If you’re looking for a quality tour with small group going to Grand Canyon and Antelope Canyon, this tour is it!!!
This was our first time visiting Grand Canyon and Antelope Canyon and we’re really glad that we chose this tour. Matthew was our tour guide/driver and he is very resourceful, great driver and most importantly friendly! He explained us a lot of things along the way and took us a lot of nice photo and scenic stops which he chose himself, which are definitely one of the personal touches you get in this tour and don’t get in a regular huge tour buses.
The tour started the welcome to Las Vegas sign, which usually has a long line because it’s one of the more iconic photo spots in Las Vegas, but it was the very first place we visited, we got some really nice photos there without having to line up for anything. We were also provided with light breakfast including banana, blueberry muffins, and snacks. The entire van only had 6 passengers, and the van was very spacious and cozy. On the way to Grand Canyon we stopped by the Hoover Dam, spent about 30mins there. Also we stopped by nice spot on the Route 66 to get some touristy photos. For lunch we stopped by Williams. Lunch/dinner are not provided in tour, but he does give us several recommendations of restaurants that he thinks it’s reasonably priced and delicious. We had tasty sandwiches and it only costed us $10 per person.
Then we got to the south rim of the Grand Canyon. The bus is small enough to the point where we can go into stops we can’t enter with a big tourist bus, so we didn’t have to walk much. We had three stops at the Grand Canyon, and all of those three were wonderful places with great view of the canyon. Matthew stopped at each point till we finished taking photos/ enjoying scenery. Afterwards he drove us to Page, AZ, where we spent the night at Best Western Inn. He already had the room booked for us so we only had to go to the room. The hotel was clean and spacious, and we could take a bath to relax.
The next day, after eating a breakfast (waffles, pastries, eggs and sausage links...delicious and warm) at the hotel, we went to Horseshoe Bend for an hour. The scenery was beautiful and we got to enter it for free. Then we went to Antelope Canyon, where we joined in to the tour run by locals. Usually we would have to pay by cash, but since Matthew prepaid for us instead, we could use a link to pay him via credit card. At the Antelope Canyon we had a tour guide named Khy (note: the guide at the Antelope canyon might be different). He’ll tell you what filters you use for this tour to get the best photos and he knew all the spots it was used for the photos we see for windows/Mac desktops. The tour itself was about 1 hour long and we had plenty of good photos and memories.
After we grabbed lunch at Page and on the way back from Page to Las Vegas we had a final stop at Lake Powell for some photos. I’m writing this on the bus on the way back to Las Vegas, and at this rate we’d be back around 7. Also for people who just can’t get off the internet (like myself), the bus does have wi-fi, but most of the time, a lot of us fell asleep on the car.
Thanks for reading through this long review but I hope you understand how much we loved this trip and would love to have fellow tourists to have a wonderful experience as we did. 10/10 will recommend this tour with Max Tour to my friends and families visiting this area in the future.