While a chartered yacht is a comfortable way to tour the seas, it can only navigate city streets with the help of hundreds of unhappy pack goats. Tour Pensacola in terra firma style and comfort with today's Groupon, which gets you tickets for Pensacola Trolley Tours. Choose between the following options:

• $16 for two adult tickets (up to a $32 value)
• $8 for two children's tickets (a $16 value)

Pensacola Trolley Tours brings culture vultures aboard a replica 1880s streetcar at the Visitor Center downtown for a journey through America's first settlement, focusing on Pensacola's rich history and exquisite architecture. The 75-minute narrated tour starts at the shipwrecked de Luna expedition, which founded Pensacola in 1559. The trolley rolls on along its route through the Historic Pensacola Village to view more than 20 preserved Colonial homes, the exquisite mansions of Gage Hill, the Port of Pensacola, and the first U.S. naval air station. Throughout the tour, the Pensacola-savvy tour guide will regale sightseers with stories about the area's history, like the mysterious circumstances that led to the area being abandoned for 138 years (966 dog years). . Tours include a 15-minute stop and are scheduled seven days a week at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. with additional tours sometimes offered.

Reviews

Pensacola Trolley Tours has been mentioned by the Orlando Sentinel, Studio Ten, and the Pensacola Bay Area blog:

• Learn about the history of Pensacola on a narrated 90-minute tour from a replica 1880s streetcar. Highlights include Historic Pensacola Village, Seville Square, the Port of Pensacola and NAS Pensacola, the first U.S. naval air station. Hear stories of the Civil War’s first Confederate victory, Andrew Jackson’s defeat of Spain, Geronimo’s imprisonment and a category five hurricane. – Orlando Sentinel