Take on the tourist bus

Can somebody explain the appeal of one of those indoor bus tours where
you get 80 fanny-pack wearing hillbillies from Wichita to pay $100
each to sit in traffic throughout Manhattan. At least those red buses
are hop-on hop-off, so you can get off the death trap if you realize
your driver has a death wish or more likely you are sick of staring at
the same Times Square sign for the fifth red-light. These new ones
offer stadium seating facing out of one side of the bus...which also
means you can't see anything that is happening on the other side, so
if your bus driver ends up driving south on the West Side Highway, you
get a great view of 12th avenue and no view of the river