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San Francisco Tour Guide | Our guests say the best things!

Lots going on in the 7×7!

It’s been a while since we’ve shared some of the great things that our guests say when they’re out with us on one of our private tours of San Francisco. It is always interesting to hear how our guests sum up their impressions of the city. A  recent fave [...]

San Francisco Food Tour | okay, YUM!

A guest from our Snacker’s Delight San Francisco culinary tour recently posted some pictures on foodspotting.com of his outing with us, which in turn we are sharing with you. We’ll let the pictures do the talking…just remember to call us when you’re ready to book your own custom Snacker’s Delight San Francisco private food tour [...]

San Francisco Car Tours | Color Explosion!

Since we’re out and about every day with guests on our San Francisco guided tours, we see almost everything there is to see in San Francisco. Over time, certain themes emerge. Here’s one we’ve been noticing lately: color. Houses, street art, sculptures and more represent all of the colors of the rainbow. To wit, we [...]

SF Customized Tours | Godzilla Attacks

Eric's fabulous art

We’ve been meaning to write about one of our fave SF artists, Eric Rewitzer. Eric is a true San Francisco gem; one of the great pleasures of our jobs as San Francisco tour guides is meeting people like Eric.

Eric recently participated in an event for San Francisco Center for the Book called [...]

San Francisco Car Tours | Scene On The Street

Our next Carried Away car?

How fabulous is this Steampunk car? Well at least we think it is Steampunk…whatever the origins, it is just so marvelous. We were out with guests on one of our San Francisco private tours the other day when we saw this on the street. Since our San Francisco guided tours [...]

San Francisco Tour Guides | Busy Bees!

Lunch, Carried Away-style. Take out dim sum in the park, between outings.

Oh my! We haven’t posted on our blog for over 10 days! There’s a good reason for that – we’ve been busy designing and doing San Francisco private tours for our guests. We’re in the midst of “high season” in San Francisco, and [...]

San Francisco Private Tour | We have the best guests!

We love feedback from our guests!

Just look what arrived in the mail from one of our guests! Wow! We are so seriously lucky in our jobs as San Francisco tour guides to be able to show off our city to people like this. Our guests are enthusiastic explorers who love the sense of adventure [...]

San Francisco Private Tour Guide | San Francisco is #1 Travel Destination!

Lots of things to do in San Francisco!

The Ladies of Carried Away are always excited to see polls and surveys that show San Francisco is the top U.S. travel destination. So our day started out fab when we saw that  U.S. News ranked San Francisco #1.

We think they got it right when they said:

“With [...]

San Francisco Private Tour Guide | Explore North Beach

Eating in North Beach: graze around the 'hood

The 5th installment of the Carried Away “Welcome to the Neighborhood” series is now posted on travel writer Nancy D. Brown’s blog. This month, we’re exploring San Francisco’s North Beach. In this post, we share our favorite spots to eat, shop and drink in North Beach. One [...]

Customized Tour San Francisco | Meet The Taste Blazer

Best San Francisco Experience! Thanks Shanell!

If you’ve been following Carried Away, you know that we believe in “experiential” travel. That’s one of the reasons why our customized San Francisco Bay Area tours accommodate only up to four guests, and are totally private. If there are less than 4 in your party, that’s fine [...]