It took some time to understand how it works but we figured it out. The narrator was interesting and informative. We were able to see many amazing views and learn about the history and unique features of this part of our country. Please start out with plenty of gas in your car, just to avoid concern about that. My husband and I are senior adults. We traveled with just us in one vehicle.
Here are my opinions:
Adults are likely to enjoy this if they have a whole day with low need for entertainment and physical activity. There were certainly places to get out and move around but you didn’t really know when and how much till you got there.
As we listened for the next piece of information on the route, there were significant lags of time. Because we plugged the phone in and listened to the tour guide through the car speakers, we weren’t listening to the car radio. Maybe if two phones were present, one could have music or something else on between the narrator’s commentary, though actual cell and internet service along the way came and went.
If someone were to do the tour with school age children, I am advising that there are long periods of driving with only a few towns or roadside facilities where you can stop for food, drinks, shopping or bathrooms. I would not recommend it with very young children unless they are great for long stretches in their car seats. We only saw one roadside park at Cannonville that had a very small play area for kids. Mostly it was several hours in the car with many points of interest explained.
Of course, any stops on the way were optional and added to the time to complete the route. Depending on your base (ours was Torrey), remember to add in the time to get to/from the starting/ending point as part of the day’s travel.
We had a good day. It was very nice to know we were getting in a lot of highlights of the area, since this is our first and likely only trip here.
Odpowiedź od gospodarza
Aug 2021
Thanks so much for such a detailed review! We’re so glad you had a good day at the Grand Staircase, and we appreciate all the time you’ve taken to provide so much information for other visitors! We’re always working to make our tours better, so we take your feedback about the in-between stretches very seriously. We’ll make sure to look into this when performing our next update! If you’d like to try more tours like this one, you can find them over at ActionTourGuide.com.