Touring Programs

The Society of Toxicology has arranged for a variety of tours. To register for any of these tours, download and print the Tour Registration Form. Indicate your preferred tours, include your credit card information, sign the form. Then mail or fax the form to:

The Event Team
2635 Camino Del Rio South, #302
San Diego, CA 92108
Toll Free: (800) 383-6888
Phone: (619) 785-5828
Fax: (619) 785-5922
Web site: http://www.eventteam.com/sottours.html

Tours arranged by SOT:

San Diego City Tour and Harbor Cruise
Sunday, March 5, 2006
12:00 PM–5:00 PM
$33.00 per person

San Diego City Tour and Harbor Cruise: This informative journey through America’s finest city will introduce you to San Diego past, present, and future. Your tour begins in the historic Gaslamp Quarter, originally developed by Alonzo Horton in 1854. The contemporary architecture of recent developments in this heart of downtown San Diego complement the original buildings from the 1800’s that have been lovingly restored. Continue on to Balboa Park with its many museums and galleries housed in buildings of Spanish-Moorish architecture. Then sit back and enjoy a one-hour fully narrated tour on San Diego Bay aboard a Harbor Excursions boat with scenic views of Coronado, North Island, the Embarcadero, and Cabrillo National Park. Finally, off to picturesque “Old Town” the first European settlement in California, where you will have some free time to admire the unique shops, sample some local fare, or travel back to Early San Diego through the historic displays throughout Old Town. “America’s Finest City,” is waiting to be discovered! Tour fee includes all transportation, tour of San Diego Bay by boat, and all taxes and gratuities.

Museums Galore In Balboa Park
Monday, March 6, 2006
10:00 AM–3:00 PM
$56.00 per person

The cultural heart of San Diego, has more than 1,100 acres of sprawling green vistas. At the center of the park is a cultural complex of fifteen museums and galleries, second in size only to the Smithsonian. These fine museums and galleries offer the visitor a cultural potpourri from the fine arts to the realm of anthropology and science, to the history of transportation. Displays of internationally significant art treasures, unique model railroads, world folk art, sports memorabilia, and rare aircraft – to name a few – are on view. The museums along Balboa Park’s Prado are housed in magnificent Spanish Colonial Revival buildings, and serve as reminders of the two world’s fairs that brought Balboa Park to the attention of the world: the Panama California Exposition of 1915–1916 and the California Pacific International Exposition of 1935–1936. This unique urban park, minutes away from downtown San Diego, is renown for its brilliant displays of seasonal flowers, shady groves of trees, and meandering paths through rolling lawns.

Explore in-dividually, your choice of four of the fifteen museums and galleries:

• Museum of Photographic Arts
• Reuben H. Fleet Space Theater with an Omnimax film
• San Diego Aerospace Museum
• San Diego Automotive Museum
• San Diego Hall of Champions Sports Museum
• San Diego Model Railroad Museum
• San Diego Natural History Museum
• San Diego Museum of Art
• San Diego Museum of Man
• Museum of San Diego History
• Mingei International Museum

Tour fee includes all transporation, a one day park pass to see four museums, and all taxes and gratuities.

La Jolla Visit and Birch Aquarium
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
10:00 AM–2:00 PM
$34.00 per person

La Jolla isn’t just another tourist town. “The jewel,” is an apt description of this charming village with its many upscale boutiques, fine restaurants, art galleries, and charm of a Mediterranean isle. And the shopping in La Jolla is incomparable! Prospect Street & Girard Avenue are La Jolla’s answer to Beverly Hills’ Rodeo Drive. “Must See & Shop” stores include Born to Shop, La Jolla Shoe Gallery, and The Silver Store. Mixed in with the upscale boutiques are shops created for the shoppers who love to find a great bargain as well!

Then take some time to enjoy the Stephen Birch Aquarium-Museum, part of the famous Scripps Institute of Oceanography. Visitors will experience a dazzling variety of marine life, from the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest to the tropical seas of Mexico and the South Pacific. Explore the largest oceanographic museum in the country, and learn about water, air, land, and life through interactive displays. Outdoors, you’ll discover a demonstration tide pool inhabited by local sea creatures. Tour fee includes all transporation, admission to the Stephen Birch Aquarium, and all taxes and gratuities.

Patriots Tour and the USS Midway
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
10:00 AM–2:00 PM
$67.00 per person

Experience Midway Magic aboard the historic carrier Midway, the nation’s newest naval aviation museum.

The USS Midway set new standards of naval aviation in the latter half of the 20th Century. A captured German V-2 rocket was launched off the USS Midway in 1946—the dawn of naval missile warfare. The USS Midway blazed new trails of sub-Arctic air operations off the coast of Greenland. It was the first carrier home ported in a foreign country, calling Yokosuka, Japan home for 18 years. When others came home, the USS Midway remained at the “tip of the sword” on an odyssey shared by 200,000 Americans that spanned the surrender of Japan in WWII, the Cold War, Vietnam, the era of détente, and Desert Storm.
Located on San Diego Bay in downtown San Diego at Navy Pier, Midway will continually expand as a dynamic, enriching experience. A visit to Midway will instill a greater appreciation for naval aviation, service to country and sacrifice. Visitors marvel at a floating “city at sea” and share in an odyssey that began in 1945 when Midway was commissioned as the largest ship in the world.

Then you will be boarding the amphibious SEAL vehicle, for a drive along the beautiful Embarcadero of San Diego Bay, hearing tales of the earliest roles of each of the branches of the service in our local history. Entering the water, we cruise alongside North Island Naval Air Station, where aviation activity may include helicopters in the air performing hovering exercises, and S-#3 Vikings making touch and go landings on the main landing strip. North Island Naval Air Station is officially known as the “Birthplace of Naval Aviation.” Photograph opportunities abound during the water portion of our tour. Often we see members of the elite fighting force, Navy SEALS, training on the Bay, and many types of aircraft flying maneuver in and out of North Island Naval Air Station. Tour fee includes all transportation, tour of embarcadero of San Diego Bay, admission to museum and all taxes and gratuities.

Behind the Scenes at the San Diego Zoo
Thursday, March 9, 2006
12:00 PM–4:00 PM
$67.00 per person

See the San Diego Zoo the way everyone wishes they could—from behind the scenes. The Inside Story gives guests an exclusive, two-hour tour that’s filled with experiences and information you couldn’t get anywhere else. You’ll find out, for instance, what flamingos have in common with hot dogs and just how much it costs to feed 4,000 animals every day! The adventure begins with a guide to greet your group, followed by private three-mile guided bus tour, a visit to two off-exhibit areas, and unlimited stay on Zoo grounds for the remainder of the day.

There are many thrilling behind-the-scenes areas that may be included:

• The giraffe barn, where you’ll visit the giraffes’ bedroom. You’ll also watch from up close as your tour guide offers them browse to eat.

• The forage warehouse, where you’ll see the myriad of foods it takes to feed all the Zoo’s inhabitants. Even more interesting are the diets posted on the wall, listing the menus—everything from bear breakfasts to dingo dinners.

• The Galapagos tortoise yard, where you’ll actually get to climb inside the enclosure and walk among these enormous tortoises.

• The elephant barn, where you’ll venture into the cavernous elephant bedrooms, and see an elephant keeper’s tools of the trade.

• The rhino barn, where you can come nose-to-horn with some of the world’s most endangered animals!

Tour fee includes all transportation, private bus tour, and all taxes and gratuities.

Tour Cancellation Information

The possibility that one or more persons who has already signed up for a tour will have to cancel must be anticipated. For this reason, the following refund and cancellation policies will apply:

If a person signs up and pays for a tour and then cancels in writing, faxed to (619) 785–5822, or e-mailed to info@eventteam.com by Tuesday, February 14, 2006, your money will be refunded less a $10.00 processing fee. After that date, there will be no refunds or exchanges for tours and no on-site cancellations.

If a tour is cancelled due to insufficient registration, customers will be given the opportunity to either receive a full refund, or to select another tour, if seating is available.