About This Tour

The Alcatraz and City tour offers San Francisco in a nutshell; it's a great overview of a fabulously diverse city, combining an Alcatraz Day Tour (including audio phones) with a 3-1/2 hour Deluxe City. For more information on the Alcatraz segment of this combination tour, please see the Alcatraz Day Tour Description.

The Deluxe City Tour is conducted in modern, comfortable buses, and visits San Francisco's major attractions including Golden Gate Park, the famous “painted lady” Victorian homes, Nob Hill, the Palace of Fine Arts, Union Square, North Beach, Cable Cars, Civic Center, Coit Tower, the Presidio, and more.

The combination tour includes pick up at most downtown San Francisco hotels and drop off at Pier 33 in time to pick up your Alcatraz Tickets and tour Alcatraz in the morning.

The City segment of the “combo” tour typically begins when the City tour bus meets you at Pier 33 upon your return from Alcatraz in the afternoon. In some cases, particularly in the busy summer season, scheduling constraints may dictate that the City segment is in the morning, in which case you will be returned to Pier 33 in time to pick up your Alcatraz tickets and see Alcatraz in the afternoon.

The tour “officially” begins on Fisherman's Wharf and initially heads west through the heavily forested Presidio, past the old Crissy Fields military airport, which has been restored to a tidal lagoon, beach and bird nesting area, and continues up to a “photo op” stop at the south anchorage viewing area of the Golden Gate Bridge. Often, there is time to walk out onto the south end of the Golden Gate Bridge. From the viewing area you'll see the Golden Gate, the bridge, Alcatraz, and the Marin Headlands.

After this photo stop, the tour continues west through the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, past the Palace of Legion of Honor, to Land's End and the Cliff house, proceeding south along the Pacific Ocean for a mile and enters Golden Gate Park heading east. Look for the old windmills as you travel south along the “Great Highway”.

Once you have entered Golden Gate Park, your second stop will be in Golden Gate Park at the Japanese Tea Gardens, the newly completed de Young museum, or the Conservatory of Flowers.

Upon departing Golden Gate Park, the tour heads through the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood with its marvelous Victorians and climbs to Twin Peaks for the third stop. Twin Peaks offers outstanding views of all of San Francisco and the Bay Area. You can see west to the Pacific Ocean and east to Mt. Diablo. On a really clear day you can make out the Sierra Nevada Mountains, 125 miles to the east.

Then you'll head down to the grand Beaux-Arts Civic Center, through Union Square, Nob Hill, China town, North Beach, and back to Fisherman's Wharf.

We provide a booking service for purchasing Alcatraz and City tour tickets. The prices shown on this page include our booking fee. The Alcatraz tickets and City Tour tickets will be purchased in your name. You must pickup your Alcatraz tickets at the “will call” window at Pier 33.

Important: The person picking up the Alcatraz tickets must present the credit card the tickets were purchased with and a photo ID matching the credit card .

Upon confirmation of the Alcatraz and City Tour you will be sent a “confirmation” email that contains the confirmation (Order ID) number for the Alcatraz tour and the confirmation number for the city tour. The Alcatraz portion is charged to your card at the time of confirmation; the City Tour operator will charge your card when you check in for the tour.

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