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Paso Robles Wine Tasting + Overnight- the mommy review (No, I did not take my kids)!

I am a mom, and as a mom I have certain standards for when I leave my children behind...  My sister-in-law had an amazing overnight trip to Paso Robles...  Here are the tidbits:

1) The Oaks Hotel-  at under $200 a night, it's a phenomenal place!    Hot Breakfast included, robes on the bathroom doors, and upgraded soaps, toiletries (There were even make up remover wipes)!
Close to downtown, walking distance to Starbucks...  we will be staying again!

2) The Wine Line...  repeat-  The Wine Line!   A genius and simple Paso Robles vacationing hack... for $60 it picked us up at 10:30am from the Oaks Hotel (nope, room was not ready, but they kept our stuff safe in a locked room while we were gone).    We hopped on the Wine Line at 10:30am and then quickly off again at our first winery.  We got 40 minutes in each winery, and each one he personally walked us INTO the tasting rooms to "deliver" us to our wine masters- and all the tastings-  FREE!   The Wine Line has a deal with numerous tasting rooms... 0 out of pocket, plus some have % off bottles of purchased wine.   Once we were done tasting, the Wine Line was back inside to collect our purchased wine (heaven forbid we actually had to carry our purchases anywhere, he quickly scooped them up out of our hands and stored them in the back of the Wine Line Van).    Off to the next winery- repeat 5 times!  Yup, we saw 5 wineries, and honestly as a mom-- 1 too many.  We were pretty hammered by the 4th place.     We chose 3 wineries we wanted to see-  J Lohr, Eberle, Glunz, and he chose 2 more for us.    We also brought our own lunch... and once again we carried nothing.  He got out our coolers and walked them right over to the patio at Eberle and got us all set up for our lunch with a view.     We got 1 hour for the lunch wine stop.      We saw 5 total wineries, never had to carry a thing, and didn't worry about anything!   Did I mention it was only $60 per person?!       UBER does a wine tour too, but it only beats the Wine Line if you have 4+ people to split the fare with.   

3) We loved JLohr, Eberle and Glunz-- Love the Glunz family history-  a family winery from Chicago that survived prohibition.      Eberle has the VIEW!  A must for your lunch stop... plus they have 2 standard black poodles who do tricks w/the treats they provide you.    Pretty cool.    The other 2 wineries were OK, again... pretty wasted by that point.    (ahem.. 4 wineries!   Keep it to 4!)

4) We were dropped back off at 4:30pm to the hotel,  we checked in, then Ubered into town for dinner!   LOVE UBER!  A Mom's best friend- smartphone + app + someone else who drives you around... priceless.    $6 to downtown  

5) Sleep-  that is right!!!   SLEEP!!!!   After dinner we crashed at 7pm.   And all you moms out there know..  this is heaven!   We slept from 7pm-5am.    It was GLORIOUS!    

6)  breakfast- 7am (after we hit up Starbucks 1 block away) and it was a hot breakfast!

So mommy friends---  A great hotel,  the Wine Line, and SLEEP--- it doesn't get any better!    Go and book...... NOW!

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