GoCar San Francisco Tour: GPS-Guided Storytelling Car

Experience the exhilarating GoCar San Francisco Tour, a GPS-guided storytelling car that brings the city to life. Discover the sights, buzzed about by the press and nominated by Time Magazine as a cool invention.

Duration: 5 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Palace of Fine Arts Theatre - The Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District of San Francisco, California, is a monumental structure originally constructed for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in order to exhibit works of art presented there. One of only a few surviving structures from the Exposition, it is still situated on its original site….
What's Included
  • Map
  • Tank of gas
  • Rental of GPS touring car
  • Rider orientation
  • 8.75% environmental fee for carbon offset, gasoline and tire recycling
  • Helmets
What's Not Included
  • Optional: Gratuities
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Optional: Collision Damage Waiver (CDW) $19
Additional Information

Experience San Francisco in the most thrilling, amusing and educational manner with our pioneering GPS-led narrating car! This ingenious chatterbox on wheels guides you through the city and highlights the landmarks that embody the essence of San Francisco. You don’t want to miss what the media is enthusiastically reporting, what tourists can’t stop…

Location
431 Beach St
Beach Street
Tour departs from Fisherman's Wharf • Located Taylor Street • Phone +1-415-441-5695. Open 10am - 6pm.
Cancellation Policy

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

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Andres_h
Nov 25, 2024
Super experience in SF! - Awesome experience! The Go Car is easy to drive and very fun! Just consider it is small and it does not have a lot of space to store things. GPS is easy to use and the tours are very interesting! You can go around the city and discover new places! It's an unique way to explore and discover the city you must try it!
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Jeff_r
Nov 17, 2024
A great way to see SF! - This is a great way to see the city. The route is excellent and you get a very good feeling for the vibe of SF. We’ve been to SF at least a hundred times and this route found places I’d never seen before. If you’re new to SF, I highly recommend it. The only downside is that the cars are pretty small so it’s very cozy. Many of them are pretty old and beat up but they work fine. The staff is another matter. They are not at all welcoming and seemed bored with the job. The AI narrator for the video is lame. Bottom line, great way to see the city but the staff needs to seriously improve their skills when it comes to customer engagement. They need to make it fun as soon as you arrive.
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Crystaljk181js
Nov 15, 2024
Worth the Money! - We did the 3 hour GoCar San Francisco tour and it was a fantastic way to see tons of sights in a new city without the hassle of finding parking! All of the stops are preloaded and you can just skip whatever you're not interested in seeing.
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Ajoy_k
Nov 12, 2024
team building - it is well managed and keeps things simple. we saw san francisco with a very different lens and enjoyed the story of the city
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Brithon
Nov 9, 2024
Awesome Way to Tour the City - It was better than being on a bus with no control of where you went. The GoCar gave you the freedom to stop where you wanted.
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Jonathan_m
Oct 26, 2024
Great way to see a great city - Fantastic way to view a fantastic city. Very helpful staff, great product. GPS guidance worked flawlessly constantly updating if you made a wrong turn. Very easy to navigate the streets and traffic very considerate of your vehicle. World definitely recommend and will be using them bc again when next in the city to explore the areas we did not see this time round.
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Angela_p
Oct 19, 2024
Zipping around San Francisco - Awesome self drive GPS guided way to get around and see San Francisco. Highly recommend the full day, so much to see and easy to get around. So much FUN!!
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Christina_j
Oct 18, 2024
Great day! - Such a great way to see the sights of San Francisco. Recommend the all day hire so you can take your time and enjoy.
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Dusena09
Oct 9, 2024
Had a great time. - Guys were great to deal with. We up graded to the Zeromax electric car. It was fun, easy to drive. Definitely do it again!
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732dawnh
Oct 18, 2024
DO NOT RENT!!! - It saddens me to write this review, because this is a fun experience, but the people who run this business are horrible. I've live locally and use GoCar when I have friends in town, however, after this past rental, I will NEVER NEVER NEVER use them again nor would I ever recommend them to anyone. First of all, and this isn't specific to this past weekend, but the navigation isn't great. The notice of when to turn isn't always long enough in advance, the little cuts to save time are often confusing, and weirdly, the volume on certain directions is lower than others. Sot he volume is either too loud or too soft and it makes it easy to miss your turn. Again, I'm local, so I can manage, but I really feel for people who aren't and don't know where they are going. Especially if your sidekick is a kid who is clueless to direction. :) Also - you'd think those things would be nimble given their size. They are NOT. My VW wagon has a better U Turn radius than this piece of crap. They also don't back up, so if you end up in a tight situation, good luck. Getting back to Columbus Day weekend (the last time I used this service) - my friend and I rented the car in the AM. (Pro Tip If you Decide to Use this Crap Ass Company: If you decide to rent at 10am when they first open, make sure you get there about 15 mins early. They don't staff well for the opening crowd and if you aren't first in line, you wont' actually get in your car until maybe 10:30 or 10:45. Key is to be first in line.) We got in our car and went on our merry way. I knew that it was Fleet Week and the Columbus Day parade was going on, so I knew it would be busy, but I wasn't aware that GoCar's location would be affected by road closures. And do you think anyone told us about the road closures? No! So when it was time to take the car back, after sitting in crazy traffic, trying to navigate a car that is NOT nimble, and having sore hands from holding the hand breaks while stuck in gridlock traffic going down hill, we literally could not get back to the rental location. All of the roads leading to the location were closed. We called and asked what to do and they said we had to just wait it out. After speaking to an SFPD officer, he said we'd have to wait at least 1.5 hours until the parade was over. We literally had no where to go, no where to park, and those cars only have about 4 hours worth of gas in them. This was a bad bad situation people! Luckily i knew a little dead end street where we could at least kinda pull over and turn the engine off. We were also not the only cars stuck in this situation - many people had opted for the 3 hour tour and were now stranded in a mess of traffic and people. After continuing to call this place again and again to try and find out what to do, I got ahold of someone and they came to us to pick up the car. This was about an hour+ after we were supposed to take the car back. No apologies, nothing. The only thing they offered was to not charge for the extra hours. WTF??? That's not an offer, that's table stakes. I saw reviews on Yelp that said some people got a full refund. We did not. I called and asked. Told them I was a repeat customer but they didn't care. I will never use them again. If you decide to take your chances, please call 311 and make sure there are no road closures in San Francisco that day. This is actually the second time I used this service when there wer road closures - the last time the closure was around the Golden Gate Bridge for a political rally. Their navigation is not based on current situations and cannot account for any closure (expected or not). I feel for people who are from out of town and don't know their way around. It's not easy and these jerks will not help you.
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