My spouse and I took the Old Town Trolley Tour of San Diego
on a Friday morning in early July 2018. Old Town Trolley Tours was created in
the early 1970s in Key West Florida, but then branched out to other US cities,
including Boston, Nashville, San Diego, Savannah, St. Augustine, and Washington DC.
Do not confuse the Old Town Trolley with the San Diego Trolley (SDT),
the light-rail system operated by the city metropolitan transit system (MTS).
The Old Town Trolley San Diego tour costs about
$30 per adult, although you can get discounts by booking online or through your
hotel; you can also save on other attraction admissions by purchasing various
combination tickets. The basic Old Town Trolley ticket includes hop on-hop off
trolley access as well as entry to some museums, including the Old Town
Sheriff’s Museum, Casa De Aguirre, Mormon Battalion Historic Site, Old Town
Railroad Depot, African Museum, Chinese Historical Museum, Coronado Historical
Museum, Veterans Museum, Timken Museum of Art, and Firehouse Museum (a few of
which offer complimentary admission anyway).
San Diego trolley
stops include the Gaslamp District, Horton Plaza, Coronado Island, Convention
Center, Little Italy, Balboa Park, Old Town, and Embarcadero/Seaport Village.
(There is also a separate beach tour that takes you to La Jolla and Mt.
Soledad.) All trolleys stop in Old Town San Diego, where you must exit the
trolley. (If you haven’t paid your fare yet, you can do so here.) If you don’t
want to explore Old Town, you’ll have to wait about 20 minutes to catch the
next trolley to continue the route. The entire circuit takes about 2 hours
without hopping on and off, although you are travelling on city streets and
highways, so traffic can slow you down. Trolleys stop at each location
approximately every 20 minutes.
On the trolley;
seats toward the front have single-hung glass windows that open halfway,
whereas seats toward the back have larger (window) openings that allow better
airflow. (We prefer double-decker, open-top, hop-on/hop-off type vehicles, but
those did not appear to be available in San Diego.) Drivers were friendly and
entertaining.
We enjoyed our day
on the San Diego hop-on/hop-off Old Town Trolley. It gave us a great overview
of the city without having to drive ourselves.
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