Sightseeing tours of Moscow by bus pass every day from Red Square. Excursion bureau "Lauda" invites you to get acquainted with one of the most ancient capitals of the world - Moscow.

An overview of temples and mansions, streets and avenues, medieval architecture and modern construction - all this you can see with your own eyes, as well as learn interesting details about the history of prominent and memorable places cities.

Our qualified guides will make every effort to ensure that you can fully enjoy the extraordinary beauty and grandeur of the capital of Russia. We hope that our sightseeing tour will appeal not only to adults and pensioners, but also to children. We wish you a pleasant and educational holiday!

Current schedule:

Sightseeing bus tour of the city of Moscow

1. Group gathering: carried out near the tourist "zero kilometer" (15 meters), at the entrance to Red Square. As the roads take their reading from the zero kilometer, so our tour begins in the very heart of the city's history.
2. How to find us: You will be met by our employees in branded orange jackets or T-shirts with Lauda badges. Our address: Moscow, Voskresenskiye Vorota passage or Revolution Square, nearest metro stations Ploshchad Revolyutsii, Teatralnaya, Okhotny Ryad. For orientation along the streets: Theater Square, Manezhnaya Square, Revolution Square. The easiest option is to use the Okhotny Ryad metro station and follow the signs "Exit to Red Square". For your convenience, we attach: Map of the Moscow Metro.

Extended sightseeing bus tours around Moscow, lasting 3-4 hours:

AUDIO GUIDE (English) AND BUS TOURS —

IMPORTANT: on the bus, the tour is conducted by a live guide in Russian.

For foreigners, we suggest using the audio guide on English language which we send to you by email. We send audio files - numbered tracks recorded in the studio (without interference and with high-quality pronunciation) + the excursionist receives a text with instructions, photos and a map, which we advise you to familiarize yourself with in advance. They will help you not to get lost on the route and get maximum impressions and information. It is enough to place these files on a smartphone or tablet (be sure to take headphones so as not to disturb other tourists). A tour of Moscow by bus with an audio guide for foreigners is the best option to get acquainted with the sights of the capital in just 2 hours.

Do not confuse: our buses

Sightseeing tour of the city of Moscow - stops with access to the observation decks:

1. Manezhnaya Square: Trade and exhibition complex "Manege", Trade and entertainment complex "Okhotny Ryad", Hotel Four Seasons Moscow (Former Moskva Hotel), a complex of fountains on Manezhnaya Square, a monument to G.K. Zhukov, State historical Museum.
2. Sofia and Bersenevskaya embankments: panorama Cathedral of Christ the Savior, panorama of the Kremlin, Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge, Trifonov's “house on the embankment”, Kharitonenko's mansion.
3. Sparrow Hills: sports complex Luzhniki, panorama of Moscow, the main building of Moscow State University, Church of the Life-Giving Trinity on Sparrow Hills ah, Novodevichy Convent, Panorama of the Moscow City Business Center, ski jumps.
4. Mosfilmovskaya street: film studio "Mosfilm", the alley of stars of Russian cinema, a monument to E. P. Leonov.
5. Poklonnaya Gora: fountains, the central alley "Years of War", Central Museum Great Patriotic War 1941-1945, Obelisk of Victory, Church of the Great Martyr George the Victorious, Mosque, Triumphal Arch, monument to the soldiers of the First World War, museum of military equipment.

Small note

Please note: the company reserves the right to change the route, order and time of passing the main points of travel as part of a sightseeing tour, depending on:

• traffic situation on the streets of Moscow;
• weather conditions;
• the presence of overlaps for the time of restriction of movement during urban events;
• Availability of free parking spaces at bus stops.

Excursions in Moscow official website of LLC Lauda.

- You will see with your own eyes the most important places main city of Russia. You will learn how Moscow has changed over the centuries, what architectural styles dominated in different eras. A professional tour guide will enrich your knowledge of the capital and provide you with unique details about the places you will visit.

– The tour includes walks at all stops on the route you will be taking.

Full itinerary:

– Visit to Red Square, where there are architectural monuments that have become symbols of our country. You will see the Kremlin, Lenin's mausoleum, GUM and St. Basil's Cathedral.

05/01/2019 and 05/09/2019 there will be no stop on Red Square due to ongoing events.

– Manezhnaya Square, which contains the oldest shopping centers capital and the State Historical Museum. You will also see the famous fountain complex "George the Victorious".

– On Sofiyskaya and Bersenevskaya embankments you will enjoy one of the most famous panoramic views of the Moscow River. From here you can see the Kremlin and the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in all its glory.

- WITH the heights of Sparrow Hills your mind will see the panorama of the whole city with a variety of attractions. From here you can perfectly see the modern business center Moscow City, the ancient Novodevichy Convent, sports facilities and, of course, the building of Moscow State University - one of the first universities in Russia.

- On Mosfilmovskaya street you can touch the magic of cinema and remember the classics of Soviet cinema. Walking here, you seem to find yourself in your favorite films from childhood.

- WITH Poklonnaya Hill connected with many tragic events in the history of our country. You can feel the atmosphere of this majestic place.

It is important to know:

– The tour starts gathering 15 minutes before the designated time, plan your route in advance so as not to be late.

– When boarding the bus, you must present a printed voucher or provide an order number. If you made a reservation on the site, then the tour can be paid in the salon, for this you need to arrive 30 minutes before the start of the tour, otherwise the reservation will be canceled.

- For persons under 18 years of age, combatants, students, pensioners and disabled people of I-II groups, concession tickets. Don't forget to bring a document confirming your privileged status with you.

– Please note that for tourist groups of 10 people, a prepayment is required.

Also you can visit four-hour daily tour of Moscow where you will get acquainted with the sights of the capital in more detail.

What does not happen in life, now I know how it goes tours of Moscow on a double-decker bus with audio guides :). And why not, in every decent European city there are. They are called "hop-on - hop-off", that is, "enter-exit". You buy a ticket for 1 or 2 days and you can ride, leaving and returning to the bus at least at every stop.

Tour of Moscow on a double-decker bus

So in Moscow, I had a chance to ride on the “hop-on-hop-off”. Actually, I intended to get into the Tretyakov Gallery, but the queue at the entrance did not inspire me. Standing on the street in such dank weather is not cool, I went where my eyes look, that is, forward. And on Bolotnaya Square I saw a red double-decker bus approaching, here they have the beginning and end of the ring route, right opposite the Luzhkov Bridge.

So, bus tour in Moscow on a red double-decker bus. Photo again from a smartphone, sorry :).

Tickets and benefits

The ticket price, of course, is quite biting for a banal excursion (especially with the recording of an audio guide, which you can neither ask clarifying questions nor listen to again if you get distracted). But then she and Moscow. How much does a 2 day city tour cost?

Because tickets are not sold for one day, only for two:

• 1200 rub. for adults
• 1000 rub. for pensioners and students,
• 800 for children under 13 and disabled people of 2-3 groups.
• Family tickets are cheaper (from 3,000 rubles for three).
• Free - weekdays only! - for children under 6 years old, disabled people of the 1st group, veterans of the Great Patriotic War and pensioners over 75 years old, journalists and hotel concierges.

For foreigners, all tickets for 300 rubles. expensive.

View all current prices (which are likely to increase in June due to the 2018 FIFA World Cup) and buy tickets online in advance

I don't qualify for any of the eligible categories. Well, why not feel like a tourist, especially in such weather and in a warm bus. Maybe I'll find out something interesting about familiar places. I paid, received a map of Moscow and headphones, and climbed to the second floor.

True, upon closer examination of the issued map with routes, it turned out that 200 rubles. You could still save if you have a ticket from the Moscow Museum (I just had a couple of tickets lying around in my bag) or 30% upon presentation of a check from the Detsky Mir chain of stores.

But they do not warn about this in advance, the card is issued after paying for the ticket. The steward refused to recalculate the tax. Say, who knows, he enjoys discounts. I wonder if anyone else goes on these tours?

Route they have two, duration without traffic jams:

• red #1 around the Kremlin — 1 hour, 10 km, 18 stops — Red area - Large Moskvoretsky bridge - Factory "Red October" - Sofiyskaya embankment (Drummer Cinema) - Sofiyskaya embankment (Balchug street),
• green number 2— via Vorobyovy Gory and Kievsky railway station — 2 hours, 20 km, 25 stops (Bolotnaya Square — Udarnik Cinema — Pushkin Bridge (on request) — Observation deck on Vorobyovy Gory — Europe Square — Kievskiy Railway Station — Embankment Taras Shevchenko - Hotel "Ukraine" - Berth of the flotilla "Radisson" - Borodinsky bridge - Novinsky Boulevard - Cinema "October" - Moscow House of Books - Arbatskaya Square - Patriarchal Bridge- Moskvoretsky bridge - Zaryadye - Kotelnicheskaya embankment).

Routes sometimes change, during traffic jams, detours are possible.

With a purchased ticket, you can ride on both routes an unlimited number of times, get off at stops for sightseeing, shopping or other needs, and then back to the bus (the interval on the red route is 15-20 minutes, on the green route - 30-40 minutes). )

Tour bus timetable

Start:

Buses on the short and long lines start running at 10 am from Bolotnaya Square all year round, seven days a week. Interval short route 15 minutes, long - 30.

Ending:

In summer, from May to October, the last flight of both routes departs at 18:00.

in winter, from November to April:

On weekdays: short red route number 1 - at 17:00, long green route number 2 - 16:40 .

On weekends and holidays: red route #1 and green route #2 — 17:20 .

Both routes on Bolotnaya:

Excursion

The second floor of the bus is half heated, the back is for the warm season, with an opening top:

It is really more interesting to look from the second floor, you can see the stucco molding on the walls of the houses.

The tour is conducted in eight languages, you can switch to Russian, English, German, Spanish, French, Chinese, Italian or Arabic in your headphones.

The audio guide, of course, is tuned to tourists of the first wave, do not expect special details about the buildings from it, although the story is slightly flavored with rumors and jokes. Well, for foreigners there are many explanations like this: Muscovites nicknamed the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff "the Russian Pentagon", and Novy Arbat was "Moscow's Las Vegas" before the casinos were banned.

pros sightseeing bus tour "hop-on - hop-off":

• you can ride for two days on one ticket, get off at interesting stops and take the next bus,
• in the cold season, you can warm up, if you don’t rush anywhere, you can roll 2-3 laps :),
• in summer you can buy a bus + boat ticket.

Bus audio guides, unlike live guides, of course, have their own minuses:

• the description of the objects you pass includes a steward. Accordingly, you will not be able to clarify or ask again. And even rewinding and re-listening (if you are suddenly distracted), as in individual museum audio guides, will not work.
• Since traffic jams are not uncommon in Moscow, especially weekdays, the pauses that have arisen are sometimes filled with general facts about the city, but their frequency also depends on the mood of the steward.

In general, the impression of excursions on Moscow double-decker buses is as follows: for those who came for the first time, it’s quite a reasonable price for two days of walking, for foreign tourists with the current exchange rate, it’s generally a freebie.

Just do not forget to take checks from Detsky Mir or museum tickets with you before the trip :).

Write your reviews about "hop-on - hop-off" tours, it's interesting to compare.

However, for that kind of money you can ride the metro in two days, and still have some left over for museums.

Or take a tour with a live guide who you can ask questions:

And in the center good weather It's better to walk, it's pretty close.

By the way, there is, it turns out to be free hiking on Red Square, on Tuesdays from 14:00 to 15:00:

There is also a cool option for an excursion even for Muscovites, a walk on the roofs of Moscow is very cool, breathtaking views and so many pictures you can take:

Tour ticket prices depend on the number of participants, type and duration of the tour. You can sort programs by cost, rating, and guest reviews. The list of inexpensive excursions includes historical, architectural, literary and water:

• By historical places . Architectural and historical ones will fill up the baggage of knowledge about the origin of Moscow, the stages of its development, residents, cultural and architectural values. You will be shown the exhibits famous museums, the legacy of the Kremlin, the magnificent architecture of the capital's mansions and theaters.
• From bird's eye view. We offer unforgettable excursions to the most high points capital Cities. With your guide you will see observation deck business center Moscow-City, the Ostankino TV tower and rise to the spire of one of the seven Stalinist skyscrapers.
• Boat trips. Unhurried cruises along the Moscow River are waiting for you. From the board of the ship or boat, sights will spread in front of you: the Moscow Kremlin, St. Basil's Cathedral, the Luzhniki stadium, the Park. Gorky. Excursions can be combined with a romantic date in a fish restaurant.
• Secrets and mysteries. Walks with diggers are waiting for you underground rivers and catacombs, an author's excursion to Stalin's bunker, acquaintance with the tunnels of the Moscow metro.

Moscow is majestic and incredibly beautiful, sightseeing routes can be very diverse, exciting and truly exciting. A walk through the main sights of the capital is The best way get acquainted with the history and life of the city, and excursions on a red double-decker bus around Moscow will just satisfy the needs of tourists and help you spend your day in the most comfortable and most informative way.

Excursion program

If you are a guest of the capital or just a Muscovite who wants to fill in the gaps in the memory of the history of your city and enjoy the landscapes and stunningly beautiful architectural structures, then buy tours of Moscow by bus, a tour of Moscow by bus is a trip, thanks to which every local and visiting "capital" tourist will be able to learn and discover something new, something that he probably did not even know about .

Sightseeing tours around the city can be both multi-day (two-day) and single (one day or 24 hours). As a rule, the route on the red bus passes a small circle, but at the same time, such tours allow passengers to get off the bus at any place, and then just likewise enter another bus running on an identical route.

Excursions around Moscow on a double-decker bus from City Sightseeing are of only two types. The first view is red, on the red bus No. 1, and the second is green, No. 2. These excursion tours have the same schedule, but the length and route they have is different.

In the first and second cases, i.e. in "red" and "green" - the trip starts from one place, namely from Bolotnaya Square, but in the first case there are 18 stops, and in the second - 30.

We bring to your attention the route and the main attractions at each stop, which passes the first - "red" bus with route number "1":

• Bolotnaya embankment (square). There are not many sights here, the embankment is better known for its historical events, such as the punishment of Yemelyan Pugachev, and other public executions. In the 18th century, there were a large number of monastic and princely gardens and kitchen gardens on the square, festivities were held and trade was conducted. But now it is a beautiful, ennobled park area, with a large number of shops, flower beds, monuments - I.E. Repin, the sculptural composition “Children are victims of the vices of adults”, the Luzhkov Bridge and its iron “Trees of Love” and just playgrounds where you can go for a walk with your family.
• House on the embankment (cinema "Drummer"). Built in the style of constructivism, the cinema building has a rich history and is the first cinema in Moscow to show sound films.
• Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge across the Moscow River. This bridge, which has long been “not stone”, is one of the main places where tourists come to enjoy the picturesque panorama that opens on the walls of the Kremlin, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the Archangel Cathedral, the Government House and other iconic sights of the capital.
• State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin. Well, there is no need to talk about this place. The Pushkin Museum was founded back in 1898, although it was called the Museum of Fine Arts and the name of Alexander III, but even since then the museum has been not just a university research center, it has been a place where the most incredible and authentic works of art of antiquity and modernity are collected.
• Moscow metro station "Kropotkinskaya". In addition to the marble-granite metro station itself, awarded the Grand Prix at the exhibition in Paris and Brussels, there are such famous sights on the surface as the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the Patriarchal Bridge, the Library. Lenin, a monument to Alexander II, as well as a huge number of museums and galleries.
• Lane Sivtsev Vrazhek. The lane is located between Gogolevsky Boulevard and per. Cash, on the very lane. Sivtsev Vrazhek is something to see. There is a huge number of residential buildings in which very famous actors, writers, top military leaders, doctors and many other public figures of the Soviet period used to live.
• Arbat Gate Square (Arbat Square). The square begins to come to life and fill with new colors in the evening and gathers a huge number of people on its territory. Here is the ground lobby of the Arbatskaya metro station, the Arbat Gate Square, the Mansion of the merchant Morozov, the Prague restaurant, the Peace Wall, the monument to N.V. Gogol, if you walk through these places, then evening tour promises to be very interesting.
• Mokhovaya street (Alexandrovsky garden). Driving along Makhovaya Street, you can see such sights as the Russian State Library, the monument to F.M. Dostoevsky, if you go to the parallel street (Manezhnaya), you can get to the Alexander Garden itself and to the northwestern wall of the Kremlin.
• Street and metro station "Okhotny Ryad". passing by Manezhnaya Square, the Geological Museum, you can see the famous "Okhotnoryadskaya" street, on which the Building of the Council of Labor and Defense, the hotel "Moscow", the lobby of the metro station in the house "Okhotny Ryad" and the house of the Unions are located.
• theatre square. Immediately after Okhotny Ryad, Teatralnaya Square begins, on which the Bolshoi, Molodezhny and Maly Theaters are located, the combined lobby of the Moscow metro stations Teatralnaya and Okhotny Ryad, the Metropol Hotel, as well as monuments to Vysotsky, Ostrovsky and Marx.
• Lubyanka metro station (Lubyanskaya sq.). When the sightseeing tour of Moscow reaches this square, it is better to get off the bus and walk around the square on foot, observing the whole architectural ensemble. On the square there is the Building of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, the Biblio-Globus Trade House, the KGB Computing Center, the Square and the Solovetsky Stone monument, the Detsky Mir department store, a museum and many other interesting buildings that require only multi-day excursions.
• Upper trading rows, GUM. Incredibly large shopping complex located and looking at main square country with its “face”, is still a “general store” where you can not only stock up, but also drink coffee in a cozy cafe and watch people passing by.
• Red Square. The most popular and demanded trip to the main square of Moscow is New Year's excursion. During this fabulous period, the square itself is transformed, a huge New Year tree appears on it and ice rink, which appeared for the first time on the square back in 2006. Of course, on other days and seasons, there are places to go and things to see on the square. These are St. Basil's Cathedral, a museum, the well-known mausoleum, the Execution Ground, the Upper and Middle Trading Rows, etc. Tourists are allowed to take “selfies” and shoot videos in the square and indoors.
• Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge. After the square, on a sightseeing red bus, you will pass along the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge, which stretches across the Moskva River, and then you will get to Balchug Street.
• Balchug street. Further excursions on a double-decker bus in Moscow are almost over, on this street you can look at the Balguch Kempinski hotel and the Balguch Plaza business center.
• Confectionery factory "Red October". Then the trip on the official City Sightseeing bus continues to the Krasny Oktyabr factory, founded back in 1851 and producing such famous sweets as Alyonka, Mishka kosolapy, Kara-Kum, Golden Key, etc.
• Cinema "Drummer". This "red" tour begins to finally close, returning to the famous cinema.
• Balchug street. Then again the tour leads to Balchug Street, and from there to Bolotnaya Square, where the bus picks up new passengers.

"Green" route number 2 also passes half of the listed attractions, and also includes such famous places, as Stary Arbat, Novospassky, Patriarchal, Bolshoy Ustinsky and Borodinsky bridges, Novospassky Monastery, Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul and others.

How to book an excursion

The tour can be booked online, which makes the "Moscow" route through the sights. To do this, you need to go to the official website or the website of City Sightseeing partners and make a purchase.

You can arrange both two-day and one-day excursions and pay for the ticket using the PayPal payment system.

Day Tour by City Sightseeing Bus

Day trips or 2 day trips on a red double decker are very convenient. At any time of the day, namely starting from 10:00 am, you can board a red double decker anywhere along the plying route.

There will be no need to look for buses at the station, as they stop at the "red" signs that are located around the city. The main and main stop of both routes is Bolotnaya Square near the monument.

red bus timetable

Double decker tour bus has two schedules:

• From May to October: the first flight leaves at 10 am and the last one at 17:15. On weekends, the last "first" route leaves the square at 18:30, and the "second" green one half an hour earlier, i.e. at 18:00.
• From November to April: the first flight on weekdays departs at 10:00, the last "red" and "green" flights at 17:00 and 16:00, respectively, on weekends and holidays at 18:00 and at 17:00.

Sometimes, due to the condition of the roads, possible repairs, due to possible Moscow traffic jams and other unforeseen circumstances, the schedule and the route itself, along which the double decker runs, may change without prior notice to passengers.

The duration of the first red bus running along route No. 1 lasts an average of 1 hour, while the double decker stops at the most remarkable sights for 10 minutes, throughout the route you can listen to an audio guide that tells about historical incidents and about the sights themselves on 8 languages ​​of the world.

In terms of length, flight No. 1 takes about 10 km of the way, but it passes them in an hour, so that all tourists can take full-fledged and high-quality photographs from the second floor of the bus. Route number 2 - longer than the first twice (20 km), therefore, more time will be spent on the trip, namely 1.5-2 hours, depending on the state of the roads and congestion.

Excursion red double-deckers run daily, seven days a week, multi-day (more than 2 days) or excursions from Moscow are not provided, since the bus makes its flight along the route within the Moscow Ring Road and in one hour.

But those who purchased a ticket on the spot or via the Internet are given the opportunity to use the services of the bus for one or two days, getting on and off the board at any time of the day until 18:00, the so-called "hop-on hop-off".

Prices for sightseeing tours in Moscow

In general, the price of a ticket for a red sightseeing double decker in Moscow depends on several factors.:

1. The ticket price is different for residents and foreign travelers. For the latter, it is a little more expensive than for Muscovites or people living in other regions of Russia.
2. The ticket price depends on the number of days, there are two options: either 1 day, i.e. 24 hours or two days.
3. The ticket price differs depending on which category of passengers you belong to. For adult residents, the cost of 1 day excursion is 1,000 rubles per person, for pensioners and students - 800 rubles, for children (from 0 to 6 years old), disabled people of the 1st group and veterans of the Great Patriotic War - free of charge. For children over 6 years old and disabled people of groups 2 and 3 - 600 rubles.

It is also possible to purchase a small discount by choosing the family rate, if the family consists of two adults and one child - 2,400 rubles for all, two adults + two children - 2,800, two + three - 3,200 rubles.

On average in Moscow, ordering a bus for an excursion starts from 700 rubles per hour. Therefore, if you purchase a hop-on hop-off ticket, then you save at least 10 times the cost of the tour.

Having spent only 1000 rubles, you have the opportunity to ride around Moscow sights throughout the day and at any time convenient for you.