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VIVID Lights Tour
Highlights
- Experience vibrant light installations and live music on a 2-hour guided tour through Sydney's dazzling VIVID festival.
- Savour panoramic harbour views while enjoying a unique moving perspective of Sydney's bustling food scene.
- Join knowledgeable guides who bring the festival to life with engaging stories and insights, enhancing your night out.
- Delight in a family-friendly atmosphere, perfect for creating unforgettable memories with loved ones during this spectacular event.
From street-level projections to panoramic harbour views, Big Bus Sydney offers a unique moving perspective of the festival — beyond the harbour foreshore and across the city itself, nightly from 22 May until 13 June 2026.
Join us on a 2-hour guided tour, featuring the festival’s vibrant mix of spectacular light installations, live music, creative ideas and Sydney’s buzzing food scene — all from an elevated perspective above the crowds.
Bring your VIVID experience to life with our Big Bus live guides.
Tour details
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Available from 22 May 2026 to 13 June 2026
Features
Service facilities
Actively welcomes people with access needs.
General access
- Offers multiple options for booking – web, email, phone is available.
- Offers a range of contact methods for receiving complaints.
- Companion Cards are accepted.
- Staff are trained in disability awareness.
- Advise tour guides of the access needs of guests at the time of booking (includes pick up and drop off requirements)
- Assistance with booking arrangements (includes providing clear itineraries with written instructions on what to do at various destinations)
Vision
Caters for people who are blind or have vision loss.
- Information in audio format (includes an audio described map of their venue, audio descs of performances and/ or displays) is available.
- Handrails on all stairways
Physical – Mobility
Caters for people with sufficient mobility to climb a few steps but who would benefit from fixtures to aid balance. (This includes people using walking frames and mobility aids)
- Uses floors/coverings which are slip resistant, firm and smooth
- Grab rails in the bathroom
- Seating in common areas including reception area
Physical – Wheelchair
Caters for people who use a wheelchair.
- Step free outdoor pathways (includes picnic areas, barbecues and shelters)
- Doorways which are easy to open and have lever handles (doorways 850mm or wider when open and not heavy).
- Portable ramps.
- At least one wheelchair accessible parking space with wheelchair accessible signage clearly displayed (International standards are 3200mm wide x 2500 mm high).
- Wheelchair accessible transport options available in the general vicinity (provide information on name of the operator, phone and website link to individual providers for private vehicles, community transport train, mini vans, hire cars, buses, taxis, ferry, tram, light rail etc in their access statement).
Physical – High support needs
Caters for people with high support needs who travel with a support person.
Operation information
Big Bus Sydney
Experience all the excitement of Sydney, Australia’s famous harbour city with a Big Bus Sydney sightseeing tour- Sydney’s only hop-on hop-off tourist bus service.
As well as Sydney’s glorious harbour and stunning beaches the city offers a multi-cultural lifestyle, exuberant festivals and events, a dynamic food scene and a striking cityscape of modern and colonial architecture.
Don’t miss a thing aboard the open-top double-decker bus tours with 34 stops along the Sydney City and Bondi Beach and Harbour Bays tours. Both tours are included in your ticket price making this great sightseeing value.
The hop-on, hop-off facility enables you to get on and off the bus at a number of exciting places to explore at your leisure. You can take a break from your tour whenever you wish to visit attractions and landmarks and re-join the tour at your convenience.
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Memberships
- Australian Tourism Export Council
- International Cruise Council of Australasia
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