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San Francisco Charters are one of our most favorite personal tours. We can coordinate your schedule to fit your personal, family, friends, or groups needs. Join us and experience all types of trips, We can assist with all of the details of your trip.

From drivers and guides for your vehicle to chartered vans, mini-buses or motor coaches, we can coordinate your San Francisco tour schedule, arranging activities to reserve restaurant and events. Our relationships with local providers can make your adventure more enjoyable and save you money at the same time.

Enjoy a narrated San Francisco tour, Yosemite tour, Monterey & Carmel tour, Muir Woods and Sausalito tour, or Wine Country tour. A chartered vehicle will give you many options to your day. With the best tour driver, they can direct you to the highlights and you can direct them to stop when you desire to specific wineries, landmarks or destinations. Also we can provide group tickets for most of our San Francisco Tours.

San Francisco bus charters and transportation is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with the most modern fleet of vehicles in the San Francisco area. We provide solutions for all of your San Francisco tours and transportation needs. If we can not provide all of your bus transportation needs, we will work with other companies who can. We also provide San Francisco limousine airport transfers as well as San Francisco tours, and San Francisco limo tours.

San Francisco City Tour with Bay Cruise Tour can take you through the beauty of both land and sea in San Francisco. SF City Tour with Bay Cruise Tour combination first starts off by taking you through San Francisco’s most famous attractions. San Francisco tour highlights include Chinatown, Fisherman's Wharf, Golden Gate Park, Golden Gate Bridge, Victorian homes in Alamo Square, Palace of Fine Arts, North Beach, view of Alcatraz Island, the Pacific Ocean and Coit Tower.

Explorertour goes toward Golden Gate Bridge from Fisherman's Wharf. En route we pass Fort Mason, Marina District, St. Francis Yacht Club and the Presidio. See San Francisco’s second signature bridge, the Oakland Bay Bridge, as well as the newly renovated Ferry Terminal on Market Street and Coit Tower.

Enjoy the one hour San Francisco Bay Cruise and learn about the history of San Francisco Bay on this fully narrated San Francisco Bay Cruise. The SF Bay cruise includes a 45 minute narration, and a panoramic view of San Francisco and the city line from the Bay. Spend an hour on the water with Captain Nemo and his crew reliving 150 years of the celebrated San Francisco coast. After great views of the Bay Bridge we will head back to Fisherman's Wharf along the Embarcadero and pass by the recently restored Ferry Building at the foot of Market Street

San Francisco Bay Cruises sails along the San Francisco Waterfront, under the world-famous Golden Gate Bridge, and around Alcatraz. You will cruise through Angel Island, Sausalito and Tiburon. On this tour you will experience the most comfortable San Francisco tour and cruise tour available in San Francisco.

San Francisco Deluxe City Tour is one of our favorite San Francisco tours Explorertour.com. San Francisco tours bring you to each of San Francisco's most famous landmarks. The San Francisco City Tour includes complimentary round trip transportation from San Francisco hotels and the best guides in the city.

Highlights of the San Francisco tour may include Fisherman’s Wharf, Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate Park, North Beach, Chinatown, Haight and Ashbury, Financial District, Victorian Homes, Pacific Ocean, Lombard Street, Marina District, Nob Hill, Cable Car, Coit Tower, Bay Bridge, Union Square, Civic Center and Twin Peaks. San Francisco Tours include 3 ~ 4 stops at Golden Gate Bridge Vista Point, Golden Gate Park, Victorian Houses in Alamo Square and Twin Peaks( Weather permitting ) of 10 ~ 20 minutes each place.

You can take memorable photos and get simple snacks. The Golden Gate Bridge Vista Point is the most popular place in San Francisco tourist. Our tour guide explains the history of Golden Gate. The more famous Golden Gate Bridge spans the narrow inlet that extends from the Pacific Ocean into the bay. The Golden Gate Bridge connects San Francisco with a mountainous peninsula called the Marin headlands that is primarily known for beautiful scenery and expensive homes with spectacular views. The international orange color of the Golden Gate Bridge, that is the symbol of San Francisco, are visible from almost every high point in the city.

The Golden Gate, which spans 4200ft, had taken only 52 months to design and build when it was opened in 1937. One of most sought after outlooks on our San Francisco tour is Twin Peaks. You will have comprehensive sightseeing by San Francisco Bus Tours. Nobody will give you San Francisco tours and San Francisco sightseeing options like we can. We offer the premier sightseeing and Motor Coach Bus tours of San Francisco. This is a great way to see and explore San Francisco City.

Enjoy all of the exciting Alcatraz Island attractions and natural adventures at Muir Woods forest in San Francisco. Travel across the Golden Gate Bridge and through coastal highlands into one of the oldest national monuments. Muir Woods tour is one of the few remaining virgin Redwood forests. Northern California coastal Redwoods are among the tallest trees in the world.

San Francisco Redwood forest can reach over 350 feet and live for more than 2,000 years. Walk the quiet, shaded forest paths of Muir Woods National Monument, wander through this grove of virgin Redwoods and capture photo opportunities.

Sausalito at one time was a fishing village then became an artist colony. On our Sausalito tour, you can stroll through art galleries and dine at world-class restaurants by the waterfront. Enjoy photo opportunities along the San Francisco waterline.

At the end of Muir Woods & Sausalito Tour you will return to Fisherman's Wharf and then sail from Pier 41 on the Alcatraz Island Cruise fleet to the infamous federal penitentiary. Alcatraz Island Tour brings you almost face to face with the memories of Al 'Scar face' Capone, 'Machine gun' Kelly and Robert 'Birdman' Stroud.

During this Alcatraz Tour you will have time to explore the whole Alcatraz Island. The Alcatraz tour includes a movie about Alcatraz 's history and a 35 minute audio headset tour of the Alcatraz cell block, the museum and bookstore. To find out more about Muir Woods and Sausalito with Alcatraz Island Tour, contact us info@explorertour.com.

Join us and experience the unforgettable, beauty of nature. One of the best features, of Monterey and Carmel tour is truly the drive. Unlike many tours, the Monterey & Carmel tour allows you to see, the painting of nature and the beautiful waterfront. Monterey and Carmel tour are really relaxes the mind and soul to be able to enjoy exquisite landscape.

With Explorertour.com Monterey & Carmel tour you'll visit Monterey Bay, 17-Mile scenic drive, Pebble Beach & the picturesque Carmel-by-the-Sea. After driving along the rugged Coastal Highway 1, you will arrive in Monterey Bay. Here you will see the beautiful Pier of Monterey. Also spend time in the famous Cannery Row filled with excellent restaurants. Next Explorertour.com will take you through Pacific Grove viewing Pebble Beach and the Lone Cypress Tree.

Then arriving in the enchanted town of Carmel-by-the-Sea. You can explore the boutique shops and the historic Carmel Mission and be dazzled by the white sandy beaches. After your full Monterey tour of Monterey Bay, 17-Mile drive, and Carmel-by-the-Sea we'll journey back to San Francisco and drop you back at your hotel. The Monterey tour visits one of the most beautiful coastlines in America.

The Monterey Aquarium features famous sea-life and marine environments. You will have time to visit Monterey Bay Aquarium. More than 250,000 creatures fill over 200 spectacular galleries and exhibits, including a walk-through aviary, three story kelp forest, Penguins, and a million gallon Outer Bay display. You want Monterey Aquarium tour, you can purchase a ticket there. Monterey and Carmel will be more time available for shopping, exploring with a wide variety of Art Galleries, unique boutiques, dining and antique malls. Monterey and Carmel Tour by motor coach bus from San Francisco is enjoying a California Coast line.

Explorertour.com Yosemite tour from San Francisco is a great opportunity to see this spectacular Yosemite park in a more relaxed manner than the van. On this Yosemite tour we have more opportunities to stop on the way in the San Joaquin agricultural valley.

Our Yosemite buses offer individual seats and a restroom on board making this an easy day trip to enjoy the Yosemite Valley. Once arriving in Yosemite you will enjoy a narrated tour of Yosemite Valley with a stop at Inspiration Point and the Yosemite Lodge where you have two hours to relax, take an additional tour or stroll to the Yosemite Falls.

Yosemite in a Day by van or mini bus tour from San Francisco is our most unforgettable Yosemite tour. At the center point of Yosemite Park is one of the natural wonders of the world, Yosemite Valley. It has an enormous impact on everyone who visits it with its high cliffs and stunning water falls.

The Yosemite sightseeing tour makes a stop at the refreshment shop upon arrival to Central Valley, the most productive agricultural valley in the Americas. Lying between the Pacific coast and the Sierra Nevada Mountains within Yosemite Park, Central Valley is the heartland.

We see Yosemite's Central Valley, the home to the greatest garden in the world, during this tour. We begin with a one and a half hour guided tour through Yosemite's glaciated valley with its famous waterfalls and rock formations including Yosemite Falls the tallest waterfall in North America and fifth tallest on earth, El Capitan, Half -Dome, Bridleveil Falls, Sentinel Dome and many more.

Yosemite National Park is a Mecca for rock climbers and depending on the time of year, the sight of people climbing El Capitan 's 3,000 feet sheer rock face is quite amazing. After the tour we stop for the afternoon at the base of Yosemite falls. Here you'll get a chance to walk to the base of the falls, get some snacks, get more photo opportunities and visit the main visitor's center.

Come experience the best of America 's Wineries in Napa & Sonoma Valley. Our Wine Country tour should be on the top of your San Francisco Tours list when visitng the San Francisco Bay Area. Napa and Sonoma wines are world renown for their wines quality.

Explorertour.com's Wine Country tours will visit the most beautiful wineries, learn how the wines are made and prepared to excellence. Our wine tour guests will even get a chance to taste their finest wines! San Francisco Wine Country tours are both fun and informative.

Visits will include winery tours and some free tasting at 3 ~ 4 vineyards. Our most usual winery visits include Homewood, Larson, Ledson, Kirkland Ranch Winery, Bouchaine, and Viansa Winery & Italian Marketplace although special requests are sometimes possible. On Explorertour.com's Wine Country tour you will explore Napa and Sonoma, which lie about 1½ hours north of San Francisco.

The Wine Country tour starts at 9:00 AM and after crossing the Bridge we head toward the Sonoma Valley Wine Country where we spend the morning visiting wineries specializing in Pinot Noir & Chardonnay wines. At noon you can have lunch at the Sonoma plaza, try delicious cheese at the Sonoma cheese factory and explore the old historical town.

In the afternoon we drive to the Napa Valley wine country where you have the chance to tour a winery & taste more wine. Napa and Sonoma Wine Tour will be time for lunch, shopping, and many photo opportunities at Sonoma Historic Square. At the end of this wonderful day we will drive across the Golden Gate Bridge and back to San Francisco. This all day Wine Country tour takes in the best of California's world famous premium wine making region.

This tour is intended for small groups to make it a much more relaxed and personal experience. Napa and Sonoma wines are world renowned for their quality.
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Muir Woods with Sausalito is great nature tour in San Francisco Bay Area. North a few miles across the Golden Gate Bridge, you can find as one of the only virgin redwoods forest.

Some San Francisco tourists want a relaxing and peaceful San Francisco tour experience. Muir Woods national monument tour is one of the most relaxing and healing tours in the San Francisco tour industry. Marin County, one of the most affluent counties in the U.S. and home of the Muir Woods, is the place of the few remaining groves of virgin Coastal Redwoods. These redwoods are among the tallest and oldest trees in existence.

Muir Woods forest has a beautiful stream that salmon migrate to every year.Explorertour also offers Sausalito tours. Sausalito is an alluring village of art galleries, quaint shops and waterfront restaurants with views of San Francisco across the bay. Sausalito's cliff-hanging cottages and houseboat community lend a Mediterranean ambiance, but the locals you will meet are pure California.

Sausalito tours are great for browsing and shopping in this picturesque artist colony nestled on the northern shores of San Francisco Bay. Sausalito overlooks San Francisco and has incredible bay views, boutiques, art galleries and fabulous mansions. You will have a great time on our popular Muir Woods & Sausalito tour which visits two of Northern California's most beautiful attractions the famous redwood forest and a village with great views of San Francisco and the Bay that is a favorite home for artists.

For the 13th straight year in a row, San Francisco has been voted the best city in the United States. San Francisco tours bring your ideal vacation to realization. Many San Francisco tourists consider a tour of San Francisco because view of Embarcadero, Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate park, Fisherman's Wharf, Lombard Street, Coit Tower, Cable Car and Alcatraz Island.

The Embarcadero, a broad avenue along the Fisherman's Wharf, is now lined with shops, restaurants and tourist attractions including several beautiful piers that have been converted to specialty shopping malls.

Most famous is the historic Fisherman's Wharf which still hosts a fleet of working fishing vessels as well as fish markets, seafood restaurants and gift shops. Every tourist loves riding the cable car . The San Francisco Cable Car line terminates a few blocks from Fisherman's Wharf which is near our San Francisco tours terminal.

This is a good place to photograph the cable cars but not a good place to board one as the wait can be long. It is easier to take a bus or taxi to the downtown area where you can quickly board a passing cable car. The best of San Francisco tours and most popular San Francisco tour is the Alcatraz Island tour. Take a Alcatraz Island ferry ride over to Alcatraz Island around 10 minutes, where you can enjoy the only walking Alcatraz Island tour of the famous federal penitentiary.

The Alcatraz tour includes the award winning audio headset tour inside the cell block and departs daily from Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco on year around. Alcatraz was used as a federal maximum-security prison from 1934 until 1963, when it was closed due to high costs and security issues. The world famous Alcatraz Island tour includes a movie of Alcatraz history and a 35 minute audio headset tour of an Alcatraz cell block.

The former federal prison Alcatraz has become a must see activity for visitors to the Bay Area. You will have time to explore the whole Alcatraz Island. SF City Tour with Alcatraz Island Tour is Explorertour.com's most popular combo tour! If you have any questions about this tour, please contact us.