Apr 13, 2025
It was a wonderful trip!... - It was a wonderful trip! Johan was knowledgeable and fun. He clearly cared that we had a great experience.
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Aug 20, 2023
Great tour - Yanez(?) was an amazing guide. When the food truck was cancelled for our location, he went and got us food. He got a small barrel tour and took pictures for everyone.
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Jul 16, 2023
Amazing wine, amazing tour guide! - The wine was amazing--the food was great at each location as well. Our tour guide, Sunny, was so friendly and knowledgeable. It was the perfect day, worth the price!
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Jun 23, 2023
Had a wonderful and relaxing day of wine, cupcakes and scenery. - My mom and I had a great time at the wineries! Our tour guide, Sunny, was very knowledgeable about the wineries and the area. We also had time to visit the olive tasting at Rancho Olivos and drive through Solvang. The cupcakes were sooooo delicious 🤤. The tour bus was very comfortable and the views of the Santa Inez valley were amazing!
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May 19, 2023
Wonderful experience - We loved our tour with Sunny! She was energetic and entertaining the entire trip. We learned about the area as well as interesting today-bits about wine. The valley is beautiful and all the stops were very intimate and enjoyable. The cupcakes were also delicious!
I do wish that they gave you the option to sub wines out, like opt for all red if you don’t enjoy whites. However I believe that the wine lists are determined by the wineries, so this may be out of their control.
Overall it was a great day and well worth it, thank you Sunny!!
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Oct 8, 2022
Wine and Lunch with Emu's - Johannson was our tour guide and did an excellent job. We tasted wine at three different wineries and also stopped and did some olive oil tasting. Lunch was very good with the Emu's at the Koehler winery. We even had some time to walk around the tiny town of Los Olivos. We were on the tour with three other couples from Wales, Nashville, Pasadena and we are from Ventura. We enjoyed listening to each others experiences and thoughts on the different wines we tasted.
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Aug 31, 2025
Cupcake Tour a Bit Rough - Started out rough. Mix up on confirmed pick up location so nearly an hour late picking us up. After that, we had a fabulous group and excellent time. The delay in pick up caused us to detour our trip a bit and that was disappointing as Solvang was a visit we looked forward to. Only complaint was a hot day and van is all electric so a/c barely worked and due to electric only, couldn’t cool down very hot van before we entered after each stop. A bit miserable on a very hot day. They were also afraid of running out of charge thus our trip to the wonderful Dutch community in Solvang was cut out. We had a nice group and did have a nice time though. Would consider carefully if staying cool and the promised trip were important to you.
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May 29, 2023
Disappointing - We signed up for the Cupcakes & Wine Tour. They ended up giving us cupcakes from a place downtown Santa Barbara as an afterthought and not as a pairing with wine experience. Apparently it was baking day and no one available for this particular tour. Paid for experience that wasn’t given.
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Jun 24, 2023
Great tour spoiled by Sunny's behavior - I went on the Santa Ynez Valley Cupcake and Wine Tour. The tour was great, and we stopped at some great vineyards/wineries. The tour guide, Sunny, was very knowledgeable but rude on multiple occasions to people on our tour. At one of our stops, she reprimanded two elderly people on the tour for speaking to the owner of a vineyard/winery. She mentioned she didn't want to serve us at another stop because "it was not her job." At the end of the tour, my group was tipping her individually (even though the tip was included in the tour price). The first person handed her a tip, and she counted it and responded, "That's it?". We responded, "Isn't a tip included in the tour price." She quickly tried to walk back her comments but didn't apologize.
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Jun 21, 2023
Tour Guide Sunny's Poor Attitude - The tour itself was fine and even fun. But our tour guide Sunny left a bad taste in our mouths. During one of our stops at one of the wineries, a couple from our party struck up a conversation with the winery owner and the owner ended up taking them around. Sunny got upset that this happened and was a bit rude but the people in our party did not ask for that to happen. It was just something that happened because the winery owner was enjoying the conversations he was having with them and was being nice. There was also confusion on whether gratuity was included with our ticket prices which I admit was a misunderstanding on our part. Between when we were initially looking at prices and when we actually booked, the company decided to no longer include gratuity in ticket prices. Adding to the confusion, another party in our group approached us to make sure that we knew that gratuity was already included (which it was when that party booked) and the FAQs that are currently on the website included a FAQ on why gratuity was included. We honestly thought then that gratuity was already paid but we still decided to tip a little extra at the end. Well Sunny verbally expressed her displeasure to us with the tip amount. I totally get being upset, and I do feel bad about the confusion, but she could have been a bit more gracious about the situation as it was never our intent to under-tip her.
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