Pat's Uninteresting Tours was a series of themed route bus tours that offered an alternative to the usual sightseeing tours. Taking passengers on a four-hour comedy excursion to downmarket locations it operated in Sydney, Australia during the mid to late 1980s.
The premise was to conduct paying passengers on a bus and expose them to ordinary situations in incongruous contexts - actively avoiding normal tourist attractions and visiting uninteresting sites. These included wine tasting at a rubbish tip, "experiencing fresh air" at the sewage works and formal dinner at a road-side diner. Passengers were encouraged to dress in tourist garb for the day tours and tacky evening wear for night tours.[1] After TV New Zealand program That's Fairly Interesting recorded a segment, tours were conducted in Wellington, Christchurch, Palmerston North and later Auckland.[2][3]
- ^ Mandy Nash, "Moving theatre tours the eyesores" The Eastern Herald 12 November 1987
- ^ Evening Standard, Palmerston North 25 July 1988
- ^ "Communicado: Pat's Uninteresting Tours", That's Fairly Interesting presented by Neil Roberts TVNZ July 1988