Grand Canyon Helicopter Flight with Colorado River Float or Kayak Trip in Las Vegas booking from $599.00

Grand Canyon Helicopter Flight with Colorado River Float or Kayak Trip

Overview

Combine a Grand Canyon helicopter flight with a river raft float or kayak trip on the Colorado River for an incredible and exciting day tour from Las Vegas! Enjoy a scenic 90-minute (round-trip) helicopter flight over Hoover Dam, Lake Mead and the Grand Canyon's West Rim. You'll also take part in either a relaxing river float down the Colorado River or a kayak tour through Black Canyon with an informative guide. Return transportation to your Las Vegas hotel is included. Please note: The order in which you do the activities may differ.

City: Las Vegas

Tue 24 Dec

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What's Included

Bottled water and boxed lunch (Rafting Trip Only)

90-minute (approx.) round-trip flight in a state-of-the-art helicopter

Round-trip transportation by deluxe van

All taxes and fees

Colorado River Float OR Kayak Trip

Additional Info

Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Public transportation options are available nearby
Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Minimum age is 2 years
Due to comfort and weight / balance of the aircraft, passengers weighing over 250lbs (112 kg/17.85 stone) will be required to purchase an additional seat. This is payable directly to the tour operator on the day of the tour.
Please note if you choose the Kayak Tour it does not include lunch and you will start from Willow Beach not the base of the Hoover Dam and will not see the Hoover Dam from the river.
We recommend you bring sunglasses, sunscreen, towels & hats
Please note that the maximum weight limit for any single passenger is 375 pounds / 170 Kilos. Passengers over this weight will regrettably not be able to fly.
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
Gear/equipment sanitised between use
Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised
Guides required to regularly wash hands
Regular temperature checks for staff
This is not a private flight. The aircraft seats six (6) passengers plus the Pilot. Social distancing is not practiced during your helicopter flight.

What To Expect

Hoover Dam

After hotel pickup, board your state-of-the-art helicopter for a 70-minute (round-trip) scenic air tour of the Grand Canyon West Rim. Your flight will take off from Boulder City, where builders of the Hoover Dam (formally the Boulder Dam) lived during the dam’s construction in the 1930s. Enjoy panoramic, 180-degree views of the impressive Hoover Dam, the bypass bridge and Black Canyon, and fly past the extinct and colorful volcano, Fortification Hill.

Hoover Dam Bypass

Fly around the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge

Fortification Hill

Fly over the extinct volcano known as Fortification Hill

Colorado River

Then descend beneath the rim of the Grand Canyon as you fly over the mighty Colorado River, past million-year-old geological rock formations.

Grand Canyon West

Make sure to have your camera ready, as around every corner you’ll see cathedral buttresses and pillars with amazing natural vivid colors. After leaving the Grand Canyon, enjoy views of other natural wonders in the wilderness of the rugged Mojave Desert.

Black Canyon City Visitor's Center and Chamber of Commerce.

Upon landing in Boulder City, if you choose the rafting trip, you'll take a short drive down to the Colorado River launch area for your river float at the base of the Hoover Dam and the newly constructed bypass bridge. Here you'll be greeted by your friendly guide, who will help you board your comfortable river raft or kayak. Float or paddle down the river and through the Black Canyon, with high walls that will leave you breathless! Enjoy a picnic lunch at Willow Beach. Keep your eyes open for desert bighorn sheep, osprey, and great blue heron in their natural setting.

Willow Beach

If you choose the Kayak option, your day will start with hotel pick up and then a drive to Willow Beach on the Colorado River, just a little way down from Hoover Dam. Board your kayak and paddle 4 miles (approximately 3 hours) along the banks of Colorado River. Opportunites to views local nature is common as you may view the amazing agility of the mountain goat and soaring splendor of various eagle breeds. Please Note: Lunch is not included in this option. Following your kayak trip, you'll take to the skies on your helicopter tour through the Grand Canyon.

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Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Reviews (186)

Brian S

Apr 2014

The rafting guide was amazing. She knew every detail of the canyon, from the history to the wildlife. Pleasant, polite, and incredibly knowledeable. The provide lunch was simple but wonderful, and their attention to detail (water on the boat, ponchos for the spray on a rare cold day) was excellent.
The helicopter place was a bit disorganized. Moved my pick up time by an hour, then changed the order of my trip (rafting first rather than second as planned), which resulted in a lot of sitting around in the morning. Then a dust storm blew in which almost resulted in me not being able to go at all. Since this was my only reason for visiting Vegas, that would have been a disaster, and I was greatly regretting not pushing for the earlier flight! Thankfully the storm quieted down, and an excellent pilot (an instructor!) took us about an hour later than planned. The view was wonderful, the pilot informative. No time at the canyon to bus out to get a close view, which was a deep disappointment. But the view from the chopper was amazing, so I'll get over it! All in all, an excellent trip.
Suggestions would be for better coordination - even without the dust storm delay of an hour+, there was a LOT of sitting around waiting as we were shuttled to drop off other guests to the flight location, waited there to get to our morning raft, waited there for the actual start of the rafting trip - all of this was another hour+ dead time. The 12+ hour day could have easily been shortened to 8+ hours with better organization, leaving me more time to do things other than sit around waiting.
Yes, I would still do it all again.

Sionna_T

Apr 2014

We loved this day, so friendly and well organised! Staff incredibly friendly. We had two teenagers that loved it. It's a very long day so rest up,

Paul D

Apr 2014

Great tour both rafting and helicopter. We just didn't like having to wait. Left at 7:30 but didn't get on the raft till 10. So a good 1 hour wait to start then 2 hours wait for the helicopter. Made for a long day.

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Grand Canyon Helicopter Flight with Colorado River Float or Kayak Trip

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