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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 Lovers with Alcatraz Tour Highlights
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The Wine Lovers Wine Country with Alcatraz Tour is a semi-private tour, is a semi private tour to the Wine Country Region, Sonoma and Napa, plus an Alcatraz Tour the following day.
Day 1: Wine Lovers Wine Country Tour
On our Wine Lovers Wine Country Tour you travel in a small group, in a 15 Passenger Van or mini-bus, so you’ll have a little more leg room on your trip to the Wine Country. The great thing about this Wine Country Tour, you tell us were YOU would like to go in the Napa Valley Region, Sonoma Valley Region, or both. Our wonderful guide will spend the first hour discussing the options and taking suggestions whilst on the way to the Wine Country. Usually we tend to visit four to six boutique wineries in one day. On the drive up north, your guide will educate you on the history of California and wine making therein. This trip will provide the opportunity to sample wineries from the Napa region such as Los Carneros, Rutherford, Oakville, St. Helena, Yountville or Stags Leap, and/or the Sonoma Valley region. We’ll also find time to grab a tasty lunch in between your wine tastings, or maybe at one of the wineries! Some wineries offer complimentary tastings, but most charge a fee ranging from $5 to $20, and winery hosted tours usually cost extra.California has approximately 1400 Wineries and 650 of them are located in San Francisco’s backyard of the Sonoma Valley and Napa Valley counties. First we narrow the list down to those within a reasonable distance, and then we use our years of experience to narrow it down even further so the ones on our winery list have good wine, are friendly and do a good presentation, and have other amenities, such as nice scenery, interesting history, or other attractions. Here is our list of wineries that we have visit on a regular basis. Keep in mind we won’t visit all of these on a single tour. Do try to keep a clear head for the next day though, because you will be visiting Alcatraz Island!
Click Here to View a short list of California Wineries
Day 2: Alcatraz Tour
Alcatraz Island, located in San Francisco has to be one of the most famous landmarks in the world. Journey across the bay, and you Alcatraz Tour begins with a 45 minute audio presentation "Doing Time: The Alcatraz Cell house Tour," featuring recordings of guards and inmates who actually lived and worked on the Island. When your Alcatraz tour is finished then explore Alcatraz Island as long want on your own, but please do remember to get the ferry back to San Francisco in time!
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8:00
- 9:00 AM |
Pick-up for your Wine
Lovers Tour at your San Francisco hotel in downtown or Fisherman's
Wharf area. |
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9:00 - 9:10
AM |
Cross the Golden
Gate Bridge into the Marin Headlands, and maybe stop and snap a picture if the weather allows it. Otherwise, continue north on and... |
9:10 - 9:20
AM |
Pick up in Sausalito if necessary. |
9:20 - 10:30
AM |
Travel north on U.S. 101 through Marin County into Sonoma Valley or beyond. You're in Wine Country! Talk about where to go, what to see and taste, what to eat, and how much to buy! Learn some history. |
10:30 - Noon |
Visit a winery or two or three (Wheeeee!) before lunch or maybe just 2 and then lunch! Learn about the wine making process and what makes the California wine country so special. |
12:00
- 1:00 PM |
Find some lunch! We'll either plan the tour so you have lunch at one of the wineries, go to a place in Napa, or start the drive back and make it to Sonoma for lunch. |
1:00
- 4:00 PM |
After lunch, either spend more time at Napa Valley wineries and work your way south. OR, go further north into Sonoma Valley, or you are already there and work your way south back towards the Carneros for a few more winery stops. |
4:00
- 4:45 PM |
Take an optional stop in scenic Sausalito and enjoy the view of San Francisco, Alcatraz and the Bay, or say good-bye and take an optional ferry (fare not included) back to San Francisco, landing in either Fisherman's Wharf or at the Ferry Building (and find your own way back to your hotel). |
5:00
- 6:00 PM |
Go back across the Golden Gate Bridge and get dropped off at your San Francisco Hotel. |
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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