Extranomical Adventures

Loved the one-​day Yosemite tour. I was able to book it online the night before and go for it the next day-​No human intervention needed. Although I wan’t staying in a hotel, I submitted the name of the closest hotel for pick-​up at 6:30am and the bus came to pick me up at the reception. Great start.
The guide Larisse was probably the best tour guide I have ever experienced in my life!!! He joked around, was helpful and clearly knowledgeable about the city and the various places around Yosemite. He is quite the story-​teller and even though I was tired after the trip, I kept awake to listen to some of his interesting stories. He even had his personalized music playlist for the journey and some narrative to go along with his selected songs. All the way from the beginning, to the tour within Yosemite and the way back to San Fran he had some very entertaining stories and trivia to share. Made the whole experience fantastic! Kudos to Larisse. I highly recommend Extranomical tours, also they do an extra stop for the walk to the Tunnel tree that some of the other tours don’t. I also suggest you check with them for the days Larisse does the tour. We went on a Saturday. I think he does it every other day. He also stopped at Treasure Island for a few minutes to show us the city nightscape-​not on the tour plan. Totally different experience. Go Larisse go!
Toronto, Canada

I am Irish my mam and I went on this tour to Muir Woods and then to Sonoma and Napa wineries last Wednesday April 8^th 2015. My mam is a school bus driver since she was 21 years old we are both very happy and friendly people this tour was fun apart from one thing ROMAN THE GERMAN BUS DRIVER (that’s why only 2 stars) he was horrible asides from the fact that if you are 1 minute late on the bus he’l «bitch» to the whole bus about you. (A lady in front of me had a baby and she was 1 minute late) and he turned around and said something cheeky about leaving the baby behind who wants it ?? That was fine then my mam and everyone was on the bus outside a winery waiting on me as I was in the rest room he SCREAMED BLOODY MURDER as my mam on where was I?? and when I came out of the restroom he shouted at me !!! I was «late» I was 1 minute late because I was waiting in line on the restroom. He was so horrible if I could prevent anyone from taking this tour with him I would my mam was in shock with his behaviour as she herself does private bus runs also. Anyhow the tour was great because I was with my mam and the people who were touring on the bus were lovely too he also talks about HIS TIPS he needs to get the whole time :/​anyhow hope you don’t get this guy :)

Extranomical Adventures’ Wine Lovers’ Tour was the best tour I’ve taken! Our guide Mark was GREAT! He was knowledgeable, funny and really wanted to make our tour specific to what we wanted to taste –we visited several AMAZING wineries.
Our tour began with a small boutique vineyard and then off to larger vineyards. We ended the day with a flight of some FABULOUS Champagnes. We stopped and had picked up a quick breakfast at a bakery that wonderful and also stopped for lunch later in the afternoon. Quick and simple but none of the passengers felt rushed.
The van was clean and safe, we left on time and arrived back on time.
So all in all it was a great day and money well spent! I would definatley do a tour with Extranomical Adventures Tours again.

This was a perfect day! Andy, our tour guide, was hilarious and knowledgeable. He seems to know and have a good relationship with the owners and staff of the wineries we visited. The wineries really catered to us and had private tastings ready when we got there. The Muir Woods were beautiful and serene. I highly recommend the muir woods and wine country tour, best part of my San Fran trip so far!!!

Fabulous San Francisco Tours, definitely recommend this sightseeing tour company. I live in SF and enjoy my wine. Rarely do I go on tours when I travel, yet alone in my own backyard. However, a few friends booked the «Wine for Locals tour», which I guess is similar to their «Wine Lovers Tour». It ended up being more economical than chartering a van or limo. It was a mini bus, so not too large of a group. We were picked up at the Parc 45 Hotel and got to sit together, which was important.
On this tour you do have some opportunity to customize the wineries you stop at a bit. We went to 4 different wineries, which were beautiful, great tasting room staff and beautiful grounds. My favorite stop was Cline Winery, they specialize in more obscure Rhone varietals, think Mourvedre or Roussanne.
The guide was funny and knowledgeable. Telling jokes and inserting Sonoma Valley wine facts into his dialogue. Also, as far as Napa Valley goes, it’s over-​rated. Crowded tasting rooms, surly staff and astronomical tasting room fees. Sonoma is more relaxed, with gorgeous redwoods hugging the vineyards and phenomenal wines that stand up to Napa any day.

Eek, trying to pass off Tuolumne Grove on a 3 day-​2 night Yosemite trip as anything but a very poor second to The Mariposa Grove, set aside by President Lincoln with the small 7 sq.mi. of Yosemite Valley in 1864 before Yellowstone in 1872, Why waste your time, when the Superlative is there?! Visit the Mariposa Grove FIRST, STAY in Yosemite Valley, if you can bear to sleep in such a wonderful spectacular place, instead of some second rate ‘dorm’ way way way down river and outside the park even. A Curry Tent in YV is about $ 100/​night.
Plus, the cancellation policy is, HORRENDOUS: before 8 days is the greater of 10% or $ 25,and NOTHING AFTER 8 DAYS. This is so flog-the-‘biodiesel’ HARSH !! when the local standard is before last 24hrs for full refund.

A very disappointing experience with «Extranomical», which I believe has several entries on Unilocal.Read my review here:

My mom came to visit from North Dakota, and said she wanted to go on a wine tour. My girlfriend set it up for us an me and my mom headed out early in the morning. We were picked up right on time, our driver Allen was GREAT! He took us to 5 wineries, and we got the royal treatment, he knew a great place for lunch, and kept everyone entertained through the whole trip. I highly suggest this company to anyone that wants to go on a tour them selves or anyone that wants to treat a friend from out of town. Very happy

They have a nice combination of Los Angeles and San Francisco tours, I got $ 15 discount from their WEB site. Looks like this is small company doing very professional tours where tour guides are joking all the time and have a lot of things to talk besides tour itself, its not just script memorized by stuff working from 8:00 to 5:00. I took Wine tour in SOnoma and Los Angeles Grand Tour which is 5 hour tour covering everything about LA. Highly recommend!