San Francisco Movie Sights City Tour
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San Francisco, USA
- 3 hours (approx.)
- Mobile ticket
- Offered in: English
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Overview
With its iconic hills, architecture, bridge and bay, it’s no wonder so many movies have been filmed in San Francisco. See filming locations from numerous productions on this movie sites tour from Fisherman’s Wharf. Watch clips on the tour bus as you pass by the real locations with an informative actor-turned-guide who shares stories about the city and cinema history.
- Visit filming locations from dozens of movies and TV shows
- See top landmarks, like the Transamerica Pyramid and Lombard Street
- This small-group tour ensures a personalized way to travel
- Discover a side of San Francisco most other visitors miss
What's Included
- Pickup and drop-off from a designated meeting point
- All taxes, fees and handling charges
- Movie clips shown on board during the tour
- Live Guide in English
- Air-conditioned tour vehicle
- Multiple filming location stops and Behind-the-scenes stories and film industry insights
- Gratuities
- Food and drinks
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- San Francisco Cruises (Red and White Fleet)Pier 43 1/2, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA
Tours depart directly in front of the Red and White fleet terminal on Pier 43 1/2 at Fisherman's Wharf. If driving, please use this address: 160 Jefferson Street (Boudin Bakery 50 yards from meeting point) The van (plate 52528T3) will pull up 5 minutes prior to departure time.
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.Itinerary
Union Square (Pass By)
Palace of Fine Arts Theatre (Pass By)
1
Golden Gate Bridge
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Lombard Street (Pass By)
North Beach (Pass By)
Nob Hill (Pass By)
Transamerica Pyramid (Pass By)
2
San Francisco Movie Tours
5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
3
Alamo Square
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Stroller accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Near public transportation
- Most travelers can participate
- Collapsible wheelchairs with removable wheels can be accommodated providing the passenger is accompanied by someone who can assist them board and disembark
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Infant rates apply provided they do not occupy a seat (if there are seats available once the tour starts, then the infant may certainly occupy an empty seat)
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 13 travelers
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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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Fantastic! Tour guide was kind, funny, and knowledgeable and you not only got to see a lot of movie locations but just the city in general. Great for cinephiles but also people who want to take a ride around the city and see some amazing spots
Bryan was fantastic! He did a great job describing the sights of the movies before we saw the clips. The tour was so informative and fun. We stopped at several spots for pictures. It was not only a tour of movie sites, but of the city itself. Worth every penny!! I highly recommend it.
Great trip, great movie knowlege from Bryan, we all really enjoyed the experience, as its a 3 hour trip, maybe a supply of bottled water would be appreciated with trip.
Other than that brilliant
Brian was a fabulous tour guide, adding nuances throughout and showing us some of the amazing areas of San Francisco. I definitely recommend this experience if you are really into movies and the behind the scenes information. The tour guide was fabulous being friendly, and allowing for appropriate breaks, making the experience even greater.
It was a fun and educational tour! Our tour guide was very knowledgeable, tailored the tour to the group, was a safe driver, timely, and very good communicator! We really enjoyed seeing some of the spots where some of our favorite movies were filmed!
This was one of the best tours I’ve ever done. What a clever and unique way to experience San Francisco through the lens of movies. Brian is extremely knowledgeable about the city and a wonderful friendly tour guide. I highly recommend checking out this tour. I think you’ll love it.
Tired of walking around SF and feeling like there is still so much to see on your short visit? Take the SF Movie Tour! This is a great way to see so many areas of the City without driving yourself :-) You learn so much about movies filmed in San Francisco and interesting "behind the scenes" trivia about the locations and the filming - everything from an early Charlie Chaplan film to recent films, and why the same green Volkswagon shows up often in the chase scene in "Bullit". Our guide and driver, Bryan Rice, was knowledgable, fun, and navigated city streets and traffic with ease all while sharing info and film clips aout each movie location we visitied. The tour is 3 hours with 2 stops. It is a bit pricey, and so worth it. Bryan sent us a text message in advance about exactly where to meet him, which van to go to, and what time to be there. I highly recommend this tour when you are in San Francisco!
A great experience with a fabulous live guide. Saw many great movie sites with great photo opportunities.
This tour was amazing!!! Wylie our tour guide was so fun and he kept the whole bus laughing and fascinated!!! The movie spots were great to see and the info Wylie provided was really interesting!!! Best tour I’ve ever been on!!!
Wiley was a true movie fanatic at heart. He made our tour fun & informative. He even took all our family pictures! Great personality!
Fantastic experience, really enjoyed it.
Showing the clips from movies during the tour was such a highlight.
This was a wonderful tour! The tour guide was fabulous knowledgeable. I traveled with my mom, and my 7 year daughter-we loved seeing all the places we drove by and stopped at. Thank you for a great experience!
Bryan was great! So approachable, knowledgeable, funny! Solo traveled from AZ. A must do, you won’t regret it!
The tour was very thorough and a great way to start our vacation to see the spots around the city and gather information. Wylie was awesome and provided a lot of details. Would highly recommend the tour.
If you are a real movie buff you will love this trip. I don’t watch many movies so diidnt know much but it didn’t matter because they play the movie clip at the same time as passing the location by.
he gave us time to look around and take pictures as well as bathroom breaks, what to eat for lunch. Loved the hotdog wrapped in bacon
Not only informative about filming locations but great tour of the city. Bryan is extremely knowledgeable about it all!
My family (wife, 20yo, and 16yo) had a blast on this intimate tour of San Francisco. There was a video playing inside the van showing movie clips of the actual places where the filming took place as you drive by. Bryan (our guide and “heroic” driver, aka safe and secure) narrated the whole time, answered questions, and shared extra interesting info about the places visited, not just the movie clips. So we learned a lot about the city than just movie locations. He also stopped a few times at larger points of interest for photos and to stretch our legs on this 3-hr tour. Highly recommended!
Excellent tour! Only wish I took it earlier in my trip. Wylie was terrific and showed us so many facts and great clip spots in San Francisco movies!! Now I’m going to go back and watch all these movies again.
Great narration and fun to see all the movie spots! The Presidio is just beautiful! It was awesome to see the bridge from that vantage point.
Amazing tour. Brian combined the best of local information with cinematic history. Fun and informative introduction to the best parts of the city. Highly recommend.
Brian was an excellent guide with an impressive knowledge of movies and San Francisco. The tour was informative, engaging, and full of interesting stories and filming locations. I learned a lot while having a great time. Highly recommended!
It was so much fun. We loved the tour guides knowledge of the area and of all the movies that were made in San Francisco. We loved the video clips from all the shows. Thanks so much for the fun tour.
Bryan was a wonderful guide and very knowledgeable. He was helpful with capturing some great photos so I can enjoy the memories for years to come. I was surprised that Bryan also took requests to stop at some of our favorite spots so we could get more of what we love and less of what we weren’t interested in. 5 stars, would definitely recommend!
Excellent tour
Wylie extremely funny, friendly and full of interesting facts and stories,
Showing the films on the TV as we passed the locations was genius
Thoroughly entertaining
Wylie was a great guide. The van had a TV screen with continuous movie clips and then we saw all the sets. A great way to spend 3 hours.
Fantastic tour! Absolutely loved it. Wylie, our guide, was great, really entertaining and had lots of knowledge and fun facts about the city and the films and TV shows that were filmed there, we even had a bonus location at the end for one party who were fans of a certain show. Three hours felt like 20min! Would definitely recommend for anyone considering this. Really enjoyed it.
Bryan was a wonderful tour guide and was so knowledge about the city snd they movies filmed here. I highly recommend this tour.
We had such a great experience on this San Francisco movie tour this past weekend! Even as locals, Richard and I got to see the city in a completely different light.
The tour was engaging, fun, and full of surprises—we learned so much about San Francisco’s rich film history and saw familiar places with a whole new perspective. It really made us appreciate the city in a deeper way.
I’d highly recommend this tour to both visitors and locals. It’s a unique and memorable way to explore San Francisco and discover just how many iconic movies have been filmed here!
So many movie locations on this tour!! Bryan was very personable and knowledgeable! We were impressed by how well he could navigate traffic, narrate, and keep track of all the movie clips! A must-do tour for movie buffs!
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