TakeToursReviews of taketours.com

Terrible tour guide .only interested in optional tours. Tells you nothing of any thing Sits like a dummy from strat to finish You might as well have had a goat with you Speaks Chinese and terrible English Waste of money and precious time Do it on your own at least Las Vegas

Took a trip to Grand Canyon, Vegas and Antelope Canyon. Bus that picked up and drove for 10 hours was a large van. Not a touring bus. Great driver with enough bio break halts. Reached Las Vegas at 8 PM and they did not show us anything. We were too tired to explore ourselves. Flagstaff hotel was very good. However, for Breakfast, the first few people took all the food and about 50% did not get anything to eat. We had to buy from neighborhood store. Hotel did not replenish. 70% of tourists were Chinese origin. Tour guides speak English and Chinese fluently. Also, payment of sights is Mandatory. Tips is Mandatory. There is nothing optional to see. Only sights where payment is required is the stop. So expect to spend another $200 per person apart from tour tickets. Plus spend on food. Driver only takes Cash. Non negotiable and Mandatory

Even though the tour guide was a very nice person, i wouldn't recommend this tour to anybody else unless you are Chinese! i didn't expect everything to be said in Chinese language too! If i had known, i wouldn't take it. don't get me wrong, there is nothing with the language, it was just hard to sit there for such a long hours and listen to a langue you don't understand at all! they should put it in their website that is a dual language tour!

We booked a two day tour to New York from Boston.This tour was a nightmare to navigate. First there was little communication about the tour other than what was on the website. They would not tell you what hotel you were going to stay at until the evening of the first night. The hotel we stayed at was 1 1/2 hours away from New York in New Jersey. It did not include the breakfast, you had to pay an additional $7.00 for a cold breakfast. The bus we took from Boston was a public bus that dropped us off at the East-West bus station in China Town. On the return bus trip from New York to Boston they did not drop us off at the same place they picked us up at. We had to walk 3 blocks in the middle of China town at midnight and they could not give us directions to the original bus stop. This tour company caters to the Asian market and they were not concerned about us caucasians. The only thing I can say positive about my experience booking through Taketours.com is I learned not to use this company again.

We took the 4 day Yosemite and Grand Canyon tour. In retrospect we should have realised that you simply can't do these places justice, in such a short time. The distances are huge. 6.30 am starts, long days travelling in a cramped bus and rushed stops at the places of interest. You pay for what you get and this tour was inexpensive. The company caters for Chinese tourists who have different cultural expectations. They should advertise this fact. Stops at supermarkets, a shopping outlet in the middle of the desert and Mac Donald's for food were unbelievably frustrating. The guides try their best but herding sheep is never easy! I felt sorry for them. Awful job. We abandoned the trip at Las Vegas after realising our experience of the Grand Canyon would be ruined. Instead made our own plans and avoided the 12 hour bus trip back to San Francisco by flying. Not everyone can afford these options. I would not recommend this tour company for the reasons stated.

Tour is from Chinese people for Chinese people. Guide are not native English speakers and know little about European and North American history. Very tight schedule, no real back ground information. Lots of extra costs that are not clear beforehand. Bad food at the few plces where thy stop (Chinese buffet, all greasy). Not enough breaks and very cramped bus seats.

First of all, this tour is made by Chinese for Chinese people. They should make it very clear on their website. If you speak English only, you'll miss lots of information and you'll get pushed around by their rude guide. Our experience was with guides Rick and Kuti (something like that, he said it was from Kill Bill movie). The shuttle bus from Flushing is terrible, crowded... you have to squeeze yourself between the tiny seats. Tour to Niagara Falls was made by van, not by bus as advertised. You will spend a lot of time on the bus, getting little to no time to see the attractions which they'll demand to be paid at once! I thought they were called optional, but the tour guide already has a tally for you to pay. Then they cancelled the native dance because we were the only ones who paid for that. On our way to Niagara Falls, tour guides announces a stop for lunch and restroom. But it was a regular gas station with a Subway in it. Be prepared to know all the China towns you can! From Flushing to Chinatown New York, China Town Niagara Falls (when they say you'll be taken to a food court, just ignore the place and head for the Hard Rock Café behind the building), China Town Boston (if you are not doing the $150 lobster dinner - who eats $150 of lobster?? - don't eat at this Chinatown. We went to a gourmet place, one of the best looking restaurants in this area and it was crowded, but the food were awful. Better off if we had our dinner at the hotel). Hotels are another problem, they are nice but they're 45 minutes away from the attractions. In Niagara Falls, you'll stay in Buffalo. In Boston, you'll stay at a Sheraton too far away from the city. We went to this "food court" thing in Niagara Falls (again, look for the Hard Rock Café), took us 50 minutes to go to the hotel in Buffalo, late at night, and then they said we should be up by 7 am, ready to go. Next morning, we had barely slept and had our breakfast, the guide called us at the restaurant, at the hotel, because we had to leave! (He was very rude). We had to rush with our $40 breakfast in doggie bags to eat it later. The first attraction was the Niagara Falls park, to watch this movie and hop on the Maid of the Mist. To my surprise, they took us to the food court again. I mean, the park is just there, why take us to a hotel in Buffalo the night before? You could save us almost 2 hours if you booked some hotel closer to the park. Guide was terribly rude to me and my mother, sometimes hissing, whistling as he was calling his dogs, rushing, smoking stinky cigarettes on his way, snapping his finger at some point to talk to me. At the Niagara Falls park, he called us to see this movie about the Niagara Falls. Me and my mother deciced to skip the movie and stroll around the park. I mean, the Niagara Falls were just there, live at Nature, what's with this movie attraction? He told us that he wouldn't refund. I said okay, no problem. Then he went on to say that it was a good movie, that we should see it. I said to him that the real thing was outside, we were not spending 30 minutes to see a damn movie about it. Then, he said to me: "But there's nothing to see there. We'll hop on the boat later to see it." I said "how come there's nothing to see? It's the Falls! With Canada behind it, with nature to see..." The park is beautiful, by the way. So, if you want a rushed, fast paced tour listening to Chinese all the way through, squeezed a tiny bus, with a rude tour guide, this one is for you. In Boston, we had to be up by 5 am and leave at 6!! Why? This thing can easily start by 8 a.m. What's with the torture? They'll take you to this secluded hotel by the highway with no other option but stay inside the hotel and do nothing but sleep, because you will need tons of sleep anyway. Tour guide in Boston would not give us a chance to ask about the attractions, the hotel information and stuff, since he were always running with his flag two blocks away from us and everytime I tried to speak English to him, he would look at me, all confused, and wouldn't answer. The Corning Museum is awesome, but again, you won't have much time to see the exhibition, the glass blowing experience and the amazing shop they have there. We were 3 minutes late to hop back on their van advertised as a bus, the tour guide went after me, saying that I gave him the wrong number, because he was trying to call me about the 3 minutes delay. Soo annoying. The places you'll see at this 3 day tour are beautiful, but the annoying tour guides and how they accomodate time here will kill the fun.

Took a 1 day tour with them from Boston to Marthas Vineyard in Sept,2017. Arrived almost 30mins late, 10 Chinese, 2 others and 2 of us in the 15 seater minibus. The guide who appeared to be chinese made it impossible for us not to pay an extra 25 dollars each for the guided tour of the island ( which was optional ) and which we wanted to do on our own. Most of info in Chinese. The trip arrived back almost 2hrs before it was supposed to do. Despite giving them our mobile no the guides phone service said service unavailable when we asked him to ring us after he made the excuse of "traffic" and said he had rung us to let us know of them running late.