Alcatraz Island GuideReviews of alcatrazislandguide.com

We loved the audio tour and being able to walk around at our own pace. Excellent visit all the way around!

Our Alcatraz tour was amazing! Our family of six—two seniors, two kids (ages 8 and 3), my husband, and me—had a wonderful experience. We brought an Austen stroller, and it wasn’t too big for the tour. Although it’s steep we still made it to the top, I highly recommend bringing a stroller especially with kids. Staff are very nice, the booking process was easy, and the boat departs on time.

The booking is easy. The shuttle boats are clean and well organized. Alcatraz Island is maintained and the self guided tours are very informative.

The orientation was helpful, informative and a great start to our visit. The audio tour provided interesting insights into the lives of prisoners and staff, including the poor treatment of minorities. We learned a lot about the occupation by Native Americans. The entire experience was fascinating!

Staff was very friendly and helpful. Gift shop had great selection and extremely reasonable. The audio tour had a great pace, excellent information and easy to follow. I will be back for a day trip so I can see the full site.

Employees were informative and having them explain things at the bottom of the hill after getting off the ferry was helpful. Giftshop merch was AMAZING... thanks for having a fun sense of humor (i.e. prison issued shirts, tin mugs, spoons for digging out, and the Alcatraz "fog" globes!... we were not planning on the merch being as great as it was!). Would be nice to have more restrooms available, especially at the top, but appreciate the warning that's given at the bottom of the hill beforehand. Audio tour was REALLY good--we talked about this for quite a bit afterward, noting how much attention was given to making the tour as accessible as possible, regardless of cognitive ability/educational background, physical ability, and for non-english speakers... thank you for making this something everyone can enjoy!

The self guided tour was very well done and helpful.

Great price, wonderful boat crew, amazing staff helping and answering questions. Really cool stories from staff about the inmates and some of their experiences. The night tour has some added benefits but you do see more in the daytime tour. We also got to see how the door system worked and that made the whole trip. Really cool experience.