Additional Included Highlights

• Our highly-skilled Travel Director will ensure your journey is seamless, serving as your expert guide, consummate organiser, and friend overseas.
• Personal radio headsets give you the freedom to wander during visits to famous highlights, without missing any of your Local Expert's fascinating commentary.
• Hotel and restaurant tips are included - you'll never have to worry about how much to give, nor search for foreign currency. We also include all taxes and porterage charges at hotels.
• We carry your bags for you and promptly deliver them to your hotel door.
• From time to time, your Travel Director will delight you with an Insight Flourish, which is a local specialty representing the destination.
• Stay connected with friends and family with our complimentary coach and hotel Wi-Fi (where available).

Choice Highlights

• Choose between two carefully selected activities
• Venice Beach: Hop on a bicycle and take your own tour of Venice. Weave your way through the performers on the boardwalk. Maybe stop to watch some of the country’s best pickup basketball games on local outdoor courts.
• Venice Beach: Soak up the sights and sounds of Venice on a walking tour with a Local Expert. Stroll along the vibrant boardwalk. See Muscle Beach Gym, once the home turf of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who later went on to become California’s governor. Explore the city’s unique canal system.

Well-being

• : Our Well-Being Directors take a proactive approach to your welfare ensuring all well-being regulations are met (available on tours with 21 or more guests).
• : Enjoy the comfort of Insight's luxurious, air-conditioned, 40-seat coach with double the standard legroom and onboard washroom. Our customized luxury coaches are sanitized before the start of your tour and are maintained to very high standards. Physical distancing measures have been implemented on our customized luxury coaches.
• : Experience enhanced hygiene protocols to align with the latest guidance following COVID-19. All Travel Directors, Well-Being Directors and Drivers have completed training in enhanced well-being and hygiene protocols.
• : Hand sanitizer is freely available on board for you to use throughout the day.
• : We only work with establishments we are confident will consistently adhere to our high well-being standards, which include hotels, restaurants and sight-seeing venues.

Insight Choice

• Venice Beach: Hop on a bicycle and take your own tour of Venice. Weave your way through the performers on the boardwalk. Maybe stop to watch some of the country’s best pickup basketball games on local outdoor courts.
• Venice Beach: Soak up the sights and sounds of Venice on a walking tour with a Local Expert. Stroll along the vibrant boardwalk. See Muscle Beach Gym, once the home turf of Arnold Schwarzenegger, who later went on to become California’s governor. Explore the city’s unique canal system.
• Santa Barbara: Take a self-guided tour of the magnificent Old Mission Santa Barbara, founded in 1786. Known as the 'Queen of the Missions, it is one of the city’s most picturesque landmarks. Admire the grand double bell towers and lush gardens with the majestic San Ynez mountains as a backdrop.

Top Rated Highlights

• Santa Barbara: Snaking up the west coast of the USA, the Pacific Coast Highway is one of the most scenic drives in the world. Much of the route is still mostly wild, open and astoundingly beautiful country. We stop in Malibu along PCH for a picnic lunch.
• Santa Barbara: Get to know the iconic Southern California town of Santa Barbara. Its skyline, peppered with white stucco walls and red-tiled roofs creates a striking backdrop of style and charm. Stroll down the iconic State Street, learn about the history of Santa Barbara and about its unique architecture.
• Santa Ynez: Located in the heart of Santa Barbara wine country, the Santa Ynez Valley is home to some 120 wineries. The area is blanketed with fertile vineyards and farms all fruitful in part, due to the region’s temperate weather. Take a tour of an acclaimed winery and taste the exceptional flavors for yourself.
• : Explore the charming towns of Los Olivos and Los Alamos which both offer tasting rooms, art galleries, and upscale shops that really give you the chance to dive into the small-town vibe of the Santa Ynez Valley.
• Montecito: Wrap yourself in the charm and glamour of this small town, home to numerous celebrities and some of the area’s most stunning stretches of coastline. No other town does luxury or exudes an effortlessly chic vibe like Montecito, discover why on this walking tour.
• Ojai: Join an olive oil tasting at Ojai Olive Oil, a third-generation family owned and operated farm.  A fine example of permaculture farming, the oil is produced using sustainable and self-maintained agricultural systems modeled from natural ecosystems.
• Los Angeles: Perched in the hills above West Los Angeles, the Getty Center, a world-class museum may look like an elevated modernist city. Admire masterpieces from Vincent van Gogh, Renoir, Monet and Rembrandt. Enjoy dramatic outdoor art with 28 modern and contemporary sculptures and browse one of the finest photography collections in the world.

Make Travel Matter

• Santa Ynez: The Chumash Museum & Cultural Center is dedicated to preserving the legacy of the first people of the area. Join a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience and learn from local specialists about the tribal history and traditions of the Chumash. Support the indigenous community and gain a deeper cultural understanding.
• Channel Islands National Park: Take a trip to the Channel Islands National Park and Marine Sanctuary, comprised of five islands strung out in the marine-rich Santa Barbara Channel. Look out for wildlife and learn how the sanctuary provides protection through research, education, conservation and stewardship over 1,470 square miles of ocean.
• Ojai: Join a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience and discover the traditional and modern uses of herbs on a guided walk with a specialist. Gain an understanding of sustainable plants and how communities used and still use these today, including for food, home remedies, botanical medicine and sustainable foraging.

Authentic Dining

• Santa Barbara: Enjoy the delicious regional specialty of tri-tip barbeque at the Cold Springs Tavern. The beef tri-tip is seasoned with black pepper, salt, and garlic. It is then grilled over coals of native coast live oak, often referred to as "red oak" wood. The results are succulent, flavorsome and comforting.
• Dining Summary: 2 Dinner with Wine (DW), 6 Breakfast (B), and 2 Lunch (L)