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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 San Luis Obispo and Monterey. Night in San Luis Obispo,
Hearst Castle visit tour, San Simeon Coast, night in Monterey, 17-Mile
Drive, Pebble Beach, Carmel by the Sea. 2 breakfasts, 1 lunch, 1 dinner.
Day 1: Anaheim or Los Angeles to San Luis Obispo. 220 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. On arrival in San Luis Obispo around 3:43 the waiting taxi
takes you on a short tour of the town and then to La Cuesta Inn for
overnight stay.
Overnight at La Cuesta Inn or similar hotel.
---- DINNING ON THE TRAIN -----

THE DINNING CAR & CAFE LOUNGE CAR ON COAST STARLIGHT
The Dinning Car offers a truly unique restaurant style dinning experience
to both Sleeping Car and Coach passengers. Enjoy regional wines and
regionally inspired dishes prepared by our talented chefs, all the while
enjoying a level of service you'd expect of a fine restaurant. In
addition to the Dinning Car, all passengers are invited to relax,
socialize and dine in the Cafe Lounge Car. The Lounge Car offers
extended hours and a more casual environment where you can satisfy your
appetite with sandwiches, snacks, beer, cocktails, wine, and an
assortment of sodas and juices.
Day 2:
(B,L)
San Luis Obispo / Hearst
Castle/ Monterey.
148 miles tour and then 154 miles by train and bus.
After
continental breakfast The
Wine Wrangler (tour company) takes you about
45
minute s 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 San Luis Obispo for the Coast
Starlight train at
3:43. The
train chugs up Cuesta Grade and then drops down to the horse ranches of
Templeton and green pastures and vineyards of Paso Robles .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. Around 6:36 you reach Salinas where John Steinbeck
chronicled the transformation of Monterey county from the days of
depression to the wealthier times. Salinas Taxi waits for your arrival
and
takes you to Bay Park Hotel, Monterey.
Check in at Bay Park Hotel.
Relax at this full service hotel.
Day 3:
(B) (D) 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 second and third day are
included in the tour price. It is best to have lunch on the first 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 almost daily.
NEW PRICE FROM APRIL 1ST 2012
TO MARCH 31ST 2013
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COST FROM APRIL 2012 |
Double |
Single |
Triple |
Child |
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Tour Code LA2TC |
$595 |
$895 |
$507 |
$222 |
Tour price
per person in U.S. Dollars. Child rate is 5 to
18
This site updated on April 2nd, 2012
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