My Sonoma and Napa Valley Wine Tour

After googling about the wine tours in Sonoma and Napa Valley, we decided to join one of the top recommended wine tour on Tripadvisor. It is wine country limo tour. We paid $99 per person excluding the tips for driver and wine tasting fee. We are brought to four wineries. Depart at 9 am at Pier 39 San Francisco and dropping us at the same spot afterwards. The tour ends around 2:30pm but we were staying at the last wineries until it is almost 4pm. We only do the wine tasting at one of the wineries instead of every wineries.

I was thinking about joining the Platypus since they have really excellent reviews and bring clients to non so commercial wineries. However, they only do tours that depart from Napa Valley which is kinda inconvenience for me. They are being very nice by replying my email quick and directing me to this wine tour. 

We stopped by the North Vista Point for photos.

We had Orange Mimosa while on the way to the Sonoma Valley. The limo was super comfy and the breakfast was excellent. So does the lunch. *thumb up for all the food prepared and the transport.

First stop is the Jacuzzi winery.

This winery also sells olive oils and lot of retails products,

Second stop is Larson Family Winery, it is not as commercial as the previous winery and you're welcomed by the dogs ;)

We paid $10 for wine tasting. We had 5-6 glasses of wine. 

Third stop is Kieu Hoang Winery  

Last stop is Liana Estate Winery 

The only con about this tour is that we don't get to see the process of brewing or go into the chamber and there is not much to see at the winery during winter. 

City Pass for San Francisco

City pass seems like a great deal to get access to some of the interesting places in town while giving you an option to save money. We got our city pass during our second week in San Francisco. We went to Aquarium of the Bay, Exploratorium, Blue and Gold Fleet Cruises and California Academy of Science. You can sub the cruise with the Alcatraz day tour but we did not sub for it because we are planning to go for the award winning night tour. You can also sub Exploratorium for De Young Museum. It will always be a free day for De Young Museum each month so we are planning to visit De Young on the free Museum Day.

It comes with unlimited access to Munibus and Cable car for 9 days since the initial date of use.

First stop was Aquarium of the Bay at Pier 39. It is a lot smaller when compared to Monetary Bay Aquarium. We opted for Aquarium of the Bay because it can be easily access via bus. However, we are kinda disappointed by the facts that it is a lot smaller and nothing much to see as an aquarium. I will recommended you to go for Monetary Bay of Aquarium instead. 

Some photos taken at Aquarium of the Bay.

we get to touch some of the sea creatures at Aquarium of the Bay.

Exploratorium

If you like physics, psychology and sciences, this is the right place for you. 

We spent about 2 hours here. 

 California Academy of Science 

This place is way too cool! It is a combination of aquarium, rain forest and natural science. Make sure you try to experience the earthquake and check out the time for theater.

Penguinnnnnns!

Hello Reindeer! 

Albino alligator

Aquarium

Rainforest

lunch

the living roof

Lastly, it is the cruise. 

It goes under the Golden Gate Bridge and tours around Alcatraz. No, we didn't board to Alcatraz. Explanation are given during the cruise. We were just in time to catch the sunset on the cruise and it is so beautiful.

You can get your city pass at any of the places included in the city pass.