Close User Name Password
Login Register
Travel alerts straight to your inbox:
 

Tags: / / / /

We Might Consider Paso Robles This Summer After All

June 24, 2009 at 4:26 PM | by Omri | 1 Comment

The city of Paso Robles firmly believes that tourists will be drawn to a series of their fun-filled summer events. So much do they believe it that they keep sending us offers for "affordable, family-friendly ways to ward off the mid-summer doldrums."

To the city of Paso: please consider this post our very public acknowledgment that, yes, our inbox works. To everyone else: airline prices and checked baggage fees suck and Paso Robles is highly accessible and some of these events genuinely seem interesting. So why not.

If you're traveling to wine country you might as well plan your visit around unique wine events. On August 8th Paso Robles will be hosting their Annual Winemaker Cook-off. The event involves 30 wineries who compete to serve the best grilled gourmet food and match it with the best local wines. Tickets clock in at $75/person and - get this - rarely have problems selling out.

The cook-off also has hotel packages that are worth investigating, if only because they get you into California's verdant hills at an affordable price. The event will even have a band, though frankly we burned up all our fake enthusiasm for country fair bands during a previous BBQ post and now we can't be bothered.

Other Paso Robles events worth considering: their July 4th celebration, which they claim is the largest on the Central coast; their Shakespeare Festival, which sounded lame until we realized it was in gorgeous wine country so who cares; and the National Stock Horse Association Snaffle Bit Futurity, which apparently has something to do with horses.

Paso Robles is a small town nestled in a veritable paradise being promoted by an overeager tourism board. Pretty hard to screw that up.

[Photo: Wiki Commons]

Related Stories:
· Paso Robles
· Wine Travel Coverage [Jaunted]
· Wine Country Travel Coverage [Jaunted]

1 Comment

Post a Comment

Return to » We Might Consider Paso Robles This Summer After All

  1. juliana

    Jaunted Contributing Editor

    i stopped in paso robles last summer

    bc i needed to pee on my drive up to carmel. we couldn't find a starbucks but we did pop into the old paso robles inn. that was kind of cool!
    June 24, 2009 at 4:32 PM
    #Permalink

Return to » We Might Consider Paso Robles This Summer After All

Leave a Comment

Not yet a member? Click here to become a member.

Already a member? Log in below:

Comment with your Facebook account.