Omar was great ! Easy to find and his English is awesome. Took us to Playa Nuevo and picked us up…read moreonce we were ready.

I took this tour because of the high rating and I'm glad I did. My guide was Miguel and he did a…read moregreat job helping me get the full Tijuana experience. Tijuana is very beautiful and full of culture and great food. Miguel went out of his way to make it a great experience.

These are fantastic walking tours of San Diego…read more The fact of the matter is, San Diego DOES have history ... you just have to look for it. And there are few people better than Patty (Ms. Urban Safari herself) to show it to you. Urban Safaris offers guided walking tours of different San Diego neighborhoods, ranging from urban centers like the Gaslamp Quarter and La Jolla to Balboa Park and the open canyons around town. Patty, a long-time San Diego resident, teacher and historian, knows more about the city than anyone I know. And she has a knack for noticing fascinating things that most of us pass every day without even a second's notice. Usually, there's a tour every weekend, leaving on Saturday at 10am and lasting about two hours. The specific location depends upon the neighborhood of the week, but you can find out by making a reservation with Patty on the website, by sending her an email, or even by calling the number. Space is usually limited to about 15, so it's good to make your reservations early. On the other hand, San Diegans are notorious un-curious about their city, and so the tours often (and unfortunately) have plenty of space. The best way to find out about the tours is through the website, although they are occasionally advertised in the San Diego Reader (under 'Local Events') and Patty can give you a paper schedule when you go on your first tour. They don't happen every weekend (because Patty travels and spends a lot of her time researching new tours); but there are 'seasons', and when a new schedule comes out it will usually list tours for weeks and even months in advance. Really, I can't say enough about these tours. I've learned a ton. Most of all, I've found a great, new way to appreciate the wonderful city we share. PS - The tours don't necessarily leave from Horton Plaza. I just put that there because Yelp required that I put a specific location. Really, this isn't the kind of thing that has a specific location -- it changes each week with the particular tour. Just go to the website to find out where the next tour is leaving from.

Think you know San Diego?…read more If you don't, definitely come on one of these walking tours. And even if you think you do, still come, because there may be a thing or three that you may very well learn and give you a greater appreciation for the community. Like Ethan said, these tours take you to various neighborhoods in San Diego: North Park, Hillcrest, Gaslamp, South Park, East Village, Mission Hills, etc. Each last between 1.5-2 hours. Along the way, Patty points you to various landmarks and oddities in each neighborhood and provides the history and background of each. In addition, she also shows some historical pictures in context to today's landscape. In addition to researching herself, many people have donated their knowledge and information that have gone on the walks themselves, adding even more rich history from people who actually have grown up and seen the changes in San Diego. Go!

What a great experience. My wife and I try to complete an electric bike tour in every city we…read morevisit. We've visited San Diego several times, but our visits were limited to the particular attraction we were visiting. This bike tour is a wonderful way to see so much of San Diego via bike. The location is easy to find, and parking is easy to find ( there is a huge parking structure next door). We were met by Kevin who was our guide for the tour. Awesome personality with a friendly demeanor. His knowledge of the San Diego area is impressive. He was full of fun facts about the city. The course was delightful and the bikes were easy to ride. I highly recommend this city tour and hope you get Kevin as your guide, you won't be disappointed.

My family and I did the 12 hour LA trip. This was just amazing. Our tour guide AMY made it 1000…read more She was promising, detailed and completely knowledgeable about the tour. The company was professional. Luxury VIP, was the order of tge day. We were able to take in ever key aspect of LA in a day. Amy was the best and I recommend her ​​

I received a gift certificate for their tours, and their website has no tour availabilities for the…read moreupcoming year. The number on their account also goes straight to an automated / dead end. I contacted FareHarbor, the company they use to allow customers to continue purchasing gift certificates but it doesn't sound like they can do any sort of refunds and they didn't commit to actually preventing this company from receiving bookings in the future. Please be aware this is likely a scam.

We had a fantastic host - I'm hoping I'm spelling his name right but I have pictures too…read more Francesco- He was knowledgeable, fun, and catered to all our needs. We started out at the Our Lady of the Rosary Church for the history of the Italians coming to San Diego. It was stunning the day after Christmas and some of the Pastors were there too. Then we went through The Piazza to Davanti's where we had a cocktail, Pizza, Bruschetta and Ricotta cheese toast with honey ... SO YUMMY!!! We stayed here a bit long for all this food but they accommodate me having a pine nut allergy which was very nice. Then onward to Landini's (the upstairs restaurant) where we had meatballs and pancetta with mozzarella with a little red wine ... again incredible!! We were late for our last stop before dessert so he improvised in the best way possible and Monello's accommodated our party of 11 with a liqueur, bread with shaved amazing cheese then the mist heavenly lemon cheese homemade pasta stirred together in a cheese wheel. We were stuffed by this point but then we had dessert. Salunto bakery and gelato. I had coconut gelato. What a great night. We got history, a beautiful walk and the most food I've ever had on a food tour. Excellent job!!!

Chris, our guild was outstanding. He gave a detailed history of San Diego which helped with the…read morehistory of balboa park. I would highly recommend. What made this walk interesting to me was the before pictures of the buildings that he was discussing . The tour was about 2 hrs.

Kris is fantastic! We had a great time walking around La Jolla and getting to know some of the…read morehistory of the area! Highlight was all the seals and sea lions! Lots of photo opps along the way! Absolutely a must do and highly recommend!

Reggie was so amazing! He told his stories very well and he spoke to everyone. This made us feel…read morelike everyone was included. We also got a picture with him! I would do this tour again but only with Reggie as he was pretty awesome!

If your feet hurts, then this ghost tour is actually good because the walks are in a couple of…read moreareas that aren't too far! We viewed about 12 different areas that is occupied by the folks of the other realm. Our guide Clara Hughes was well dressed up in costume to make the experience that more real. We were also using instruments for fun to see if there was any activity. Clara explained a lot of history from back then that was very interesting and mostly cowboy activities aka a lot of deaths and killings...They also have other tours as well if you're only free during the day, go on hauntedsandiegotours.com or sandiegohistorytour.com!

Thank you Epic Day Tours. Nathalie listened to what our interests were and planned an amazing…read moreday--all we had to do was show up. Lunch was at Rockin Baja Grill in Old Town San Diego. The boys inhaled the ahi and surf & turf tacos. They have an amazing self serve salsa bar too. After a siesta our group reconnected with our tour guide who organizes social beach volleyball. We played until sundown with people visiting from the US as well as the UK, Turkey, and the Netherlands. Then were treated to an unobstructed view of the nightly fireworks that go off at SeaWorld. Such a perfect day.

San Diego native here! But so busy that when a friend from Australia came to town, I wanted some…read morehelp to come up with some super weird fun things to do. Nathalie put together an awesome day for us. We did yoga, enjoyed some liquid lunch, restored ourselves at a spa I would have never found. The best part about all of it? I never once doubted that the things Nathalie suggested would be inappropriate for us. She read us perfectly after listening to our interests. And then she put together our itinerary. I felt like it was the best field trip ever! Thank you!

Our tour was great. Rosalinda is a great guide. Getting to go inside the historic buildings is so…read moreawesome. This is a bus tour with some walking which was great for those who can't walk long distances. No ghosts seen this time, but very enjoyable tour.

Kat was my guide for gaslamp walking ghost tour experience. She was funny and very knowledgeable…read more Safety was her number 1 priority as she reminded us about road safety when we're about to cross the road. The amount of info she knows about the locations were incredible, considering that she remembered it without reading a script. Wonderful experience whether you're a believer or not in the paranormal. My partner and I captured a few orbs in the last location where we got to enter in the haunted home.