Valencia Shore Excursion: Valencia Hop-On-Hop-Off Tour with Optional Oceanographic Aquarium Ticket

Valencia, Spain

During your time in port in Valencia, explore the city with a 24-hour ticket aboard a hop-on hop-off bus tour. On this shore excursion, create your own itinerary as you travel around Valencia in an open-top, double-decker bus, hopping off whenever you’d like to see all the main sights, such as the City of Arts and Sciences (Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias), the UNESCO World Heritage-listed Silk Exchange (La Lonja) and the Congress Palace (Palacio de Congresos). Upgrade your tour to visit the Valencia Oceanographic, an aquarium and marine park at the City of Arts and Sciences. The largest aquarium in Europe, the Oceanographic is home to more than 45,000 animals from 500 different species.

Ideally located on Spain’s Mediterranean coast, Valencia is a modern city with a rich Roman and Gothic history. When you arrive in the Valencia port, explore the city at your own pace on a hop-on hop-off sightseeing bus tour! Travel between the two routes on an open-top, double-decker bus, hopping on and off wherever you want. This sightseeing shore excursion provides you with 17 convenient stops around town so you can see attractions like the Cathedral of Valencia or San Pio V Palace.

See the Silk Exchange, one of the best-preserved examples of late Gothic architecture in Europe and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Visit the Quart Towers and the Serrano Towers, Valencia’s old city gates. See the futuristic-style football stadium Nou Mestalla, or visit Valencia’s zoo, Bioparc.

Both routes each take approximately 1.5 hours. The buses depart every 20 to 30 minutes from each stop – the closest stop to the cruise port is Stop 7, El Puerto. Tickets are valid for 24 hours from first use.

Upgrade to include the Valencia Aquarium at the City of Arts and Sciences
Get the most out of your time in Valencia and enhance your hop-on hop-off bus tour with an entry ticket to the Oceanographic at the City of Arts and Sciences. The Oceanographic is Stop 4 on the Maritime Route. Discover the aquarium’s collection of more than 500 different species from the Mediterranean, the Antarctic, the Arctic, tropical seas and the Red Sea at your own pace. Grab a snack in the underwater restaurant, surrounded by thousands of fish. After your visit, you can re-join the hop-on hop-off bus for the rest of your tour.

Worry-free Shore Excursion:
This excursion is located within a 10-minute walk to the cruise port, so you determine the time you return to your ship in Valencia. Please allow yourself ample time to enjoy the excursion and ensure your timely return to the port. This excursion is not covered by our worry-free policy

USD $20.00

Traveler Reviews

Review by:   Beverley R,    November 2017
A wonderful trip on the bus

Review by:   allyson V,    April 2017
Oceanografic was absolutely stunning. Valencia is one of our favorite cities that we have visited. Highly recommend this trip.

Review by:   Eugene C,    November 2016
Very satisfied!

Review by:   white.vicky,    October 2016
Yes! Very excellent!

Review by:   Georgann G,    August 2016
The audio headsets on the bus did not work most of the seats. Had to move around and then the bus noise was too loud for anyone to hear the audio.

Review by:   Cathy,    November 2014
Enjoyed the sightseeing.

Review by:   TomT,    October 2014
Slow

Review by:   David P,    January 2014
No complaints went well

Review by:   Lynne H,    November 2012
The bus tour and aquarium were really good. The only problem, which was really annoying, was that when we presented our excursion ticket to the Hop on HOp off bus, he printed us two receipts and kept the Viator printout. We assumed the receipts/tickets he gave us were enough since it said right on it about the aquarium. When we got to the aquarium, the ticket booth said she had never heard of such thing. We had to ask her supervisor to use their internet to reprint our viator Vouchers. Wasted about an hour of our aquarium time to do this.

Review by:   JESUS R,    September 2012
it was not good

Review by:   Barbara P,    September 2012
Fantastic day out.

Review by:   TANIA B,    September 2012
I hopped on and off quite a bit, wonderful.

Review by:   Patricia W,    July 2012
What a nightmare! Hop on off bus tour was great once we got on. It took over an hour getting various approvals for the bus driver to let us on the bus and the major run around to get the aquarium tickets. If you don't speak fluent spanish - forget about it. The point of contact travel agency spoke no english. We called viator and got answering machine saying call back. Since we already spent the money we jumped thru all the hoops but would not recommend this trip. It would have been easier to get both tickets from the hotel. I would suggest getting the aquarium tickets before arriving to location as there was a long line to purchase entry tickets.

Review by:   Patricia W,    June 2012
What a nightmare! Hop on off bus tour was great once we got on. It took over an hour getting various approvals for the bus driver to let us on the bus and the major run around to get the aquarium tickets. If you don't speak fluent spanish - forget about it. The point of contact travel agency spoke no english. We called viator and got answering machine saying call back. Since we already spent the money we jumped thru all the hoops but would not recommend this trip. It would have been easier to get both tickets from the hotel. I would suggest getting the aquarium tickets before arriving to location as there was a long line to purchase entry tickets.

Review by:   CSPEREIRA,    June 2012
If you are on a limited time this is the best option to see valencia.

Review by:   Ronald C,    May 2012
A good way to become aquainted with a city in a short period of time at a favorable price.

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