Statue of Liberty: Pre-Ferry Express Tour

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New York

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Experience the Statue of Liberty like never before with express pre-ferry tickets and a visit to the brand new Statue of Liberty Museum. Enjoy priority boarding, a guided orientation tour, and a self-guided audio tour in multiple languages.

Duration: 4 hours

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

Battery Park - Guided tour of Battery Park
Castle Clinton National Monument - Pass by as you learn the history of Castle Clinton from you tour guide on the way to the Statue of Liberty Ferry
Statue of Liberty - As you get off the ferry you will visit and enjoy the grounds of Liberty Island. Take take and go through the Statue of Liberty Museum
Ellis Island - Enjoy the ground of Ellis Island and visit the Wall of Hero’s. Look to see if you can discover your families name. Visit the Ellis Island Museum.

What's Included

Priority Boarding to the ferry
Multilingual audio tour headsets for Ellis Island
Multilingual audio tour headsets for the Statue of Liberty National Monument
Express Boarding to the ferry
Entry to Statue of Liberty Museum
30-minute Statue of Liberty and Battery Park Orientation Tour
Entry to the Ellis Island National Immigration Museum (unless 2 PM tour selected)
Ferry tickets to Liberty Island
Live tour guide on Liberty Island and Ellis Island (if Guided Tour option chosen)
Ferry tickets to Ellis Island

What's Not Included

Live tour guide inside Statue of Liberty Museum
Live tour guide inside the Ellis Island Museum
Access to the pedestal or crown of the Statue of Liberty
Gratuities

Additional Information

Embark on a 30-minute familiarization journey at the Statue of Liberty and take advantage of express quick access to the Statue of Liberty Ferry Liberty to reach the statue. Your guide will aid you navigate the processes for boarding the ferry heading to Liberty Island. Make use of priority boarding to spare significant time. Immerse in a self-guided audible tour with the supplied headphones, available in nine languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Russian, and Arabic.

Cross the New York Harbor to the Statue of Liberty. Gain entry to the new Statue of Liberty Museum situated on Liberty Island.

Audio tours are available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Russian and Arabic.
Family friendly audio tours designed for children ages 6-10 are also available in the same languages.
A mandatory airport grade security screening is conducted prior to boarding the ferry. This means no liquids, alcohol, weapons or large bags are allowed.
Depending on the queues, and time of year, any tour departing from 1pm onwards may not make it to Ellis Island before it closes for the day,
Minors (17 or under) must be accompanied by an adult (25+)
Due to local regulations, the Statue of Liberty Museum, Ellis Island, and the Ellis Island Immigration Museum may not be open on the date of your visit
August 2024 – Due to construction, priority boarding is temporarily suspended OR
August 2024 – Due to construction, express boarding is temporarily suspended

Location

24 State St

State Street

24 State Street is also known as One Battery Park Plaza. The tour guide wearing a yellow uniform will meet you on the plaza outside Starbucks. Do not enter Battery Park. Do not go to the Statue of Liberty ticket booth as they will not have your tickets.

Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings

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Brent_g

Sep 25, 2024

Best Tour For Avoiding the Lines - So there are some pros and cons with this tour. Pros are that you will avoid the rampant scams at this location and you will always go right to the front of some VERY long lines. If you want to visit Lady Liberty up close and personal AND see Ellis Island with a knowledgeable tour guide on a tight schedule, this is the tour for you. But there’s a con here: You are NOT going to have the time to see everything you want to see at each location. The Statue of Liberty offers great photo opportunities, a self guided audio tour, you can go under the Statue, and there’s a gift shop at each location. Pick two. After the 15 minute oral history that could frankly be condensed, you’ll be lucky to do two of them. There are much longer and more inclusive tours of the statue available, including a spiral staircase to the crown, but this turns it into an all day ordeal. Same deal on Ellis Island. You will have time to go upstairs, take some pictures, and go to the bathroom. I think these tours could each be lengthened by 45 minutes and they would be perfect. If you’re on a time crunch, this tour is perfect for you. If you are the type to want to see and do everything there is to do at a tourist location, you will end up being frustrated and disappointed with this one. It really just depends on what you’re looking for.

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Hope_a

Jul 2, 2024

Trip worthy taking! - The trip was well worth it. I was amazed by the size of the statue and the history behind it was interesting knowledge gathered from my guide Caesar 🙏

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Debbie_g

May 26, 2024

Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island Tour - We had beautiful weather for this tour, which added to the fun! Our guide, Nina, had great stories and information about the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. We had plenty of time to explore the areas on our own also. We did learn that the boats, Liberty Island Cruises, is the only company that will take you to the island and drop you off for the tours. There are many scams out there where they try to get you to book on their boats that do not drop you off at the islands, so beware and use a legitimate tour company like Viator to book your tours and avoid this! This was a good one!

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Luke_t

Dec 2, 2023

Enjoyed our trip - Really informative, definitely worth doing! Our tour guide was very clued up and we had a good time exploring the islands.

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Joi_b

Apr 3, 2024

Not worth the money. - Very disorganized and not worth the money. Our tour guide tried to get our group of 20 people to cut the very long ferry line, which caused a great disturbance. The information given at the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island was not worth what we paid.

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Cathy_d

Apr 2, 2024

New York Statue of Liberty and Ellis island - Was not happen when your guide helper tried to cut an hr long line and caused commotion ending up going to back of line anyway snd cutting out your short. The tour guide herself was informative but our tour was delayed an hr because of the mishap. I would have cancelled if you could have tss as irk phone call

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Barbara_a

Jul 28, 2024

Very Disappointed - We arrived early to find out to our surprise our tour was a French bilingual tour no one told us that before signing up. I would not have signed up for that. We landed at the Liberty island and were quickly given some factual details about lady liberty. Our guide then encouraged us to go ahead while he delivered the French version of tour. He would MEET us. He never did . All in all I will not recommend your tour company to anyone.

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Mehdi_a

Jul 10, 2024

Unreliable - This company are the most unreliable company they get ur money no service misleading I never ever trust nor believe this company

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Rafael_r

Jun 22, 2024

rip off - the two hour line under the sun was horrible! i paid for an express entry pass and that was a lie. tickets were 25$ at the door and we paid double for nothing,

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