Looking for a San Francisco Tour?

Our private "photo tour" is designed for visitors with limited time who want to see the best of San Francisco fast. Unlike a bus tour, we stop for quick walks and/or photos at all the locations below. And we help you take photos!

 

Our standard route takes about 4 hours. Here's what you'll see:

 

Golden Gate Bridge (4 photo stops - and we cross the bridge)

 

 

Lombard Street (you walk from top to bottom)

 

 

View of Coit Tower from the steepest street in the Western hemisphere (photo stop)

 

 

View of Alcatraz (photo stop)

 

 

Transamerica Pyramid (2 photo stops)

 

 

Chinatown Alleys (10-15 minute walk)

 

 

Palace of Fine Arts (photo stop)

 

 

Cable Car Museum (10 minute walk-in)

 

 

Sitting on Cable Car (photo stop)

 

 

Postcard Row (photo stop)

 

 

Grace Cathedral (photo stop + 10 minute walk-in)

 

 

Legion of Honor (outside photo stop)

 

 

City Hall (outside photo stop)

 

 

Neighborhoods that you'll see:

• Chinatown
• Marina
• Nob Hill
• North Beach
• Pacific Heights
• Civic Center

Our usual meeting spot (flexible): Fisherman's Wharf Starbucks

 

Dropoff location options (flexible):

• Ferry Building (good place to get a snack)
• Fisherman's Wharf / Cable Car
• Base of Coit Tower (we'll tell you about a nice walk)
• Pacific Heights or Marina neighborhoods (quaint shopping areas)
• Market Street / Union Square (downtown shopping areas)
• North Beach / Chinatown
• Your hotel (anywhere downtown)
• We can recommend a restaurant

Optional stops / Design your own tour / Just let us know what you'd like to see!

 

Some ideas in San Francisco:

• Haight Ashbury and Castro Neighborhoods
• Chinatown / North Beach walking tour
• Japanese Tea Garden
• De Young Museum Lookout
• Twin Peaks / Sutro Tower
• Conservatory of Flowers
• The Dutch Windmill
• The cafe where Francis Ford Coppola wrote the screenplay for "The Godfather"
• Filming location from Mrs Doubtfire, Star Trek IV, Pursuit of Happyness, Basic Instinct, Dirty Harry, and Vertigo
• The parking spot where the last known Zodiac murder took place
• The house where Charles Manson lived
• The bar where Janice Joplin used to hang out.. Points of significance for Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Miles Davis, and the Grateful Dead
• The former site of Jim Jones' People's Temple
• The site of Chinatown's Golden Dragon Massacre
• The hospital where Bruce Lee was born
• The street where Mark Twain met a fireman named Tom Sawyer
• The oldest Chinese bakery in the U.S. (even Bill Clinton stopped in for a snack!)
• A real operating fortune cookie factory (free samples)
• The first topless bar in America
• The club where Woody Allen, Bill Cosby, Bob Newhart and Barbra Streisand got their careers started.
• The bookstore where Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac read poetry.
• Our favorite cheap restaurants (Chinese, Italian, Indian, Japanese, or Vietnamese)
• More!

Some ideas outside of San Francisco:

• Muir Woods
• Drive with stops along Pacific Ocean
• Redwood forest hike
• Drive around Marin Headlands (other side of Golden Gate Bridge)
• Yosemite day trip (during good weather, you're better off just renting a car)
• Wine country

About your San Francisco tour guides

 

We're Reid and Kathy. Reid drives, Kathy takes your photos :)

 

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