SB Car Free - 2007 Package

Santa Barbara, CA—The Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District (APCD) and the Santa Barbara Car Free Project announced the 2007 Car Free Experience Discount Package valid now through December 31, 2007, featuring savings up to 50% at 20 hotels, 6 restaurants and 15 activity and transportation alternatives. Visitors are encouraged to come car free via plane, bike, boat, bus or train and enjoy discounts. “Take a vacation from your car! You’ll enjoy it, and you’ll help our air, and our Earth,“ says Mary Byrd, Santa Barbara Car Free Project Manager with the APCD, lead agency for this award-winning eco-tourism cooperative partnership. The Project encourages car free travel to and around Santa Barbara for cleaner air. Vehicles are a major source of smog-forming pollution, and of greenhouse gases contributing to global climate change.

Visitors arriving by airplane at Los Angeles (LAX) receive 2-for-1 coupon for round-trip motor coach transfers via Santa Barbara Airbus when registering in advance at www.SantaBarbaraCarFree.org. On Roadrunner Shuttle, the second passenger rides free from LAX or Burbank (BUR) airports, or receives a 15% discount from Santa Barbara Airport (SBA) when mentioning SB Car Free. Visitors receive 20% discount off cab fares to/from SBA and all around town from Lucky Cab (with a hybrid Toyota Prius fleet), when mentioning Car Free. Also by registering at www.SantaBarbaraCarFree.org, travelers can receive a discount code valid for 20 percent savings on Amtrak Pacific Surfliner and San Joaquin (and linked buses) travel to/from all nine Amtrak stations in Santa Barbara County, California— Santa Barbara, Goleta, Carpinteria, Solvang, Buellton, Lompoc, Surf, Guadalupe and Santa Maria. The “Santa Barbara Car Free 20 Percent Savings Offer” is valid for travel through December 13, 2007 (three-day advance purchase required; blackout dates and restrictions apply).

By mentioning the “Santa Barbara Car Free Experience Package” when making a hotel reservation, visitors will receive significant discounts up to 50% off regular room rates at the following HOTELS: Best Western Beachside Inn; Best Western Pepper Tree Inn, Brisas del Mar, Cabrillo Inn at the Beach, Casa Del Mar Inn, Colonial Beach Inn, Eagle Inn, Fess Parker’s Doubletree Resort, Franciscan Inn, Harbor View Inn, Holiday Inn Express-Hotel Virginia, Hotel Oceana, Hotel Santa Barbara, Inn by the Harbor, Inn of the Spanish Garden, Old Yacht Club Inn, Prufrock’s Garden Inn by the Beach, Ramada Limited Hotel, Santa Barbara Inn and the Upham Hotel. (Some restrictions apply; rooms subject to availability.)

At hotel check-in, guests receive a CAR FREE-bies gift envelope stuffed with maps, luggage tags, coupons and discounts on ACTIVITIES: Cloud Climbers Jeep & Wine Tours; Condor Express (whale watching cruises); Pedal & Paddle (bike & kayak trips); Personal Tours LTD (escorted tours); Santa Barbara Adventure Company (kayaking); Santa Barbara Old Town Trolley (sightseeing tours); Santa Barbara Sailing Center (Double Dolphin catamaran cruises); Segway of Santa Barbara (electric human transporters); Sunset Kidd’s Sailing Cruises, SuperRide (group wine tours); Wheel Fun (bike and rollerblade rentals); and Wine Edventures (wine country tours). RESTAURANTS offer a free dessert with entrée purchase: Aldo’s Italian Restaurant, Café Los Arcos, Fresco at the Beach, Louie’s, Restaurant NU and Spiritland Bistro.

To get complete information on the 2007 Santa Barbara Car Free Experience Package (and hundreds of car free options); visitors may sign up to receive a special map, coupons and full details by:

• WEB: www.SantaBarbaraCarFree.org to register online

• TEL: Call 805-696-1100 and leave a message with name/address.

• MAIL: Send a postcard with name/address to Box 60436, Santa Barbara, CA 93160

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