Description

Welcome to Historic Tours of Newport's mobile app for SELF-DRIVING tours! Don't want to spend the high cost to take the narrated bus tour of Newport? Would you rather have flexibility in exploring this historic town yourself? Then this app is the perfect guide for you. Turn your phone into a personal tour guide, take a tour in your own car, go at your own time and save big !.

You can download this GPS controlled app on your own Apple or Android phone. Once you start it, it works completely hands-free. Think of it as your Tour GPS. It will focus on all the attractions you pass and also give you basic directions. As you come closer to an attraction, it will automatically pop-up its picture for you to confirm and start playing the audio on its own. You will not have to touch the phone during the whole tour. And, you will not miss any sight seeing location.

The tour circles around the Newport island. It will show you the downtown area, go past the famous Bellevue and on to the Ocean drive in a clockwise round circle. You can enter the circle at any point and exit at any point. You will pass more than 50 stops in the circle and view/listen to all their stories. If you drive non-stop, it will take about 90 minutes. The tour is prepared by "Historic Tour of Newport" guides who have been doing the bus tours in Newport for several years. You will find them very professional.

Most visitors take tourist bus for a similar tour. However, the bus has a fixed schedule, you have to be there on time, and it costs a lot for each person. With a bus, you have no flexibility to take the tour when you want to or take a break when you find something you really love. The bus would want you to be with the group all the time. In this case, you will be sitting in your own card and take the tour. So, you can start anytime, anywhere and end anytime anywhere. You can take a break anywhere and take that sunset picture over the ocean.

Once downloaded, the app can run offline without a data plan. This app will provide you with an audio-visual tour of the architectural, social and religious history of Newport, RI from the 1600s to the Gilded Age of the 1900s.


You will see and learn about:

Newport downtown (Thames St, Jailhouse, Brick market, Theater, Synagogue, Redwood library)

Gilded Age mansions along the historic Bellevue Avenue (Breakers, Elms, Marble House, and more)

Newport's rich history filled with everything from presidents to pirates

Scenic Ocean Drive (state park, lighthouse, Fort Adams, Beacon Rock)

Cliff walk (40 stops)
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You simply have to download the app, launch the tour, and begin driving. The app will automatically show you where you are and where the nearby points of interest are. When you approach a point of interest, the app will automatically begin narrating the story and provide an image and script alongside, for your convenience. It's totally hands-free!

NOTE: ​You can start anywhere in the circle. ​It is ​the ​best to ​go in a clockwise direction: Visitor's Center, ​downtown, ​Bellevue Ave, around Ocean Drive​ and back ​. The app is optimised for a "clockwise" tour around Newport.

Historic Tours of Newport will amaze you with details and stories of 380 years of local history. Download today and start exploring!