Silicon Valley Private Tour from San Francisco

Fred was our tour guide for the day from Dingo Tours for this Silicon Valley half day trip from SF. Fred was awesome, full of knowledge about Silicon Valley companies and their history and a very happy and accomodating person. He was also a Brazilian soccer fan, which added to the fun aspect, as we were traveling from Sydney Australia to watch the WC matches. Fred gave us a quick outline of the day. First stop was the Meta office, Menlo Park. Interestingly, it was the same office which Sun Microsystems had previously occupied. Being an ex-Sun employee, I was very nostalgic. Fred gave us a quick drive around the campus and then parked to take a picture of us in front of the Meta logo! Funny part was, behind the Meta logo was the old Sun logo, which was such a nice coincidence! The next stop was Stanford University. It was a zip code of its own. Fred gave us some tips on what to see in the short time. We went to see the church, the gift shop and the tower which house a lot of Hoover memorabilia. The view from the top was brilliant, you could capture the width of the entire Stanford campus. The ground floor was a museum. The entry to top floor was ticketed at USD8 per person. Was a good experience. Then next 2 stops were Google office, Mountain View and Apple office, Cupertino. The Google office was just an office with the ground floor having a Google store. After some quick pictures with Google sign boards, we went to Apple which was our final destination. That was a rare experience, getting into Apple Store and visitor’s centre. Shows how Apple can market themselves to blow the socks off its competitors. The Apple visitors centre had a model of the entire campus including office which was built in the shape of a space station. They have interactive iPads which gives a complete immersive experience of each building when you look at the actual model and tap the same building on the iPad. It also had a store and cafe with clean toilets. And if you and T up to the second floor, you would see the actual office building. Great experience for professional nerds who always wanted to be part of Apple, even if from the outside. Overall the tour was a good experience and would def recommend this tour, specially with Fred who was amazing throughout!

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Wonderful this tour c,Frédéric and rl very interesting tour,c ka,University of Stenford. Fully recommended.

I had the pleasure of having Marciano as our guide and driver. He was very knowledgeable of the town and made our experience comfortable. However, the price paid for this tour is totally not worth it. For the price, I was expecting to talk to actual engineers from Google, Apple and Meta. Gain knowledge of how things work. Instead we just went to stores. There was No interaction from employees. It was very restricted and limited.

Marciano was on time, friendly, professional and knowledgeable about all things Silicon Valley and Stanford. Very personable with great conversation and flexible with our requests. Encouraged us to do the bikes at Google!!! And the Stanford tower. Thank you for an amazing day Marciano!!! Highly recommend!!!

We had a great time. Fred was a great guide! Really was glad we had someone to point out highlights. Stanford was amazing.

Our Silicon Valley tour was amazing also thanks to the help of our tour guide Fred. He was friendly and knowledgeable about all the places we went (Stanford, Apple, Google and Meta). He was also up for a nice chat on the car rides and made sure that we all had a good time and personalised our schedule to the places that we wanted to see the most. Thanks Fred for the wonderful experience?

Pablo was a very good guide, we saw a lot of different things which were very interesting. Especially stanford university

The whole experience was terrific. Fred our tour guide was a nice guy, informative and helpful, and he went out of his way to make our experience enjoyable. Everything ran like clockwork. Fred ensured we stayed on time and got to see everything we hoped to see. It was well worth the day and we couldn't have accomplished this on our own.

Alex picked us up in a nice Suburban. He was on time but that is when the service basically ended. Alex was extremely hard to hear and understand. He had absolutely no interesting facts on any of the places we saw. He basically was an uber driver. I was using this tour to attract employees to the area from other states. They were asking me questions about Meta, Apple, Stanford, and Google. I had no answers for them and neither did Alex. He did not offer any information on any of the places we stopped. He basically said here we are, you an get out and walk around if you want. I spent almost $500 on an uber ride. Even the people I was touring from out of state made comments that Alex had no info to share. I am hoping to get a refund of some kind.

Great guide and comfortable ride. Got to see a lot in an efficient schedule. Great for visitors and locals alike.