Hop On Hop Off Tour (San Francisco, CA)

The most useful thing you’ll do on day one — the Big Bus gets you oriented fast, and the nighttime tour to Treasure Island is worth it for the city views alone.

Big Bus Hop On Hop Off Tour San Francisco
📍San Francisco, CA
✨travel the city on the top deck
📒 part of our San Francisco Field Guide

Why you should go: The Big Bus hop on hop off is part tour, part transportation — most useful early in your trip to get oriented. The daytime route crosses the Golden Gate Bridge from the top deck, hits Haight-Ashbury and Golden Gate Park. The nighttime tour runs about two hours with a stop at Treasure Island for a genuinely stunning view of the city skyline and the Bay Bridge light installation. Download the app before you go — it shows stop locations and arrival times. (And book the Big Bus because it has an app, it’s not the only HoHo tour in the city.)