![]() ![]() Lime Bike: If you're proficient at riding a bike, then Lime Bike is great for a sunny Alameda day. GIG Car Share: As you can guess, I can't stress enough how convenient Gig Car Share is for Alameda, assuming you don't have a car. Be sure to sign-up well ahead of time rather than standing in front of the car. Anyway, be sure to use my link to get $15 credit and probably zip around Alameda for free during your day trip. Drive to your destination and end your booking, more likely than not, the same car will be available when you need to get to your next destination. and use the onboard GPS to get to Alameda.Ī quick hint about using a Gig Car Share, don't use their day rate for Alameda, which is set at $85/day. ![]() People in San Francisco can pick-up a Gig Car Share at 560 Brannon St. GIG Car Share : If you're not familiar with Gig Car Share, then it's a car sharing service that offers customers one-way trips and the ability pick-up and drop-off within in a designated "Home Zone," which is almost all of Alameda. Total cash fare is just a little $7 for one-way. It's a nearly direct bus route from San Francisco onto Alameda Island and currently costs $4.50 per trip across the bay.īART-Bus: Catch the Yellow or Red line to the 12st BART station and board the 51A toward the Fruitvale BART, which goes through Alameda Island. If you're unfamiliar with a Gig Car Share, then read below for more information.īus: The most economical and convenient way to get to Alameda from San Francisco is the O bus from the San Francisco Transbay Bus Terminal. This means you'll most likely have to Uber or use a Gig Car Share to get to your next destination. Second, and this is pretty major, there is no longer bus service working the Alameda Main Street Terminal. ![]() First, the ferry schedule is pretty limited, especially on the weekends with only about one ferry departing every hour. So be sure to check the SF Ferry Schedule to plan your trip. There are some drawbacks to taking the ferry. The ferry to the Main Street Alameda Terminal departs from the San Francisco Ferry Building, as well as SF Pier 41, which is at Fisherman's Wharf. San Francisco Ferry: The San Francisco Ferry is by far the most scenic option to get to Alameda and the perfect way to put you in "vacation" mode, even if it's just for a day. While there are plenty of fantastic cities around the bay to escape, Alameda offers incredible convenience with just enough activities to fill a day. It is sometimes easy to forget that a simple trip across the San Francisco Bay can offer a dramatic refuge from the chaos of the city. TIP: check the hours and fees when you are going at:, give them a call just to verify.I believe one could live in San Francisco their entire life and not come close to discovering what the city has to offer, but sometimes the city is simply overwhelming. They were closed Mondays and Tuesdays in June while we were there but open the rest of the days as well as all weekend. The museum is a converted store and surrounded by coffee shops, ice cream parlors and restaurants so if you do take an all day pass, plenty of other things to do for a break. It may not be appropriate for toddlers but that would be maybe the only exception. In a few of the rooms you will see on the walls and elsewhere the very earliest of pinball machines, including early paper diagrams. You need to really look just in case you miss a room,which we discovered midway that we had. You just are never too old to play pinball! All of us had a great time and I played games that I had not seen since high school. There is no drinking or eating, but in a connecting hallway they have a cold water container with paper cups. We opted for some t shirt merchandise, it was vacation after all, and the boys loved that. We opted for the hour and the cost was about $20.00 ![]() You can pay by the hour or for an all day pass. It is a sizable machine collection and the people working there are more than helpful. This jukebox was also a big hit with songs that included Michael Jackson to Elvis. They even have a jukebox that is free and loaded with different early era tunes. There are quite a few rooms and each room has machines from different eras, the 80's, the 70's etc. This place was just wonderful,it is laid out well and very clean and at least 100 machines. Once they got the hang of it, all of maybe five minutes to operate the machines they were off and running. The oldest one had tried pinball one time, it was new to the other. Recently I took my two grandsons, both teens, both game guys, to the Pacific Pinball Museum. ![]()
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