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San Francisco Love Tour: City Sightseeing in a 1970's VW Hippie Bus
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2,692 Ratings
San Francisco
For a memorable City Exploration trip, hop on a 1970’s VW Hippie bus. This provides an original and distinct method to explore San Francisco. This tour is loaded with information and entertainment about San Francisco!
For a memorable City Exploration trip, hop on a 1970’s VW Hippie bus. This provides an original and distinct method to explore San Francisco. This tour is loaded with information and entertainment about San Francisco!
Duration:
2 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Haight-Ashbury - A guided drive through the famous house of Jimi Hendrix, Janis and Joplin and the Grateful Dead, and the epicenter of the hippie movement at Haight-Ashbury!
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Union Square - In this guided drive by you will learn the history of Union Square and the Dewey Monument. Alongside, discover all the luxury and world famous brands.
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- Haight-Ashbury - A guided drive through the famous house of Jimi Hendrix, Janis and Joplin and the Grateful Dead, and the epicenter of the hippie movement at Haight-Ashbury!
- Union Square - In this guided drive by you will learn the history of Union Square and the Dewey Monument. Alongside, discover all the luxury and world famous brands.
- Civic Center - View the amazing 1915-1930 architecture of City Hall, The Opera House, the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium and many more as well as learning events that shaped our history and the world.
- Golden Gate Bridge - No other building screams more San Francisco than the world famous hanging bridge: the Golden Gate Bridge. Learn the exciting stories and historic meaning of this, once the longest hanging bridge in the world, and all the memories that encapsulate.
This is photo stop for an iconic view and perspective of the Bay, the Bridge and the natural habitat.
- Lombard Street - Join us, as we carefully maneuver the curves on what is considered the world’s most crooked street! Our skilled drivers will have you singing along while taking pictures of some amazing views of the City.
- Fisherman’s Wharf - Perhaps one of the most visited places in the city, the Wharf is a perfect place for eats, drinks and modern age museums like Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, the Wax Museum, and the famous Pier 39!
- Chinatown - Down the famous Grant Ave through the Dragon Gates into the heart of Chinatown. Learn the founding story of San Francisco and the effort of Chinese immigrants that made it happen!
- North Beach - It wasn’t always sugar and flowers… at the start of the gold rush North Beach was famous for their nightlife, red light district, and the disappearance of sailors! This is a drive by that will surely have you coming back and discover the oldest dives in the City.
- Little Italy - A guided discovery to the heart of Little Italy, an amazing corridor of food, live music, and pieces of the founding stories of companies that serve till this day nationwide!
- The Castro - A transformative neighborhood that empowered the LGBT movement to achieve the first openly gay elected official and an atmosphere of love and inclusion. One of the most fun places to be in the city!
- Mission District - Historically as the Latino district, it has some of the most vibrant and fun places to be in the City. From the locally loved Dolores Park, to the historic churches and amazing food to be found!
- Golden Gate Park - A modern day forest in a busy city, the Golden Gate park is a sanctuary for those who need the peace and calm that an urban forest can provide. The largest manmade park in America has many attractions: Museums, Lakes, playing fields, Buffalo Paddock and so much more!
- San Francisco Love Tours - Just up the street from our pick-up location, you can explore the iconic Cable Car (Powell-Hyde Line) which is one of the most pintoreques rides. In this vicinity you can explore the Hyde Street Pier and history ships, the Aquatic Park and maybe even jump in for a swim in our brisk waters!

What's Included
- Professional Driver/guide
- Fully narrated tour
- Professional Driver/guide
- Fully narrated tour
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Gratuities
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
Additional Information
- A maximum of 7 people per VW bus
- While not wheelchair accessible, that doesn’t stop us from helping out with folding a wheelchair and placing it in the back. So come and have fun!
- Tips - Yes please and thank you! It is customary for those of us who work in the service industry to expect to earn gratuity in order to meet living standards. Usually is…
- A maximum of 7 people per VW bus
- While not wheelchair accessible, that doesn’t stop us from helping out with folding a wheelchair and placing it in the back. So come and have fun!
- Tips - Yes please and thank you! It is customary for those of us who work in the service industry to expect to earn gratuity in order to meet living standards. Usually is 15%-20% of your total purchase or at least $10 per person. Thanks in advance!
- Infant guests, must bring their own required child-seat and also purchase a ticket to secure the seat.
Location
2899 Hyde St
Hyde Street
Our buses will pull-up ON HYDE street near the corner of Hyde & Jefferson Street. Landmarks are side of the Argonaut Hotel or the park across the street.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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Globalmozy
Sep 13, 2025
Welcome to San Francisco! - What an absolute gem of a tour. I would almost call it essential. Kai was a great tour operator. He had so many awesome stories and recommendations he even brought along his dog Kona. Our tour included all the highlights of San Francisco and was a great way to get introduced to the city. Highly recommended!
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E4184vwlouiss
Aug 14, 2025
Informative, family oriented and worth the time, cost and effort. - We went on another tour the other day. Fortunately, this was so much different. We learned a lot of the community, past, present, and much more.
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Cdeangelis77
Aug 13, 2025
Outstanding Tour! - Outstanding tour of all the best highlights San Fran has to offer. Super fun and knowledgeable tour guide as well. Can't say enough good things about the tour I highly recommend it.
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505aylak
Aug 9, 2025
10 out of 10 unique tour experience - My experience was so awesome! I showed up by myself and had the whole bus to myself which I wasn't expecting. The tour guide was extremely personable and took my pictures at the big spots because I was alone. He truly made the rest of my trip because we were able to talk about how to use public transportation and get to the places I wanted to go from where I was staying. And holy moly was this man educated on EVERYTHING about this city. It was truly a groovy time✌️
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Kristinae54122
Jul 31, 2025
Best tour ever! - This was the best tour ever! Tara is hilarious and fun! We learned so much fun information about San Francisco and had a great time doing it! I highly recommend this tour. You will learn a lot and have fun while you are at it!
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Lisasu1594ve
Jul 26, 2025
Amazing views of San Francisco from a different view point. - The views of the pink ladies and Lombard Street were fantastic. We stopped by the Gold gate 🌉 and got fantastic pictures. Also, our tour guide was very knowledgeable, funny and helped take fantastic pictures. He took us near down streets etc that other tours couldn't due to the size of the bus. I highly recommend this tour you won't be disappointed.
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Melanie
Jul 20, 2025
If you only do one SF Tour - make it this one - Cyrus/Ky made this tour something we are still talking about - the history, food tips, architecture and fun stories. Best tour, included us all and with something for everyone. So much more than a hippie tour, Ky was a wonderful host and I’d highly recommend this tour for everyone. Thanks Ky :)
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Tkin82
Jul 19, 2025
You’ll love this colorful tour!! - Ky gave us an amazing tour chock full of cool details. He drove us to so many interesting places. Fun to see the sites and hear his knowledge. We got to get out and take great pictures. He included the passengers with great questions and opportunities to share. We are so happy we went on this cool tour. We loved the VW van too and great music to set the mood. Thanks so much.
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Jgj3manz
Jul 18, 2025
Fun..casual.. informative...unique ride! - Fun, informative 2 hr. Tour! Small group. The tour guide took pictures of us and answered any questions we had. We are here on a quick visit to SF, this tour was an excellent overview of SF in a SUPER fun way. We highly recommend.
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Heatherb242
Jul 16, 2025
Groovy Tour, Man! - We were feeling groovy on this vintage VW Van tour, complete with a 60s soundtrack and a colorful guide named Dave! We met the van on the corner of the Argonaut Hotel and it was right on time. There was a family of five who joined us. We really enjoyed Dave's commentary and appreciated that we got to see all the city highlights in 2 hours. We especially enjoyed the stop at the Beaux Arts Palace and at the iconic the bridge. Dave went above and beyond and encouraged all of our questions and even took us to see the Mrs. Doubtfire house which was used for both the exteriors and the interior scenes of the movie. I would recommend doing this tour on your first day so you can plan what you'd like to double back to, plus Dave was full of great recos for things to do and places to dine. Dave also told us how to take a cable car ride which is a bit of a mystery—note to SF Tourism, you could do a much better job communicating about the cable cars! Tip: wear tie-dye or other vintage apparel for the best photo ops with Dave and the van!
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