San Francisco with Kids

Great for families. Family Suite is two bedrooms with plenty of room to sleep 6. Nothing fancy and no amenities, but easy walking to everything. Inexpensive & clean. Room rate includes parking as well.

This was great fun, we started at the Cannery by putting on firemen jackets and hats and hoping into the Big Red Shiny Mack Fire Engine and cruising around the city and across the Golden Gate Bridge. Excellent photo ops. The kids had a blast and the tour owners couldn't be more fun or nicer.

Had lunch here prior to taking our Fire Engine Tour. Service was great, casual setting, good seafood and the kids loved the fact that the kids meals were served in beach buckets with shovels.

An amazing hands on science museum. Everyone from my 18 month old to my husband had a great time and didn't want to leave. Plan on spending the day there and be sure to leave time for the museum store as it has so many great items too. Educational and FUN.

If you can, take the night tour. It has smaller groups and offers more. The boat ride out there is half the fun.

Touristy but the kids loved it. The double decker merry go round is always a hit, great photo ops of Alcatraz, and we could sit and watch the sea lions for hours.

Totally tacky, but with kids - a lot of fun to go through.

The kids loved watching them make the bread. The museum is small but has some interesting history and bread tasting at the end of the tour is included.

So much fun. We found though that by hitting them early in the mornings the lines were shorter and we could easily get seats up front. The Taylor Street turnabout was less crowded than the one at the cannery and near Union Square. Also the California Line was much less crowded.

Again, a small museum - but very fascinating to watch the cables move and learn about how they operate. The kids learned a lot of the lingo there as well.

It is a bit tricky to find on an alley in Chinatown, but worth the search. It is a tiny one room factory with two ladies manually folding fortune cookies. It is free to watch, but cost 50 cents if you want to take pictures.