100% 7-Day Grand West Coast National Park Tour: Yellowstone, Arches, Antelope Canyon, Mt Rushmore, & Grand Teton**New Route includes Antelope Canyon, Horseshoe Bend & Bryce Canyon**
By: Rebecca Champion | Sat Sep 08, 2018 at 02.35 AM
This was an amazing trip. I saw so many natural beauties. The tour guide, Roy, was very accommodating and helped keep all on schedule. The driver kept the journey smooth and safe.
We'd a few drivers but Mr. Willie Clarks from Arizona Carey was the only one who engaged any conversation with people, willing to help, and he made some tourist pleasant experience at the end. The tour guide Will was also very patient.
The communication at this company was terrrible. After we initially purchased our tickets, we received absolutely no more notification of what to do or where to meet. Not a week before our trip, or even the day of. When we didn’t find any..one who was supposed to be picking us up at the airport on time, we called the emergency number and a lady with a strong Chinese accent picked up on the other end but she didn’t understand me, I couldn’t understand her, and so she hung up on me after saying she didn’t know how to help me.
After receiving a strange call from a California number from a man with a strong Asian accent I couldn’t confidently understand, we were approached and hauled off to a bus that brought us to a hotel where we waited for 3 hours standing around before starting our trip.
On day 1, we did not see anything besides our hotel. Despite it appearing that we would start touring then and despite that we still had to pay a $9 service fee. On day 2, our itenerary stated we would see Lake Powell. We didn't even stop. For the Bryce National Canyon stop, we drove 5 hours from where we were (not including the lengthy bathroom stops because you can’t use the bathrooms on the bus) to make ONE stop at Bryce Canyon for LESS than 40 minutes.
We spent more time at Chinese buffets than at Bryce Canyon, Grand Teton, and Zion National Park combined! We went out of our way to get to some of these Chinese buffets, which resulted in more time waiting around on the bus, because the tour guide would get to eat free for bringing in a bus full of people.
Besides spending more time eating than at the actual destinations, we spent just as much time at bathrooms along the way. There is a bathroom on the tour bus but if it’s used it will make the entire bus smell like sewage. You would stop for a bathroom every 2 or 2 and 1/2 hours and EVERY female on the bus used the bathroom EVERY time so there would always be extensively long wait times for that reason. Our tour guide would specify a time to be back by the bus at and most travelers did not abide by that (and faced no consequences) and we waited for longer than expected or also, we sometimes had to wait because there were still people in line for the bathrooms since lines were so long.
Also, it may be important to note this specific tour was much more focused on Asian customers than American. My boyfriend and I were the ONLY non Asian people on the bus. There’s nothing wrong with that although, it did make us feel uncomfortable with some of the looks and reactions we got and we also felt left out when our tour guide would speak more in Chinese than English and failed to ensure we also knew what was going on. His English was not the most clear and there were multiple occasions we didn’t understand what we were supposed to be doing or what the money we were giving him was for.
Overall, if you’re looking to see a bunch of places for a very short amount of time, you don’t care about being in a bus for half the day, everyday, you love Chinese buffets, and you prefer your vacations to be a little more sketchy, this is a perfect trip for you. If not, I would suggest you look elsewhere for tour companies or even just pick a few destinations, spend however much time you want there, and be able to actually take in all the destinations for what they’re worth. Good luck.Read full review
This tour is amazing and fun, it's well worth the money. Leo our tour guide is very patient, kind and organized as well. Accomodations are pretty good, cant complain.
Days 1 to 7 were exceptional with Tony as our guide.
Day 8 was also very good with different guide who was helpful with last minute decisions.Day 9 was horrible starting with an angry driver. Very bad planning to the division of guests for.. the different drop off points in LA. Tour guide nor driver were very helpful. ######HAD AN UNPLEASANT NIGHT ON DAY 8 AT SELECTED HOTEL. HANDICAPPED ROOM IN STATE OF RENOVATION. SHOWER WATER WAS FLOWING IN TOILET AREA. SINK OVERFLOWING -WATER CLOGGED IN SINK. MENTIONED TO NIGHT MANAGER WHO TOLD US THAT WE HAD TO WAIT UNTIL THE MORNING. DID NOT MENTION TO TONY AS IT WAS LATE BY THE TIME OF DISCOVERY. My thanks to TONY and 2ND guide.Read full review
Great tour of National Parks! Our tour guide Ray and his wife took care of the group and the itinerary well, he was organized, friendly and very knowledgeable. Since there were a few of us English speakers amongst the Chinese tourists, he s..poke to us first. Jose the driver was also friendly and his bus was clean. I am recommending to my friends and family.Read full review
Beautiful scenic places, experienced and safe driver, the guide is experienced and responsible but not very caring, told us little information at the start. I think he was tired from working the previous trip and then our trip immediately. ..He improved later on. CTour should give the guides a rest before doing next trip. Tours4Fun should warn in the tour information that the 7 day trip may be challenging for frail elderly due to the nature of visits to different national parks and mountains, the visit to Antelope cave is very challenging for people with mobility issues.Read full review
This tour is well planned and organized. We visited the most important landmarks of that part of the country in short period of time... Truly recommend it... I love this tour. See you again !
Bill, our tour guide, did a good job taking care of us. He was patient in explaining and repeating instructions when needed. George, our driver, has great driving skills and took great care in making sure our safety was his priority. These ..two fine gentlemen were both great throughout the trip.Read full review