The tour bus runs around in-town San Francisco in the morning picking up folks staying at various hotels. My wife and I were staying outside of SF up in Marin County (Larkspur), so we were told to meet the tour in front of the Zephyr Hotel on Beach St. near Fisherman's Wharf. Well, it turns out that is the last stop for picking up passengers and when we got on the bus there were only two seats remaining for us and they were no where near each other. My wife and I took our separate seats with strangers. We obviously planned on spending the day together (it's a LONG bus ride), and were not happy at all that reserving two seats well in advance did not mean two seats together! When we reached the first stop (Muir Woods), I approached the driver/tour guide and asked if something could be done to get my wife and I seated together, it was obvious that she did not plan to help out at all and was actually quite set back by my asking. Since it was it appeared that the both of the people that we were seated with were touring alone, I took it upon myself to ask the gentleman that I was seated with if he would be so kind as to exchange seats with my wife. That way two singles were together and that allowed my wife and I to sit together. Incidentally, this is what I had asked the driver/ tour guide to do, but she was unwilling to do that. The gentleman that I asked to exchange seats was kind enough to agree to that change (he was giving up a window seat for an aisle seat!).
The remainder of the tour was enjoyable and as described, but considering that this is a 10 hour tour , much of which is spent riding the bus, there should be some effort on the part of Extranomical Tours to keep touring partners seated together.