dave F.
Great tour experience - but 2 gotchas you need to know
Just back from a great guided tour of the American West - guide and support were excellent, roads and planning excellent, hotels pretty good.. All good apart from 2 things .. Firstly- i originally booked and confirmed a different tour - which was cancelled with 5 weeks to go - so make sure you organise changeable / cancellable flights or wait until final payment has been made and the trip is confirmed before finalising travel plans. ER did offer a discount for the replacement tour but obviously i had to pay extra to organise travel plans to suit (as well as do a different, though similar, tour) Secondly - many of their tours are listed twice on the same dates - one in English, the other in a variety of other languages. Seems like ER then combine them and I ended up as the only English speaker with a party of 15 french speakers (guide and support were in English as well as French). While everyone was friendly etc the off bike social side of things obviously wasn't what i was expecting or hoping for. So if you're a lone rider expecting some decent company off the bike try and get ER to confirm the nature of the group you're being mixed in with. Other than that the riding experience itself was excellent


