Great time, but it’s a tour of the best home decorations and lights more than SF city, driver knows where all the best decorated homes are. Was fun even in drizzle
About Activity
What's Included
Includes
- Driver/guide
- Live commentary on board
- Blanket while in tour
- Santa hat
Excludes
- Gratuities
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
Departure & Return
Departure Point
- Fisherman's Wharf, near the Argonaut Hotel
Return
- Fisherman's Wharf, near the Argonaut Hotel
Itinerary
Begin your 2-hour guided tour by driving down the waterfront for a look at how the city celebrates Christmas. See the Christmas tree at Pier 39, and then make your way toward the Palace of Fine Arts, the Embarcadero, Union Street, Lombard Street, Chinatown, and North Beach. Get out at Union Square to see the annual Christmas tree in this shopping haven.
Slip on your Santa hat to take unique holiday photos at scheduled stops along the way.
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Reviews
Dave was an amazing tour guide, so thoughtful and thorough -- we appreciated the time he took to show us the holidays sights, sounds and history of San Francisco. Would highly recommend -- it was personal, intimate and a perfect way to kick off the holidays!
Dave our tour guide was great, the van was so much fun, and of course San Francisco was all decked out for Christmas.
This tour was so much fun. We had Dave. I highly recommend this. He brought us to areas that we would've never known about. We got to see a castle made of sugar, HUGH gingerbread house, all of the lights around town. We sang with the windows down while going through Union Square and stopped at some of the best photo spots. This was definitely one of the highlights of our vacation.
This tour was a highlight on our trip. Dave was so much fun. He really brought everyone on the tour together, we felt like old friends. I can't say enough about this tour, you really need to experience it. Every street we went down there were people taking pictures of the van. Dave really made this tour, ask for him.
Super fun night and a great way to see the city at any time - including the holidays. Our driver, Dave, was great and navigated the crazy roads amazingly well. Keep in mind that this a unique, quirky way of seeing SF. So if you want a limo this isn't the tour for you, but if you are looking for something different and fun, this is on that list!
Ky was amazing guide friendly knowledgeable; VW bus awesome! Wonderful tour highly recommended! Went on the new big wheel at Fishermans Wharf after; do it!!
This tour should not have been advertised as a “holiday lights tour” but rather a night time city tour. It started out with great potential. The VW bus was well decorated, we were provided light up Santa hats, and took pictures. However once we were actually on our way was when the disappointment set it. We didn’t see any light displays. While our driver was nice there was no set route or plan of specific light displays we were to visit. We ended up in North Beach stuck in traffic for a big part of the tour and it ended before the full hour and a half. Our driver kept mentioning that there are not a lot of light displays around town and ones we asked about were too far away. If you are looking to see holiday lights in the city do not take this tour. You too will be disappointed.
Amazing trip , our driver/ Tour guide David was amazing Highly recommend Try it for Holiday Lighting
We bought 7 tickets to do this fun experience. One of the tickets was for a very excited 9-year-old. We were so looking forward to seeing the Christmas lights. We got to our pick up location early, only to be told by the company that they only were showing 4 passengers not 7. There was another party of only 2 adults. Instead of accommodating us and our young child who was very eager to ride in this VW bus, the company chose the other two patrons. This experience ruined Christmas and left all of us disappointed. I would not recommend this company. Their solution was less than desirable, and it was not fair for us. We had bought the tickets back on November 16, 2021. San Francisco Love Tours is nothing about love. Do not book your tour with them unless you want to be left out without any plans.
The one Christmas lit house on the tour. The rest of the tour was not a Christmas light tour but a general SF tour.
Super fun! Judith was a great guide to SF and to it's awesome Xmas lights. So festive to zip around in the Love Bus during the holiday season
Friday night, 11/26/21, we did the San Francisco holiday lights tour - we had SO MUCH FUN!! We spent about 90 minutes in this cute little VW bug decked out for the holidays, listening to Holiday music. Our driver and tour guide, Judith, was absolutely amazing (we love you Judith!) We spent so much time laughing that our sides and bellies hurt for the rest of the night. The views were fantastic, and even while decorations in the city are not back to pre-Covid times, extra treats like being able to stop at the Fairmont and see the worlds largest gingerbread house, and being there for the tree lighting ceremony at Ghirardelli Square, easily made up for it. As did Judith and her stories! I highly recommend this tour. Great family night and fun out. Plus we had an early dinner at Scomas before hand, which was ahhmazing. The tour picks up in Fiaherman's Warf and there are a ton of restaurants and shops within walking distance. Thanks for the fun night, Judith- hugs from, Julie, Chris, Paulette and Lita!! ❤️🎄
Unfortunately I’m writing this review because the company is not answering me,.. I didn’t actually get to take the tour.. here’s the story: I had a tour booked with SF Love tours last December... around 1 week before, I sent them an email requesting to cancel it, due to covid travel restrictions.. (California had just been shut down) got no answer. Then I talked to them on Facebook's Messenger, and explained how I needed a refund for the tour because I am from Brazil and am traveling back to my home country soon, therefore, there's no chance of going to California anytime soon.. and they answered promptly, saying it was no problem, they’d take care of it. Now, its been over two months, and I haven't gotten any answers about the refund, or anything else, and my messages and emails seem to be getting ignored. As much as I'd love to take the tour, it's just not gonna be possible anytime soon so Id really need my money back as it says on the company’s website that they did give refunds when we let them know in time.. which was the case. However... this was my experience.
We enjoyed our holiday lights tour and riding in the VW bus around San Francisco. Our driver Nick was very courteous and friendly. It was a fun way to spend a couple of hours on a relatively cold evening.
wow, what a great tour we had so much fun and our driver Nick, should be called St. Nick he was what made our tour even with our bus breaking down,that was a part of my memory of Hippie busses back in the day super trip cannot recommend more highly great tour great fun and we all learned a lot
We knew before we went on the tour that many of the Christmas lights were not up. I have been to many places in San Francisco and enjoyed this tour. We learned a lot about the city. Allen was an excellent guide, friendly and knowledgable with Christmas history and information about the City. I saw many places I want and explore. I had never ridden down Lombard Street. That was exciting. The views were spectacular.
Tour guide Chris was fantastic...full of really cool history and funny stuff... comfy ride, showed us beautiful things in SF and reminded me what an awesome place this was. Thank you Chris, for that...... Penny from Orangevale
<p>We were a little dissapointed as we thought this was a CHRISTMAS LIGHTS tour, it's basically a TOUR of San Francisco.<br/> There was no time to take pictures and we didn't even go into the Fairmont Hotel to see the Ginger Bread House on display. Nor did we<br/> go down to the Financial District to see the buildings lite up down there, nor the Christmas tree on Pier 39.<br/> In fact after the tour we took the Cable car back to Powell Street from Hyde and they STOPPED at Lombard Street and several locations paused so we could take pictures. So it was a nice and through tour of San Francisco.............but not a good Christmas Lights tour.</p>
This was my daughter's first trip to SF and when this tour was over, my friends and I told my daughter that she got to see more of SF in this tour then what most people ever see in multiple trips to SF. Our driver, Jason, was great. I would do a day tour when we make it back to SF.
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