2-Hour GoCar Tour: Downtown San Diego and Old Town or Beaches
Description
This 2-Hour GoCar Tour is your key to fun in San Diego! This self-drive tour takes you through the Downtown and Old Town areas of San Diego, but you will also pass through other thriving areas such as Little Italy, The Gaslamp Quarter, Balboa Park, Mission Hills and Presidio Park. This exciting tour has turn-by-turn GPS with tour commentary along the way. *If booking more than 2 people please submit separate orders!
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Itinerary
Start your tour in historic Little Italy, home to the Italian community and see how it has evolved into the modern business and artistic community it is today.
Drive through Balboa Park, a stunning 1,200 acre park in the middle of San Diego. Its diversity of Spanish Renaissance Architecture, museums for all interests, gardens, and the outdoor pavilion make it a great place to explore in your GoCar.
Make your way into the Gaslamp Quarter which was once San Diego’s red-light district and see how it has been re-imagined into the social scene it is today
Old Town San Diego is where you can see how San Diego looked in the old west where its Spanish and American residents formed a thriving community
Drive by the San Diego Zoo, one of the most renowned zoos in the world and is home to over 12,000 rare and endangered animals.
Your jump into history will take you past Historic Fort Stockton, into Presidio Park where the old Spanish Mission used to stand.
As you leave modern San Diego you'll begin your trip into history as you make your way through beautiful Mission Hills. Pass by many houses and businesses, most being at least 50 years or older
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Important Information
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Driver's License Required and be 21+ to Drive
- Optional Collision Damage Waiver (CDW) is available upon request at check-in and costs approximately $19
Reviews(191)
My husband and I had a blast in our slingshot rental touring the beautiful city of San Diego. I would highly highly highly recommend go car tours as a way to explore a new city or even a way to explore the city you’ve been to before! Amazing experience
Sunset cliff was a real experience of the California beautiful coastline. We were glad that we chose that route.
Awesome! Just lost GPS a bit got a little lost but still wonderful experience
This was so much fun! My boyfriend and I loved the tour. It was easy to follow along and you were able to see so much of San Diego within the 2 hours.
This tour was a lot more fun than I thought it would be. I live about 90 miles north of SD and have visited the city countless times over the past 50 years. This was an entirely new view of San Diego and I learned a lot about each neighborhood visited. I would absolutely recommend this tour to anyone visiting the city!
This was a fun way to see a lot of San Diego in a short amount of time. The staff was very helpful and we're good at explaining how to drive the gokart.
Loved it!!!! I definitely recommend to anyone looking to learn more about San Diego. We had fun!!!!!
I took advantage of the early bird special... 2 hours for price of one. My 11 year old granddaughter and I did the beach tour. We made a couple of stops, Shelter Island ,Ft Rosecrans, and Sunset Cliffs. Decided to take a couple of detours and made it back in the alloted time. The car was very easy to navigate and kept up with the traffic. I'm a local and still learned new things about my city.
This was so fun and a great way to see old town and the beach. You are traveling in normal traffic and it is not covered, so in the sun. Basically a motorcycle engine in a go cart. I would do it again to include other cities.
Our experience was probably not typical. Our computer speaker did not work and so we did not hear anything the entire trip and luckily we were able to follow our friends whose speaker did work. Otherwise we probably would’ve been totally lost because the GPS map was a little confusing, so we missed all of the narration about the places that we passed.. We also had a very annoying beep from the turn signals that went for the last hour and a half of the ride. When we were in the parking lot the worker had trouble turning it off and about a half hour into the ride the beeper would not go off, so it was very annoying and made the trip very unenjoyable. I think our car was maybe an older car because even when I called them to talk to them about turning on the speaker or howto get it to talk to us, we could not find a volume button on the screen even though she tried to lead me through it.The volume through the car was totally on high. Two things, one they should make sure that your speakers are working before you leave the parking lot and two if they had trouble turning off the turn signal beeper in the parking lot they should’ve known that we would maybe have had trouble on the trip. Even when we got back, the young worker tried to turn it off and it didn’t go off. We turned the car off and then turned it back on and it still didn’t go off. So as of right now, I would not recommend this trip for anybody because we were very unhappy. I am waiting for a call from the manager.
