San Francisco Love Tour
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San Francisco, USA
- 2 hours (approx.)
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
Hop on a '70s-era VW bus and get to know the hippie past and hipster vibe that make up San Francisco today. Starting and ending at Fisherman's Wharf, this sightseeing tour takes you around the city, including Chinatown, North Beach, the Castro, the Mission, downtown and more. See the homes of The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, while listening to '60s classics. So settle into a neon-blue seat and dig your shoes into groovy shag carpet. Each bus accommodates up to just six people.
- Travel on streets that larger vehicles cannot pass through
- Enjoy photo ops at the Golden Gate Bridge
- Hear entertaining stories and history from an informative guide
- This small-group tour is limited to 12 people (6 people per bus), ensuring a more memorable experience
What's Included
- Professional Driver/guide
- Fully narrated tour
- Gratuities
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- 2899 Hyde St, San Francisco, CA 94109, USA
Our buses will pull-up ON HYDE street near the corner of Hyde & Jefferson Street. Landmarks are side of the Argonaut Hotel or the park across the street.
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.Itinerary
Make your own way to the meeting point in the center of San Francisco, hop aboard your VW bus, and get ready to leave your heart in San Francisco.
Start with a drive through Haight-Ashbury, past the former homes of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and members of the Grateful Dead. Continue through Union Square and the Civic Center to the Golden Gate Bridge where you make a stop for photographs.
After maneuvering your way along the world's most crooked street, drive through the neighborhoods of Fisherman’s Wharf, Chinatown, North Beach, Little Italy, and the Castro while your guide regales you with fascinating stories from their histories.
Make another photo stop in the colorful Mission District and learn about its Latin roots before heading past Gollden Gate Park on your way back to the pickup point where your tour ends.
Start with a drive through Haight-Ashbury, past the former homes of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and members of the Grateful Dead. Continue through Union Square and the Civic Center to the Golden Gate Bridge where you make a stop for photographs.
After maneuvering your way along the world's most crooked street, drive through the neighborhoods of Fisherman’s Wharf, Chinatown, North Beach, Little Italy, and the Castro while your guide regales you with fascinating stories from their histories.
Make another photo stop in the colorful Mission District and learn about its Latin roots before heading past Gollden Gate Park on your way back to the pickup point where your tour ends.
Haight-Ashbury (Pass By)
Union Square (Pass By)
Civic Center (Pass By)
1
Golden Gate Bridge
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Lombard Street (Pass By)
Fisherman's Wharf (Pass By)
Chinatown (Pass By)
North Beach (Pass By)
Little Italy (Pass By)
The Castro (Pass By)
2
Mission District
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Golden Gate Park (Pass By)
San Francisco Love Tours (Pass By)
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Pushchair accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Near public transportation
- Most travellers can participate
- A maximum of 7 people per VW bus
- While not wheelchair accessible, that doesn’t stop us from helping out with folding a wheelchair and placing it in the back. So come and have fun!
- Tips - Yes please and thank you! It is customary for those of us who work in the service industry to expect to earn gratuity in order to meet living standards. Usually is 15%-20% of your total purchase or at least $10 per person. Thanks in advance!
- Infant guests, must bring their own required child-seat and also purchase a ticket to secure the seat.
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 7 travellers
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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Reviews
4.9
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Great experience. The vans need a speaker system so passengers can hear in the back. Otherwise, it was a phenomenal tour. The driver was great and funny. Quite enjoyable.
Get ready to have your picture taken while riding the Little VW Love Bus on the Love Tour. You’ll see lots of peace signs flashed your way too. Loved seeing the sights around San Francisco and tour guide was great. Highly recommend!
Our guide was sooooooooo much fun!!! He was also a good photographer, knowing just the right shots to make memories for us to cherish.
A fun and easy way to get a fabulous overview of San Francisco. The van is very comfortable and safe. Our tour guide Cyrus was funny and knowledgeable. He took great pictures for all of us. The group is small enough so you don’t feel overwhelmed, but it was really nice to be with other people since I was traveling by myself. I had a wonderful experience!
We had a great tour with Kai yesterday. He was fun but also very thorough showing us this beautiful city. We recommend this tour
This tour was a lot of fun, singing to the old songs was great. It's a shame we didn't get out at the painted ladies or the crooked street as where we were staying wasn't nearby so we didn't experience the area as much as if we had time out of the van.
Wonderful way to see San Francisco. Dave was full of great stories and he covered the city so well. We have been to San Francisco before but loved this tour! It is different than a bus tour and was so much more interesting! Don't miss it.
LOVED this tour! Tara, our guide, was WONDERFUL in every way possible - ensuring we saw many sites - learned so much about SFO - and her humor kept us laughing throughout the entire tour! She had a great sixties type playlist that was perfect for our very colorful “hippie themed” VW BUS! Tara, has an amazing voice too as she sang a bit of those good ole nostalgic songs! Tara’s small
and exceptionally sweet dog, Rosie, accompanied us on our tour - she’s extremely well behaved and has her own little bed - she enhanced our trip too! What a FUN and memorable way to explore SFO - HIGHLY RECOMMEND! Thank you for a very fun and informative tour!!
We had such a great experience on the Love Tour! It was so much fun, and we really recommend it to anyone visiting San Francisco. Our tour guide was amazing and explained everything so well, including the history and interesting facts about the city.
We got to see so many of San Francisco’s highlights, made several stops, and even had photos taken for us. It was a great way to see the city and learn about it at the same time. We really enjoyed the whole experience and would definitely recommend this tour to everyone visiting San Francisco! ❤️
Marvelous, fun tour. Tara was a wonderful guide. Entertaining and informative. Great music and great sights. Riding down crooked Lombard St singing, with our radio blaring, and giving peace sign to all the folks photographing us is a memory to keep. I highly recommend this tour.
Amazing experience. You learn a lot, see so much and get amazing photo ops. Just the perfect tour. Book it !
We loved this tour!! We seen all the highlights of the city. The tour guide, Kai, was very knowledgeable. And we had fun riding in the hippie van giving bystanders the peace sign. ✌️
Kai was amazing and so knowledgeable. Seeing all the sights in a few hours was fantastic. Taking a small group tour was perfect. Saw places and heard stories we wouldn't have got on our own.
Ky was super informative
He was awesome
We would highly recommend this tour
We were exploring the town later on our own and saw Ky and his next group.
This tour can't be missed. It was amazing how much we learned about San Francisco and California from our driver!!
This was a great way to see the highlights of San Francisco! Cyrus, our guide, provided a lot of history and humor. Really enjoyed it!
Cyrus made the experience so much fun. He really knows his city and getting to learn about it while taking in the views was great.
Cyrus was very knowledgeable and helpful. Mother in law has mobility challenges and he was always there to help out. I would recommend this for a fun tour.
If you’re time poor in San Francisco, the Love Tour offers great way to squeeze in the sights in a couple of hrs with a fun and knowledgeable tour guide.
Tour was awesome! Dave was a great guide and we saw alot of San Fransico that we had not seen before. My family loved it and I highly recommend this tour if you want to see all the highlights of the city in a few hours of time.
What a great trip - worth every penny
Ki our guide was very friendly,had an excellent knowledge and went over and beyond to ensure we had a great time.
Great adventure. Tara was informative and charming. Unique way to see San Francisco and reacquaint yourself with it’s colorful history.
This was such a fun way to see the city. Tara, our guide, was so knowledgeable and a good time. Would totally recommend!
No A/C in the bus but plenty of breeze through the windows. Guide was an original hippie which really made it fun.
Fantastic tour done by a wonderful San Francisco local. Small group size of 6 was perfect. Highly recommend!
We had an awesome time. Cyrus was great and the best “fake cousin” ever. He was very informative and fun, thanks.
The Ohio girls
We loved seeing San Francisco from a VW bus! Cyrus was a great guide. His narrative was interesting and fun. This was a great way to tour San Francisco!
Cyrus is awesome. We learned so much but we're entertained the whole time. Pictures can't tell it all.
My son is disabled we had a wheelchair. Let them know ahead of time there is room in the back. You need to be able to lift chair approximately chest high. For us it is no problem but others may see this as a challenge. We saw & learned so much it was great. DEFINITELY TAKE THIS TOUR!
Kai, our guide was knowledgeable, friendly and made the trip special for all of us.
We would recommend this trip to anyone.
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