About this guide

Statue Guide is an independent guide to visiting the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island in New York Harbor. We are not the National Park Service, not Statue City Cruises, not a tour company and not GetYourGuide. We read the bookable listings side by side so you can see which boat lands, which ticket opens which part of the island, and which tour fits your group and your day.

Facts on this site are checked against official sources, above all the National Park Service pages for the Statue of Liberty National Monument and Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, the ferry operator's own schedule and ticket pages, Save Ellis Island, the City of New York for the Staten Island Ferry, and the live GetYourGuide listings. Tour details such as duration, group size, meeting point, age rules and what is included are listing data for that one tour, and we say so. When a listing, the park or the operator disagrees with this page, they win.

The site is funded by affiliate commissions: when you book through a GetYourGuide link here, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. That never changes what we write, including that most "Statue of Liberty cruises" do not land, that several guided listings keep their guides outside the monument, and that crown tickets are a separate reservation that sells out months ahead. Details on the affiliate disclosure page.

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