Open Top Sightseeing San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Open Top Sightseeing presents a bus tour through beautiful San Francisco. On the tour, you will learn about the city's mixed culture, exciting constructions, beautiful nature and, of course, the history from the early Spanish settlers to the Gold Rush, and from the dot com booms to today.
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Great trip. Makes about 20 stops. Easy to get on and off. Used for 2 days. Take a sweater or jacket when going to SF Golden Gate Bridge. Gets very windy.
It was a good overview of the city. We mostly stayed on the bus. Would have liked just a five minute stop at the bridge for pictures. Couldn't hear much of the commentary though as there was a noisy group talking on the bus.
We really enjoyed this. The buses ran on time and we found out all kinds of info about S.F. that we didn't know before, and we LIVE HERE! So much fun.
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During this tour you'll enjoy:
Golden Gate Bridge
Alcatraz
Fishermans Wharf
Pier 39
Transamerica Pyramid
Coit Tower
San Francisco Chinatown
The Asian Art Museum
and much more...
Tour stops include:
Fisherman’s Wharf - Mason @ Jefferson St.
Fisherman’s Wharf B - Taylor and Jefferson St. next to Burger King
Fisherman’s Wharf Activity Center – Taylor and Beach St.
North Beach and Coit Tower – Columbus Ave. and Union St.
Wells Fargo Museum – Montgomery St. Outside Omni Hotel across Wells Fargo Museum
Chinatown – 314 Sutter St. outside E&O Trading Restaurant
Union Square and Grand Hyatt – Stockton St. @ Grand Hyatt Hotel
Union Square & Macy’s – Geary St. across main entrance to Macy’s @ stairs of park
Union Square and Galleries – Geary St. outside Westin
Union Square Hotel District – Mason St. @ Hilton Hotel across from Hotel Nikko
Asian Art Museum, City & Civic Center – Larkin St. outside the Asian Art Museum
Herbst Theatre, The Opera & The Symphony – Fulton @ corner of Franklin St. across from Hotel Ovation
The Painted Ladies & Alamo Square – Hayes @ corner of Steiner St.
Haight Ashbury – Stanyan @ corner of Haight St. across from McDonalds
Golden Gate Park – Outside of Academy of Science @ Music Concourse Dr.
Golden Gate Bridge & Presidio Park – Vista Point South
Golden Gate Bridge – Vista Point North
Palace of Fine Arts & Exploratorium – Richardson Ave. @ corner of Francisco St.
Chestnut, Fillmore & Union St. Shopping – Lombard St. @ corner of Fillmore St.
Ghirardelli Square & Cannery Shopping, Cable Car & Maritime Museum – Beach St. @ corner of Hyde St.
Fisherman’s Wharf, Pier 39 & Alcatraz – Mason @ corner of Jefferson St.
There wasn't anything new about double-decker buses running up and down the streets of London, but it was curious to see these buses running up and down the streets of Paris. Thanks to Mr. Abdallah El-Azm, a clever and fun way to view one of the most romantic cities in the world made its debut in the 1980's. What made Les Cars Rouge even more wonderful was the fact that the roof was chopped off, thus allowing guests to really see Paris! Eventually Les Cars Rouge expanded to Rome, Italy and Les Cars Rouge was on its way. It was a novel way to sightsee in Paris, France and Rome, Italy on a big red double-decker bus with an open top. At the same time a couple of Scandinavian entrepreneurs were starting up the very same concept in Washington DC - Open Top Sightseeing. The two companies started a dialog and in 2006 eventually merging together under the Les Cars Rouge umbrella. As the popularity of the company grew so did Les Cars Rouge locations. In 2007 Les Cars Rouge launched Open Top Sightseeing in San Francisco, California and in July of 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Les Cars Rouge plans to open more locations in the future. So if you see a big red double-decker bus in your neighborhood it just might be Open Top Sightseeing.