Sohal said the tour company, which has been “feeling the hurt” of the pandemic, has been adjusting to a different type of customer. “Anyone want to get off here to see Golden Gate Park?” asked Diminco to a mostly uninterested crowd. Maneet Sohal (left), owner of San Francisco Deluxe Tours, asks tourists from the street to join in their pre-scripted sightseeing, while Chris Diminco (right) prepares to drive the bus on Feb. As he ticked off popular destinations, it seemed no one wanted to descend for photographs.
With passengers finally on board, Diminco-who doubles as the bus’s maintenance man and commutes in from Concord-guided the crowd around the city. Sohal described the lull that is Monday mornings: “Saturday and Sunday are lively, then Monday hits.” A couple of tourists admire the cable cars, Golden Gate Bridge, and the skyline from the top deck of San Francisco Deluxe Sightseeing Tours double-decker bus on Feb.
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We spent the day with San Francisco Deluxe Sightseeing Tours, a family-owned business that relies on a thriving tourist market, as owner Maneet Sohal and driver Chris Diminco urged visitors onto a bus for a two-hour tour of Ghirardelli Square, the Presidio, Union Square and more. With tourism returning at a snail’s pace to San Francisco, we wanted to know: What’s it like to operate a quintessential tourist experience two years into the pandemic? The lower indoor level was predictably left empty. It took a few hours and a lot of pleading outside the Ripley’s Believe it or Not! attraction in Fisherman’s Wharf on a recent Monday morning to fill the top deck of a sightseeing double-decker tour bus.
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