The Official Golden Gate Park Segway Tour Reviews

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Come glide with us, the original San Francisco Segway Tour company! Our tours are fun, informative, and include thorough Segway rider training (in 11 languages!) before departure so you can be gliding through the city in no time. And you won’t miss a word of our tour guides’ entertaining narration because every guest gets a radio receiver and earbuds. San Francisco is full of awesome views and remarkable stories, and a Segway tour is the best way to enjoy both! We offer 1.5 and 2.5 hour fully-guided and narrated Segway tours of the waterfront, North Beach, Chinatown, and Golden Gate Park. Choose from 7 breathtaking routes with frequent daily and evening departures. Every tour leaves from one of two convenient start locations: Fisherman's Wharf or Golden Gate Park. Segway riders must be over age 12 and weigh between 100-250 lbs (45-113kg).

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Phone:

415-474-3130

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info@sfelectrictour.com

Location:

757 Beach Street
San Francisco
94109

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“I did the Segway Tour of Golden Gate Park. My guide, Devin was really great, funny and relaxed with lots of good information. A great way to see the park because it is huge and learning to ride a segway was pretty easy and the experience of driving one around the park was really cool! It makes you wish you had a segway everytime you are climbing up a San Francisco hill!”

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Posted 13 years ago

“This is more aimed at the tour operators, but really it's a full review of what I experience. Honestly, I was afraid of how I'd feel on a Segway. They're a brilliant invention, but no matter how many times I remind myself of that, I still think people riding them look like pricks. Now I don't typically look for ways to make myself look like/be more of a prick, but I sometimes stumble upon these methods, and so I found myself riding a Segway through Golden Gate Park last Saturday. I'll start off by saying that the training was done extremely well. The Segway is hardly a dangerous vehicle, but I'm glad everyone was given time to get used to the machines before taking off. Even after some very clear instructions, I noticed there were still people who would speed ahead (you can't stop speed demons...but perhaps they should look for machines more adventurous than a Segway?) and people who would stop on hills. Even though there were these little bumps, I place no blame on the tour operators. Rather, I would like to say thanks for their guidance, we were guided well and we had almost no problems. We started and at the beginning I had trouble hearing our tour leader. Being the farthest from the front, I assumed it was the distance causing the buzz, but found that playing with the connection of the headphones to the machine improved it, so I found myself spending a lot of the first half of the tour readjusting my headphones. It was a real problem, but only because I can honestly say the things the tour guide was extremely interesting. On top of being well informed on the flora, he included historical information, as well as local ghost stories. I don't do tours very often because it tends to be stale, usually focusing on one of the above, which gets somewhat tiring. It hardly felt like a history or biology lecture, it was just interesting facts about where we were. Total kudos to Cody. Rock on dude. In the second half of the tour I was finally informed that it was not the radio, nor the headphone's fault that I was getting so much static, but rather a giant tower in the middle of the park. The only advice I could give other than getting better/different radios is to just explain it from the beginning. Rather than spend a lot of my time trying to readjust the headphones, I could have been focusing on the park or trying to get closer. Though once or twice, fidgeting with the headphones did help, so...if you find that helps, encourage that behavior? The second half of the tour was just as interesting as the first, and twice as clear. I really enjoyed it and I have to say, by the end, rather than thinking, "I feel like a lazy prick," I realized walking the distance we rode would have been awful, and while listening to the tour, I completely forgot to feel like a prick. Score! Anyway, it was a great time and I'd totally suggest this to someone else. I did in fact - also everyone I've met since I did it. Keep on rockin' TourCorp.”

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Posted 13 years ago

“This was the best way combining beautiful nature and riding a segway. I recommend this tour for everybody”

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Posted 13 years ago

“great way to see a lot of Golden Gate park in a short period.”

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Posted 13 years ago

“I absolutely loved our Segway tour of Golden Gate Park! Our tour guide Devin was excellent and I felt very safe using a new mode of transportation! Highly recommended!”

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Posted 13 years ago

“They did a great job training us and Devin our guide was excellent.”

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Posted 13 years ago

“Devin was the best guide. He was always looking at the upside to every situation and helping that guest through their thing. The tour consists of the east side of the park, which is where the bulk of the interesting stuff is anyway. The segways are easier to navigate than you might think and the radio headsets keep you informed whether you are at the front or rear of the group as the guide speaks.”

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Posted 13 years ago

“Although we were 'segwaying' on a rare rainy day in San Francisco, the tour was fun, informative and an excellent value. I was particularly impressed with how well-thought-out the training was -- everyone was riding easily very quickly.”

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Posted 13 years ago