Alcatraz Island Ticket with Chinatown Tour & Cable Car

We’ll meet ou near the landing for Alcatraz ferries and give you two separate tickets. One is your Alcatraz ticket which gets you to the island and entitles you to an Alcatraz audio tour once you arrive. You can use the other to take a ride on the most famous of San Francisco’s historic cable car lines. Our local guide will give you a few tips on which are the best stops to use in order to avoid the long lines and get the best views of the city.

After giving you a few tips on where to eat after your Alcatraz tour, we leave you to enjoy your experience. On you return, we'll invite you on an introductory Chinatown tour, which we have designed to immerse you in the neighborhood's unique history and culture and give you a few reasons to come back later. If you don’t want to take the tour that day, you can enjoy it any other afternoon during your visit.

Starting near the Dragon’s Gate, we’ll explore the vestiges of the old neighborhood, when it was a seedy red light district full of brothels and opium dens, stopping at landmarks like Waverly Place, Portsmouth Square, and St. Mary’s Cathedral. Our Chinatown tour also visits a traditional apothecary, tempts your tastebuds at some of the city’s best bakeries, and even lets you taste a fresh fortune cookie (an SF invention) at the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory. Before you go we’ll discuss the 8 great cuisines of China and where you can eat them, along with some of our favorite places for dim sum.