One day trip to Carmel & Monterrey

Going to San Francisco in October, we would like to go to Carmel %26amp; Monterray for a day trip. Can anyone suggest the best company to go with or would it be best to hire a car?

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One day trip to Carmel %26amp; Monterrey

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SAN FRANCISCO-MONTEREY/CARMEL via Pacifica-Half Moon Bay-Santa Cruz geocities.com/iconoc/Articles/DriveDir.html

The ';Don%26#39;t-miss SIGHTS in San Francisco'; page geocities.com/iconoc/Articles/Sights.html has enough to keep you busy for nine twelve-hour days. It includes links to your best source of advice on WHERE TO EAT here, the UseNet Group ba.food, and the quite-good sfSurvey. It also has a WEATHER CHART with a link to current conditions.

The best on-line MAP of San Francisco is an inter-active PDF created for the San Francisco Municipal Railway: geocities.com/iconoc/Grafix/CityWide.pdf. I recommend 150% or greater magnification. There%26#39;s also a link that will tell you HOW TO GET THERE FROM HERE. Other links on the page, geocities.com/iconoc/Grafix/FlagMaps.html are a map of our CABLE CAR ROUTES and a superb map of GOLDEN GATE PARK.

The frequently-updated SPECIAL EVENTS page has irregularly-scheduled music and dances as well as links to seven calendars of regularly-scheduled dances, a composite of five of them, and one of dance cruises and events around the world: http://geocities.com/dancefest/Specials.html

One day trip to Carmel %26amp; Monterrey

Hello

We did this tour in november, we booked through the all san francisco tours website, www.allsanfranciscotours.com/Body.asp鈥?/a>

the tour was with Grayline,

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they have an office down at fishermans wharf so I guess if you are in the city beforeheand you could even go there and book it direct with them. The tour started off along the pacific coast highway with a hort stop for coffee and cake onto Monterey which was nice, there is an Aquarium there but we did not visit this, there are a fre nice places to have some lunch and souvenir shops, then it was onto Carmel via pebble beach and 17 mile drive which has breathtaking scenery, Carmel was just OK, it was very quiet there, there are lots of art gallerys and some nice coffee shops but for the time allotted there is not a lot you can do. Then it was back to San Francisco, our guide did stop at the Garlic store for a few minutes which was interesting. I would recommend Grayline and especially the guide/driver, Michael, if you do book with Grayline you should ask which days he does it as he was entertaining with lots of extra information. good luck.

The tours may not always give you the most flexibility of schedule in case you want to go sea-kayaking or something. There%26#39;s fun creatures out there like otters.

This largely depends on how you like to travel. If you like to have flexibility and independence, and you don%26#39;t mind the coastal driving and adapting to driving on the ';wrong side'; of the road, renting the car would be better.

If you%26#39;d like others to do the driving and not have to worry about navigating the highways and the city streets, I%26#39;d say, take the tour. Someone used Extranomical tours to Carmel last spring and loved it. Sometimes it%26#39;s nicer to just kick back and let someone else do all the thinking. It just depends on what you like to do.