Formerly Demo Tours, Discover Lake Tahoe, Inc., offers an Around the Lake tour every Tuesday year round. This narrated tour departs from several of the area's most visited lodges, resorts and inns at 8:45 a.m. Guests board a luxury shuttle bus and spend the day visiting some of Lake Tahoe's most popular attractions including Emerald Bay and Squaw Valley, site of the 1960 Winter Olympic Games. The tour is directed by a long-time local who answers questions and provides information about each stop. The tour breaks midday in Tahoe City at the Boatworks Mall, the area's only premier enclosed two-story mall, for lunch and shopping and finishes for the day at 3:00 p.m.
The Bay Area Ski Bus company runs a shuttle to various local ski resorts several days a week during ski season. Participants board a bus between 4:30 and 5:00 a.m., depending on their location. Sleeping is encouraged until about 7:30, when a continental breakfast is served while an on-board ski movie plays. The bus drops passengers off at a Lake Tahoe resort between 8:15 and 9:00 a.m., where they ski until the bus returns at 3:30 p.m. Destinations may include Alpine Meadows, Heavenly Resort or Squaw Valley, among others. Snacks and hot cocoa are served aboard the bus until its departure around 4:30. Movies are played until the shuttle stops for dinner after 6:00, and riders return home between 8:30 and 9:45 p.m.
This tour company offers an Around the Lake tour similar to that offered by Discover Lake Tahoe, Inc. The six-hour narrated tour commences at 8:45 a.m. on Tuesdays and stops at various attractions throughout the day including Rubicon Point and Sand Harbor State Park. A two-hour afternoon stop is made at the Boatworks Mall, during which guests can purchase lunch and shop.
Lake Tahoe Tours also offers a seven-hour Wine and Harvest tour, which departs at 8:15 a.m. on Wednesdays. Travelers drive through the Lake Tahoe countryside into wine country and El Dorado County, California's oldest wine region, about 40 miles southwest. Stops are made at the Jack Russell Micro Brewery, where guests sample wine and ale and tour the brewery, and at Boa Vista Produce.
