seeing tour around Aberdeen City. At present this service is no longer running and this information relates to previous Aberdeen tours.

The open top buses take in many Aberdeen attractions such as Marischal College, The Town House, Kings College, Old Aberdeen, Beach Esplanade, Footdee, Duthie Park, Union Street, The Music Hall and His Majesty's Theatre.

Tours occur every hour and last about 50 minutes.

Each bus trip includes a pre-recorded commentary in English.

Tours start from Marischal College in Broad Street, Aberdeen.

Aberdeen Tours

Book an Aberdeen tour and take advantage of the hop on hop off Aberdeen tour facility. This means you can leave the Aberdeen tours at any stop and then hop back on at a later time. This allows passengers to the Aberdeen city tour to visit any area or building of interest.

So for example during your day tours of Aberdeen you can hop off at Footdee and explore the historic fishing area and the fisherman cottages. Or you could hop off at HMT Aberdeen and look around this famed theatre or stroll around the Duthie Park and visit the famous hot house gardens or enjoy an ice cream by the bandstand. Other stops in the tours in Aberdeen include the Beach Esplanade, Aberdeen Town House and the Town Hall, Old Aberdeen which includes St Machar's Cathedral and King's College Chapel, and Marischal College.

Each Aberdeen tours bus ticket is valid for 24 hours and this starts from the moment you step on the Aberdeen tour bus so you can buy tickets to the Aberdeen tours early. Buy from www.isango.com to get a discounted ticket rather than pay on the bus. This also gives you an unlimited ticket for a 24 hour period. Aberdeen tours start at 9:30am and finish at 4:30pm.

Aberdeen tours operate in the summer months to take advantage of the fine weather that the sunshine city enjoys. The Bus tours in Aberdeen are in an open air bus to allow passenger to enjoy the fine views and wave to passers by which most kids love to do! The Granite city tours run from the 2 June until the 24 September each day.

Adult tickets price for the Aberdeen bus tour is only £6-88 and £3-57 for children aged between 5 and 15 years. Children aged 4 and under travel free on the bus tours from Aberdeen if accompanied by a paying adult. These are the 2008 prices but do check at isango.com for up to date prices.

Prices include a pre recorded commentary unique for each location which even the most knowledgeable Aberdonian can learn more about the Silver City with the Golden Sands as Aberdeen city is nicknamed.

Prices For The Aberdeen Guided Bus Tour
In 2006 the bus tours start on the 20 May and the last bus tour will take place on the 25 September.
Adult: £7
Child aged 5-15: £3.50
Senior Citizen or Student: £5.50
Family Ticket (2 adults and up to 3 children): £17.50

For more information and an up to date timetable and ticket price see the City Sightseeing website at city-sightseeing.co.uk and choose Aberdeen from the drop down menu on the right hand side.