86% Excellent tour for people who don't have access to a car of their own
By: Anish Nag | Thu Jan 01, 2015 at 05.50 PM
This is a really amazing tour to go on, if you're not from around the United States, don't have a car of your own or don't want to use a rental car. The California coast is really gorgeous and this tour more or less captures all the major a..ttractions and highlights! There might be some problems understanding the guide's English, if you're a non-Mandarin speaker, but the guide is really friendly and accommodating. The transportation is pretty decent, the accommodation is top-notch and there are plenty of options for food. Overall, a great experience, for a short 3 day trip in Northern California! Read full review
This tour has a lot to offer. It was so much fun! Our tour guide made this trip so easy for us and made jokes.
The view of the Golden Gate Bridge was so amazing! The Food at Fisherman's Wharf was good. Overall a great trip!
It was co..ol. Read full review
Me and my friend went on the 3 day San Francisco tour and had so much fun!
Our tour guide Chris was so nice and he explained everything to us about the tour.
Was able to eat clam chowder at Fisherman's Wharf :)
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My wife and I are thrilled with this quick but complete tour of SF. I think the itinerary change to Monterey is better than the other long Yosemite drive. 17-mile drive and the Monterey Aquarium is a much better experience. Will certainly d..o it again with more people.Read full review
This trip was good value for money. We got to see so much in a short time. However, you do get what you pay for. If you are not on a budget go for the same tour that cost about $500. I am not used to budget hotels/food so it was an experien..ce. If you are on a budget its perfect. Its great that it departs daily as the more expensive tour only goes once a week, I wish that was more frequent!Read full review
By: Maria Lourdes Castaneda | Sat Oct 11, 2014 at 02.25 PM
Thank you for this experience of our group to see many places through this value for money tour. We were 9 in our group and we all enjoyed this tour. We were happy that we chose to get 2 tours from your company. More power!
My family came from Korea and we wanted a trip in CA.
I purchased 4 disney tickets and this package from tours4fun.
Honestly, I didn't expect too much because too good price.
Wow, we stopped by so many places and we stayed at Marriott.. Fremont CA.
The hotel is really clean and very modern style. Great beds and about 50 min. far from San Fran. Bus stop every two hours for bathroom and you cannot bring coffee cups in the bus…etc. But, you should realize asian style tour is different. Some strict rules, move fast and get on & out the bus many times. BUT, you can see so many things and totally worth for money.
Oh, food, additional tour in San Fran and tips are excluded. I highly recommend to college students, anyone don't have a plan to drive during travel, anyone don't really have time to look in LA & San Fran area.
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I have always dreamed to step on the ground of Yosemite. Just as I have thought, the view is amazing. Not only that the tour guide have great plan. I understand where people want to stay longer so he plan the tour based on his clients' pref..erence. Read full review
The 3 day were well spent and the places were all as mentioned in the itinerary.
Helpful tour guide and bus driver made our tour better.
One of the best tours i had.
86% Review for Tour 2-110 - 3-Day Santa Barbara - Solvang - San Francisco - Silicon Valley - Stanford University - Yosemite Bus Tour
By: Sajag Porwal | Mon Oct 21, 2013 at 09.10 PM
The above mentioned tour which I took with Tours4Fun (T4F) was one of the best tours I had done. It had been a very memorable experience for me in terms of management and places covered.
To begin with pre-travel experience, I booked this t..our through website and during the course of booking I do had few queries which were resolved promptly by the T4F customer service department.
Also, they were pro-active in informing the change in the Day 3 itinerary (change to Monterey Bay instead on Yosemite) because of government shutdown. I was quite impressed with all this, though still apprehensive about the tour.
On the day of the tour, we had pick-up from the location specified on time.
The bus was comfortable and the tour guide (Kelvin) and the bus driver were very friendly and courteous. They were very helpful overall.
The places covered in the tour were same as mentioned on the itinerary (except for day 3 because of reasons mentioned above).
On day 1, we started from LA and went to Santa Barbara beach where we were given ample time, so that we were able to go to the end of the pier and return. Next crossing the scenic beauty of the area, we went to the beautiful town on Solvang which was built in Danish style. It was a very good place and we had lunch there only.
Around evening, we reached Silicon Valley area and saw offices of some of the major corporation. Subsequent to that, we visited Stanford University. After this, we stopped for dinner and then reached our hotel by 8.30. We got the same hotel as was mentioned in the itinerary. The rooms were very spacious and comfortable. We enjoyed our stay there for 2 days.
Day 2 started with visiting the Lombard street which was just amazing. After this, we were taken to the Golden gate bridge which was again a wonderful experience. Pier 39-45 was our next stop where we had almost 2 hours at our disposal to have lunch, do some shopping and of course, sightseeing.
We opted for both bay-cruise and city tour. Through these tours, we got to see almost all the attractions in SFO. The tour guide and driver also took us to another attraction (which was not planned) when one of the planned attractions was closed due to some temporary problem. Post this, we went for some shopping and dinner in the SFO Chinatown where though the restaurants were predominantly Chinese, we could find other restaurants / cuisines also of our choice.
On Day 3, we started early in the morning and went to Monterey bay area and visited the beautiful golf course of the world. The scenic beauty of the route impressed me quite a lot. By evening, we reached LA and subsequently our drop-off location comfortably.
There were stoppage every 1.5 - 2 hours so, there was no food / restrooms related problems for anyone. The stoppages were on places where we could find different kind of restaurants and could have food of our choice.
I thoroughly enjoyed this tour. It was well managed and well planned and gave a good coverage of SFO attractions. Though some people may find it a bit difficult to understand the heavy accent to the tour guide, but that is a minor part as compared to hassle free, well managed tour you are getting.
Highly recommended. I would definitely be taking another tour with T4F in near future.
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The tour guide, Jason was good in terms of explaining the sites of interest as well as the added tour to Google, Microsoft and Apple.
However, the city tour at SF, which cost $25 is not worth it. Can give it a go