San Francisco Tourist Trap Tips by giampiero6

Fisherman's Wharf, is just a crumby tourist trap. There's nothing of much interest there just touristy T-shirt shops, trinkets, and salt water taffy places you've probably seen before everywhere else. IT's extremely unrewarding a big waste of time considering all the other great parts of SF to visit.

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At Least Do This: Go quickly take the cable car to or from and make sure you don't spend too much time there.
Alternative: Go to the Farmers Market in the Embarcadero. It's still in about the same area more or less, but at least you'll be doing something genuinely nice.

Pier 39. Well it's kind cool to see the seals and it's kind of cool to hang around there, but it's still kind of a tourist trap.

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Alternative: I highly recommend that you go to pier 23 instead. It's a groovy spot, there are seals, it's a little bit less crowded and a little farther away from the crowd of tourists. Even some locals go to pier 23 which you can not say of pier 39.