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San Francisco City with Alcatraz Tour
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San Francisco City with Alcatraz Tour Highlights
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San Francisco City with Alcatraz Tour Price List |
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Tour Prices*
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Adults (12+)
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Children (< 11)
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Regular Price:
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$84
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$59
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Internet Special:
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$79
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$54
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SAVE BY BOOKING ONLINE
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$5
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$5
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We recommend booking Alcatraz packages at least 3 weeks in advance to ensure availability.
*Alcatraz tickets $26 per person and included in price
San Francisco City with Alcatraz Tour Description |
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Morning: Alcatraz Tour
Make your way to Pier 33 and board a ferry, and ride across the bay to Alcatraz Island. Your Alcatraz Tour begins after a short walk up a hill and into the prison, were you will receive a headset for an audio presentation which includes 45 minutes of recordings of actual guards and inmates who lived and worked on the Island, this audio presentation is also known as "Doing Time: The Alcatraz Cell house Tour". At the end of the tour, explore Alcatraz Island to your heart's content; just don’t miss the ferry back for your San Francisco city tour!
Afternoon: San Francisco City Tour
Our San Francisco City tour lasts 3-4 hours and includes many of San Francisco's most appealing sights. Our San Francisco tour generally visits Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate Park, Cliff House, North Beach, Chinatown, Marina, Presidio, Nob Hill, Union Square, Financial District, Civic Center, Victorian Houses, Pacific Heights and Twin Peaks (weather permitting). Our San Francisco tour includes 3 to 4 stops at various points of interest, including the Golden Gate Bridge and is fully guided with sightseeing commentary. Our San Francisco City tour is a fun and exciting way to get an overview of the city so that you can decide later where you'd like to focus your time.
San Francisco City with Alcatraz Tour Itinerary |
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San Francisco City with Alcatraz Tour - Times Approximate
Morning - Alcatraz
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9.00am / |
Pier 33-Embarcadero Street. Local public transportation - F Streetcar, BART-Embarcadero station. The ferry ride from San Francisco to the island takes approximately 10-15 minutes. Once you arrive on the island, a brief presentation of the island's history and guide to touring the prison is given. An audio tour is provided on entrance of the cell house that gives a recorded commentary from former inmates, prison guards and prison wardens. It takes roughly between 2 and 2 1/2 hours to do the full tour and just enough time to grab a souvenir. The ferry leaves roughly every thirty minutes. Learn interesting facts about the island, such as that Alcatraz was not only used as a prison but also as a harbor defense fort during the civil war and before then, was America's first lighthouse on the West Coast. Experience the beauty, history and infamy of Alcatraz Island on the San Francisco Bay |
* Tour departure times are subject to availability.
Afternoon - San Francisco City Tour
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1:30 PM
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Pick-up for your San Francisco tour at Fisherman's Wharf.
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2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
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Our San Francisco City tour lasts 3-4 hours and includes many of San Francisco's most appealing sights. Our San Francisco tour generally visits Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate Park, Cliff House, North Beach, Chinatown, Marina, Presidio, Nob Hill, Union Square, Financial District, Civic Center, Victorian Houses, Pacific Heights and Twin Peaks (weather permitting). Our San Francisco tour includes 3 to 4 stops at various points of interest, including the Golden Gate Bridge and is fully guided with sightseeing commentary. Our San Francisco City tour is a fun and exciting way to get an overview of the city so that you can decide later where you'd like to focus your time.
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Why Choose Us?
- Buy Direct
- We directly operate the majority of our tours this means we have vehicles and tour guides who are our employees. Being the direct source enables us to provide the highest quality control possible. We conduct customer satisfaction surveys daily and our guides are financially compensated based on your feedback after the tour. On average our tours have over a 90% customer satisfaction rating! The few tours that we subcontract, we only use partners with whom we have established relationships for many years and trust the safety and quality of their service.
- San Francisco based
- Only locals know the best San Francisco tour possible. Our office is located in Fisherman’s Wharf at 501 Bay Street, San Francisco, CA 94133. Our local phone number is 1-415-357-0700 and our toll free number is 1-866-231-3752. When you call any of these numbers you will be talking with someone that is located in San Francisco, who can tell you if the weather is sunny or foggy or if there is a special event in San Francisco that may be of interest to you. There is no comparison we are always there for you.
- Convenient Opening Hours
- We are available from 6:00 AM - 10:00 PM every day of the week, 365 days a year (sometimes even 366 days!) and we don't have a phone tree so there are no phone transfer marathons when you call us you speak to our agents directly every time. Our offices have reservation agents available even on New Year's Eve because we know that you are on vacation and have worked hard to enjoy your time here. We want to make it as easy and as convenient as possible to help you arrange a tour even if you call late night the day before you'd like to participate. The additional benefit of our extended hours of operation is that we can assist you to the best of our ability if there is ever a snag in your travel plans.
- Strict Quality Control
- Our quality control supervises three sources that you interact with during your tour: 1) Our reservations staff is diverse and we count in any given day with people who speak 5-6 different languages; they have all been on our tours to experience them first hand and we always have a manager on duty 7 days a week. 2) Our tour guides are extensively trained on both safety driving techniques and are evaluated and financially compensated based on the customer tour reviews. 3) Our vehicles are frequently inspected by our drivers, mechanics and the California Highway Patrol to ensure they are in top mechanical shape.
- Vehicle Safety Inspection
- Safety is paramount in our industry and one of the biggest safety components in the tours we provide are our vehicles. Extranomical's fleet includes vans and mini-buses. Our vehicles are inspected constantly; first in the morning when the tour guide begins his/her day; second throughout the day the tour guide is verifying fluid levels, tire pressure and the general operation of the vehicle is monitored throughout the day. The vehicles are also inspected regularly (at least every 10,000) miles by our vehicle maintenance staff and also by independent certified mechanics during their routine maintenance. If that were not all, we also go through a thorough inspection performed by the California Highway Patrol once a year.
- Tour Guide Training & Substance Abuse Testing
- Our tour guides are extensively trained on both safety driving techniques and on providing an informative and interesting tour. Before being hired, we test our guides on safety driving in realistic situations around San Francisco they are also tested through an oral presentation of the material they will present to make sure that they provide a safe, knowledgeable and interesting tour. They are regularly evaluated by customer satisfaction reviews, secret shoppers and rewarded through customer satisfaction based bonuses.
- Experienced Company
- Extranomical was founded in 2002 and is one of the fastest growing tour companies in San Francisco currently performing more tours than any other company to Yosemite National Park and Muir Woods & Wine Country combination tour. We are also pioneers in offering tours to San Francisco's Best Restaurants with our "Best San Francisco Taco Tour, Sushi Tour and Pizza Tour". To date we have served over 10,000 happy customers. Guests have chosen our tours to get engaged, begin or end round-the-world adventures, celebrate their anniversaries, welcome new employees and more! We look forward to serving you soon!
- Fully Licensed and Insured
- Extranomical Adventures, Inc. is a California corporation that is fully licensed by the Public Utilities Commission to perform sightseeing tours permit TCP-18350. We also have permits to operate tours in Yosemite National Park and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA).
- Complimentary San Francisco Locals Travel Guide
- Not available anywhere else. Our office staff, friends and family have contributed to a guide book that we hope you will enjoy. It contains not only the usual tourist attractions that every visitor must see in San Francisco but also some of the local spots that we San Franciscans enjoy. All people who make a booking receive an electronic copy that is constantly updated with the most recent information on San Francisco that should prove to be useful and entertaining.
