If you get the opporunity, go here. The setting is fabulous, and the staff are not only…read moreprofessional but super nice and just good people. They challenged our group and made it fun. Would highly recommend!

Our family needed a break from the monotony and wanted to enjoy the beautiful outdoors and happened…read moreupon Challenge Sonoma during an internet search. What a hidden gem! This amazing company had created a safe, fun, challenging, exciting way for people to work together, build trust, challenge themselves, and enjoy the amazing California redwoods. Was a great experience for all 13 of us, ranging in ages from 8 to 56. Challenges were safe, and the team was so friendly and supportive and patient. While it can be concerning to be out during Covid, it was completely safe with masks, being outdoors, having our private group time, and sanitizer at the ready.

This place is unprofessional, they wouldn't return calls or messages after watching the first set…read moreof recordings. I also have to mention that the video wasn't of great quality, it was shot by an old camera. The cameraman was competing with the photographer (?), I think because he wasn't from the same company but still. I didn't like the service and I wouldn't recommend it.

Both my wife and I chose Venus Photography to cover our engagement photos and wedding. Working with…read morethe team of Venus Photography overall was a wonderful experience and super helpful. I loved the fact that they were willing to travel with us to take the amazing shots we envisioned. They went the extra mile even when we didn't ask them too and wouldn't have chose anybody else for our Photography and video taking.

Your out-of-town guests are looking for this kind of wine country experience. It's perfect for a…read morecorporate teambuilding. I put on a lot of corporate teambuilding so I should know. Your group gets to walk around the beautiful Healdsburg square. It has lots of wine tasting bars, clothes shops, art shops. The "hunt" combines, wine, food, and games. The games in team problem-solving to it's better than something like Food Bank, or bowling or go carts. A cooking class is a 2nd place to this event. We did a 11:30 - 2:30. Lunch at Craftworks with lunch from Costeaux French Bakery. Stacy explains the game rules. The team lead on each team downloads the app. The Awards Ceremony was great. Stacy gives out a ribbon medal to the winning team. Stacy shows all the photos from the app on a screen. The group was laughing so hard. The photos are available afterwards on Google Drive. You can't wrong with this event. Your co-workers will thank you for the most fun corporate outing.

Slam drunk ... errrr I mean dunk…read more Jokes aside, this was as good as it gets. Seamless execution, thoughtful and fun challenges, amazing wines. Stacy's touch turned our corporate activity into gold.

Thanks to Jenifer D's incredible event planning skills and ideas, Total Adventures was hired to…read morelead a team-building event for our group this past Tuesday night. It was awesome. In fact, I'm super surprised that I'm actually getting an FTR for this business, but I'll take it! We had approximately 45 in our group of yelployees and we all randomly split up into groups of six or seven. It was a wine making event and we were all given four types of wines and told to concoct our own blend. Malbec was my favorite by the way... The Cabernet Sauvignon was a close runner up. Each group came up with a team name and then nominated one person to sit on a panel of judges. The judges selected the best wine from the groups and the winning wine was then bottled and everyone was able to take a bottle home. How cool is that? Even cooler is the fact that my group won! Thank you Stephanie I, Paul R, Paul S, Vivek P, Laura N, and Zeva B for being such awesome team players. I had a blast drinking and concocting and winning with all of you! Our team name was "Tres" for the three wines we used in our winning blend and for the French meaning too. Plus, it just sounds sophisticated and cool, doesn't it?! (We came up with the team name after throwing out a bunch of other cool names including Sexy Juice, Grape Expectations, Burst, Happy Ending, and a handful of others.) Thank you, Total Adventures for working with us. I really do feel like I bonded with my fellow colleagues and I came home with an awesome bottle of wine to boot. As a matter of fact, I may just have to open that bottle this evening and relive the experience. I highly recommend this company if you're looking for a super fun, well-executed team-building activity for a group.

It was -- to use a Lettermanism -- 'info-tainment:' these guys specialize in staging wine blending…read moreevents for groups, and in a room full of wine drinkers, we had a ball (note: this might work with winos too, but I have a feeling that the results might be less discerning). As it was, things tend to unfold a little like this: each team (there ended up being seven or so groups) chose a team name, and was presented with four carafes or so of Cabernet Sauvingon, Merlot, Malbec and one more (Cab Franc, I wanna say?). They laid down a few ground rules (you were required to specify a 'base wine' (my term) for each blend, sample each, and then ultimately choose one that would move on to the judging round at the culmination of the event. Our theory, right or wrong (and actually, if you're keeping score, it ended up being wrong, but oh well), was that we'd produce a blend that would be distinct enough on the palate that it would emerge from the pack. Apparently what that ended up meaning, of course, is that it ultimately wasn't particularly good, and save one first place vote(!), we finished next to last in voting. That said, the voting was almost an afterthought here, mostly because we were all engaged in the gentle craft of wine blending, and learned along the way what the rules re: blending are when calling a wine a wine of a certain type of vintage. It's a subtle science, perhaps, but Total Adventures served this one up just right: at room temperature, with just a hint of the bouquet of friendly competition. Cheers.

We had Jeff and DJ Dan at California Mobile DJs for our wedding at Jacuzzi Winery in Aug 2015 and…read morethey were great! Their sound equipment and lighting was fantastic! During the ceremony, the wind at Jacuzzi gets pretty rough. But with the mic equipment that they have, everyone was able to hear the ceremony without any wind noise. Additionally, the barrel room at Jacuzzi tends to have a weird echo. However, Jeff set up the sound system so that the acoustics were perfect. Finally, we gave them a pretty specific list of songs and they had them all! It was great knowing that we didn't have to select from a limited playlist. DJ Dan did a great job fading out songs that we wanted faded and playing certain songs in order that we requested. Everyone was dancing. Book these guys now!

Jeff did our wedding about a month ago and he was GREAT. We were amazed. All of our guests loved…read morehim. We sent him a play list for our dinner music and just gave him general guidance for the dancing and he knocked it out of the park. Everyone thought he was perfect and we all danced the night away. Minus one star for lack of communication between hiring him and the wedding, but honestly it could have easily been our fault for not being as assertive as we should have been. All in all, I would recommend him to anyone and everyone. He was great and if I ever plan another wedding (haha) I would totally use him again.

Frank is So Much Fun! He kept the kids attention with the actual magic/ sleight of hand, and made…read morethe adults laugh with the observational jokes. He's very easy to have around, and made a special occasion extra special.

We hired the amazing Frank Balzerak to entertain a corporate group at Chalk Hill Estate Vineyards…read moreand Winery. Frank IS Master at sleight of hand. First he engages you with his charming and sarcastic wit, then he "baffles" you with his captivating and attention-grabbing "magic." Watch carefully because he is sure to stump and fool you. Pure, enjoyable entertainment for any event, I highly recommend the "Baffling Balzerak." xo

My friend and I had such a good time! It was a great release and we felt exhilarated after!!!…read more I'm trying to get this at my work holiday party lol

I had so much fun. It was an adrenaline spike to smash the printer. Highly recommend.read more

I have known David for many years professionally and personally. He is a family man, community…read morefocused, and overall a great human being. Professionally, David is a skilled meeting facilitator with a focus on strategic planning for nonprofits. I know David through his involvement in various environmental and community focused causes. He is a great advocate and activist. He also is a great communicator, and thus communication facilitator. He is the perfect consultant for facilitating difficult discussions among a board of directors, within a community council, or at town hall meeting.

Do you need a little help with Team Spirit? Team building? Coaching? Improved Communication in the…read morework place? If so, David is the guy for you! He is very organized, professional and enthusiastic. You can tell he has been doing this for a long time and can get results in just a short time. He has a way of bringing people together, opening people up... and creating a positive environment within the team dynamic. He is very open to your ideas and will work with you to implement any strategy or idea you are excited about. We also loved the games & fun he was able to pull out of his bag of tricks! The "magic tent pole" game was a hit! Thanks David for a great team building day!!!!