Full-Day Guided Tour of San Francisco with Alcatraz in San Francisco booking from $130.00

Full-Day Guided Tour of San Francisco with Alcatraz

Overview

Experience this unforgettable fully guided combo tour of both San Francisco and Alcatraz. Begin your day seeing the neighborhoods of Haight-Ashbury, Chinatown and Nob Hill.
Stretch your legs during stops at the Palace of Fine Arts, Golden Gate
Bridge, and Land’s End.
The highlight of the afternoon includes a tour of infamous Alcatraz Island.
This tour includes pick-up from most hotels in San Francisco Downtown.

City: San Francisco

Wed 13 Nov

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What's Included

Expert guide and commentary

Round-trip ferry from San Francisco to Alcatraz Island (US$41.00 value)

Free Wifi on vehicle

Hotel pickup from most hotels in downtown San Francisco, but do not pick up outside SF city limits

Transportation to/from attractions (vehicle depends on group size)

Additional Info

Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Children must be accompanied by an adult.
California law requires tour guests to bring a car safety seat for all children under 8 years and under 4' 9" (1.4 meters) in height. Any guest that does not provide their child's safety seat at the time of the tour and does not inform the tour operator in advance may not be allowed to board the tour and will not be subject to refund.
Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
Exact destinations & itinerary may differ due to weather, road conditions, and the guide's discretion.
For hotel pickups, if your hotel is not listed, please select the Hilton Union Square at 333 O'Farrell Street (the meeting point is outside the Mason Street entrance).
City Tour will last approx 4-5 hours and allow approx 3 hours for Alcatraz
Please note, Alcatraz departure time varies. You will be notified of the confirmed time closer to your departure date. Allow for extra time between the two tours
Government issued ID is required to redeem your Alcatraz tickets

What To Expect

Alcatraz Island

You'll be dropped off at Pier 33 for the Alcatraz portion of your tour, where you will board a ferry to Alcatraz Island. Your Alcatraz Tour begins with a 45 minute audio presentation "Doing Time: The Alcatraz Cellhouse Tour," featuring recordings of actual guards and inmates who lived and worked on the Island. Once your Alcatraz Audio Tour is finished, explore Alcatraz Island as long want on your own, but don’t forget that you have to get the ferry back to San Francisco!

Fisherman's Wharf

Fisherman's Wharf is a neighborhood and popular tourist attraction in San Francisco, California. It roughly encompasses the northern waterfront area of San Francisco from Ghirardelli Square or Van Ness Avenue east to Pier 35 or Kearny Street. Despite its redevelopment into a tourist attraction during the 1970s and 1980s, the area is still home to many active fishermen and their fleets.

Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the one-mile-wide (1.6 km) strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.

Bison Paddock

Longtime pasture with a grazing herd of American bison, cared for by the San Francisco zoo.

The Castro

The Castro District, commonly referenced as The Castro, is a neighborhood in Eureka Valley in San Francisco. Having transformed from a working-class neighborhood through the 1960s and 1970s, the Castro remains one of the most prominent symbols of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) activism and events in the world.

Chinatown

The Chinatown centered on Grant Avenue and Stockton Street in San Francisco is the oldest Chinatown in North America and the largest Chinese enclave outside Asia. It is also the oldest and largest of the four notable Chinatowns within the City. Since its establishment in 1848, it has been highly important and influential in the history and culture of ethnic Chinese immigrants in North America. Chinatown is an enclave that continues to retain its own customs, languages, places of worship, social clubs, and identity. San Francisco's Chinatown is also renowned as a major tourist attraction, drawing more visitors annually than the Golden Gate Bridge.

San Francisco City Hall

San Francisco City Hall is the seat of government for the City and County of San Francisco, California. Re-opened in 1915 in its open space area in the city's Civic Center, it is a Beaux-Arts monument to the City Beautiful movement that epitomized the high-minded American Renaissance of the 1880s to 1917.

Cliff House

The Cliff House is a restaurant on Point Lobos Avenue perched on the headland above the cliffs just north of Ocean Beach, in the Outer Richmond neighborhood of San Francisco. It has had five major incarnations since its beginnings in 1858. It now overlooks the site of the former Sutro Baths and is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, operated by the National Park Service.

Coit Tower

Coit Tower is a 210-foot tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California, offering panoramic views over the city and the bay.

Crissy Field

Crissy Field, a former U.S. Army airfield, is now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in San Francisco.

de Young Museum

The M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, commonly referred as the de Young, is a fine arts museum located in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, and one of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco along with the Legion of Honor.

The Embarcadero

The Embarcadero is the eastern waterfront and roadway of the Port of San Francisco, along San Francisco Bay. It was constructed on reclaimed land along a 3 mi (4.8 km) long engineered seawall, from which piers extend into the bay. It derives its name from the Spanish verb embarcar, meaning "to embark"; embarcadero itself means "the place to embark".

Ferry Building Marketplace

The San Francisco Ferry Building is a terminal for ferries that travel across the San Francisco Bay, a food hall, and an office building. It is located on The Embarcadero in San Francisco. Designed in 1892 by American architect A. Page Brown in the Beaux Arts style, the ferry building was completed in 1898.

Fort Point National Historic Site

Fort Point is a masonry seacoast fortification located on the southern side of the Golden Gate at the entrance to San Francisco Bay. It is also the geographic name of the promontory upon which the fort and the southern approach of the Golden Gate Bridge were constructed. The fort was completed just before the American Civil War by the US Army, to defend San Francisco Bay against hostile warships. The fort is now protected as Fort Point National Historic Site.

Golden Gate Park

Golden Gate Park is a large urban park consisting of 1,017 acres (412 ha) of public grounds. It is administered by the San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department, which began in 1871 to oversee the development of Golden Gate Park. With 13 million visitors annually, Golden Gate is the fifth most-visited city park in the United States after Central Park, Lincoln Park in Chicago, and Balboa and Mission Bay Parks in San Diego.

Grace Cathedral

Grace Cathedral is an Episcopal cathedral on Nob Hill in San Francisco. The cathedral is famed for its mosaics by Jan Henryk De Rosen, a replica of Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise, two labyrinths, varied stained glass windows, Keith Haring AIDS Chapel altarpiece, and medieval and contemporary furnishings, as well as its forty-four bell carillon, three organs, and choirs.

Haight-Ashbury

Haight-Ashbury is a district of San Francisco named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets. It is also called The Haight and The Upper Haight. The neighborhood is known for being the origin of the hippie counterculture. The street names commemorate two early San Francisco leaders: pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight, and Munroe Ashbury, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from 1864-70.

Japanese Tea Garden

The Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco is a popular feature of Golden Gate Park, originally built as part of a sprawling World's Fair, the California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894.

Lands End

Lands End is a park in San Francisco within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. It is a rocky and windswept shoreline at the mouth of the Golden Gate. Numerous hiking trails follow the former railbeds of the Ferries and Cliff House Railway along the cliffs and also down to the shore. Lands End contains the ruins of the Sutro Baths and other historic sites, including numerous shipwrecks that are visible at low tides from the Coastal Trail and Mile Rock.

Little Italy

North Beach is a neighborhood in the northeast of San Francisco. The neighborhood is San Francisco's "Little Italy" and has historically been home to a large Italian American population. It was the historic center of the beatnik subculture and has become one of San Francisco's main nightlife districts as well as a residential neighborhood populated by a mix of young urban professionals, families, and Chinese immigrants. The American Planning Association has named North Beach as one of ten "Great Neighborhoods in America".

North Beach

Lombard Street

Lombard Street is an east–west street in San Francisco, California that is famous for a steep, one-block section with eight hairpin turns. Stretching from The Presidio east to The Embarcadero (with a gap on Telegraph Hill), most of the street's western segment is a major thoroughfare designated as part of U.S. Route 101.

Mission District

The Mission District, also commonly called "The Mission", is a neighborhood in San Francisco, originally known as "the Mission lands" meaning the lands belonging to the sixth Alta California mission, Mission San Francisco de Asis. Throughout the Mission walls and fences are decorated with murals initiated by the Chicano Art Mural Movement of the 1970s and inspired by the traditional Mexican paintings made famous by Diego Rivera. Some of the more significant mural installations are located on Balmy Alley and Clarion Alley. Many of these murals have been painted or supported by the Precita Eyes muralist organization.

Nob Hill

Nob Hill is a neighborhood of San Francisco, California that is known for the numerous luxury hotels and historic mansions, Nob Hill has historically served as a center of San Francisco's upper class. Nob Hill is among the highest-income neighborhoods in the United States, as well as one of the most desirable and expensive real estate markets in the country.

Ocean Beach

Ocean Beach is a beach on the west coast of San Francisco, bordering the Pacific Ocean. The "Great Highway" runs alongside the beach, and the Cliff House and the site of the former Sutro Baths sit at the northern end. The beach is a part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which is administered by the National Park Service.

Oracle Park

Oracle Park is a baseball park located in the South Beach neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Since 2000, it has served as the home of the San Francisco Giants, the city's Major League Baseball franchise. Originally named Pacific Bell Park, then SBC Park in 2003 after SBC Communications acquired Pacific Bell, the stadium was then christened AT&T Park in 2006, after SBC acquired AT&T and took on the name. The current name was adopted in 2019.

Pacific Heights

Pacific Heights is a neighborhood of San Francisco, California, which is known for the notable people who reside in the area. It has panoramic views of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco Bay, the Palace of Fine Arts, Alcatraz, and the Presidio. In 2013, Pacific Heights was named the most expensive neighborhood in the United States. Several countries have consulates in Pacific Heights. They include Italy, Greece, Vietnam, South Korea, China, and Germany.

Palace of Fine Arts Theatre

The Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District of San Francisco, California, is a monumental structure originally constructed for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in order to exhibit works of art presented there.

Pier 39

Pier 39 is a shopping center and popular tourist attraction built on a pier in San Francisco. At Pier 39, there are shops, restaurants, a video arcade, street performances, the Aquarium of the Bay, virtual 3D rides, and views of California sea lions hauled out on docks on Pier 39's marina.

Presidio of San Francisco

The Presidio, a 1,500-acre park on a former military post, is a major outdoor recreation hub. It has forested areas, miles of trails, a golf course and scenic overlooks.

Richmond District

The Richmond District is a neighborhood in the northwest corner of San Francisco, developed initially in the late 19th century. It is sometimes confused with the city of Richmond, which is 20 miles northeast of San Francisco.

Salesforce Tower

Salesforce Tower, formerly known as the Transbay Tower, is an office skyscraper in the South of Market district of downtown San Francisco. Upon its completion in 2018 it became the tallest skyscraper in the San Francisco skyline, with a top roof height of 970 feet (296 m) and overall height of 1,070 feet (326 m), surpassing the 853 feet (260 m) Transamerica Pyramid.

San Francisco Bay

San Francisco Bay is a shallow estuary in the US state of California. It is surrounded by a contiguous region known as the San Francisco Bay Area (often simply "the Bay Area"), and is dominated by the large cities of San Jose, San Francisco and Oakland.

San Francisco Bay Bridge

The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, known locally as the Bay Bridge, is a complex of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay in California. As part of Interstate 80 and the direct road between San Francisco and Oakland, it carries about 260,000 vehicles a day on its two decks.

Spreckels Lake

The Spreckels Lake Model Yacht Facility, commonly referred to as "Spreckels Lake", is an artificial reservoir behind an earthen dam and adjoining clubhouse situated on the northern side of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Completed in mid-March 1904, the reservoir was built for the use of model boaters of all ages, interests, and skill levels, designed specifically for racing model sail and power boats and to propagate the skills and crafts necessary to build and sail competitive model boats of all types.

Stow Lake

Stow Lake Boathouse is owned by the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department, who governs all San Francisco public parks. The boathouse is located at Stow Lake, which is on the easternmost side of Golden Gate Park and has been offering boat rentals since it was constructed in 1893 when it was known as the Strawberry Lake Boathouse.

Sutro Baths

The Sutro Baths was a large, privately owned public saltwater swimming pool complex in the Lands End area of the Outer Richmond District in western San Francisco, California. Built in 1896, it is located near the Cliff House, Seal Rocks, and Sutro Heights Park. The facility burned down in June 1966 and is now in ruins within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and the Sutro Historic District.

Telegraph Hill

Telegraph Hill is a hill and surrounding neighborhood in San Francisco, California. It is one of San Francisco's 44 hills, and one of its original "Seven Hills". Today Telegraph Hill is known for supporting a flock of feral parrots, primarily red-masked parakeets (Aratinga erythrogenys), descended from escaped or released pets. The flock was popularized by a book and subsequent documentary, both titled The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill.

Panhandle - Golden Gate Park

The Panhandle is a park in San Francisco, California, that forms a panhandle with Golden Gate Park. In 1870, the Panhandle's footprint occupied large, shifting sand-dunes with little vegetation in between it and the Pacific Ocean known as the "Outside Lands". Today there are hundreds of tree varietals, representing regions from all over the world, including such species as Bailey's Acacia, Japanese Yew, Black Walnut, Blackwood Acacia, Queensland Kauri, and Italian Alder.

Transamerica Pyramid

The Transamerica Pyramid is a 48-story futurist building and the second-tallest skyscraper in the San Francisco skyline. On completion in 1972 it was the eighth-tallest building in the world, and the tallest building in San Francisco from its inception until 2018, when its height was surpassed by the newly constructed Salesforce Tower.

Union Square

Union Square is a 2.6-acre (1.1 ha) public plaza in downtown San Francisco. "Union Square" also refers to the central shopping, hotel, and theater district that surrounds the plaza for several blocks. Today it is one of the largest collections of department stores, upscale boutiques, gift shops, art galleries, and beauty salons in the United States, making Union Square a major tourist destination and a vital, cosmopolitan gathering place in downtown San Francisco. The Dewey Monument is located at the center of Union Square. It is a statue of Nike, the ancient Greek Goddess of Victory.

Van Ness Avenue

See the history of the 1906 earthquake & Ham & Egg fires. Originally a quiet residential neighborhood of mansions, the street was used as a firebreak by the U.S. Army during the 1906 earthquake and fire that destroyed most of San Francisco.

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Reviews (56)

Mara_R

Feb 2020

No pick up / drop off (pick up offered but YBER link did not work) I could have bought the tickets to ALCATRAZ just as easy The small group tour was a ticket provided on the Big bus tour not what I expected or wanted Kept ringing me to confirm very annoying

Julie S

Jan 2020

Randall was a brilliant and informative guide on this excellent tour. We went to places we would never have discovered on our own

donnafH6811EY

Dec 2019

Firstly how is a small group tour 36 people? Driver was 15minutes late at pick up point and this was dispite having confirmed the time on two occasions! Constantine was our guide for the 4hr tour I have taken many tours over the years and in many cities across the globe. I do know SF very well! (I was on this tour with my friends who hadn’t visited before) The route planning was questionable with changes constantly being made! Timings were erratic for stop off photo opportunities. The guide didn’t have a lot of knowledge of the city and would point out the most bizarre points of interest “Oh there’s an Irish pub” “oh not it isn’t” What happened to the local history of each district? His knowledge and background on the parks were informative, and that’s about it! My party all felt that the tour was a waste of time! Would I pay to take this tour again? Absolutely not nor would I recommend it to any visitor.

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