San Francisco Shuttle Tour

San Francisco, United States of America

See San Francisco in a more intimate way on this comprehensive small group shuttle tour! You''ll travel in a comfortable air-conditioned shuttle bus accompanied by an expert tour guide and enjoy ten stops in San Francisco - more than any other tour. A ferry trip to or from the picturesque village of Sausalito is included in the tour price and you will be accompanied throughout the tour by an expert guide.

There's time for you to leave the shuttle at all ten stops to explore and take pictures on this five-hour tour, which drives over San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate Bridge and visits Lombard Street, The Palace of Fine Arts, Chinatown and many more attractions! Choose from a morning or midday departure, or why not upgrade your tour to visit Muir Woods in the afternoon? You're sure to receive an in-depth overview of the 'city by the bay' on this small group San Francisco shuttle tour!

Departing from the central meeting point at San Francisco's Ferry Building, the morning tour will commence with an in-depth city tour, stopping at the following famous locations:

• Golden Gate Bridge (drive)
• Chinatown (guided walk)
• Palace of Fine Arts
• Nob Hill
• Grace Cathedral
• Lombard Street (downhill walk)
• Golden Gate Park
• Japanese Tea Garden
• Alamo Square Park "7 Sisters"
• Sausalito

After an hour's break in the artist's haven of Sausalito, you guide will accompany you on a scenic cruise across the bay, passing Alcatraz, Angel Island, the Bay Bridge and towering Coit Tower before arriving back at the Ferry Building. The midday tour operates in the reverse direction, commencing with the cruise to Sausalito, where you can spend a free hour browsing the quaint shops along the waterfront before boarding your shuttle for the city tour.

Muir Woods Upgrade

Save time and money by combining the morning city tour with a visit to beautiful Muir Woods in the afternoon. Muir Woods is a short distance from Sausalito, and you will travel up the Marin Headlands to reach the woods, where you will spend 90 minutes of free time (admission to woods is included) - longer than any other tour! On the return trip you will stop at Muir Beach for a stunning outlook over the Pacific Ocean before returning to Sausalito for the ferry cruise back to San Francisco. A great-value and winning tour combination!

USD $69.99

Review by: Lesli K	April 2012
We had a great day on this tour. It was fast and we covered a lot of ground but, we were able to see the highlights of the city and know where we would like to return on our next trip to San Francisco. Our guide, Molly and driver, Emillio were great!

Review by: Terri L	April 2012
Great tour to get an overview of the beautiful city. Our guide, Dennis, was awesome!! He was a wealth of knowledge about the city and the sights we were seeing, and provided terrific recommendations about sights where we were on our own. We highly recommend this trip!!

Review by: Mrs L M B	March 2012
I enjoyed the trip, but it was a little misleading to say that it was a 5 hour trip as this included an hour lunch stop and the ferry back across from Sausalito. There were one or two additional buildings that it would have been good to include - City Hall (instead of just a quick view through the side streets) and also St. Peters and St. Pauls Cathedral. However, the trip was very enjoyable and the guide very knowledgable and good fun.

Review by: Kaaren W	February 2012
very thorough tour. we enjoyed the Sausilito shops and boat ride. The commentary was good and we had plenty of time at each stop

Review by: Niall S	January 2012
Excellent tour, very informative tour guide, felt I had seen the highlights of San Francisco_ Would have liked a bit more time in Sausalito, but easy enough to get back there on own.

Review by: Carlo M	December 2011
Was very informative, great, very knowledgeable and fun guide. Saw so many places of interest which you cannot going around on your own. It rained alot through the whole tour and only stoped once tour had ended. This did impact on our day.and our enjoyment of it.

Review by: Catharine H	November 2011
Excellent staff, very comfortable car, great locations to see, excellent timing for discovering the important spots and excellent quality of information provided by the tour guide.

Review by: Rita H	October 2011
This tour is the best option for the first or second day of your stay. You get an excellent inside in the main sightseeing points in SF. And you can walk around Lombard street ode China Town, not just drive through. Guide gives super good informations on the places in a way you can memorize easy. Bus is medium size and also very comfortable, small group and good tips for lunch in Sausalito.

Review by: HELEN P	October 2011
Excellent trip, tour guide was very good

Review by: Stuart J	October 2011
First let me say our tour guide was wonderful. Her love and knowledge of San Francisco were very evident and she was a pleasure. Now the bad part. The viator description of this tour has major errors. This is not a small group shuttle. It's a big bus with 45 people. I was expecting 20 max. There was no water on the bus, despite the description. Finally, and most importantly, you do not have the option to stay in Sausilito and take a later ferry back unless you pay for the ferry yourself...which you already paid for once in the price of this trip. You only get one hour in Sausilito to eat lunch on your own and tour/shop. Not enough for this lovely town. We decided to stay on our own, and spent 4 hours, then paid to take the ferry back. The tour guide cannot give you your ticket for the ferry, as she has only one group ticket that includes everyone. The description of this trip says otherwise. This was really annoying. Don't take this trip unless you are prepared to accept the items lacking as described above.

Review by: ZAKLINA K	September 2011
Loved it, San Francisco is a beautiful city. Tour was great, we saw lots of attractions. Great way to see the city.

Review by: Su Yen P	September 2011
A must for 1st timer in San Fran. Our tour guide Victoria@MamaVicky is wonderful! Very knowledgeable and my family enjoy the trip tremendously!

Review by: setmediccheri	September 2011
As a gift to my Dad, we took this tour to see the sights of San Francisco. What we didn't expect was to learn so much about the history of this area. It's a great "overview" tour because you wont spend too much time in one place but what it does it give you an idea of what you might want to see on another visit. Excellent tour guide (Jerry) and driver (Paul) and well worth the price of the ticket.

Review by: tprettejohn	September 2011
The tour was very interesting and the places visited were great.

Review by: Carolyn S	September 2011
Booked this for my 85 year old father - intimate small group tour it said. A 40 seater bus was not my idea of a small group - took a long time to offload and reload all the people at each stop, sure the guide was knowledgeable but small group this was not.

Review by: Avtar P	September 2011
Would highly recommend this tour. The tour guide was knowledgeable and pointed out places to visit after the tour which is very helpful if time is limited or you haven't had time to research the area. Walk in Muir Woods was very peaceful, could have easily spent a whole day in this area. Great tour !

Review by: sandusky	September 2011
The Golden Gate was partially shrouded by the infamous August fog, but luckily it was burnt away by the time we had our photo ops.Sausalito was quaint and pretty as a pic. Had enough time for photo ops in all interesting stops

Review by: Anindya	August 2011
Our guide was excellent. Good tour

Review by: Jürgen F	August 2011
Great tour to get a good overview with friendly guides - no regretted refreshments as written in the online programm, although we asked for it: "I will tell this to the office" was the only reaction.

Review by: Gaby	August 2011
My 1st glimpse of the metropolitan's main tourist attractions - recommended.

Review by: rabooski	August 2011
Very interesting and informative. Our guide Tom was great! The only thing that would've been better is if we could have spent more time ar Golden Gate Park.

Review by: robert w	August 2011
We took a city tour, finally driving up to Sausalito and taking the ferry back. The weather gods were kind that day--we have sun and beautiful views everywhere. (This is not always the case!) The tour is comprehensive--it was also enough for one day. The tour guide was informative and energetic. I would recommend this tour as a good overview of the city.

Review by: Patricia N	August 2011
A very good Tour for a first time visitor to San Francisco, very informative guide gave me a great insight into the City and the surrounding areas. Would highly recommend this Tour

Review by: Susan G	August 2011
A really informative tour, with plenty of opportunities to see the sights and take photos. Our guide, Gus, was excellent. The tour did end a little later than expected, so be prepared to arrive back in San Francisco from Sausalito in the mid-afternoon from the morning tour.

Review by: Kathryn P	August 2011
Although our tour guide was friendly and knowledgable, we didn't have enough time at each stop to enjoy what we were seeing. It seemed like we were constantly being rushed back onto the bus to head to the next destination. Would be nice to have a little more time to enjoy the places we saw.

Review by: Donna L	August 2011
Totally enjoyed this tour of SF. _br/_ Molly was a great guide and Ralph an awesome driver. _br/_ I recommend this tour if you want to see the highlights of San Francisco.

Review by: MR JH E	August 2011
Great, well planned, good guide, enjoyed in particular the "get out of the bus and walk" part of the tour

Review by: Wendi C	July 2011
If your time is limited then this is a good option to do on your first day. The stops we made allowed me to plan for the next 2 days on where I wanted to go back to and spend more time.

Review by: Robert N	July 2011
The highlights were hit. I was nice to get off the van/bus to stretch and see the sites.

Review by: Suzanne W	June 2011
I was disappointed in having to pay $30 per couple because I changed the dates because of flooding in Chicago and had to bring my tour on earlier. The tour was ok. the guide was very informative.

Review by: Nicole C	June 2011
Great tour around San Francisco. I recomend doind the early tour that ends up in Sausilito for lunch, this way you can get a ferry back later in the day and spend more time in Sausilito.

Review by: S M G	June 2011
Our fifth time visiting San Francisco, had friends who had never visted so this time we did the afternoon tour (did the early tour in 2008) and once again this was a fantastic way to get a general "feel" for different areas of San Francisco which don't always come up on travel brochures. Our tour guide was so informative with all the little "extra" bits you don't get to hear about if you visit these areas on your own. Highly recommend this tour.

Review by: Maria B	June 2011
Learnt and saw so much during this tour. We have been to San Fran before and thought this tour might be a bit dull as it covered some places we had already seen .... but we were wrong!!! This tour was GREAT!! We saw all the great attractions that we had already been to, but we also saw ALOT of attractions that we would not have known how to get to or where they were. Golden Gate Park was AMAZING. Alamo Square (The houses shown in the TV series Full House) was beautiful. We saw San Fran city hall, Presideo, Crooked Street and took a ride over the Golden Gate Bridge too. Last stop was Sausalito Bay which I absolutely LOVED. We stayed there after lunch and caught the ferry back to the Fishermans Wharf. I recommend this tour to EVERYONE... we had a wonderful day!!

Review by: Richard B	May 2011
Very much enjoyed the tour, the guide and the driver. However when we booked the tour we thought we were driving to Sausalito and taking a ferry back, as did several other couples.

Review by: LUCY K	May 2011
Great! Jerry (sp?) was an excellent guide. Our German visitors enjoyed it very much._br/_ The only disappointment was, we were supposed to go on the Ferry and it was cancelled without prior notice. And that was what our visitors were looking forward to. Virginia R.

Review by: Timothy/Tim H	April 2011
It was suggested to us to take a "city tour" on our first day in San Francisco so we would know what to do while on vacation. Excellent idea. Our tour was great, Dennis did a great job and we were able to see all the sights we wanted to. Would recommend this to others who are traveling. Thanks for making our vacation a memorable one.

Review by: Lisa B	April 2011
The tour was fantastic! Kids loved it. Our tour guide Vicky was great. I highly recommend this tour to see San Francisco

Review by: Guzen E	March 2011
Thanks for the excellent tour.I was my first time to SF, and i recommend this tour if you don't decide to rent a car.Our guide Victoria was great!Thanks to her....

Review by: Mario P	March 2011
The climate was awful as it was pouring on the day of the tour. The areas visited were interesting enough but many of us opted to stay on the bus. The guide showed little flexibility to adapt to the weather conditions, for instance dropping us three blocks away from where the "recommended" restaurants were in Sausalito, or making a stop in the lower part of Lombard St, four blocks from the famous part of the street (in both cases under very heavy rain). Very poor timing with the visit to Grace Cathedral where our party arrived in the middle of a funeral service.

Review by: Sharon W	January 2011
Very informative, tour guide was great, very nice and had lots of little tips for nice places to go to shop and eat along the way. Knew so much history about everything. It was well worth the money! I would go agian.

Review by: Anonymous	January 2011
A good overall coverage of San Fran in one day. And it leaves Alcatraz for another day. There was a fair amount of walking to get to some of the places.

Review by: Susan H	November 2010
We enjoyed our trip very much. The driver and tour guide were great! The only thing that I would change is that I wish that our tour guide would have spent more time pointing our some things rather than getting so "in depth" about the history. I got a little bored when he went on and on about the "history" of a site.

Review by: Barbara C	October 2010
fabulous and compelte...guides were kind, informed and wonderful..I would recommend without reservations, this company..thank you

Review by: Heather J	October 2010
This was a good tour & gave a very good overview of San Francisco

Review by: stuart r, Australia	July 2010
Really enjoyed this trip. Dennis our guide was informative, humourous and really made the trip!! We saw all the major sights of the city and had lots of photo stops en route. Great start to the city

Review by: Leonore M, United States of America	July 2010
A great way to see the city highlights and gain insight into the city's historical facts! The tour guide was full of fun and interesting facts about people and places. A tour of one of the Victorian houses was a plus!

Review by: Anonymous, United States of America	June 2010
excellent guide and good overview of san francisco

Review by: Anonymous, United States of America	May 2010
The tour was not only sight seeing but a learning experience. Staff was exceptional and very friendly. Over all the whole experience was enjoyable. Thank you.

Review by: John C, Australia	April 2010
Enjoyed this tour. Guide was extremely informative. Easy to locate at meeting point.

Review by: Dustin F, United States of America	March 2010
We enjoyed that the tour was so easy. The walking parts make it more fun. It was a great way to get a good overview of San Francisco. We then returned to our favorite stops.