With December around the corner, it’s finally time to start watching “Elf” whenever you can. But, wouldn’t it be even more festive to see those filming locations in person?
On this “New York Holiday Lights and Movie Sites Bus Tour,” you can visit some of the iconic spots that you get to see in the “Elf” movie.
This bus tour running now until Jan. 2, 2025 for a fun way to spread holiday cheer — besides singing loud for all to hear, of course.
Plus, tickets are under $60. You can’t pass that up.
If you want to see filming locations from your favorite holiday movies, such as “Elf” and “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,” then here is how you can get tickets.
How to get NYC Christmas Bus Tour tickets
Tickets for this holiday bus tour are $58, which means they are destined to fly off the market before you can even say “cotton-headed ninny muggins.”
Every “New York Holiday Lights and Movie Sites Bus Tour” starts at 7:15 p.m. and will run for 2.5 hours.
The list of dates, times, ticket types, and prices for the “New York Holiday Lights and Movie Sites Bus Tour” is available for purchase on Get Your Guide.
What can you do at the ‘New York Holiday Lights and Movie Sites Bus Tour?’
Movie fans who buy tickets for the “New York Holiday Lights and Movie Sites Bus Tour” will get to see several iconic scenes from fan-favorite holiday movies, especially “Elf.”
A local New York actor will take ticket holders all around New York City on a bus where you will get to see the apartment where Buddy the Elf stays with his dad in the film “Elf.”
You’ll also be able to relive when Macaulay Culkin reunited with his mom in “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York” in front of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. What is more festive than that?
Plus, you will get a “peek into the brilliant holiday windows at Bloomingdale’s, Lord and Taylor, and the same Macy’s from ‘Miracle on 34th Street,’” according to the tour listing.
If you want to see the “Elf” filming locations in particular, here are all the locations the holiday movie was filmed in New York City:
- Park Avenue at East 38th Street (where Buddy hails his first cab once landing in NYC)
- Rockefeller Center (where buddy went on his date with Jovie)
- Bethesda Terrace (where Buddy and Santa have their show down with the Central Park rangers)
- Pine Bank Arch Bridge in Central Park (where the snowball fight scene took place)
- The Empire State Building (where Buddy meets his dad for the first time)
- “Gimbels Department Store” located on 5th Avenue and East 30th Street
If you want to see filming locations from this movie along with other classics, like “Serendipity” and “Scrooged,” you should secure tickets soon.
Upcoming events heading to New York City
The “New York Holiday Lights and Movie Sites Bus Tour” is not the only holiday event going on in New York City.
Here are a few more holiday events you do not want to miss: Derek Hough, The Radio City Rockettes, Mariah Carey and Mannheim Steamroller.
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