Grand Canyon West Rim Tour with Options from Las Vegas

A wonderful day was had and our tour guide Ivan was amazing! Although a long day we were spoilt with the amazing views.

This tour started with problems on the pickup. Pickup first was preponed 45 minutes (6:30am to 5:45am) just the day before, then my pickup was "forgotten". Had to call at 5:55am to make them pick me up. Unfortunately this tour operator does a mixture of chinese and western tourist on this tour, with the majority being chinese. Also the tour guide was chinese and despite him claiming living 15 years in Las Vegas he was really hard to understand with his accent. The visit at the Grand Canyon was OK. It is done there by the local indian people and should be the same for everyone who visits there. The return time was scheduled for 1:30pm and we were told in the morning by the guide to be on time. Unfortunately many of the other tourists did a helicopter tour, which took them very long. So they were allowed to come back later to the bus. This ended in us wating for nearly one hour in the bus for them. At the end every participant was more or less "forced" by the guide to pay a so called "service fee", although gratuity should be voluntary, even in the US. As a conclusion: Visiting the Grand Canyon is a great idea. But better chose a different operator than this one.