If you’re ever in town for a day and want to see San Francisco and don’t have a lot of time, look into taking a hop-on, hop-off tour with Big Bus Tours! It’s a great option for both large groups and small. We hit all the major landmarks, can get off whenever we wanted, didn’t have to do a lot of walking, and if we got off, we could easily catch another bus as the bus runs every 10-20 minutes.
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Click to download a map. Photo Courtesy of Big Bus Tours. The bus moved fairly fast from stop to stop. The photos I took were from mostly the top deck in the back of the bus. The best photos were taken with a steady hand and at stop lights. =) The weather changed quickly as we were hot in parts of the city under the sun, but chilly in cloudy areas closer to Golden Gate Park. The best way to dress is in layers. Headphones were available to hear the tour in different languages. Some tour guides are better than others. If you’re lucky, you’ll get a really funny narrator to entertain you the whole way. I recommend sitting upstairs for most of the tour, but go down below when you’re crossing the Golden Gate Bridge. It gets really cold, real fast, and you can’t just get up and move when the bus is in motion.
Big Bus Tours – San Francisco, 99 Jefferson Street, San Francisco, CA (855) 854-8687.