Cape Town Hop-on Hop-off Bus Tour And Seal Island Cruise

So easy to see the sights and get your bearings We did the blue route

Great way to get an overview of Cape Town history and significant sites. Both routes offer an introduction to places to get off and or return to with a longer visit in mind. I look at this as a way to see what there is to see in the city area and surroundings. Very friendly and easy to participate as a single or with a group of fellow travelers.

The have poor hospitality and it was rainy in the afternoon , I was so disappointed with their service.

Maria January led our Bo-Kaap walking tour on a rainy Sunday in April and was absolutely brilliant. Knowledgeable, entertaining and warm — and despite the weather and it being just the two of us, she never rushed us for a second. You could tell she genuinely loves this neighbourhood and its history. Highly recommend her and this tour to anyone visiting Cape Town. Recommend also stopping for lunch here in the park after the tour. She will tell you where 😁

If you have never been on a hop on hop off bus tour, you are given a set of earbuds, you boarded a two-decker bus and proceed to drive a large loop around town with a position-based announcement of the city highlights playing in your ears. Sometimes, you have an option to purchase extra tour items (a wine tour or a tour of a historical suburb). For us, we purchased an optional “Seal Island Adventure Cruise”. Our instructions were to get off at stop 24 (Hout Bay) for the 40-50 minute cruise. There was a lack of signage telling us where to go at stop 24 so we asked the driver. “Head towards the water. It is on the right.” Having never been in South Africa, we “headed towards the water”. Thirty minutes later, we ask a local for guidance and then we’re properly directed to the cruise. Because of timing, we ended up not going on the cruise but nonetheless enjoyed our walk around the beautiful Hout Bay neighborhood. The rest of the “ear bud bus tour” went well. Interesting stories, fantastic vistas, equipment that worked well. So, for the Cape Town Hop-on Hop-off Bus tour (HoHoBT) - it was a reasonably well done presentation of their city. I won’t blame the Seal Cruise problems on them - they were a different operator from HoHoBT and if they choose to not put up signs directing people to their place of business, that is on them. We DID find a wonderful place to eat some local seafood and spent out time in Hout Bay experiencing the local culture. We will probably return to the bus tomorrow - to visit some botanical gardens and a cable car tour to the top of Table Mountain. It is cheaper than Uber! So, mostly well done, folks. Maybe tell your partners that they need to “up their game” with some signage but we were well satisfied with our tour.

The hop-on hop-off bus was a great and easy way to explore the city, and everything was well organized. That said, we found much of the information overlapped with what we had already learned on our Cape of Good Hope and Boulders Beach tour. Still, a very enjoyable day and a

The tour itself was fantastic. However only 4stars because of serious problems with the system not recognising our tickets. Firstly whilst paying for 2 people the system only showed 1 person for the bus. Then for the seal island tour tickets we’re not recognised at all. Very upsetting but they gave us the tour in the end.

Loved every minute of it, Cape Town has the most beautiful attractions. and the people are so friendly .

It was a very busy day. The buses were always full and tsking a lot of time loading and unloading at each stop. The roads were very busy so travel was quite slow. Seats are very uncomfortable.

A good service, well organised with regular buses and all well maintained - good commentary on entire route ( Red route used).

The Operator did not have a boat available. So the experience did not happen. Now battling to get my money paid to them back. They cannot provide me with a reason why my refund cannot happen as no boat was available on the day when we got there. Very POOR service.

That's good experience have a pleasure trip that was cape town south Africa lot of beautiful places here I will come again visit more beautiful places

Lovely scenery and history. Fantastic experience with my partner. It was exciting to see the seal island as well

We took the blue line as we wanted to do the wine tasting in Constantia and Seal Island. unfortunately when we reached HOUT Bay we were told that we had to wait one hour to get the boat to the island. Two hours later, we were still there waiting under the sun. No one could give us a damn info on what is going on. Three hours later, we were told that the tour was cancelled as there were not enough bookings. We were of course pissed. We returned to our hotel as we were tired. When we got to the sight seeing office the next day, the lady said that we had to complain the same day. No refund or anything what so ever. We paid for nothing. The lady at the office wanted just to get rid of us. So thank you.

When you purchase the excursion, they do not explain that you have to pay an entrance fee to reach Cape Point, that you have to pay a toll at Chapman Peak, and even the parking ticket for parking the car and going to eat at a restaurant they take you to, which is actually owned by the person in charge of the excursions.

The cruise office was closed and we couldn't get to Seal Island because of the rough sea. I was really looking forward to it, which is a shame.

The city tour was impressive. Only it took a while to find our booking through Tripadvisor in the system, so the ticket was not enough. What was a pity was that it was not clear from Tripadvisor where the seal tour starts and so unfortunately we did not manage to see the seals - so that was cancelled. If someone books this tour, then you should definitely start early/morning!!!