INCREDIBLE experience... our guide, Vere, was a vault of information and turned what would have been a great tour on uts own, just absolutely fabulous.
Just to clarify, that if you want to visit this place, you must have a tour. That requires the tourist format and crowds that come with such a format. There are some extreme demands about how you have to check in an hour before, if not, you.. lose your spot and your money as they do not do refunds. This means they are going to sell your spot to a person at the gates and you do not get your money back. Even with the paid vouchers it still took 15 minutes to check in. You still have to pay in cash for the Indian tribe fee, 8 bucks a person.The company also does some maintenance to make it easier to walkthru by adding dirt to level the floor out some. A few ladders in and out that can be steep, but they are ladders and have handrails. The tour is actually short, an hour roughly. Staging people into groups and off you go 40 or so people at a time, every half hour. There is another guide company doing the same thing it seemed. What was great for us is that we had a good tour guide. That person gives you tidbits of information along the way, this also helps separate the groups as you go through the canyon. Our guide was excellent in attitude and friendliness. The guides second responsibility seems to be, taking pictures with your camera of you, along the way at several locations which is obviously a great thing. They also suggest what settings you should have on your cameras or cell phones to get best pictures. Now, the Canyon itself, was very majestic and at the end I had seen enough. Tip your guide a few bucks at the end.Read full review
We arrived early as instructed and was able to join an earlier group tour which worked out perfect. The truck ride out to the canyon was fun and cool. Our tour guide, Mo, was super nice and full of good knowledge about UAC. He advised great.. photo opportunities and even took photos for us. I feel like I had a 5 star tour and didn’t miss a thing. Customer service was great from beginning to end. I would totally recommend this company to my friends and would book with them again without hesitation. Thank you for a top knot head tour.Read full review
The canyon is breathtaking, the guide was amazing. We didn't like being charged $8 cash/each in addition to the ticket price, on arrival, plus another $2 each on top of it. Also, there are way too many people in the canyon at the same tim..e. And then there was a photography group. We paid prime price too, yet had to wait for and work around them.Read full review
I originally tried to book the 11:30am tour , after I booked online, I was then contacted quickly and informed that 11:30 am tour was no longer available and I was booked on the 12:45pm tour.
I did not get an updated itinerary before we departed. Therefore I had different expectations of where we would stay etc.
Our driver (Miles) was excellent, very calm, courteous, personable and an excellent driver. He drove over a thousand.. miles and stayed cheerful at all times!
The guides Stefano and Hiro were helpful and knowledgeable. It was noticeable that Hiro’s Japanese tourists received resources and maps that we didn’t receive. Stefano was exceptionally patient and gave interesting information.
Overall the tour was excellent value for money.
In Page there are restaurants within walking distance of the hotel but we were advised to buy supermarket food and eat in our bedrooms which was unnecessary. There is a Marriot courtyard bistro just 10m away and other places within 15 m walk. This is not the guide’s fault, as a company you could provide a local map with eating places and distances marked. Too much reliance on fast food outlets isn’t healthy.
The Valley of Fire was excellent and we would have happily stayed longer.Read full review