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California Coast Ride
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Train and Bus
Hearst Castle, Coast & Monterey by rails & wheels
3 days / 2 nights
From Los Angeles to San Francisco
Los Angeles to Monterey by Amtrak
From Monterey to San Francisco by
San Francisco Sightseeing
Gray Line Tours
Tour includes :
Amtrak
Los Angeles to Paso Robles and Monterey. Night in Paso Robles, Hearst
Castle and Winery tour, San Simeon Coast, Night in Monterey, 17-Mile
Drive, Pebble Beach, Carmel by the Sea
Day 1: Anaheim or Los Angeles to Paso Robles. 258 miles by AMTRAK Coast Starlight train
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pictures of traveling by Amtrak

On
AMTRAK train leave Anaheim at 8:07 or Union Station, Los Angeles at
10:15 a.m. See Simi Valley and Fillmore, orange groves and green
houses, reaching the Pacific coast at Oxnard. As the train hugs the
shore we see the most magnificent vistas west through Santa Barbara.
Turning north at Gaviota past Vandenberg Space Station fields of
strawberries and miles of new vines are all around us on the way to
Pismo Beach. Through San Luis Obispo the train chugs up Cuesta Grade and
then drops down to the horse ranches of Templeton and green pastures and
vineyards of Paso Robles arriving at 4:45. Within minutes you are in
real quintessential small town California.
Overnight at Paso Robles Inn or similar hotel.
Day 2:
(L)
Paso Robles / Hearst
Castle/ Monterey.
110 miles tour and 117 miles by train and bus.
The
Wine Wrangler (tour company) takes you about 45
minutes west to the coast and then on Highway One to San Simeon. *Tour
No. 1 of Hearst Castle built by Julia Morgan during the 1920s and 1930s
for the art collection of world famous newspaper tycoon William Randolph
Hearst. This 2 hour tour is ideal for first time visitors with an easy
walk, a total of about 150 steps. Enjoy a picnic lunch and stop
for shopping or visit a winery. Back to Paso Robles for the train at
4:45. At Camp Roberts we enter Monterey County and along the Salinas
River oil fields give way to the Valley, one of the richest agricultural
areas in California. Riding through one of the largest vineyards we come
upon miles of broccoli, lettuce, flowers and berries. It is best to have
dinner on the train. Around 6:36 you reach Salinas where John Steinbeck
chronicled the transformation of Monterey county from the days of
depression to the wealthier times. The AMTRAK bus takes us to Monterey.
It should be just after 7:15 in the evening. A short 5 minute cab ride
takes you to Bay Park Hotel.
Check in at Bay Park Hotel.
Relax at this full service hotel.
Day 3:
(B) Monterey
Peninsula Tour - then to San Francisco.
154 miles by motor coach.
Have
breakfast and spend the morning at the hotel. Between noon and one
meet the tour moto r
coach from San Francisco. Spend the rest of the day in historic
Monterey, Cannery Row, Pacific Grove looking at golf courses,
mansions and scenic vistas. See the Pacific crashing on the rocks and
swirling around on the 17 Mile Drive, where the Lone Cypress stands
guard. Brush with luxury at the resorts of Pebble Beach. Time in Carmel
by the Sea for shopping & browsing. After five we go east through Fort
Ord and Castroville to Highway 101 as the artichoke and strawberry
fields and green houses give way turning north along the San Andreas
fault line through Gilroy and Morgan Hill. The urban sprawl emerges as
we enter San Jose. The pace quickens and slows with the traffic driving
through the Silicon Valley then past San Francisco International Airport
arriving at your hotel in the City around 7:30 p.m.
Notes:
Picnic lunch on the second day and breakfast on the third day are
included in the tour price. It is best to have lunch on the first day
and dinner on the second day on the train. With so much to enjoy in
Monterey you can spend an extra day and night at Bay Park Hotel coming
to San Francisco on the 4th day.
Amtrak (Coast Starlight Train)

Comfortable reclining seats on
Coast Starlight

Beautiful Ocean
View from the train

Parlor Car (Vista Dome) and Dinning car

Burger and chips on the train
Sun Luis Obispo train Station
THIS IS AN INDEPENDENT TRIP USING AMTRAK and local
tour company.
Requires a minimum of 2 persons. ***THIS IS NOT A GROUP TOUR***
3 Day Amtrak
Train and Deluxe Motor coach LA2TC
Available Friday, Monday and Wednesday. Other days on request.
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Year 2009/2010 |
Double |
Single |
Triple |
Child |
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Tour Code LA2TC |
$575 |
$895 |
$487 |
$222 |
Tour price
per person in U.S. Dollars. Child rate is 5 to 11
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415.673.1539
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