Bye, Bye Travel Agents

This is not your grandmother’s tour industry. She most likely located a tour agency in the phone book and called to see if the company conducted tours in Italy, Montana, California or wherever she wanted to go. Let’s say she wanted to go to Tuscany in Italy. She would call around until she found a travel agency that offered a tour to that beautiful region and hope that she could go when the tour was open.

The next generation of tourists used the internet to find the tour they wanted. Company A offered tours 1 through 12, Company B provided 8 tours, and perhaps a third company concentrated on the area a particular tourist wanted to explore. The traveler had to fit into the agency’s box and be available at specific times.

Some tour operators have never changed their modus operandi, and whatever floats their boats is fine with us. Do your research on the internet, but don’t believe everything you read. This is a new generation. It’s the 21stcentury, and we’ve adjusted and tweaked and downright changed our companies to meet the needs of today’s travelers, who are more educated and more able to think outside the box.

We offer popular tours to or through Yosemite, San Francisco, the California coast, the Coachella Music and Arts Festival and just about anywhere else in the U.S. upon request. And through vetted companies that are tops in their fields, we hook up travelers with tours to Napa Valley, led by a sommelier; and up the California coast or through the amazing California desert in a vintage Volkswagen bus caravan.

But we do more than that; we customize tours to your needs or wants, within reason. We can focus on certain areas of San Francisco—history, architecture or cultural sites, for instance—and provide an easy hike or grueling trek into the forest primeval in Yosemite. We can top off a trip to the world-famous California redwoods by touring San Francisco or Silicon Valley or Napa or…? Or we can start you off on the vintage vdub caravan and combine it with a Yosemite and/or San Francisco tour. If you’re coming to California, you might as well make the best of it. Yes, it’s the 21st century. You can finally take the tour of YOUR dreams, not someone else’s idea of what you’d like. Call us!