San Francisco City Tour with Alcatraz Island

Overview

Your tour begins with a pick up from your downtown hotel or Fishermans Wharf, ready to enjoy a full day getting to know San Francisco!

Your knowledgeable guide will introduce you to visit up to 20 attractions and enjoy time for memorable photos! Each guide/driver has their preferred route to maximize your time in the city before your tour highlight - Pier 33, Alcatraz Wharf!

Your guide will have your tickets ready to visit Alcatraz Island, so there is no wasted time waiting in line. Get ready to sail across to the island and learn not only about the prison but the history and all the way to present day, where it is now part of the Golden Gate National Resort Area.

Your afternoon visit takes you to the main prison building, premises, and visit exhibitions that shares the fate of it's famous prisoners! It's time to make your own escape as you board your ferry back to the mainland.

Guided by our expert tour guide you will visit:

• Union Square – Downtown is one of the most visited places by tourists and locals. It is always fun and crowded here. Live music, chess playing and street performances are the essential parts of the local atmosphere. During the winter holidays you will find the ice skating rink in the center of the square and recently a new subway line connecting union square and Chinatown was launched.
• Chinatown – is a very interesting cultural phenomenon here, in San Francisco
• Financial District is a concentration of global financial corporations; their headquarters are placed in the skyscrapers of the district. Pacific Stock Exchange, the biggest banks and insurance companies, brokerage houses and other offices are all part of the local business and you definitely will be able to see it. It is second after New York and 12-th in the world financial center.
• South of Market – is the most recently bult city district, concentration of new high-rise houses inhabited by people who work in Silicon Valley. Also, there is an international forums and conventions center.
• Embarcadero – it is the next stop down the route. The Embarcadero is a boulevard that runs along the waterfront of San Francisco from the Bay Bridge to Pier 39 located in the north east part of San Francisco. Great views of bay, bridges and island are visible from here.
North Beach. We will visit Little Italy in San Francisco. A huge amount of Italian shops, restaurants, beautiful squares and churches is located in this area.
• Marina- Palace of Fine Arts is one of the most unusual sights of the city and a symbol of creative spirit.
• Telegraph Hill, Coit Tower. This tower mesmerizes the viewer. It is a must visit for any San Francisco visitor.
• Fisherman’s Wharf – here you will be able to taste any kind of seafood, enjoy the view of the San Francisco Bay and see The Golden Gate Bridge, which will visit later down the route.
• Pacific Heights-Billionaires Row – streets of Victorian mansions in the area of Fillmore street, that often can be seen in US movies.
• Golden Gate Bridge – we will adore the beauty of the forever young Golden Gate Bridge, take cool pictures and find out lots of interesting facts about the main place of interest of the city.
•Haight-Ashbury – we will visit the hippie’s street that is full of shops with Indian and other types of goods.
• Alamo Square – Painted Ladies – the Painted Ladies Houses is residential complex that consists of six mansions painted in different colors. This place reflects the whole epoch of city history.

Having that done, our guide will take you to Pier 33, Alcatraz Wharf. You have heard a lot about Alcatraz prison, but have ever been there? Now is the time. You won’t need to spend your time standing in lines for tickets for one of the most visited places of interest in San Francisco – Alcatraz Island and the Federal Prison located there. We will take care of that in advance and buy the tickets for you.

Today Alcatraz Island is famous not only for the jail, located on it but it is also a part of the Golden Gate National Resort Area. Here you can find a lot of historical facts about the life of Indians and prisoners of war, you will encounter a rich world of Alcatraz nature. You will learn about the history of the island, visit the main prison building and other premises, and visit exhibitions that describe the fate of American Indians and famous prisoners.

Itinerary:
Pick up from your hotel in SF
08:30 – 08:45 – Downtown SF
08.45 – 09:00 – Fisherman’s Wharf

• • Visit up to 20 attractions, do multiple stops to take pictures.
  – Union Square
  – Fisherman’s Wharf
  – Golden Gate Bridge
  – Chinatown
  – Lombard Street
  – Piramid Transamerica
  – Twin Peaks
  – Coit Tower
  – Lands End
  – Alamo Square
  – North Beach – Italian District
  – Presidio Park
  
  
  • • 1-1.15 pm Arrival to Alcatraz Landing, Pier 33
    
    • • 1.35 pm -Last ferry departs to Alcatraz
      
      • • Returning back to the city from Alcatraz: 2.45 pm, 3.05 pm, 3.45 pm, 4.25 pm