Gears and Grapes Getaways

Enjoy the best of wine country - choose from a tour to Napa or Sonoma Counties and get your ticket to see the ROCK!

Tours to the infamous Alcatraz Island begins with a ferry ride. Once on the island, your entrance into the prison includes an audio headset (available in 11 languages), and a history of Alcatraz movie. You'll be guided through the cell blocks, and various historic buildings on the island as well as have an opportunity to enjoy the beautiful views across the Bay to San Francisco!

The ferry departs every 30 minutes to bring visitors back to San Francisco. The average time spent on Alcatraz is 1.5 - 3 hours. Alcatraz Cruises provides the Alcatraz ferry and tickets for the Cellhouse audio tour portion of this combination ticket. Alcatraz is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Alcatraz Cruises is a concessionaire of the National Park Service.

The combo price includes a full day tour to bike through wine country and taste wine, as well as a ticket to Alcatraz to see the ROCK, a $37 value. The wine tour does not however take you to Alcatraz. The combo tickets are for people interested in both tours and want to purchase a ticket for each tour.

Our full day trips to wine country include pick up and drop off in San Francisco. Leaving San Francisco at 9am, a shuttle will take you to wine country. Once there, we will set you up on bikes and your guide will lead you from winery to winery. We stop for a delicious picnic lunch amid the vineyards. A shuttle will follow the group to carry any purchases or assist any riders who decide they would rather be driven. The total mileage ranges between 10 and 15 miles (20-30 minutes of leisure cycling between wineries). Biking the whole way is optional. At any point, guests may choose to ride in the shuttle. We return to the city at around 6pm.

Visit the great city of San Francisco by bike while stopping at three different beer destinations and enjoying pints of SF's finest brews!Beers and Bikes is a cultural and historical tour of some of SF's newest and hippest neighborhoods. Starting and finishing in SOMA, you will explore off the beaten path places and enjoy pints at SF's finest beer drinking establishments.

Our day trips include pick up and drop off in San Francisco. Leaving San Francisco at 9am, a shuttle will take you to Dry Creek Valley. Dry Creek is known for its rustic and quaint atmosphere with smaller, family owned and operated wineries. Once there, we will set you up on bikes and your guide will lead you from winery to winery. We stop for a delicious picnic lunch amongst the vineyards. A shuttle will follow the group to carry any purchases or assist any riders who decide they would rather be driven. The total mileage ranges between 10 and 15 miles (20-30 minutes of leisure cycling between wineries). Biking the whole way is optional. At any point, guests may choose to ride in the shuttle. We return to the city at around 6pm.

An hour's drive away, is the infamous Napa Valley. Napa Valley is widelyconsidered one of the top American Viticultural Areas in California, and all of the United States, with a history dating back to the early nineteenth century.

Today Napa Valley features more than four hundred wineries, makes 4% of California wine and grows many different grape varieties including Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Merlot, Zinfandel, and other popular varietals. Napa Valley is visited by as many as five million people each year. In 2010, Tripadvisor's Travelers choice awards awarded Napa Valley as "The World's Best Wine and Food Destination". It is also internationally recognized as one of only nine Great Wine Capitals on earth.Our day trips include pick up and drop off in San Francisco. Leaving San Francisco at 9am, a shuttle will take you to Napa. Napa is known for its grandiose and chateau like wineries. It is very regal and elegant in style. Once there, we will set you up on bikes and your guide will lead you from winery to winery. We stop for a delicious picnic lunch amongst the vineyards. A shuttle will follow the group to carry any purchases or assist any riders who decide they would rather be driven. The total mileage ranges between 10 and 15 miles (20-30 minutes of leisure cycling between wineries). Biking the whole way is optional. At any point, guests may choose to ride in the shuttle. We return to the city at around 6pm.

Our day trips include pick up and drop off in San Francisco. Leaving San Francisco at 9am, a shuttle will take you to the Russian River Valley.

Once there, we will set you up on bikes and your guide will lead you from winery to winery. The terrain in the Russian River does include more rolling hills than the other wine regions. Participants should be prepared. We stop for a delicious picnic lunch amongst the vineyards. A shuttle will follow the group to carry any purchases or assist any riders who decide they would rather be driven. The total mileage ranges between 10 and 15 miles (20-30 minutes of leisure cycling between wineries). Biking the whole way is optional. At any point, guests may choose to ride in the shuttle. We return to the city at around 6pm.

An hour’s drive from San Francisco, is the infamous Napa Valley. Napa Valley is widely considered one of the top American Viticultural Areas in California, and all of the United States, with a history dating back to the early nineteenth century.

Today Napa Valley features more than four hundred wineries, makes 4% of California wine and grows many different grape varieties including Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Merlot, Zinfandel, and other popular varietals. Napa Valley is visited by as many as five million people each year. In 2010, Trip advisor’s Travelers choice awards awarded Napa Valley as “The World’s Best Wine and Food Destination”. It is also internationally recognized as one of only nine Great Wine Capitals on earth.