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Close-up of the Statue of Liberty
Annie Moore Statue by by Jeanne Rynhart
Liberty Island in New York City, New York
Landscape view of the Statue of Liberty
Statue of Liberty

Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island with Expert Guide

By Babylon Tours
Free cancellation available
Price is £119 per adult
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 3h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
Overview
  • Hop from one island to another with your local guide
  • Enjoy a guided tour with a personal touch
  • Learn about America's immigration history
  • Get as close as you can to the world famous Statue of Libert
  • Discover the list of immigrants names at the Wall of Honour

Activity location

  • Statue of Liberty
    • Liberty Island - Ellis Island
    • Jersey City, New Jersey, United States of America

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Bronze statue ‘the immigrants’ (Luis Sanguino) in battery park, just southeast of castle Clinton
    • Battery Park, New York
    • 10004, New York, New York, United States of America

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PRIVATE Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Guided Tour
  • Activity duration is 3 hours3h3h
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 09:00
Price details
£282.21 x 2 Adults£564.42

Total
Price is £564.42
Small Group tour up to 8 guests
  • Activity duration is 3 hours3h3h
  • English

SAVE Money and book this Small Group tour option up to 8 guests per guide!

Language options: English
Starting time: 09:00
Price details
£118.61 x 1 Adult£118.61

Total
Price is £118.61

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedPrivate guide just for you or Semi-private group up to 8 guests per guide
  • What's includedWhat's includedProfessional local tour guide
  • What's includedWhat's includedEntrance fee
  • What's includedWhat's included3 hour guided tour
  • What's includedWhat's includedBoat tickets
  • What's includedWhat's includedWheelchair Tour under Request Only
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedTour price does NOT include hotel pickup or drop-off (we recommend UBER or Taxi)
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedTour price does NOT include luggage or coat storage

Know before you book

  • Please provide a mobile phone number and email you can be reached at during your trip
  • Small amount of walking is involved
  • Wheelchair tour only available as PRIVATE (guide will not be able to provide a small group tour for guests that require wheelchair)
  • In accordance with UK consumer law, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

What you can expect

Follow in the footsteps of over 12 million foreigners seeking roads paved with gold in the New World on this tour of the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Explore these New York landmarks on a 3 hour private guided tour, following your guide on a walk through time when America embraced immigration more than ever.

The tour begins at Battery Park, one of the oldest parts of Manhattan. Here you’ll find the country’s first immigration centre, Castle Garden Immigration Station, which operated until Ellis Island opened. Take a ferry to visit Liberty Island where the Statue of Liberty keeps an eye on incoming ships. You’ll learn all about Fort Wood, which now acts as the base for the statue, offered to the US by France in 1886. You’ll hear all about its creator, Bartholdi, as well as contributions by famed architect Gustave Eiffel, of Tower fame. Another ferry will whisk you across the water to Ellis Island. Here, millions of European newcomers wandered the very island that you will visit, learning about the medical examines and surprising conditions faced by immigrants. Learn about the island layout, and where immigrants who were quarantined were housed. You’ll end at the Wall of Honour, where you can search for your family’s name among some 700,000 names commemorating those who entered the United States here. After the tour, your guide will introduce you to the museum to further explore the exhibits and history of the island. This tour is the ideal way to remember, and celebrate, the immigrants that contributed so much to America’s success.

Highlights Include: (But not limited to)

Battery Park

Castle Garden Immigration Station

Governors Island – the other forts

Liberty Island

Base of Fort Wood – Fort’s history

Inside – original torch

Bartholdi, construction, Eifel, Hunt, opening

Verrazano Bridge & immigrant journey

Ellis Island

Wall of honour

We’re more than just storytellers. Our young, passionate, and engaging guides approach touring in a different way. They will bring a personal touch to each tour, adding their own favourite anecdotes and tips along the way. They are there to listen to you, to answer your questions, and to create a dialogue – unlike other tours where they just lecture you as you go along. That’s the whole reason why we specialise in private and semi-private tours exclusively, to make sure you get the most possible out of your experience.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESStatue of Liberty
    • Liberty Island - Ellis Island
    • Jersey City, New Jersey, United States of America

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEBronze statue ‘the immigrants’ (Luis Sanguino) in battery park, just southeast of castle Clinton
    • Battery Park, New York
    • 10004, New York, New York, United States of America