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Welcome to Free Tours by Foot, offering pay-what-you-wish New York walking tours, including food, but also bike, audio, and free self-guided walks.
We provide a platform for licensed, local, freelance tour guides to lead tours at no upfront costs. You determine what a tour was worth, if anything, after the tour.
You’ve seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central Park.
This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for over 125 years, with spectacular views of Manhattan and Brooklyn.
The 3-hour walking and subway tour covers the Financial District including Wall Street and the World Trade Center, SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown.
This post reviews and compares the various different bus tour options available to you in NYC, including hop-on-hop-off, fully guided, themed and night tours.
TIP: Many of the bus tours mentioned below are included in one form or another with the New York tourist passes.
Traditional hop-on-hop-off bus companies provide transport to major sites all over the city, which can be appealing if the New York subway system seems daunting.
Typically guests purchase 1,2 or 3-day access passes and can then get on/off the bus at any of the company’s designated stops at any time.
Most multiple-day tickets include a night tour and a boat cruise as well as discount coupons.
Prices for these combination tickets are sometimes too good to pass up. Some have live guides and all offer audio headsets with commentary in multiple languages.
The market is very competitive with companies outdoing each other’s prices regularly. Be sure to check for any deals by clicking the links.
Big Bus Tours consist of 35+ stops around New York City on 5 routes, including Downtown, Uptown, and Midtown Manhattan routes, Harlem Routes and one route in Brooklyn (see map detail).
You can also download their app, which has the maps to help you plan your route.
Guests listen to either an English-speaking guide or an audio recording in one of 10 languages while on the bus and they are free to wander around on their own at each stop.
They also offer a night tour, which is not a hop-on-hop-off tour as well as combo packages.
If you are also planning on traveling to Washington, DC, Big Bus offers a package that combines both cities.
Be sure to consider one of our pay-what-you-wish New York City food tours. With our competitors charging anywhere from $45-$65 for their food tours, a food tour experience is often out of reach for most travelers.
There is so much good food at affordable prices, there’s no need to be forced to pay so much money.
Our two most popular and regularly scheduled guided tour options are:
We also offer weekly food tours of the East Village, Manhattan’s Chinatown, and Williamsburg Brooklyn as well as free self-guided food tours, so that you can experience the flavors of the city at your own pace.
Since we do not offer any of our food tours on a daily basis, we have also included the food tour schedules of other companies that we trust.
This post lists several options for enjoying a New York bike tour, including our pay-what-you-like option. We’ve also listed options for bike rentals, self-guided tours, as well as discounts on guided tours.
This post explains the range of affordable private New York City tour options that we offer and explains what we can and can’t offer you. We also provide tips on alternative private tour options.
Welcome to Free Tours by Foot, offering pay-what-you-wish New York walking tours, including food, but also bike, audio, and free self-guided walks.
We provide a platform for licensed, local, freelance tour guides to lead tours at no upfront costs. You determine what a tour was worth, if anything, after the tour. This ensures that your tour guide must strive to give his or her best on every tour. It’s the best money-back guarantee available.
FREE TOURS BY FOOT IS THE ORIGINAL PAY-WHAT-YOU-LIKE WALKING TOUR. OUR GUIDES HAVE GIVEN TOURS TO OVER 3 MILLION GUESTS AROUND THE WORLD.”
Free Tours by foot is the original PAY-WHAT-YOU-LIKE walking tour.
OUR guides have given tours to over 3 million guests around the world.