La Jolla

A Local’s Guide to La Jolla’s Sights: A Self-Guided Urban Stroll

Badge of ExcellenceLa Jolla, USA
La Jolla Explore Californias Riviera on an audio walking tour with ocean views
  • 45 minutes to 1 hour
  • Offered in: English

Overview

Guided tours are relatively expensive and can follow rigid itineraries with tight schedules. This self-guided audio tour of La Jolla, a coastal town known for its rugged coastline and posh shopping, helps travelers save money and explore completely at their own pace. Follow your downloaded map app past art galleries, historic churches and hotels, and parks, finishing at the Sunny Jim Sea Cave. Start, stop, and pause the tour whenever you’d like.
  • A self-guided audio walking tour of La Jolla
  • Visit art galleries, churches, historic buildings, and a sea cave
  • Explore at your own pace—start, pause, or restart at any time
  • Once downloaded the tour works without cell phone reception

What's Included

  • Lifetime access to this tour in English
  • VoiceMap App for Android and iOS
  • Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata
  • Smartphone and headphones
  • Transportation
  • Food and drink
  • Tickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

  • 1270 Prospect St, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA

    Start on Prospect Street in front Eddie V’s Prime Seafood at 1270 Prospect St La Jolla, CA. Before arrival, install the VoiceMap app and use the code provided on your ticket. This is a self-guided audio tour that you can start, pause, or restart any time and complete at your own pace.

Start time

Confirm time with the local provider in advance of your experience.

Opening hours

  • 12/10/2019 - 3/5/2025

    Monday - Sunday : 12:00 AM - 11:59 PM

End point

  • La Jolla Coast Walks
    1249 Coast Blvd, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA

    The tour ends a short walk from the start location and a stone's throw from the Cave Store which is a local attraction.

What To Expect

Legends Gallery (Pass By)

La Valencia Hotel (Pass By)

Girard Avenue and Prospect Street (Pass By)

St James by-The-Sea Episcopal Church (Pass By)

Cuvier Park - The Wedding Bowl (Pass By)

Children's Pool (Pass By)

Ellen Browning Scripps Park (Pass By)

Sunny Jim Cave (Pass By)

La Jolla (Pass By)

Additional Info

  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Near public transportation
  • Most travelers can participate
  • The tour is wheelchair accessible, except at the end of the tour, when the guide says to return to starting location you can go up the steps. There is an alternate route available to bypass the steps. Simply continue in the same direction on Coast Blvd., up the hill to Prospect Street. When you reach Prospect Street, cross the street, turn right and head back to the starting point. Additionally, please note, there are a couple of steep hills. We are aware that there may be special requirements. We want our tours to be accessible to everyone, so if you have any questions or concerns, please contact ToursFreely.
  • This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
Operated by VoiceMap

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

  • For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
  • If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
  • Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
  • Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.

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Reviews

4.5
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A great tour!
Alfred_J, Nov 2023
app was very user friendly and, as it is GPS driven, it just start by itself when you reach important places. it also tells you you are lost as you took the wrong turn. Specific guide was a local and spoke very clearly. Great value!
Great value !
Cathy_M, May 2023
Such a great idea to walk around with the voice app explaining what your seeing. Great value and made our walk much more enjoyable and interesting.
Thought the city to the shore to discover the magic!
Nomi_S, Feb 2023
Never did an audio tour like this before, but highly recommend it. Guided by a native to La Jolla, you learn the little secrets of history and fun. The crescendo was perfect to. This tour was a great experience!
Easy to use Great resource.
Sherry_B, Oct 2022
Tour was great! Informative and easy to use. The narrator knew her stuff and made it interesting. We loved the fact that we go go at our own pace.
Spring break 2022
April_P, Mar 2022
Listening to the tour at our own pace! And getting in a workout at the same time :-). A side note: the only reason I didn't give it a five star , I was having issues with guided tour on my android phone. I had to share earpods with my daughter using her apple phone. Other than that it was an amazing audio guided tour.
Not a tour
Marialinda_l, Apr 2021
This is not a cave tour. This is a just a tour of La Jolla that unfortunately doesn’t work. There was no service down there. Didn’t even get to download the app, the family next to us had it on speaker and two minutes into it it said” thanks for enjoying the tour” very disappointed.
Response from Host, Apr 2021
We’re sorry you weren’t able to use the tour Maria-linda, but it isn’t intended as a cave tour and we’d really appreciate it if you could let us know how you got the impression it is one. This will help us to change the content here to make sure nobody else starts off with the wrong impression. (If you take a look at the tour description, you’ll see that it says, “Take in the feel, allure and romance of this Southern Californian coastal paradise as you stroll the streets of the downtown village of La Jolla with this self-guided GPS tour.“) It’s also a little unfair to say that the tour “doesn’t work”. It does, and the numerous five-star reviews here and internally, within VoiceMap, are evidence of this. But you don’t normally get signal in a cave and we’re guessing this is why you couldn’t download the tour. Is this correct? The tour starts on Prospect Street in front of Eddie V’s restaurant and we recommend downloading the tour before you leave for the starting point. We’ve included this advice on the ticket, under Please Also Note.

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