TOP 12 Best Tours and guided tours in San Francisco: prices

San Francisco It is one of the cities that you will like the most if you travel to California in the west coast of united states.

A cosmopolitan, pleasant city full of contrasts that will not leave you indifferent, despite everything being very familiar to you since you have seen it in many movies.

In order to plan your trip to San Francisco You may find the following information interesting tours and guided visits in the city.

Also here you can consult the best excursions from San Francisco to nearby places of interest.

Tours and guided visits in San Francisco

Airport Transfers to San Francisco

If you go by plane, you will arrive at San Francisco International Airport (SFO), which is located 21 km south of the city and is the second largest in California behind Los Angeles.

To go downtown San Francisco You can choose to use different means of public transportation.

But if you are several people, you have the option of hiring a transportation service in advance. transfer from the airport so they will take you to the hotel where you are going to stay.

You can opt for a vehicle with four, six or nine 9 seats, depending on the number of people you have, and even book the return trip.

Tourist cards and transportation in San Francisco

If you decide get to know San Francisco on your ownIn addition to public transport, there are transport cards with entry to different attractions, depending on the route you want to take. They can be interesting.

We mention two of them, the card Go City San Francisco All Inclusive Pass and Go City San Francisco Explorer Pass. whose characteristics and advantages you can consult to see if they may be interesting to you.

Guided tour of San Francisco

You can also get to know the city by taking a guided tour in Spanish, an option that has the advantage that it will quickly place you in the city and then delve deeper into what interests you most.

El complete tour of San Francisco It starts at the hotel and will take you through the most emblematic places in the city.

This way you will know Union Square, the central and commercial area, Chinatown, where you will find the largest Chinese community in the United States, you will pass through the area of ​​the well-known victorian houses and Golden Gate Bridge, among many more places.

This guided tour lasts four hours and is carried out exclusively in Spanish with minibus transportation.

San Francisco and Alcatraz Tour

If you want you can extend the route knowing Alcatraz, the most famous prison in the world.

After visiting the city and eating, they will take you on a boat to The Rock, which is how the island where the famous prison is located is known.

When you get off the boat you will be given an audio guide in Spanish in which eight narrators, four jailers and four prisoners will tell you stories and legends of this famous prison.

On this visit you will see the tiny cells and the famous D block, where the punishment cells were.

El tour of San Francisco and Alcatraz lasts 8 hours with guide in spanish and minibus transfers.

This tour should be booked in advance as it is highly requested.

San Francisco and Sausalito Tour

Another option is to add Sausalito to guided tour of San Francisco.

This pretty little town with Mediterranean-style houses is located in the northern part of San Francisco Bay and is an artists' haven with art galleries, shops and cute cafes.

If you want to see beautiful views of San Francisco, from the docks it is the ideal place.

In total the excursion lasts 6 hours with guide in spanish, pickup from the hotel in the morning and transfers by minibus.

Here you have detailed information about the complete tour of San Francisco with Sausalito.

Tour bus in San Francisco

But if you want something simpler, you can use the Big Bus San Francisco tourist buses to do one Sightseeing tour of the city.

With two floors and the upper one convertible. You can get on and off at all the stops of this tourist bus as many times as you want and take the route at your leisure listening to recordings in Spanish.

With stops at the city's most interesting places, you can buy tickets to use it for one or two days, in addition to the one-day options with a guided tour, night tour or excursion to Sausalito.

San Francisco Bay Seaplane Tour

A unique experience is see San Francisco from the air riding on a seaplane.

You can fly over the Golden Gate and the island of Alcatraz and you will have spectacular views of the san francisco bay and the Pacific Ocean.

There are two types of different flight itineraries, one of 20 minutes and another of 30 minutes and the times depend on weather conditions.

El seaplane tour of San Francisco Bay It is carried out exclusively in English.

San Francisco Bay Boat Tours

Among the many activities you can do in San Francisco, without a doubt one of the most attractive is to enjoy a boat ride through San Francisco Bay.

The simplest option is that of a boat ride through San Francisco Bay which, with a duration of one hour, will take you on a very complete route that leaves from the pier 43 ½ de Fisherman's Whasrf.

See the Golden Gate from the sea At 227 meters high and 2.700 meters long, it is something spectacular.

On this tour you don't have to worry about the weather because from the date you indicate in the reservation, you have 15 days to use it and, in addition, there are indoor and outdoor seats on the boat.

On the excursion you will be able to listen to comments in Spanish through an audio guide.

You also have the option of Bridge-to-bridge cruise across San Francisco Bay with a longer route and which lasts 90 minutes also with audio guide in Spanish.

It starts like the previous one in the pier 43 ½ from Fisherman's Whasrf  and after surrounding the Alcatraz island, will pass under the suspension bridge Golden Gate and then head towards the colossal Bay Bridge that connects San Francisco with Oakland.

You will also see the coit tower, Transamerica Pyramid, Palace of Fine Arts and AT&T Stadium which is the headquarters of the San Francisco Giants.

Finally, another different option is to take a ride aboard a catamaran sailboat during which you will enjoy beautiful views of the city, its bridges and its islands.

This catamaran excursion departs from Pier 39, very close to where the famous sea lions of San Francisco are, lasts an hour and a half and you have audio guides so you don't miss any point of interest that you pass by.

Here you have all the information about the catamaran ride through San Francisco Bay. and here about the option of catamaran ride at sunset also an hour and a half long.