24 Hour Hop-on Hop-off Tour

Check dates & book this tour from €34.00

Operator: DoDublin
Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes
Area: Dublin
Prices: Adults: €34.00, Children: €14.00, Students: €32.00, Senior Citizens: €32.00, Adults: €39.00, Children: €19.00, Students: €37.00, Senior Citizens: €37.00, Adults: €44.00, Children: €24.00, Students: €42.00, Senior Citizens: €42.00

Explore Dublin at your own pace on DoDublin’s green open-top hop-on hop-off bus tour. Choose a 24, 48 or 72-hour ticket and enjoy entertaining live commentary from local Dublin guides, multilingual audio, convenient stops near the city’s leading attractions and free travel for one child with every adult ticket.

What to expect

• Live local Dublin Guides
• Commentary in 9 languages
• One child travels free*
• Entry to The Little Museum of Dublin
• Docklands Tour included
• 2 for 1 Meal Deals
• Wheelchair accessibility
• Free city map

About this tour

We’ve been bringing visitors to all of Dublin city’s top attractions since 1988 and we’re masters at showing you the best Dublin city has to offer.

The Hop-on Hop-off tour has 25 convenient stops around the city to all the major attractions around the city like:

For the full list of attractions that are on our Hop-on Hop-off route, check out the DoDublin Tour Map

With every Hop on Hop off adult ticket purchased, one child travels for free! and free entry into arguably “Ireland’s Best Museum Experience”, The Little Museum of Dublin and you’ll receive a free map of the city!

You’ll enjoy live commentary from our Fáilte Ireland trained drivers, all native Dubliners and all of whom are great entertainers. The term “gift of the gab” was invented for DoDublin tour guides! They take great pride in presenting the best of Dublin city, with plenty of historic and cultural references, quotes by famous Dublin poets and writers, loads of jokes and plenty of Songs from Dublin City too. We also provide pre-recorded multilingual tours in 9 languages.

Docklands Tour

Enjoy our new tour of the Dublin Docklands. This 45 minute tour is separate from the Original tour and departs from the top of Parnell Square, which is the second stop on the Original Tour.

The Docklands tour has 8 stops bringing you to the likes of EPIC, The amazing Samuel Beckett Bridge, the spectacular Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Windmill Lane Studios and more.

You’ll learn lots about the area from the famous DoDublin tour guides and the best part is the tour is 100% Free with your Hop-on hop-off tour ticket!

The Docklands Tour is only available in English with a live tour guide. For further details on this tour please visit our Docklands Tour blog

• Guinness Storehouse – Stop 16
• Trinity College – Stop 4
• Books of Kells – Stop 4
• Little Museum of Dublin – Stop 7
• EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum – Stop D
• The Jeanie Johnston – Stop D
• Teeling Whiskey Distillery – Stop 15
• St. Patricks Cathedral – Stop 14
• Dublin Zoo – Stop 20

Ghostbus

Why not check our our popular Ghostbus tour – Follow the link for Ghostbus Tour Tickets.

Tour Details

Original Tour:

Docklands Tour:

Little Museum Tickets

Customers must ask Bus Driver for a Ticket for Free Entry to Little Museum

Child Tickets

*One child under 15 travels free with each adult. Tickets must be purchased for additional children and Student tickets must be purchased for children 15 years old and over.
*Max 8 child tickets per booking (including FREE). Any addition children per group must hold a student ticket.

Live Tours

Live tours are provided in English only, except for the German Live Tour which operates on Wednesdays Friday’s and Saturdays only during the high season

Multilingual Tours

Multi-lingual buses are provided in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian and Irish.

Please look for the sign on the front of the bus.

Starting from the first departure of the day, every bus on the hour features a Live, English Tour. Every second bus, offers a multi-lingual service.

*Offer only applies for full fare adult tickets and not for discount price offers such as from pigsback.com or Groupon

Children travelling for FREE do not need a ticket.

• First Tour departs Stop 1 at 09:00, last tour departs Stop 1 at 17:00
• Buses every 30 minutes from 09:00 to 10:00, every 20 minutes until 16:00, and every 30 minutes until 17:00.
• Docklands Tour has only two departures a day from October to May – at 09:05 and 15:05 from the 2nd stop on the Original Tour (Called Stop A of Docklands Tour)

Additional Information

View Online Map Here

Download Map (.pdf)

Guides & Languages

The Hop-on Hop-off tour has live commentary by the driver guides

There is also multilingual recorded commentary in 8 different languages

During the summer there is a Live Tour Auf Deutsch with a live German guide on board.

Accessibility Information

The Hop-on Hop-off Tour is fully wheelchair accessible

Frequently Asked Questions

Purchase either your 24, 48 or 72 hour ticket and get onto the bus on any of the 25 stops around the city. Show the driver your ticket on your phone or can print out, they will scan your QR code and this will activate your ticket and you can travel around the city and hop on and hop off as much as you like.

The tour begins at stop 1 on O’Connell Street but you can join the tour at any of the stops around the city, for our full list of stops use our DoDublin interactive map

From May – September the buses run every 20-30 minutes with the last bus departing from stop 1 at 18:00 and from October to April they run every 30 minutes with the last bus departing stop 1 at 17:00.

The full Hop on Hop off route takes 1 hour 45 minutes.

Once you activate your ticket then you can use it but the days must be consectutive, you cannot use a 48 hour ticket on a Monday and then use it on Thursday as once its activated on Monday thats when the 48 hours begin.

Yes of course! You can get our bus from any of the stops along the route.

Yes, all of our hop on hop off buses are wheelchair accessible

We have recorded multilingual commentary in 8 different languages – German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Russian and Irish

Yes, with each adult ticket one child under 15 travels free. Children tickets must be purchased for additional children and student tickets must be purchased for children 15 years old and over.

The good news is our tours will still run no matter the weather, we have a number of covered seats so you can still enjoy the sightseeing of Dublin without getting wet!

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Meeting point

59 O’Connell Street Upper, North City, Dublin, D01 RX04, Ireland