Find The Perfect Bus Tour In San Francisco
Explore San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area by bus
San Francisco is one of America's most interesting destinations, but it's also a city with a lot to experience in a limited time. If you're traveling to San Francisco and want to see as much of the city as possible, one of the best ways to do that is on a bus tour. Look through the bus tour options below to find one that best suits your interests.
For the Busy Visitor Who Wants a Convenient Tour
If you don't have much time in the city, there are several companies that can help you get to all of the sights you want to explore.
Best Bay Area Tours
One of the most popular bus tours is Best Bay Area Tours. They provide small group tours through many areas of San Francisco. You can choose from a wide selection of tours throughout different neighborhoods of the city. You can also get in touch with the company to customize a tour.
Big Bus Tours
For something with real flexibility, consider Big Bus Tours. It is the largest and most convenient bus tour in San Francisco. Big Bus Tours are offered in 10 different languages, and they visit more than 20 stops across the city where you can get off to explore—and hop back on whenever you want.
Gray Line of San Francisco
Gray Line Hop-on/Hop-off tours are offered frequently, and can accommodate up to 82 passengers on their double-decker buses that drive around the city. Other destination options include Muir Woods and Sausalito, Monterey and Carmel, and Yosemite.
Skyline Sightseeing
For another convenient option, choose Skyline Sightseeing. These tours travel in open-top vehicles, so you can enjoy the beautiful, temperate Bay Area weather. There are four different routes to take. You can hop on and hop off these tours, as well, allowing you to explore the sites you want to more deeply.
For the Visitor Who Wants a Customizable Tour
Some visitors prefer to plan out their trip to the very last detail. If that sounds like music to your ears, consider a customizable bus tour.
Divina Tours Inc.
Divina Tours Inc. can take your group on a private tour of the Bay Area. The company offers vans that can hold nine passengers, SUVs that can hold six passengers, and sedans. Hire Divina Tours for an excursion to Napa Valley, Sonoma, Monterey, Carmel and other Bay Area destinations.
Dylan's Tours
One of the best providers of customizable bus tours in San Francisco is Dylan's Tours. The company started out with just one guide giving tours in his minivan. Today, they have a fleet of small buses that can carry customized tour groups through the city. Dylan's also offers a convenient variety of pre-packaged tours.
Tower Tours
For a bus tour that you can truly customize down to the last detail, get in touch with Tower Tours. This tour company offers all the perks, including transportation to and from the bus, attraction packages at your destinations, and onboard services to passengers.
For the Visitor Who Want to Explore Wine Country
For visitors who want to sip and savour the best of Napa and Sonoma's famous wine country, these companies offer a range of tour options to match your palate.
Napa Valley Wine Country Tours
Always in a limo or a limo bus, with a mimosa breakfast on board, Napa Valley Wine Country Tours takes you to four renowned wineries in Sonoma and Napa for wine tasting, infused olive oil tasting, wine education and fun!
Platypus Tours Limited
Coming to San Francisco with wine country on your mind? If so, Platypus Tours Limited might be the bus tour for you. They take passengers to the wineries of Napa and Sonoma, where visitors can meet winemakers, learn the history of the vineyards, tour the barrel rooms and, of course, sample lots of wine!
Napa Valley Wine Train
Not a bus tour, but this should be part of everyone's wine country experience. The Napa Valley Wine Train provides a relaxing three-hour, thirty-six mile round-trip journey from the historic town of Napa, through one of the world's most well-known wine valleys, to the quaint village of St. Helena and back. Guests aboard the Wine Train will enjoy a freshly prepared lunch or dinner inside a fully restored 1915-1917 Pullman Dining Car or 1952 Vista Dome car as they pass the vineyards and wineries of Napa Valley. You also have the option of pre-purchasing a winery tour.
For the Visitor Who Wants An Unusual Tour
Some visitors have specific interests or reasons for coming to San Francisco. Luckily, there are companies throughout the city that offer niche bus tours.
Extranomical Tours
If you want to go on a tour of places that most visitors don't get to, hire Extranomical Tours. This bus tour company has small tours that go to places far from the center of the city, including Sonoma, Monterey, Carmel, Muir Woods, Sausalito and even Yosemite.
Magic Bus Experience
Some people travel to San Francisco because they love the city's storied past. If you want to get an authentic taste of it, take the Magic Bus Experience. On this tour, you learn about San Francisco in the '60s, when the Summer of Love changed the world. Through theatrical techniques and visits to famous sights, you'll feel like you traveled back in time.
San Francisco Love Tours
Hitch a ride on a hand painted VW bus and get to know today's San Francisco through timeless hippie vibes with San Francisco Love Tours. Travel to places where big tour buses can't go. Visit the homes of San Francisco's counter-culture icons such as The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, all while grooving through the sights and sounds of the city.
Incredible Adventures
Incredible Adventures is based in San Francisco, but their tours take you well beyond the bridges. Hire them if you want a real rustic exploration of Muir Woods, the vineyards of Napa and Sonoma, or Yosemite National Park. They even take visitors whitewater rafting on the American River! Some tour packages are multi-day excursions, so prepare to go wild (literally!).
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