Wine Country & Redwoods with Alcatraz Tour
- Wine Country and Redwoods with Alcatraz Tour
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Convenient Opening Hours We are available from 6:00 AM -10:00 PM every day of the week, 365 days a year (sometimes even 366 days!) and we don't have a phone tree so there are no phone transfer marathons when you call us you speak to our agents directly every time. Our offices have reservation agents available even on NYE because we know that you are on vacation and have worked hard to enjoy your time in San Francisco. We want to make it as easy and as convenient as possible to help you arrange a tour even if you call late night the day before you'd like to participate. The additional benefit of our extended hours of operation is that we can assist you to the best of our ability if there is ever a snag in your travel plans. Strict Quality Control Our quality control supervises three sources that you, interact with during your tour from San Francisco: 1) Our reservations staff is diverse and we count in any given day with people who speak 5-6 different languages; they have all been on our tours to experience them first hand and we always have a manager on duty 7 days a week. 2) Our tour guides are extensively trained on both safety driving techniques and are evaluated and financially compensated based on the customer tour reviews. 3) Our vehicles are frequently inspected by our drivers, mechanics and the California Highway Patrol to ensure they are in top mechanical shape. San Francisco based Only locals know the best San Francisco tour possible. Our office is located at 690 Fifth St, Suite 205, San Francisco, CA 94107. Our local phone number is 1-415-357-0700 and our toll free number is 1-866-231-3752. When you call any of these numbers you will be talking with someone that is located in San Francisco, who can tell you if the weather is sunny or foggy or if there is a special event in San Francisco that may be of interest to you. There is no comparison we are always there for you. Buy Direct we directly operate the majority of our tours this means we have vehicles and tour guides who are our employees. Being the direct source enables us to provide the highest quality control possible. We conduct customer satisfaction surveys daily and our guides are financially compensated based on your feedback after the tour. On average our tours have over a 90% customer satisfaction rating! The few tours that we subcontract, we only use partners with whom we have established relationships for many years and trust the safety and quality of their service. Vehicle Safety Inspection Safety is paramount in our industry and one of the biggest safety components in the tours we provide are our vehicles. Extranomical's fleet includes vans and mini-buses. Our vehicles are inspected constantly; first in the morning when the tour guide begins his/her day; second throughout the day the tour guide is verifying fluid levels, tire pressure and the general operation of the vehicle is monitored throughout the day. The vehicles are also inspected regularly (at least every 10,000) miles by our vehicle maintenance staff and also by independent certified mechanics during their routine maintenance. If that were not all, we also go through a thorough inspection performed by the California Highway Patrol once a year. Experienced Company Extranomical was founded in 2002 and is one of the fastest growing tour companies in San Francisco currently performing more tours than any other company to Yosemite National Park and Muir Woods & Wine Country combination tour. We are also pioneers in offering tours to San Francisco's Best Restaurants with our "Best San Francisco Taco Tour, Sushi Tour and Pizza Tour. To date we have served over 10,000 happy customers. Guests have chosen our tours to get engaged, begin or end round-the-world adventures, celebrate their anniversaries, welcome new employees and more! We look forward to serving you soon! Complementary San Francisco Locals Travel Guide Not available anywhere else. Our office staff, friends and family have contributed to a guide book that we hope you will enjoy. It contains not only the usual tourist attractions that every visitor must see in San Francisco but also some of the local spots that we San Franciscans enjoy. All people who make a booking receive an electronic copy that is constantly updated with the most recent information on San Francisco that should prove to be useful and entertaining. Fully Licensed and Insured Extranomical Adventures, Inc. is a California corporation that is fully licensed by the Public Utilities Commission to perform sightseeing tours permit TCP-18350. We also have permits to operate tours in Yosemite National Park and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA). Tour Guide Training & Substance Abuse Testing Our tour guides are extensively trained on both safety driving techniques and on providing an informative and interesting tour. Before being hired, we test our guides on safety driving in realistic situations around San Francisco they are also tested through an oral presentation of the material they will present to make sure that they provide a safe, knowledgeable and interesting tour. They are regularly evaluated by customer satisfaction reviews, secret shoppers and rewarded through customer satisfaction based bonuses. 
Wine Country & Redwoods with Alcatraz Tour Highlights
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WTour Prices* |
Adults (12+) |
Children (< 11) |
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Regular Price: |
$110 |
$70 |
Internet Special: |
$105 |
$66 |
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ONLINE |
$5 |
$4 |
*Wine Country & Redwoods with Alcatraz tour prices from San Francisco do not include:
the Muir Woods National Park entrance fee of $5.
Wine & Redwoods with Alcatraz Tour Available Daily (January 2 thru December 31)
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Day 1: Wine Country & Muir Woods Tour
Our Wine Country & Muir Woods tour combines a walk through the one of the tallest trees in the world with a relaxing afternoon at 3 wineries in California’s World Famous Wine Country, which is only about an hour away from San Francisco, with the option to go to Alcatraz Island the next day. First of all, you drive to the Marin Headlands into Muir Woods, a beautiful valley filled with California Redwood Sequoia trees. You’ll spend around an hour at Muir Woods, and then, come back over the headlands and head north again. You’ll get the Wine Country history on the way to the historic Sonoma Valley and Carneros Regions, spending 30 minutes to 1 hour at each winery, with free Wine Tasting fees, and usually 5 appetizing wines at each one. At lunch time, you will visit the Sonoma Plaza, with complimentary cheese tasting, and the option of a gourmet deli, or a BBQ. On your way back to San Francisco, we’ll also drive through the picturesque town of Sausalito, home of thousands of sailboats, and hundreds of floating houses, and a beautiful view of the Bay and San Francisco. Finally, we’ll make our way back to the Golden Gate and stop to take pictures high above the Bridge, if we didn’t do it in the morning. Now that you have visited Muir Woods, and the Wine Country, its time to do Alcatraz!Wineries – Extranomical Adventures have endless experience when it comes to California Wineries, and we have compiled mountains of research and narrowed down the list of potential winery stops to a short list that not only represents the best that California Wine Country has to offer, but also keeps costs down and allows us to provide free tasting samples at each of our stops on this tour. We like to cover the range in size from small and homey, to large and grand, always with an eye for visual appeal, friendly atmosphere, good presentation, and good value. Some wineries also have occasional private events which prevent us from visiting them, or we might have too many vans in the field to invade one small winery at once, so our drivers make the final arrangements on the morning of the tour, sometimes after talking to the group during pickups. Therefore, we do not always go to the same ones on every tour, but choose 3 from the following list of quality wineries that we can count on.
Click here for a list of the wineries that we visit on this tour
Day 2: Alcatraz Tour
On the second day ride across the bay on a ferry prepare yourself to visit one of the most famous landmarks in the world, Alcatraz Island. This tour includes a 45 minute audio presentation which features actual recordings of employees and inmates who lived and worked on the Island, and then explore Alcatraz Island as long want on your own.
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Wine Country & Redwoods
with Alcatraz Tour - Times Approximate
(15 Passenger Van or mini-bus)
8:00
- 9:00 AM |
Pick-up for your Wine Country
tour at your San Francisco hotel in downtown or Fisherman's
Wharf area. |
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9:00 - 9:15
AM |
Drive through the Marina neighborhood, past the Palace of Fine Arts, the Presidio, and head north across the Golden Gate Bridge. Continue north through the Marin Headlands to Sausalito. |
9:15 - 9:30
AM |
Pick-up at Sausalito hotels if necessary. |
9:40 - 10:00
AM |
Listen to the story of the Redwoods while driving over the headlands into Redwood Valley to Muir Woods National Monument. |
10:00 - 11:00
AM |
Muir Woods walk. Spend an hour in the shadow of 250 foot Redwoods, admiring the ferns and moss lining Redwood Creek, breathe in the fresh Bay (Laurel Tree) Leave scented air, and across the creek on one of 3 footbridges, and return by way of the gift shop and snack bar. |
11:00
- 11:45 AM |
Head north on U.S. 101 to the first winery stop in the Carneros Region of Sonoma County, the birthplace of California's wine industry. |
11:45
- 12:15 PM |
Arrive at your first winery stop and enjoy complimentary tasting a variety of California Wines. Or just stroll the grounds and take some pictures among the vines. |
12:30
- 1:30 PM |
Drive to the lunch stop, either downtown Sonoma, or the historic village of Glen Ellen, in the heart of Sonoma Valley. Buy a lunch (or bring a bag lunch) and enjoy the sights and do a little window shopping after lunch. |
2:00
- 4:00 PM |
Get back in the vehicle and continue the Wine Tasting Tour. Visit 2 more wineries and enjoy complimentary tastings of California Wines and enjoy the views of the surrounding hills. |
4:00 - 5:00 PM |
Start the return and head back South to Marin County and San Francisco, taking a little detour through the quaint town of Sausalito. (Optional Ferry return to SF -Fare not included) |
5:00 - 5:15 PM |
Top off a great day with a photo stop high above the water, overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge and Pacific Ocean with an amazing view of the San Francisco Bay, the City, the Bay Bridge, the East Bay Hills and Alcatraz. |
5:15 - 5:30 PM |
Drive back across the Golden Gate Bridge and start the drop-off at San Francisco hotels. |
Day 2 - Alcatraz
9.00am / 9.30am / 10.00am / 10.30am * |
Pier 33-Embarcadero Street. Local public transportation - F Streetcar, BART-Embarcadero station. The ferry ride from San Francisco to the island takes approximately 10-15 minutes. Once you arrive on the island, a brief presentation of the island's history and guide to touring the prison is given. An audio tour is provided on entrance of the cell house that gives a recorded commentary from former inmates, prison guards and prison wardens. It takes roughly between 2 and 2 1/2 hours to do the full tour and just enough time to grab a souvenir. The ferry leaves roughly every thirty minutes. Learn interesting facts about the island, such as that Alcatraz was not only used as a prison but also as a harbor defense fort during the civil war and before then, was America's first lighthouse on the West Coast. Experience the beauty, history and infamy of Alcatraz Island on the San Francisco Bay. |
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