Official Alcatraz Island Prison Tour and San Francisco Bay Cruise
Overview
Available languages
Mobile ticket
This is a unique tour package to visit both the Alcatraz Island and the Golden Gate Bridge! For the Alcatraz tour, you will first take a short ferry ride from Pier 33 to the Alcatraz Island, where you can walk around the Island freely at your own pace and follow a 45-minutes award-winning audio tour in multiple languages of the Alcatraz Prison Cellhouse. You can hop on to any returning ferry when you are finish touring the Alcatraz Island. For the San Francisco Bay Cruise Tour, it will start near Pier 39 where just a short walk from Pier 33 Alcatraz Landing. During this 60-minute Bay Cruise Tour, you will tour around the Alcatraz Island and under the famous Golden Gate Bridge, where you will enjoy breathtaking views of San Francisco and its bay!
Tips: You can do the Bay Cruise Tour before the Alcatraz Tour, or on a different date! There are multiple departures daily and your Bay Cruise voucher is valid for any date, any departure time
Additional Info
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
Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
What To Expect
Alcatraz Island
You will take a ferry ride from Pier 33 to the Alcatraz Island to attend a short ranger tour of the Alcatraz Island, then you will be free to walk around the Alcatraz Island and the Prison Buildings following a 45-minutes award-winning audio tour that is available in different languages.
Pier 39
Bay Cruise starts from Pier 39, Fisherman's Wharf.
Options
Official Alcatraz Island Prison Tour and San Francisco Bay Cruise
What‘s Included
60-minutes Bay Cruise Tour that goes under the Golden Gate Bridge!
Award-winning audio tour in multiple languages
Official Alcatraz ticket, including ferry ride to the island (Value $45.25)
Admission to the Alcatraz Island & Prison Cellhouse
Round-trip ferry rides to the Alcatraz Island
Cancellation Policy
All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.
Reviews
324 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
June 2026
Anne D,Jun 9, 2026
- Review from Viator
5.00Very informative trip. could do with the transport going down as well as up and more frequently than every half hour. I managed the walk as the slope is not steep but took a while.
It can get cold on the...
Jodie K,Jun 9, 2026
- Review from Viator
5.00It can get cold on the bay even on a sunny day , both activities were amazing prison tour was so interesting
Excellent trip
DAVID A,Jun 1, 2026
- Review from Viator
5.00Very good and interesting trip. Organised well. If you have the bay tour you have to go to the Alcatraz trip first at pier 33. Then after go to pier 39.
Great tour
Genevieve B,May 24, 2026
- Review from Viator
5.00Excellent organization. The ferry takes us to the island where we are free afterwards and can take any ferry back. The guided tour of the cells is perfect with the audio guide.
Excellent trips!!
Alison E,May 21, 2026
- Review from Viator
5.00If I could give this tour 6 stars I would! The ticket included return ferry to Alcatraz, audio tour on island and also a separate ferry ride around San Francisco Bay out to the Golden Gate Bridge. The Alcatraz trip was excellent- really enjoyed the history of the prison and the audio tour could be stopped and started at your leisure. Alcatraz is very busy but well organised….you pick the ferry up at Pier 33. When you return you can head to Pier 39 to decide which time suits best for the Bay Ferry trip….again well organised and narrated. Good value for money!
Alcatraz
Holly V,May 16, 2026
- Review from Viator
4.00We were not given our tickets in advance, only a voucher for the Alcatraz boat. It did not tell you to arrive early. We missed our boat and waited in line to exchange tickets. They were very accommodating. The second half of the tour (bay cruise) was not very clear to us where to go and how to get the tickets. They were in messages in the Viator app
It was perfect for what...
Amy W,May 6, 2026
- Review from Viator
5.00It was perfect for what we were looking for 2 tours and reasonably priced, we did things at our pace. Very enjoyable.
Paid over the top
Julie R,Apr 30, 2026
- Review from Viator
2.00You can get your tickets direct at the ferry terminal at fisherman’s wharf far cheaper than on this site.
I like how you toured...
Cindy,Apr 29, 2026
- Review from Viator
4.00I like how you toured Alcatraz at your own pace. The prison itself, with the audio guide was nice to experience. Locating the correct dock at Pier 39 for the San Francisco Bay tour can be difficult. We used the hop on hop off bus the previous day to make sure we knew where to go. We enjoyed this part of the tour too.
Perfect little get away
AnaMaria T,Apr 18, 2026
- Review from Viator
5.00Nice experience. The Alcatraz audio tour is superb. Very well narrated. Enough time to enjoy Alcatraz and then to finish up with the cruise under the Giolden Gates bridge. Perfect opportunity to take the most instagram worthy pictures.
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