MyHonestHolidayView
Aug 2022
We booked this having seen the good reviews. Unfortunately, our experience was that this was very overpriced and very rushed for the experience. We definitely didn’t find it value for money and wouldn’t recommend this tour - you would get a better (and cheaper) experience from just booking an Uber driver! - in fact my driver from the airport was more entertaining and welcoming!
We were celebrating a number of special occasions for our family. We informed the driver of this as well, but he didn’t do anything to make our experience feel special - and only took 2 photos with our camera of our family in the entire 10 hour trip!
We had an early start and the ‘rushing’ began even before we got into the vehicle, with an initial call about 10mins before our scheduled pickup time to urge us to get to the pick up point. Throughout the journey, the driver constantly pointed out the need for everyone to visit the restrooms as a priority to make sure we didn’t lose any time. At the Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam, he wasted a lot of time with uninteresting facts and then left us very little time to take family photos.
At the second Grand Canyon stop, he pointed out that there was a lovely picnic spot, and as we grabbed our lunch to take it with us, he said that there wasn’t time for that and we had to leave our lunch in the vehicle and eat it on the way to the Hoover Dam due to time constraints!
At the Hoover Dam, the tour was appalling! We were first urged again to use the restrooms to save time, and then were shown an ancient film of the Hoover Dam, and then left with about 10mins to actually take photos, with no time to visit the exhibition center which was included as part of the tour price.
The driver then informed us the order in which he was doing drop offs of the passengers to the hotels (which had no bearing to the original pick up order) and thanked us for our understanding to allow him to do this to get himself home more time efficiently!
It feels that our whole tour was time based on our driver being able to get home on time - rather than leaving us with the truly family memorable experience which we were led to believe that we would receive, especially when viewing something such as the Grand Canyon.
Visiting the Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam can be lifelong memories - just not with this tour company though.