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Golden Gate & Sausalito Tour CitySightseeing 4 in 1 Tour - Hop On Hop Off San Francisco 36 Hop On Hop O Stops Live Commentary on Every Bus Sausalito Map N San Francisco’s Original Double-Deckers (expanded) Humboldt Bulkley Ave Princess St Best Sightseeing Value in San Francisco Sausalito Map Anchor B6 El Portal D1 Tracy Way Gabrielson Tour Stops in Muir Woods and Sausalito Bridgeway Park Spinnaker Dr Scomas Sausalito B6 Ferry to Yacht Sausalito Bus Stop & Club Best Value Package Includes: D1 Muir Woods Tour Departure San Francisco Downtown Tour (90 mins) 14 Hop On Hop Off Stops, Live Commentary, Chinatown, North Beach, more... Golden Gate & Sausalito Tour (90 mins) D2 10 Hop On Hop Off Stops, Live Commentary, Cross the Golden Gate, Sausalito... Golden Gate Park Tour (75 mins) 10 Hop On Hop Off Stops, Live Commentary, Haight St, Alamo Square... San Francisco Night Tour (90 mins) 90 minute Tour, Live Commentary, Walking Tour and Bay Bridge Lights stop. 1-Hour Bike Rental 1 Hour bike rental (Comfort Bike) from Fisherman’s Wharf. see map above B6 Ferry Terminal D1 A - Downtown Tour Stops Departs every 15-30 minutes, 9am - 5pm A1 Fisherman's Wharf - Visitor Information Center (2800 Leavenworth St) Anchorage, Cannery, Cable Car, Ghirardelli Sq., Hyde St Pier, Maritime Museum, Aquatic Pk. A2 Barbary Coast (Fog City Restaurant) Levi's Plaza, Telegraph Hill, Filbert St Steps, Embarcadero, Barbary Coast, Coit Tower, Exploratorium B5 A3 Ferry Building (One Market St. - Opposite Hyatt Regency) Ferries, Farmers Market, BART, Shopping, AT&T Park A4 South of Market (3rd St. - Westin Hotel) Moscone Center, Metreon Center, Yerba Buena Gardens, Bay Bridge, SF MOMA, CalTrain PIER 39 A5 (Geary St. @ Powell - opposite Macy's) Union Square Sausalito Macys, Major Stores, SF Shopping Center, Crocker A1 Ferry, Bay Cruise Galleria, Hotels, Theaters, Cable Car MARINA B1 A14 B4 GREEN A6 Union Square West (Outside Hilton Hotel - Mason St) B10 CRISSY FIELD Beach A7 (Corner of Fulton / Larkin) City Hall - Civic Center Fort Beach St FORT Fiddlers SF City Hall, Asian Art Museum, Opera House, SF Ballet, Winfield Green Scott MASON Taylor PALACE OF North Point North Point Civic Center, Library, UN Plaza FINE ARTS National A8 (Post St @ Beresford Arms Hotel) MARINA Nob Hill West Military Bay St. Grant Cemetary B3 Bay St. A9 (Post St @ Prescott Hotel) Post Street Hyde Mason Powell Kearny Francisco Stockton A10 Chinatown Gate (Grant Ave @ Bush St. - Triton Hotel) B8 Pagoda Gates, Financial District, Chinatown B2 Chestnut A13 Chestnut Shopping + Restaurants B7 Larkin TELEGRAPH Lombard Lombard A11 Chinatown / Financial District (Kearny St. - Hilton Hotel) PRESIDIO HILL A2 Transamerica Pyramid, Portsmouth Square, B9 Fortune Cookie Factory Greenwich Greenwich Steps Greenwich Polk A12 Steps (Stockton St. @ Filbert St) Gough RUSSIAN Levi’s A12 Octavia North Beach Franklin Filbert Filbert Plaza 17 Italian District Restaurants, Coit Tower, Washington Square HILL 15 A13 Lombard Street (corner of Lombard / Columbus) Union Union NORTH Union Exploratorium Crookedest Street, Russian Hill, Hyde Street Cable Car COW HOLLOW BEACH Green Green A14 Pier 39 (In front of Hard Rock Cafe) Grant Jones Van Ness Van Taylor Powell Pier 39, Aquarium of the Bay, California Welcome Center, Kearny Vallejo Vallejo Leavenworth Shopping, Restaurants, Sea Lions, Alcatraz Tour Battery Presidio Army Sansome Golf Course Broadway Broadway Tunnel Montgomery Broadway B - Golden Gate + Sausalito Tour Stops B1 PACIFIC HEIGHTS Departs every 30-60 minutes, 10am - 5pm SEACLIFF Pacific Pacific Pacific PRESIDIO HEIGHTS Front B1 Fisherman's Wharf (see stop A1) Jackson Jackson Jackson CHINATOWN B2 Lombard Street (corner of Fillmore St) RICHMOND Washington Portsmouth A11 Washington Marina, Union St + Chestnut St shopping Square Not to scale west of Octavia St. Hilton Maritime Plaza Sue Bierman Financial Park Hyde NOB B3 Clay Larkin Clay Palace of Fine Arts Justin Herman FERRY Presidio, Marina, Shopping HILL Embarcadero Shopping BUILDING Center Plaza B4 Golden Gate Bridge (South Side) Sacramento Sacramento St Hyatt Battery Regency 36 Hop On Hop Off Stops Grace Sansome Hop Off to walk on/across Bridge, Fort Point Cathedral HuntingtonPark Montgomery Fairmont California California St Sausalito B5 Golden Gate Bridge (North - Vista Point) ferry 100s of Excellent Tripadvisor Reviews BART Incredible view of San Francisco / Bridges CHINATOWN A3 Pine FINANCIAL Stuart Jones Taylor Sausalito Powell B6 Grant Mason DISTRICT Art Galleries, Views, Restaurants, Shopping Stops in San Francisco, Sausalito and Muir Woods Spear Connect to Muir Woods Tour Bush Wyndham Main B7 Presidio - Central (Walt Disney Museum) Live Commentary from Professional Tour Guides Cantebury Sutter Beale C9 C10 UNION A10 1st St. B8 Presidio - East (Opposite Lucas Art Studios) A8 A9 Market San Francisco’s Orginal Double-Deckers SQUARE Fremont Post Post Prescott BART B9 (corner of Fillmore St) Donatello Maiden Ln Lombard Street TIX Kearny City Sightseeing - Locally Owned, Globally Connected JAPANTOWN BAY AREA Palace Mission B10 Ghirardelli Square (Beach @ Polk) Hotel SOUTH A6 A5 BEACH Over 100 Cities Worldwide O Farrell A4 2nd St. C2 C1 Westin C - Golden Gate Park Tour Stops Hilton Market Hotel Howard Polk Gough Octavia Franklin Ellis Departs daily, 10am, 12pm, 2pm, 4pm Museum of Modern Art C1 Market 4th St. (see A5) Golden Gate Park - Attractions BART Union Square Eddy Marriott W New Montgomery Marriott Folsom Marquis Yerba Courtyard Leavenworth Buena Hotel 1 California Academy of Sciences 5 Botanical Gardens Gardens C2 Union Square - West (Outside Hilton Hotel - Mason St.) Westfield 3rd St. Turk San FranciscoCenter 2 6 TENDERLOIN 5th St. Metreon M. H. deYoung Memorial Museum Conservatory of Flowers Golden Moscone Federal Warfield North C3 (see A6) Building Gate Theater Civic Center 3 7 Theater Music Concourse Kezar Stadium CIVIC Hyde Golden Gate C4 Hayes Street 4 Japanese Tea Garden C6 Museums - City Sightseeing Bus Stop Harrison CENTER A7 MosconeWest Shopping, Restaurants McAllister C3 Inter- Herbst SOUTH OF Continental C5 (John F Kennedy Drive - *No Stop on Sundays) Theater 7th St. Golden Gate Park* CITY UN Plaza MARKET Conservatory of Flowers HALL Opera 6th St. House Library BART C6 Golden Gate Park (Center Dr.) Mission 2 8th St. Academy of Sciences, deYoung Museum, Japanese Tea Garden C4 Bill Graham John F Kennedy Dr C6 6 Symphony Civic Auditorium Hotel (Haight, betweem Clayton and Ashbury) Hall Whitcomb C7 Haight District 3 9th St. 4 John F Kennedy Dr Holiday Inn Shopping, Restaurants Stow Lake 1 Civic Center Market Howard 10th St. C8 Near Alamo Square C5 Folsom Gough Franklin Painted Ladies (Victorian Homes) 5 C8 Franklin C9 Japantown (Sundance Cinema @ Post St.) Martin Luther King Dr City Sightseeing San Francisco: 2800 Leavenworth Street (between Beach St and Jefferson St in Fisherman's Wharf) C7 HAIGHT Kezar Dr C10 Westin St Francis Hotel (Post St.) Martin Luther King Dr 7 ASHBURY Tel: (415) 440 8687 Email: [email protected] Web: www.city-sightseeing.us Facebook: facebook.com/citysightseeing GOLDEN GATE PARK Lincoln Way Child is 5-11 yrs. Infants under 5 - Free. All times and prices are subject to change without notice. We have daily timetables available for you at the main office at Stop A1..
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