East Bay Urban Wine Tour
- East Bay Urban Wine 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.  East Bay Urban Wine Tour Highlights
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East Bay Urban Wine Tour Price ListTour Prices* |
Adults (12+) |
Children (<11) |
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Regular Price: |
$75 |
$55 |
Internet Special: |
$69 |
$50 |
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$6 |
$5 |
East Bay Urban Wine Tour Available Sundays or other days by request
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A Wine Country Tour in half a day?
Well, it depends on how you define the Wine Country. We all know about the famous Wine Country of the North Bay, but by the time you get there from San Francisco, taste some wine and allow time to drive back, you need a whole day. It’s a great tour and we can take you there every day of the year. But if you are visiting San Francisco and don’t have a whole day and you still want to taste the fruit of California’s vines, we’ve got the tour for you. And if you live in San Francisco, it’s a great way to do something different, spending a fun afternoon with your friends tasting great California wines after lunch, and we do the driving! We’ll visit 2 or 3 great wineries hidden away in the concrete jungles of Oakland and surrounding cities, and we’ll get you back to San Francisco in time to have dinner with one of your new favorite wines.
So where are the vineyards in Oakland? Well, I didn’t say there were grape vines, but, winemakers? Yes! And lots of them. Good ones, too. Not exactly well-known as “wine country”, Oakland is nevertheless home of several good winemakers and we know just how to find them. Many of them are “graduates” of the well-known Rosenblum Winery, located in an old naval base in Alameda since 1987. Many of them are young and bring a fresh, dare I say “hip” outlook to the art of winemaking and presentation – and did I mention they’re ….. Urban? Most people think of the rolling hills of Napa and Sonoma when they think of wine country in California. When you hear about the Urban Wineries of the East Bay, you might think they’re up in the hills above Berkeley or Piedmont, and you’d be wrong. They’re in exotic places like Emeryville, Alameda and Oakland. But no worries, we’ll show you the way, handle the logistics, and most importantly, handle the driving for your Urban Winetasting Safari!
We’ll start the day off right by letting you sleep in! (Or get some last minute work done on that presentation for Monday.) Then we’ll honk the horn, metaphorically, between 12 and 1 pm at your San Francisco Hotel’s front door. We’ll give you a short history and geography lesson (concentrating on the intersection of “California” and “Wine”) as we cross the Bay Bridge on the way to urban jungles of the East Bay. You’ll start your wine tour by making a run for the border of Emeryville, a bustling suburb of Oakland, and then work our way down Oakland’s version of the Silverado Trail (known to the locals as I-880). We’ll stop at 3 wineries with tasting rooms by the time they close at 5 and have you back in the city by 6 pm. You’ll still have enough time to nap or freshen up, or both, to get ready for a nice meal where you can pop the cork on one of your purchases from your afternoon winery tour.
This is a nice tour for people who want to enjoy the California wine experience but don’t have a whole day free to spend on driving time. This tour is also perfect for people who have been to the wine country before and know the routine, and want to try a different angle on the wine-tasting experience. It’s absolutely perfect for people who want to sleep late, have brunch, and follow it with a fun afternoon with friends trying and buying wines and letting someone else drive! Enjoy wines you’ve never tried before, in a casual and sometimes edgy, but always fun, atmosphere, without the full-day commitment it takes to travel north into the Sonoma or Napa Valleys. Less driving, more wine tasting!
East Bay Urban Wine Tour Available Sundays or other days by request
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East Bay Urban Wine Tour - Times Approximate
(15 passenger van or mini-bus)
12:00-1:00 PM |
Pick up from San Francisco downtown and Fisherman’s Wharf hotels.
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1:30PM |
Visit your first tasting room |
2:30PM |
Load up and drive to the second winery
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3:00
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Visit the second tasting room
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4:00 PM |
Load up and drive to the third winery |
4:15 PM |
Visit the third tasting room |
5:00
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Finish up at your third winery and head back to the City |
5:30
- 6:00 PM |
Drop off at San Francisco Hotels. |
