lovetotravel787878
Aug 2023
I loved my Southwest tour with Bindlestiff so I booked the Canadian Rockies tour with them. Not great. While the Southwest tours are run like a well-oiled machine, and filled with many highlights, I can't say the same for the Canadian Rockies tour. It was a lot of driving with too few stops. If you want to watch Canada fly by your window, this is the tour for you. Plus, the guide kinda killed it for me. He was mostly into talking about his own adventures; didn't get much on Canada, wildlife, etc. And, while he said the tour was all about us, and what we wanted to do, I found he was always steered us into doing what was easiest for him, and would act a little pouty, if we wanted something different, from food to activities. I get it, he was driving a lot, but would have loved to spend more than just 1 hour in Banff town. The brochure talked about "cafes, restaurants and alpine nightlife," but we didn't get that. Instead, we spent 1 hour in town and drove back to camp for an awful meal of bargain pasta. Our guide wasn't into cooking, so we made do with a bunch of cheapie food options. Every meal was like that: bagel for breakfast, peanut butter or 1 slice lunch meat sandwich for lunch, and pasta or rice for dinner. I felt like the guide was doing the bare bones minimum and didn't care. Barely saw much of Vancouver, even tho I asked if we could see 1 other thing. The answer was there's a schedule to keep. We actually got into Seattle quite early, and he was so happy to collect his tip, drop us off, and vanish. Not a great tour. Would recommend doing a rental car option out of Calgary instead. You'll get so much more out of it. Just an fyi.
Réponse de l'hôte
Aug 2023
Thank you so much for your review. We are sorry you felt the tour lacked in some respects but glad you enjoyed the locations- they are indeed spectacular. The parks in the Rockies are further apart from the parks in the Southwest- not something we can do a lot about, unfortunately. We would love to know who your guide was so we can take a look at the lunch options- we do pride ourselves on the training that we provide with regard to breakfast and lunch spreads however, when we are spending full days hiking in the park it does make more sense to packed sandwich lunches to enable maximum time exploring the trails.