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The 3-day tour to San Fransisco is not recommended at all as the LA to SFO distance is high, and you spend two full tiring days to and fro in the journey. They took us to Stanford University at 6 in the morning when it was still dark and everyone was sleeping. No point seeing an university like that. There is only one organizer per van/bus, who generally are very busy. There is no one to answer basic questions/queries. I took the 7-day tour to SFO and Vegas from LA, Our day 2 itinerary was to go to Vegas. We got ready, sat in the car. We started driving and they tell us we are doing SFO first. We said that we were not informed about this, but the guide knew nothing about it. There is no one place / manger to call, help or complain. They start the day early morning at 5 or 6. You need to be ready by then, all packed as you will have to check out and be in the van/bus. This made us feel tired and sleepy throughout the day. The tour is more preferable for Chinese people as they only stop at Chinese restaurants. If you don’t like Chinese food, you have to survive on vending machine food. The stop at hotels which is generally very far from the city , at outskirts where you cannot step out or even get decent dinner.

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.

We joined a 11-Day Yellowstone National Park, Mt Rushmore, Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, San Francisco Tour Package from Denver Tour code: 573-2550. We wanted to go to Grand Cyanon south rim. When I made a reservation for tour I picked from web site to go to south rim. I got comfirm email for sure. But on the day, the tour guide asked us which you wanna go west rim or south rim. We answered we wanna go to south rim. However,he said we don't have a guide for south. What the f⭐⭐k is this.We got comfirm email!! And sometimes tour guide changed. So much complicated. Because day before that day ,our tour guide told us that the guide will change to other guide. So we didn't know who's gonna be our guide at that day. In the morning we were waiting at meeting point at hotel lobby. and one guide shown up so I asked him. He said ' I'm not your guide.who is your guide?' I said 'I don't know.' He said ' you don't know?Are you kidding me?' So annoying the way he speaking. He was so rude.

Worst experience. We opted for a 2 day Niagara falls trip from new Jersey and I would say we had the worst experience ever. Tour guide was very rude and was only bothered about collecting money. One of the best part is they left us in Buffalo hotel next morning without even having a basic courtesy to call and enquire where we are. We called the tour guide thrice and she never picked up the phone. We saw another elderly couple who were also with us were searching for the bus. When they tried calling the tour guide again, she never replied for the call. We were fully lost and frustrated. When we gave a last try she picked up the phone and asked us to take a cab and come to Niagara falls. We spent extra 40$ from our Pocket. When we reached Niagara falls, she didn't even bother to reply us. They also charge a service fee of 32$ for the tour guide and Driver that we have to pay in cash.They took us to one of the walking trails which is actually free but they charge 10$ for tht.I will never recommend this tour to anyone else.

Our group took a day trip to Connecticut from NYC. The tour agency is Chinese and operates for Chinese people which we didn't realize when buying the tickets. The bus driver was rude and aggressive, he started yelling at us as we tried entering the bus. We were very lost as it was hard to say what he was screaming about. Later we found out he wasn't letting us on the bus with our Starbucks since they don't allow coffee cups, which was never mentioned when buying the tickets or in the text message with instructions the day before our trip. No explanation from the driver though, just straight up yelling in Chinese/English. What a great beginning of the trip! The tour guide barely spoke any English as well, but knew how to explain how much money in cash we owe him on top of what we had already paid for the tour. $20.00 for visiting Mark Twain house which we understand. $8.00 mandatory service fee: makes no sense. $17 for Chinese buffet for lunch. To our question if we could eat something different he said they only make a stop at that buffet, which was really crappy. Overall it would have been a great trip with fun itinerary if not the terrible service and shady cash charges.

We took a 3-Day San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Yosemite Tour from Los Angeles and wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Our tour guide is Will Chen who spoke limited English but friendly. First of all, this tour is definitely not for non-Chinese speaking folks. There was a lot of conversations in Chinese on the bus. On top of that, our 3 young kids along with other kids on the tour had to put up with an R-rated movie, "The Rock" that was showing on the bus with very strong violence, constant threat, some really intense stuff, and many many "F" words thru out the entire movie. The entire tour is very much like a fire drill. You would have to spend most of your time on the bus and only get a few minutes at each destination just enough for taking pictures. We finished visiting SF around 4:30 pm on the 2nd day and was supposed to get to our hotel in Modesto around 7pm for dinner. However, we didn't get to Clarion Hotel in Modesto until past 9pm due to traffic. By the time we were done with dinner and shower, it was almost mid-night. Then they woke us up @ 5am the next morning to start our day again. The hotel accommodations were just 1-2 star motels. Last but not least, the actual cost of the tour would be a lot more including additional fees for what's called "optional tours" such as SF tour and some other tours that you're either take them or else you're basically stuck in the bus or have to wait for the other folks to finish their optional tours.

We did the LA to Las Vegas tour departing 20 September Chaotic organisation, too much Chinese spoken We booked for the Grand Canyon south RIm then we’re asked to go to Antelope Canyon because the bus was not big enough for everybody, I wonder why the two people who boarded for the South rim got priority over us? We got on the bus for West RIm and I insisted we went to the Grand Canyon as we had travelled from England to see it this despite protests from the tour guide Good points: fine value for money and quality hotel in Vegas