Private Tour
Ultimate Newport Self-Guided Audio Tour Bundle: Walk & Drive
Overview
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Visit historic, coastal Newport at your own pace during this attraction-packed, self-guided tour. Follow a carefully chosen itinerary and live GPS map, with stops at celebrated mansions like the Bellevue House, the chateau-inspired Elms, and the iconic Vanderbilt home, the Breakers, plus natural sights like Easton’s Beach and Fort Adams State Park.
• A self-guided tour of Newport’s top historic & natural attractions
• Ideal for groups: purchase only one tour per car, & everyone can listen in
• Take as long or as little as you’d like in each location, with plenty of enriching audio
After booking, check your email to download the separate Audio Tour Guide App by Action, enter your unique password, & access your tour. These steps require good internet/Wi-Fi access. From there, follow the audio instructions and the route.
Buy once, use for one year! Ideal for extended visits and return trips over the next 12 months. This isn't an entrance ticket. Check opening hours before your visit.
Additional Info
Public transportation options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
How To Access: After booking, you’ll get an email and text with setup instructions and password (search “audio tour” in emails and texts). • Download the separate tour app by Action • Enter the password sent by email and text. • MUST download the tour while in strong wifi/cellular. • Works offline after download.
How to start touring: Open Action’s separate audio tour guide app once onsite. • If there is just one tour, launch it. • If multiple tour versions exist, launch the one with your planned starting point and direction.
Go to the starting point No one will meet you at the start. This tour is self-guided Enter the first story’s point and the audio will begin automatically Follow the audio cues to the next story, which will also play automatically. Enjoy hands-free exploring. If you face audio issues, contact support. Stick to the tour route & speed limit for the best experience.
Travel worry-free: Use the tour app anytime, on any day, and over multiple days. Start and pause the tour whenever you like, taking breaks and exploring side excursions at your own pace. Skip anything you don’t care about or explore bonus content for everything that interests you
Savings tips: Driving tours: purchase just one tour for everyone in the car
Audio Setup: Connect your phone to your car's stereo system using Bluetooth, USB, or AUX. For the best experience, consider using headphones for walking tours. Audio playback is compatible with Apple CarPlay, with navigation features coming soon. Support for Android Auto is also on the way.
For the best experience, please use an iPhone running iOS 15 or later, an Android device running version 9 or later, or an iPad/tablet with GPS and cellular connectivity, as these are recommended for navigation.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What To Expect
Newport Visitors Information Center
Our journey begins in downtown Newport, just by the Newport Visitor Center. As we set off into the heart of Newport, we'll dive into the past to learn about Newport's hey-day: the Gilded Age. This era of nouveau-riche American elites like the Vanderbilts and Astors has been marked by gorgeous mansions. We'll explore the architecture and architects behind these designs as drive. Note: The tour is over 10+ miles long per tour, with more than 30+ audio stories per tour, and takes about 2-3 hours per tour to complete. Buy once, use for one year! Ideal for extended visits and return trips over the next 12 months.
International Tennis Hall of Fame
At the International Tennis Hall of Fame intersection, we'll turn onto the famed Bellevue Avenue -- the most expensive avenue in America. We're about to see the most magnificent homes ever built in this country... facetiously known as "summer cottages". You can choose to pause here to check ou the Hall of Fame, which features tennis greats.
What‘s Included
Easy-to-use app: download Action’s Tour Guide App onto your phone
Great value: purchase per car, not per person. More affordable than bus or guided tours!
Engaging storytelling: Uncover unique tales and thrilling history for a memorable journey!
Perfect narrator: nothing can beat listening to a great voice. Proven with tons of rave reviews!
Offline maps: no signal, no problem! Works perfectly without cellular or wifi.
Comprehensive route and stops: See it all, miss nothing, leave no stone unturned!
Go at your own pace: Start anytime, pause anywhere, enjoy breaks for snacks and photos freely!
Hands-free: audio stories play on their own based on your location. Easy to use!
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Ultimate Newport Self-Guided Audio Tour Bundle: Walk & Drive
Reviews
30 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Great experience!
Frieda G,,Dec 12, 2025
- Review from Viator
4.00I Am sooo glad we did the driving tour. It took us places we didn’t know were there and we would never have seen. To get the best experience look for places to pull over, park, and really listen to the stories.
Great guide around Newport
Theodore M,,Nov 21, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00The directions worked well, and we loved the background information. We liked the ability to pause and restart the tour, and to pick it back up at any landmark. Well worth the minimal cost.
Newport audio tour drive and walk
aleks958,,Oct 7, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
2.00It started pretty good, but during the road trip it will skip some stops or it will start and then abruptly stoped in the middle of the sentences even if I was driving pretty slow.
Newport History
rab-pgh,,Sep 15, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Great app if have lots or limited time. Worked seamlessly & was extremely informative. We stopped a couple times at points of interest
Efficient and easy to use.
TomD541,,Jul 30, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00This is useful and well organized. It runs off of your cellphone, and allows a good amount of control to stop and restart, plus links very well through some kind of GPS signal to keep track of where you are automatically, thereby adjusting what the narrator is saying to where you actually are, as well as giving you a map of directions. A well thought out product.
Customers read carefully- no visitor center in the location indicated!
Laurel L,,Jun 14, 2025
- Review from Viator
3.00Ok so right away we had problems getting the app to work, as others reported. We called the number we were given and got a voicemail! I sent an email and never received an email. Finally someone called us back and he had such a thick accent we could hardly understand him. We finally got the program working and couldn’t control the volume for the introduction. The associate said we had to go to the first location listed and we spent 30 minutes trying to locate it-the visitor center. Every sign indicated it was in the transportation center(bus station) but there were no signs when we got there. I asked a worker at the aquarium if she knew where the information center was and she said it used to be in the same building as the bus station but it wasn’t there anymore! I have been to Newport numerous times so I decided to head to Bellevue Ave, which was stop number ?, and the narration began when we arrived there and we were finally able to control the volume. All of this took us over an hour…a wasted hour!!
Newport, RI and Boston area vacation
jamesrJ3707BV,,Aug 21, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
4.0040mins from Newport, RI as this trip was to visit that area and chose this BW to stay at as it was centrally located between the two cities
Great overview of Newport
Deana W,,Jul 8, 2024
- Review from Viator
5.00The tour was great for an overall view of Newport. We enjoyed the narration, the timing, and the sights.
Great way to tour the Newport Gilded Age mansions area
G3877ZSelizabethk,,Jun 18, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
4.00Tried my first ever car audio tour through Viator for the Newport RI gilded age "cottages." I really enjoyed the narration that shared history and interesting stories not only about the properties, but other notable properties and areas as well. The ease of stopping the audio to walk around a property or tour a mansion was great. I did have some issues with connectivity in one of two places when the audio seemed to skip sections, however overall I really enjoyed it.
Good trip
Denise S,,Apr 16, 2024
- Review from Viator
4.00Loved seeing the steps and mansions. Sometimes a bit confusing, but overall a good experience for the cost.
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