Galway City Sightseeing: Explore Irish History on a Hop-On Hop-Off Bus Tour

Discover Galway’s rich history and vibrant culture on a flexible hop-on hop-off bus tour. Explore top attractions at your own pace.

Duration: 1 hour
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights

Red Route (Route)

Operating Schedule: Tour stop 1 - Eyre Square
First tour starts at 9.30am, last tour starts at 3:30pm. The buses run every 90 minutes. The buses will be running every 45 minutes during the summer months
1. Eyre Square Galway
Eyre Square - Explore Galway Kiosk
2. HYDE Hotel
Forster Street
3. **Spanish…

What's Included
  • Audio guide in English through speakers on the bus
  • Stops near all the major sights
  • 24 or 48-hour hop-on hop-off bus tour
What's Not Included
  • Food and drinks, unless specified
  • Gratuities
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
Additional Information

With a 24 or 48-hour City Sightseeing hop on hop off ticket, there’s no easier way to discover what Galway has to offer! Explore this Irish city’s culture, history and attractions from the comfort of our open-top, double decker tour bus! Passengers can hop-on and hop-off at more than 13 tour stops to explore Galway at their own pace, including tourist…

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Rhonda_s
Sep 7, 2025
So great to hear all... - So great to hear all about Galway. The driver had impressive skills to navigate the traffic and small spaces. The ride gave us the overview we wanted to figure out where to go next.
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Nicholas_m
Aug 25, 2025
Great Exposure to a Unique City - We love to do a hop on hop off bus tour whenever coming to a new major city, and City Sightseeing Tours is one of our mainstays for this. The relatively short 1-hour tour of Galway yields an impressive and concise exposure to Ireland’s culture capital. Excellent way to get to know the Latin Quarter, Prom, Eyre Square, and much more!
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Mike_s
Aug 8, 2025
Galway - Easy Hop on Hop off Bus Tour - Enjoyable bus tour around Galway. Stopped at the key sights. Easy 1 loop bus tour so very simple and easy to use
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Carol
Aug 5, 2025
Excellent live narrative - I’m usually not a fan of the HOHO bus tours and have been on many others. The Galway bus tour was outstanding due to the informative and easy to understand narrative given by the guide. It was a great way to see Galway and Sandhill.
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Khando07
Jul 26, 2025
great offer! - good round for an overview of the city. perfect for a short trip! friendly staff, hop on and off is fun!
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Nina_s
Jul 17, 2025
Easily see Galway! - Great way to get an introduction to Galway and the sites you may want to go back to visit or simply get off and visit then. Convent hop on and hop off spots. Narration of what we were passing was great and informative.
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Sarah_k
Jul 28, 2025
I’m sure it’s lovely, but I don’t actually know… - Booked a 24 hour bus ride at 3:00 pm. Once the tickets came through, realized the bus only runs 9:30am -3:30pm. Planned on riding the afternoon/evening. Anyway, never got to ride the bus and returns are only offered 24 hours in advance.
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Liz_n
Aug 4, 2025
Not for us but others may enjoy - It was an unusually busy day with a ship docked and annual Horse Racing Festival on, so I understand it was much busier than an ordinary day. Even so, the long wait for buses (30-50mins past the scheduled time) was frustrating. After doing Hop on/off buses in several countries, this was my least favourite. Our saving grace was the shortish loop time so we could get off again at Eyre Square. No stops of real interest to us here.
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Manuel
Sep 2, 2025
Avoid if possible - Definitely avoid this tour. Advertisement is a 48h ticket and we ended up paying over 40 Euros for a 24h ticket, which they told us after purchase and that the flyers and info was outdated. The trip isn't really a hop-on hop-off tour, it's just a 1h bus ride around town with a pre recorded tape which didn't work some of the time when it would've been interesting. It's easier to walk around town and read up on the history yourself.
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Eleanor_s
Jul 25, 2025
Very Disappointing - Not worth the money. They play a recording, so there is no live interaction with a tour guide. A complete waste of money.
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up to 15 guests
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Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).