California Cypress - 3 or 5 or 7 days
California offers some of the world's most spectacular sights and best spots for vacations. From the Golden Gate to Tinsel Town this motor coach tour itinerary includes must see places along the Big Sur coast on the Pacific. You can choose just the three day tour along the coast or combine it with hotels and tours in San Francisco and/or Los Angeles to make it a 5 or 7 day package vacation.
San Francisco Riesling
Day 1 Saturday or Monday:
(D)
San Francisco. Check in for two nights at The Executive Vintage Court Hotel or Tuscan Inn Fisherman's Wharf (*).
Afternoon free for exploring the city, Fisherman's Wharf or riding cable cars, etc. Dinner tonight at your choice
of Italian or French Restaurant.
Day 2 Sunday or Tuesday: Sonoma and Napa Valley Wine Country tour at 8:10. Across the Golden Gate Bridge visit the
historic square in Sonoma. Time for lunch on your own. Then to Napa Valley. Visit two or three wineries. Return
to the city via Oakland Bay Bridge. (Instead of wine country take a city tour with Muir Woods. OR for Yosemite 13
hour tour add $80 per person.) * Other hotels in San Francisco also available.
3 days California Cypress
Day 3 Monday or Wednesday: (D)
Leave San Francisco around 9:00 a.m. Driving south along San Andreas Fault then west to the Pacific Ocean down Highway One
you go through Santa Cruz. Miles of artichoke and strawberry fields by the Monterey Bay, home of Fort Ord where
armed forces once trained now students prepare for their future at California State University. Going through Monterey
we stop at Cannery Row around lunch time and optional visit of the world renown Monterey Bay Aquarium. Driving along stops
are made at *Pacific Grove *17 Mile Drive *Pebble Beach *Carmel by the Sea for about an hour.
Check-in to the hotel by 5:30 p.m.
Bay Park Hotel, Monterey. Dinner & Breakfast
Day 4 Tuesday or Thursday: (B)
*Scenic Highway One
*Big Sur Coast
*Coastal Redwoods
*San Simeon.
*Tour No. 1 of Hearst Castle, ideal for first time visitors with an easy walk, a total of about 150 steps. About 2 hours.
Via Morro Bay we reach San Luis Obispo at about 3:30. The Central Coast is home to some of the best wineries in California,
a stop is made for a short tour and wine tasting.
Check-in to the hotel by 5:30 p.m.
La Cuesta Motor Inn, San Luis Obispo.
Day 5 Wednesday or Friday: (B)
About an hour south to Solvang, a delightful village of Danish heritage with gift shops galore.
On to Santa Barbara for a short visit and end of the motor coach tour.
Avoiding freeway traffic Pacific Surfliner train at 2:00 takes you along the coast with magnificent scenery through Oxnard,
Ventura and San Fernando Valley arriving Los Angeles Union Station at 4:55 or Anaheim at 5:49 San Diego at 7:50 p.m.
Alternately Santa Barbara Airbus at 1:20 or 4:20 arrives LAX about 3:45 or 6:45.
L.A. Bustle and Stars
Day 5 Wednesday or Friday: Evening check in for two nights at Kyoto Grand Garden Hotel.
** You can stay near Los Angeles
Airport or Anaheim.
Day 6 Thursday or Saturday: Grand tour of Los Angeles & Movie Stars' Home (about 8 hours). See Hollywood sign, Rodeo Drive,
Melrose, Sunset Strip, Farmers Market, Olvera Street, Chinatown, The Music Center and the Griffith Park Observatory, and
Movie Stars' Homes in Beverly Hills and Bel Air.
Day 7 Friday or Sunday: Transfer to Los Angeles International Airport.
California Cypress - 3 or 5 or 7 days -- Tour Code SF6C
April to October : Every Saturday and some Mondays
| Cost per person in U.S. Dollars | Double | Single | Child |
| San Francisco Riesling | $298 | $478 | $118 |
| 3 day Cypress Coast tour | $525 | $700 | $295 |
| L.A. Bustle and Stars | $271 | $439 | $103 |
| Total for 7 days | $1094 | $1617 | $516 |
* For San Francisco Riesling Package to stay at Tuscan Inn Fisherman's Wharf add $74 per room each night.
Cost of the 3 day Cypress Coast tour includes two nights' hotel rooms with tax, luggage handling, 17 Mile Drive and Hearst Castle, 1 dinner and 2 breakfasts with tax and tips, narrated tour and transportation from San Francisco to Santa Barbara with our experienced driver/guide (vehicle size depends on number of clients booked) and AMTRAK to Los Angeles.
** To stay at Clarion Anaheim save $50 (per room each night). You can add extra night(s) before or after the tour.
There is open choice of menu. Vegetarian or other diet followers can order fish or appropriate items.
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