Santa Barbara Private Driving Tour: Customizable Highlights
3.4
5 Ratings
Santa Barbara
Experience a world-class private driving tour in Santa Barbara, customized to your preferences. Explore the best sights at your own pace with commentary by local legend Laure Spiers.
Duration:
2 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Old Mission Santa Barbara - Landmark 1786 Spanish mission with period art & artifacts, gardens with ocean views & a gift shop. We will just pass by this stop to take some pictures and all the scenery in. If you would like to spend more time here, there is an optional tour that is not included to explore a bit more. You can purchase the tickets at the booth.
- Santa Barbara County Courthouse - 1929 tile-roof courthouse complex known for a mural room & Spanish Colonial Revival embellishments.
- El Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park - Historical site housing remnants of a 1782 Spanish fortress, including 2 original adobe buildings.
- Paseo Nuevo - Best shopping area of Santa Barbara. Filled with great eats better described as an open-air mall with a variety of well-known chain retailers, plus a movie theater & dining.
- Funk Zone - The Funk Zone is a unique Santa Barbara arts, culture, business, and industrial district between State Street and Garden Street, and Montecito Street to Cabrillo Boulevard. This amalgamation of historical marine structures, industrial lots, and houses has a unique history in manufacturing, lumber, citrus, produce, and fishing. Over the years, many artists have found creative freedom by carving out studio spaces in this \
What's Included
- Free navigation and Smartphone Guide
- Pintours App Guide
Additional Information
Experience an unmatched personal tour, fully under your control! Explore the top attractions of Santa Barbara at your own pace!
The tour is guided and narrated by Laure Spiers, a well-known local personality!
Forget about the crowd, this tour is solely designed for you with the Pintours App!
With the help of our app, you’re free to pause the tour, and spend as much time as you desire at each spot! Feel free to skip a location you’re not interested in, and get access to all the significant data about each stop right at your fingertip.
Location
Old Mission Santa Barbara 1786
Laguna Street
Depending on how you booked, your driver can meet you here, right outside the Old Mission. We will text you all the details.
If you are driving yourself, you can drive from this starting point.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
3.4
(5 Ratings)
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Eric
Jun 7, 2023
CalCoast Adventures Bike Tour - Colin with CalCoast Adventures was a great bike tour guide. He is a local so he has a lot of information to share and didn’t need to fill time with fluff. He tailored the tour to our interests which we really appreciated. Sometimes tour guides can try too hard to connect with people, but Colin was super easy to be around and didn’t have any annoying buzz words (which bug me) or habits that took away from the experience. I would highly recommend the e-bike tour with this company. We were five adults and everyone agreed it was great!
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Sumaya
May 22, 2023
Best Private Tour Experience! - We booked the private bus option and it was great! My best friends and I planned a group reunion and Pintours helped us plan the perfect day!
We were able to tour all of Santa Barbara, privately and in class!
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Annamshumate
Jul 1, 2022
Best way to see Santa Barbara - Great way to see Santa Barbara and learn the history. Driver will customize and go at your pace. Our Driver was Great!!!!!
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E6734avemilyw
Mar 31, 2022
Visit Santa Barbara like a local! - Great tour from a Santa Barbara local expert! Highly recommend if you are looking to explore Santa Barbara area!
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Barbara_w
Nov 26, 2023
Horrible. Never once did... - Horrible. Never once did anyone tell me you needed a car for this tour!!! They took my money without explaining that. Am on vacation and do not have a car!!!!
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Carlos_m
Oct 23, 2023
Difficult To Navigate the Audio. - I am not sure if it was Pintours or myself.
It was challenging to navigate the Audio tour, so we decided to explore the city on our own by visiting the popular attractions and more.
If we had known this earlier, we would have saved the money we spent on the Audio tour and invested it in something else.
I am not an IT expert, but I am competent. When it comes to tasks like following audio, I know how to handle it.
Karl Vögeler-Suegart / Ontario / Canada
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