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If you are planning a trip to San Francisco, then there are probably a number of attractions you want to visit. You may have heard that there are attraction passes, like City Pass or the Go Card, that could help you save money when you visit multiple attractions. They offer a list of attractions and you can pick out a number you want to do (or the number of days you want to have access to the attractions) and you save a lot of money. But you may be wondering which one you should buy.
Well, the truth of the matter is, there isn’t necessarily one card that is better, but there may be one card that is best for you. And that all depends on where you want to go. Because each card offers you access to different attractions. And so I’ve outlined which attractions you can get with each card to help you choose. Let’s say, for example, you really want to visit the Cartoon Art Museum while you’re in San Francisco. Well, only one of the passes I mention here has an Cartoon Art Museum included (Go Card). But if you really want to take a gray line bus tour to Yosemite? Only iventure offers that. So look at the following list to help you decide which one to buy – or if you should buy more than one so you can get everywhere you want to go on your San Francisco vacation!
| Go Card | CityPASS | Explorer Pass | Iventure | Sightseeing Pass | |
| Price info | Price info | Price Info | Price info | Price info | |
| 7D Experience – Ride & Maze Combo | X | X | |||
| Angel Island Ferry | X | X | |||
| Aquarium of the Bay | X | X | X | X | X |
| Applebee’s Entree | X | ||||
| Asian Art Museum | X | X | X | X | |
| AT&T Park Behind the Scenes Tour | X | X | X | X | |
| Bay City Bike Rentals & Tours | X | X | X | X | |
| Bike Rental from Alcatraz Bike & Tours | X | ||||
| Blue & Gold Fleet Bay Cruise Adventure | X | ||||
| Bridge to Bridge Cruise | X | X | |||
| Burger Bar | X | ||||
| Cable Car & Muni Bus Passport | X | ||||
| California Academy of Sciences | X | X | X | ||
| California Historical Society | X | ||||
| California’s Great America | X | X | |||
| Cartoon Art Museum | X | ||||
| Children’s Creativity Museum & Carousel | X | ||||
| City Sightseeing Night Tour | X | X | |||
| City Sightseeing 1 Day Hop on, Hop Off Tour | X | X | |||
| City Tour 48 Hour Hop On, Hop Off Tour | X | ||||
| Conservatory of Flowers | X | X | |||
| de Young Museum | X | X | X | X | X |
| Escape from the Rock | X | X | |||
| Exploratorium | X | X | X | ||
| Go Lorries – One Way Airport Shuttle | X | ||||
| GoCar Tours | X | X | X | X | |
| Golden Gate Bay Cruise | X | X | |||
| Grand City Tour (Gray Line) | X | ||||
| Hana Zen at PIER 39 | X | ||||
| Hop on Hop Off Trolley Tour | X | ||||
| Legion of Honor | X | X | X | ||
| Madame Tussauds San Francisco | X | X | X | ||
| Monterey & Carmel Tour (Gray Line) | X | ||||
| Muir Woods & Sausalito Tour (Gray Line) | X | ||||
| Muni Visitor Passport (1 Day) | X | ||||
| Park Wide Bike Rentals & Tours | X | ||||
| Ripley’s Believe it Or Not | X | X | X | ||
| RocketBoat | X | ||||
| San Francisco Bay Cruise | X | ||||
| San Francisco Dungeon | X | X | |||
| San Francisco Zoo & Gardens | X | X | |||
| Sausalito Ferry | X | ||||
| Six Flags Discovery Kingdom | X | ||||
| The Beat Museum | X | ||||
| The Contemporary Jewish Museum | X | ||||
| UC Berkeley Botanical Gardens | X | ||||
| USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum | X | X | |||
| USS Pampanito Submarine Experience | X | ||||
| Walt Disney Family Museum | X | X | |||
| Wild SF Walking Tour Chinatown & North Beach | X | ||||
| Wild SF Walking Tour Castro & Mission | X | ||||
| Wine Country Tour & Tasting | X | ||||
| Wine Country Tour (Gray Line) | X | ||||
| Yosemite National Park Tour (Gray Line) | X |
Explorer Pass
4 attractions: $85 for adults; $65 for children
Please click here for more Explorer Pass information.
Sightseeing Pass
3 attractions: $69 for adults; $55 for child
4 attractions: $66.50 for adults; $56 for child
5 attractions: $73.50 for adults; $63 for child
6 attractions: $97.30 for adults; $83.30 for child
Please click here for more Sightseeing Pass information.
Iventure
3 attractions: $65 for adults; $49 for children
5 attractions: $99 for adults; $79 for children
Please click here for more Iventure information.
Go Card
1 Day (All Attraction): $74.58
2 Day (All Attractions): $112.34
3 Day (All Attractions): $140.66
5 Day (All Attractions): $178.42
Please click here for more Go Card information.
CityPASS
All attractions (except you have to decide between Exploratorium OR de Young Museum – can’t do both): $89 for adults; $66 for children
Please click here for more CityPASS information.