San Francisco Bay Tours
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Many people who come to San Francisco don’t want to be stuck on a bus all day, seeing the city’s numerous attractions and sights through a window. Many like to get a bit of exercise while on vacation, and for these people there are terrific walking tours of the city by the bay. Here’s our guide to some of the best walking tours available.
Stairways Across San Francisco
(415) 261-0813 Stairways Across San Francisco
For those interested in a “challenging, fun and interesting” way to see San Francisco, as well as some stellar cardiovascular exercise, choose Stairways Across San Francisco with tour guide Dennis Macheel. There are three different tours to choose from, and both involve going up a lot of hills and the city’s many hidden staircases taking you from neighborhood to neighborhood. Customers must be 16 years of age or older to participate in tours.
San Francisco City Guides
(415) 557-4266 San Francisco City Guides
For those of you on a tight budget, here’s the tour of San Francisco you’ve been looking for! FREE walking tours of the city by volunteers who know SF inside and out. There are year-round and seasonal tours available to choose from, including walks that take you to Alamo Square, Haight-Ashbury, Japantown and many other neighborhoods and attractions. Group tours are available.
Victorian Home Walk
(415) 252-9485 victorianwalk@yahoo.com Victorian Home Walk
Go on an historical journey through San Francisco’s rich Victorian architecture past and present with this tour, which focuses on the homes and mansions of the ritzy Pacific Heights neighborhood. You’ll learn the difference between Queen Anne, Italianate, and Stick-style Victorian architecture, and you’ll get to go inside many of the homes on the tour. You also get to see the home where “Mrs. Doubtfire” was filmed. No reservations are needed for this tour, you simply meet the tour guide at the Westin St. Francis hotel off Union Square downtown. Call or visit the web site for more details.
Best of San Francisco: Foot Tours
(415) 793-5378 Best of San Francisco: Foot Tours
You’ll find some extremely colorful and entertaining walking tours to go on through this site. You can explore the seamy underbelly of the Barbary Coast’s past on the “Drugs, Thugs, Crimps and Pimps” tour. Or you can go strolling on the “Flashback” tour, which takes you to the city’s famous, formerly hippy Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. Other tours will take you through North Beach, Chinatown and Nob Hill, and one that takes you through the entire city! You can make reservations by phone, but keep in mind that no credit cards are accepted.
Wok Wiz: Walking Tours and Cooking Center
654 Commercial Street between Kearny and Montgomery Streets) (650) 355-9657 Wok Wiz
For the food lovers in your life, you couldn’t do much better than a Wok Wiz walking tour. Voted “one of the best tours in San Francisco” by the New York Times, you’ll eat your way through the city’s bustling and energetic Chinatown neighborhood, learning about the many important buildings and structures in the area along the way. There’s also a tour to take in which you go food shopping in Chinatown with a guide, then come back to the Wok Wiz Cooking Center for instruction about cooking a Chinese meal.
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