2 days Monterey Sea & Land

Monterey Sightseeing Tour and AMTRAK train through Salinas Valley and Santa Barbara to Los Angeles or Anaheim
 

2 Days & 1 Night

This independent tour is made possible by taking motor coach tour from San Francisco to Monterey, spending a night there and then AMTRAK train connection to Los Angeles, Anaheim or San Diego.  The motor coach tour may be operated by California Parlor Car Tours, Tower Tours or by Super Sightseeing Tours.

Tour includes:  Deluxe narrated day tour and transportation to Monterey. Hotel room with tax. 17 Mile Drive entrance AMTRAK throughway transfer to Salinas. Train tickets to Los Angeles. 

1st Day. San Francisco to Monterey, 154 miles         

Pick up from any downtown hotel. Departure at 9:00 a.m. Travel about two hours through Silicon Valley, San Jose then along San Andreas fault-line through Gilroy. See acres of artichoke and strawberry fields. Spend the rest of the day in historic Monterey, Cannery Row, Pacific Grove. See the Pacific crashing on to the rocks and swirling around on the 17 Miles Drive, where the Lone Cypress stands guard. Brush with luxury at the golf courses and resorts of Pebble Beach. Time in Carmel by the Sea for shopping & browsing. By 5:00 p.m. we should check in at Hyatt Regency Monterey.

Hyatt Regency Monterey: One Old Golf Course Road, Monterey
 

2nd Day. Monterey to Salinas and Los Angeles. 375 miles.

After a relaxing morning, at 10:55 AMTRAK Thruway motor coach will transfer you via Laguna Seca to Salinas Train Station. This takes about 30 minutes. AMTRAK Train #11 that started in Seattle the day before now takes us through the Salinas Valley, center of Monterey Country's agricultural region. The route takes us by Salinas River through small towns, fields of lettuce, broccoli and acres of green houses. Suddenly by King City we see miles and miles of newly planted vineyards where just a few years ago there was only cattle pasture.  The oil fields appear and then the military installations at Camp Roberts. Soon we reach historic Paso Robles. Leaving the level areas we now climb Cuesta Grade and drop down to sea level at San Luis Obispo. 
The ocean briefly appears at Pismo Beach. Heading south the rails go by Vandenberg Space station and near Goleta you see some of the most scenic ocean views all the way through Santa Barbara to Oxnard. Turing inland in early evening the train goes past miles of orange groves then through Fillmore and Simi Valley to Glendale and the great metropolis of Los Angeles. It is now about 9:00 p.m. as we arrive at the in the heart of Los Angeles at the Union Station that you may recognize from many Hollywood films. If you are staying in Los Angeles taxicabs to downtown locations cost about $20, twice as much to Hollywood, West Los Angeles, and Beverly Hills or to Los Angeles International Airport. If you going further south the train connects to Surfliner #794 at 10:05 that arrives in Anaheim at 10:51, San Juan Capistrano at 11:25 and San Diego well past midnight at 12:50.

2007 : Almost daily / on request
Departures from San Francisco

Child rate based on ages 5 to 11 sharing a room with adult(s), extra charges for cot or rollaway.

Tour price per person in U.S. Dollars includes features shown above and handling fee. The costs can change depending on the hotel and train rates that vary according to special events at the hotels and days of travel on the train.

Images furnished by Monterey Convention and Visitors Bureau

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