Things To Do In San Antonio, Texas

Alamo Trolley Tour

If you go to San Antonio, Alamo Trolley Tour is a good way to get around the city for sightseeing. Alamo Trolley takes you to all the downtown highlights including tow of the missions in the south. Uptown trolley takes you north to the San Antonio Museum of Art, the zoo, botanical gardens and Witte museums. You can also get off at any of the stops and get on another trolley when you are finished.

Fort Sam Houston

Fort Sam Houston is surrounded by San Antonio, the 10th largest city in the United States. Fort Sam Houston ["Fort Sam"] is a major military installation in the northeast section of San Antonio. Fort Sam Houston was built in 1845 and named after General Sam Houston, hero of the battle of San Jacinto and first president of the Republic of Texas. In late 1800s, the US Army decided to consolidate many of its small posts. In 1882 the Post at San Antonio (Fort Sam Houston now) was selected to be one of the larger garrison sites. The Post at San Antonio was renamed Fort Sam Houston in 1890. It is accessible via Interstate-Loop 410, Interstate-35 and US 281.

San Antonio Botanical Gardens

San Antonio Botanical Gardens gives you a chance to enjoy 33 acres of tranquility. Explore the beautiful $6.9 million Lucile Halsell Conservatory with its striking glass pyramids. Stroll through the formal gardens. See the Old-Fashioned Garden. Hike the native areas. Have lunch at the Carriage House Kitchen and browse The Garden Gate Gift Shop. It houses garden for the blind, a Japanese garden, an herb garden, a biblical garden, and a children's garden.

San Antonio City Tours

Since 1986, San Antonio City Tours have been showing guests the best of San Antonio. SATRANS Charter & Tours offers a wide range of tour and transportation services. This company serves up a large menu of guided bus tours, covering everything from San Antonio's missions and museums to shopping forays south of the border and Hill Country excursions.

SeaWorld San Antonio

Explore Uncharted Waters, 250 acres SeaWorld, San Antonio. It is the largest of the Anheuser Busch-owned parks, which also makes it the largest marine theme park in the world. If you're a theme park fan, you will find San Antonio to be the most interesting place to go. You can watch penguins, sea lions, sharks, tropical fish, and flamingos do their thing fascinating, but the aquatic acrobatics at such stadium shows as Shamu Visions. The humans hold their own with an impressive water-skiing exhibition on a 12 1/2-acre lake. In SeaWorld there are loads of places here to get wet. Lost Lagoon has a huge wave pool, and the Texas Splashdown flume ride and the Rio Loco river-rapids ride also offer splashy fun.

Six Flags Fiesta Texas

Every year brings another new thrill ride to this theme park; this 200 acres theme park has an abandoned limestone quarry and is surrounded by 100-foot cliffs. In 2002, the Scooby Doo Ghostblasters scarefest joined the Superman Krypton Coaster, nearly a mile of twisted steel with six inversions; the Rattler, the world's highest and fastest wooden roller coaster; the 60-mph-plus Poltergeist roller coaster; and Scream!, a 20-story space shot and turbo drop, to name just a few. Six Flags Fiesta Texas also has a Hispanic village, a western town, and a German town. It also has Looney Tunes cartoon characters as Tweety Bird.

Riverboat Ride

Take a relaxing cruise down the beautiful Paseo Del Rio, shaded by towering cypresses, oaks and willows and bordered by gardens of flowering ornamental foliage. One level below the hustle and bustle of the city streets, the riverboats take you on a three-mile tour of lush green foliage, unique retail shops and restaurants.