Alcatraz Inside Prison Tour with Free App Audio Packages
Description
Epic San Francisco Experience! Begin with a thrilling guided bus tour across the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, offering stunning views of the bay. Or grab a 40-minute bike rental to cruise the vibrant streets, waterfront, or even across the bridge itself. Explore hidden neighborhoods or famous landmarks like a local—free and fearless. Alternatively, enjoy a 1-hour Golden Gate Bay Cruise to see the bridge, Alcatraz, and city skyline from the water. Next, take a ferry to Alcatraz Island with your prepaid ticket—no waiting in sold-out lines! Immerse yourself in a 3-hour audio tour, exploring the eerie corridors and haunting history of the notorious “Rock” at your own pace.
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Itinerary
Once you take the ferry over to Alcatraz Island and you are dropped off, you will make your way up to the main prison building, where you receive an audio headset, and the audio tour will guide you through the Alcatraz Prison. Once the audio tour is over, you can continue taking pictures and exploring the Island, or you can walk back down to the ferry landing and hop on the next ferry headed back to San Francisco. The Alcatraz tour typically takes 2-3 hours to enjoy.
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Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Please call us to set your desired Alcatraz departure time
Reviews(365)
Not sure what to say here. The actual Alcatraz tour was good. You sometimes have to wait a bit for a boat back so allocate time. We then did the boat tour after around the bay for an hour which was also good. Difficult to hear the commentary on the boat but great to go under the Golden Gate Bridge. My problem here was that we booked a 1:05 pm Alcatraz boat tour. Even though we got online tickets you DO have to turn up to the address on Post Street to get the ‘actual tickets’. They don’t make this clear! Also when the guy gave me by boat ticket it said 1:35pm. I mentioned this - he said I’d be on the 1:05 boat. He lied! We could only board the 1:35pm and took an expensive Uber to the pier to accommodate the earlier time. We didn’t get what we booked. At the pier they won’t make changes since we booked through a ‘third party - Trip Advisor’ so you were stuck. We had to rearrange our evening plans. I’ve booked with Trip Advisor all over the world but this one left a sour taste since the tickets not explained well and they changed but confirmed tour time.
Very accommodating to our requests and made it simple and easy to get there. The experience was brilliant
Was a wonderful tour and would definitely do it again!
You had to pick up the tickets 2 hours before the start at a completely different location in the middle of the city. Finding the piers was not that easy, especially for the second boat trip. The trips themselves were good.
Alcatraz Tours and Blue and Gold Fleet were quality operators. Our Alcatraz tour experience exceeded expectations and our nay cruise to the Golden Gate Bridge was so much fun. Alcatraz Bikes and Tours could have provided better instructions and pre-tour instructions. Their directions were not clear and were difficult to follow. My family and I almost missed our boat to Alcatraz as a result.
Great experience. Very informative. Short and pleasant audio tour. Ferry ride was super nice. Impressive.
Office is situated in the part of the parking. Office should work till 18 as stated in google. We came at 17:20. Office was closed. We called on the phone. Manager told us that he is business owner and works as much as he wants. We should come next day. After 5 minites he called back and told that he even can cancel the reservation. After 1h he canceled. Never seen such service before
It was a little odd that we had to go to a different location to pick up a QR code ticket to then go to the pier. That process could be improved, but overall the visit to Alcatraz was great! Nice ferry ride and interesting education.
It is a new experience, and listening to how everything happened in the prison is like living the moment; the boat leaves at the time they tell you, and that is very good.
The Audio tour was worthwhile walking through the prison and being able to catch the boat ride back at your leisure was a nice option.
