Trips and Tours
These tours include round-trip passage aboard a deluxe, air-conditioned motor coach and a professional tour escort. Unless otherwise noted in the tour description, each tour will depart from and return to the GCC upper parking lot, located at the corner of Mountain Street and the Glendale 2 Freeway. A parking permit will be mailed to you one week prior to your tour date. Please arrive 10 minutes prior to departure time. Refunds (minus a 20% processing fee) for cancellations will only be given if the space can be resold by the office. You may send someone in your place with the permission of the office.
California Poppy Festival
Warm breezes replace the winter chill, jubilant laughter fills the air and poppies burst into bloom blanketing hillsides in a sea of orange. The California Poppy Festival kicks off spring in the Antelope Valley with a glorious array of celebrated performers, unrivaled events and mouth-watering delicacies designed to delight, enchant, and amuse people of all ages. The day’s festivities include an International Market, Arts & Crafts, Flower & Farmer’s Market, Fine Arts, Home & Garden exhibits, Festival Foods and much more! This tour is operated by Regina Rocha Tours.
Visit the California Poppy Festival website.
Tour: TR022
Date: 1 Saturday, April 25
Time: 9:00 am - 6:30 pm
Fee: $55
Meet at the GCC Upper Parking Lot
The Getty Villa and Santa Monica Pier
We begin our day with a visit to the Santa Monica Pier. Enjoy the scenic ocean views and have lunch at Bubba Gump’s, a restaurant based on the movie, Forrest Gump. Lunch includes house salad, garlic bread, your choice of 5 different entrees, an ice cream sundae and your choice of a non-alcholic
drink. Then it’s off to Malibu and the exquisite Getty Villa Museum. The Getty Villa is modeled after a first-century Roman country house, the Villa dei Papiri in Herculaeum, Italy. It was originally constructed in the early 1970s, and reopened just a few years ago after an extensive renovation. Visitors now start their visit in a spectacular open-air Entry Pavilion and continue to scenic pathway to the site. With each building a slightly different elevation, visitors experience the site as an archaeological excavation, every perspective offering new discoveries. Appreciate their extraordinary collection of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities against a backdrop of fine marbles, Doric columns and views of the sparkling blue ocean. Be sure to stop by the museum’s gift shop, which offers a wide variety of wonderful items for you to purchase as a memento of your day at the Getty. This tour is operated by Regina Rocha Tours.
Visit the Getty Museum website.
Visit the Santa Monica Pier website.
Tour: TRGETTY
Date: 1 Sunday, May 17
Time: 9:30 am - 5:00 pm
Fee: $59
Meet at the GCC Upper Parking Lot
23rd Annual Ojai Wine Festival
The spectacular Ojai Wine Festival takes place Sunday, June 14, 2009. The annual event attracts some 3,000 attendees each year. “This is our twenty-third annual Wine Festival,” said John Kenyon, President of the sponsoring Rotary Club of Ojai-West. “You can’t beat the combination of fantastic wine, beer, food, live music, dancing and fun in such a beautiful setting on the shores of Lake Casitas” he added. Over 30 wineries will be pouring hundreds of wines, with a wonderfully diverse selection of varietals to choose from. Ten popular local restaurants will offer tasty food at reasonable prices. Guests may dine and sip wine at shaded tables or picnic on a grassy knoll overlooking the stage and Lake Casitas. This tour is operated by Regina Rocha Tours.
Visit the Ojai Wine Festival website.
Tour: TR023
Date: 1 Sunday, June 14
Time: 10:30 am - 7:00 pm
Fee: $79
Meet at the GCC Upper Parking Lot
Backroads of the Central Coast
Download our detailed trip brochure (896 kb, Adobe .pdf). Explore the backroads of the Central Coast and a visit to a local farm and winery on this very special tour. You’ll enjoy memorable meals, including lunch in a wine cave and dinner at the Madonna Inn; nightly evening receptions at the Apple Farm Inn; an evening at San Luis Obispo’s Farmers Market; visit Solvang with time for lunch and shopping. The tour includes: deluxe hotel accommodations; 4 meals; professional Tour Director; sightseeing with a local guide; transportation on a luxury motorcoach. A detailed itinerary and insurance information available. Travel protection insurance: $40 pp. This tour is operated by Good Times Travel.
Visit the Solvang Visitor's Bureau website.
Visit the Madonna Inn website.
Visit the Apple Farm Inn website.
Tour: TRCC
Date: April 29 - May 1
Fee: $539 pp double occ, $699 pp single occ
Meet at the GCC Upper Parking Lot
Utah’s Color Country
Download our detailed trip brochure (785 kb, Adobe .pdf). 
Guided tour of Zion National Park with a local guide to see its narrow gorges, dramatic canyons and colorful mesa scenery in both the upper and lower valleys. Visit Bryce Canyon National Park with a local guide, home to thousands of spires, fins, pinnacles and mazes in every imaginable color and whimsical shape. Pool side dinner “lagoon party” at your resort hotel, time at your leisure in Downtown Las Vegas. Single hotel stay in a resort hotel in Mesquite. Included in price: Deluxe hotel accommodations at Casa Blanca Hotel & Casino; 6 meals (1 dinner, 2 lunches, 3 breakfasts); professional tour director; sightseeing with local guides; transportation on a luxury motorcoach; luggage handling throughout the tour; applicable taxes, fees and most gratuities. A detailed itinerary is available. Travel protection insurance: $40 pp/ $53 sgl. This tour is operated by Good Times Travel.
Visit the Zion National Park website.
Visit the Casablanca Resort website.
Tour: TRUCC
Date: May 4 - 8
Fee: $569 pp double occ, $795 pp single occ
Meet at the GCC Upper Parking Lot
Alabama Hills with Geologist-Guide
Download our detailed trip brochure (881 kb, Adobe .pdf). With Dr. Howard Shifflett, explore the geology that created the spectacular formations that attracted filmmakers to “Movie Row” - a popular film site for over 200 movies. Journey up Highway 395 to see Mono Lake and the tufa towers that surround this million-year old lake to create a bizarre moonlike landscape. See the site of the largest volcanic eruption in California, visit
glacier-formed June Lake, see Diaz Lake, and visit Mammoth Mountain to see the damage that volcanic gases are still causing today. Included in price: deluxe hotel accommodations at Bishop’s Creekside Inn; 5 meals (1 dinner, 2 lunches, 2 breakfasts); professional tour director; comprehensive sightseeing with local guides; transportation on luxury motorcoach; luggage handling throughout the tour; applicable taxes, fees and most gratuities. Detailed itinerary and insurance available. Travel protection/cancellation insurance: $40 pp. This tour is operated by Good Times Travel.
Visit the Highway 395 website.
Visit the Bishop's Creekside Inn website.
Tour: TRAH
Date: May 12 - 15
Fee: $515 pp double, $645 pp single
Meet at the GCC Upper Parking Lot
New York City
Download our detailed trip brochure (819 kb, Adobe .pdf). Unpack once and stay in the heart of Manhattan at a sophisticated and lovely hotel in the heart of Times Square, Rockefeller Center, and the theatre district. Lower and Middle Manhattan tour featuring Times Square, the Theatre District, Rockefeller Center, the Plaza Hotel, Radio City Music Hall, the Empire State Building, the UN building, SoHo, Greenwich Village, Little Italy, Chinatown, the Garment District, the Financial District, the World Trade Center site, and Wall Street. Upper Manhattan tour showcasing St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Grant’s Tomb, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, 5th Avenue, Madison Avenue, Central Park and Harlem. Take a ferry to visit the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. Included ticket to see a hit Broadway show. A detailed itinerary and insurance available. Travel protection/cancellation insurance: $175 pp/dbl, $219 sgl
Visit the NYC Visitor's Bureau website.
Tour: TRNYC
Date: May 21 - 26
Fee: $2,049 pp double, $2,849 pp single
Meet at the GCC Upper Parking Lot
Coastal New England
Download our detailed trip brochure (642 kb, Adobe .pdf). Tour Newport, Rhode Island to see the magnificent “cottages”, the famous Vanderbilt, “Breaker Mansion”. Cruise on the Essex River and a cruise in Newport Harbor with great stories of the mansions and lobster industry. Tour Mystic Seaport Museum, the nation’s largest maritime museum and a recreated 19th Century seafaring museum. Tour Groton, home to the US Nautilus Submarine Museum and drive through the US Coast Guard Academy. Guided tour of the historic sights of Providence with a visit to an authentic Italian bakery for a baking demonstration. Tour Massachusetts’ “North Shore” including Gloucester, America’s oldest fishing port and home to the Andrea Gale. Your Boston area tour includes the Freedom Trail, the Old North Church, the USS Constitution, Beacon Hill, Fenway Park, Harvard, and Lexington & Concord. Included in price: Roundtrip airfare from Los Angeles; deluxe hotel accommodations (The Comfort Inn, Clarion Nantasket Beach Resort); 11 meals (5 dinners and 6 breakfasts); professional tour director; comprehensive sightseeing with local guides; transportation on a luxury motorcoach; luggage handling; applicable taxes, fees and most gratuities. Detailed itinerary and insurance available. Travel protection/cancellation insurance: $175 pp
Tour: TRCNE
Date: June 14 - 21
Fee: $2,049 pp double, $2,489 pp single
Meet at the GCC Upper Parking Lot