Alcatraz Night Tour: Creepy Exploration with Bay Cruise

Experience the creepy and haunted Alcatraz Night Tour with small group docent-led tours and additional presentations. Enjoy a high-quality excursion with spectacular views along San Francisco Bay.

Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Alcatraz Island - Discover America’s most infamous prison… at night! It’s less crowded and more docents leading smaller groups. It’s also creepier then, with added features, but always a chance to go inside a cell and feel the cold and dark life firsthand.
    The award-winning 45-minute cell house audio headset tour covers escape attempts, riots,…
What's Included
  • Departure time is for Alcatraz Tour
  • Single departure/arrival location for Bay Cruise Loop
  • Round-trip ferry from Pier 33 to Alcatraz Island
Additional Information

Introducing the exclusive Alcatraz Night Tour by Alcatraz City Cruises! Unlike the Day Tour, this experience offers a slightly spookier atmosphere with fewer crowds, additional ranger or docent-led tours, and enhanced narration on the outbound ferry.
Additionally, enjoy a separate premium excursion showcasing breathtaking views of San Francisco Bay. This…

Location
Blue & Gold Fleet
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Mairi_m
Oct 27, 2024
‘Man’s inhumanity to man’ - Exciting, in depth & easy to follow audio tour. We didn’t stay the full 3 hours & very much appreciated the option to go back on the earlier ferry as it had been a long day! We will finish with ‘mans inhumanity to man’
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Tara
Oct 13, 2024
Night Tour at Alcatraz - The Rock. With the fog and night time atmosphere the island itself felt more "haunted" and eerie than exploring the cells themselves. There is a large incline zig-zag that needs to be traversed, but they did a mobility cart for those that need assistance. Additionally you are able to take any ferry back - as long as you don't miss the last one! (Giving you time to explore). Audio devices with headphones are provided with easy play and pause features to allow for you to pause as needed as you stroll through the prison. (This two part package allows you to see the Golden Gate Bridge as well as Alcatraz from the bay during the day.)
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Shane_w
Oct 12, 2024
John was great - The person I worked with (John) was great. He let me know that the night visit to Alcatraz had been canceled due to unknown reasons. He always kept in touch telling me what was going on and how to get to the Golden Gate boat tour. Thanks John
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Julieaf3468el
Oct 12, 2024
It was a great day on the water. Along with touring Alcatraz. - Both rides was great. You should be more clear on your website that it is 2 separate trips. When you look at the ticket you send it says: Review details click on it How to redeem click on it Takes you to this: How to Redeem Please present this ticket at the redemption point to receive your entry ticket. Before your tour/activity begins, visit a redemption location below to redeem this ticket for your entry ticket. Please note this is NOT where your tour/activity departs. REDEMPTION POINTS Pier 33 San Francisco, CA 94133, USA Blue & Gold Fleet Pier 41, San Francisco, CA 94133, USA I assumed by this we would be doing a cruise that dropped us off at Alcatraz. Thankfully we stopped at the Blue and Gold Fleet early enough to get on the cruise. Then head over to the Alcatraz departing dock. I feel you should have better instructions letting people know it is separate departures. So they don’t miss out.
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Sean1468
May 27, 2024
Great night tour of Alcatraz Island. - We had an amazing tour around Alcatraz Island and the prison. We did a day tour 5 years ago we liked both same as equal really great fun.
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Tammy_g
Sep 20, 2024
Disappointed! - RECOMMENDATION: Just book these tours direct with the Alcatraz ferry and the Cruise company booking offices. Firstly, we have used Viator to book numerous tours. This is the first one we were disappointed with. We try to book tours that are small group tours, hence we selected this one. There were supposed to be only 8 on the tour. We received minimal instructions other than to go to Pier 33 show our purchase to get a ticket to catch the Alcatraz ferry. There was no indication on where to meet a guide. The ticket office just gave us tickets and told us to get on the next ferry. We tried to explain but they were not interested. We never met a guide and ended up doing the standard Alcatraz tour as any other person. However, we paid more than others because we were to be a small group tour and didn’t just go direct to the provider. I have been to Alcatraz during the day, night time was no different even though this tour suggests it will be. As for the cruise, we never got to that owing to it NOT being available after the Alcatraz night tour. We didn’t have any other time we could do it due to being on other tours during our stay. So we paid for this and did not use it. Extremely disappointing and a waste of our money. Would not recommend this tour.
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N_m
Dec 30, 2023
Read this to save money - FYI: These are two separate tours with two separate operators. Cut out the middle man and buy these tickets yourself.
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Margarita
Oct 28, 2024
Not worth it - Too expensive for what it is. I had a lot of expectations and it's really not worth it. The tour does not take more than 40 min, it takes more time lining up to get on the ferry
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Debby_s
Oct 5, 2024
Cancelled tour - This was cancelled last minute and we are not able to reschedule. Definitely disappointed ad this was main reason for trip.
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From $150
up to 15 guests
1 Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).