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San Francisco Love Tour: City Sightseeing in a 1970's VW Hippie Bus
4.9
2,399 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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(2399 Ratings)
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Hunkydorymin
Apr 6, 2025
Just Keep Truckin On (the Love Bus) - We loved our quirky love bus experience and would highly recommend it. Christina, our guide, was fab and made us laugh a lot whilst driving us around San Francisco. The experience felt very personal which is great as my husband and I are tourists who hate being tourists! We met some interesting people on the bus (there were 7 of us in total) and ended up having dinner with 3 of them which was an interesting little snapshot into other peoples' lives. We would definitely recommend you hop on the love bus (man).
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Andrea_w
Mar 29, 2025
Phenomenal tour! - Amazing experience! Cyrus was so much fun, full of SF knowledge, and just a genuinely nice guy. I am so glad we did this tour, and I would also recommend this tour for anyone traveling yo SF. My friend and I will be raving about this for years to come!
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U1515iwivanl
Mar 2, 2025
Highly recommend - Cousin Cyrus was an amazing tour guide who was funny and very informative. I would definitely recommend this to friends and family who plan on visiting San Francisco.
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Sharla_b
Jan 8, 2025
Great tour with Dave! We... - Great tour with Dave! We booked it for our first full day in the city and it gave us a good starting point for activities that we want to do. Overview and history of the city and neighborhoods. Dave made it lots of fun!
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Anne_s
Dec 31, 2024
Gets all the basics... - Gets all the basics knocked out! You are close and personal to all the SF “things to see” in a fun and efficient atmosphere.
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Raphael_c_losangeles
Dec 29, 2024
Nice tour of SF in a cool van - Fun tour & great riding in a 70’s love van the whole way. Our guide Cyrus is very knowledgeable about SF. He did speak a little too fast, & it was sometimes hard to absorb everything that he was saying, especially for my travel partner who’s Ukrainian. The tour was a good intro to SF.
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Garyro8755ll
Dec 16, 2024
Great tour to give a slightly different perspective of the City. - This tour was an highlight of my visit to San Francisco. Our guide Cyrus was informative and entertaining ( a rare combo). the tour takes in aspects of the City less obvious than the mainstream tours, which suited me perfectly. The summer of love van is also a nice touch.
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Christine_b
Nov 30, 2024
Fantastic trip - Highly recommend this.
Christina our guid was fantastic.
If we ever get back to San Francisco, will consider doing the trip again. Saw lots of fun things, and learned a lot of fun facts.
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William_p
Dec 24, 2024
Not the best product for my money - Not what I expected. Tour seems to be designed only for people fluent in English. The guide speaks too fast. I asked about homelessness in the city just to get insight but she took it personal and was a bit rude towards me. I wouldn't do this tour again
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Cilina_r
Nov 27, 2024
Worst experience ever. - They cancelled my tour and still havent given me a refund. I was called the day of my tour by the admin, telling me not to show up because it was cancelled on the time I selected but they still charged me 170.00. They said I would get a refund but still havent received one. I tried calling them and no one has called me back. This was my first time visiting San Fran and I was looking forward to the SF Love tour. But they made my experience awful. Why have that date and time available for people to book and then 2hours before the tour called me just to say they messed up and there is no tour. Would not recommend this love tour. And i want my refund asap. They took my money and cancelled the tour. Why is no one reaching out to me??
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