That will be nice if the hotels serves breakfast as we are on the run always early morning. We had some issues with the transportation. We have to replace the bus .
The 5-day Rockies itinerary was hectic & tiring but was expected in order to cover all the beautiful sceneries. Tour guide was bilingual but most of the time speaking Chinese. He was always on time. I suggest you include Lake Morraine on th..e itinerary. Over all the tour was a great !Read full review
By: Ernst-Bodo Nasner | Mon Jun 24, 2019 at 10.49 AM
The tour was carried out by the Chinese company SuperVacations. The staff is exclusively chinese. We booked the “bilingual” tour and ended up with in a bus with almost only chinese people who didn’t speak english.
The bus AC was ext..remely cold - even after we complained it didn’t change.
The “Meal Plan” consisted only of Chinese food – except the lunch in the Fairmount Lake Louise.
At the last day the tour guide collected a mandatory! tip of 8,- Cad per person/day for himself and 5,- CAD for per person/day for the driver. This makes 84, - CAD and was not mentioned in the booking.
The same applied for the night and the day tour in Vancouver wit each 5, - CAD per person.
The conveyor from Seattle to Vancouver took more than 6 hours instead of the usual 3 hours. Also here the driver (who hardly didn’t say one English word) asked for a tip of 8, - CAD per person!
Tours4fun sells this tour as a “6-Day Canadian Rocky Mountain Summer Tour Package”. The SuperVacation offer, truthfully only speaks of a “4-day Rockies tour”. The rest is the transfer from Seattle and a day in a hotel.Read full review
We were picked up from the airport at 3:30 but were not given a tour of Vancouver.
Accommodation for three people was not adequate in all hotels except one. We got two beds only!
Tour guide had a very heavy accent in English and was hard to.. understand.Read full review
By: Thilak Weerasinghe | Tue Jun 18, 2019 at 06.11 PM
Well organized tour. Hotels were comfortable. The tour guide was very helpful and tried his best to satisfy the group which was multi cultural. It would have been great if at least one or two meals of Indian food when their are lot of parti..cipants from Indian subcontinentRead full review
Very well organized, honestly pleasantly surprised given the price. Actually 4 day trip on the road, first day is an optional tour of Vancouver, self checked into the hotel that night. We have family in Vancouver so spent day with them, ele..cted not to do this part of the tour.
We paid extra for front seats, definitely worth it (first off the bus at pit stops, best views on the very scenic 4-day drive). We covered a lot of ground so lots of time on the bus between destinations, pit stops always roughly every 2/2.5 hours. Tour guide (Marco) was funny and knowledgeable, a real treat on the trip. Well managed.
We are english speaking Canadians so paid extra for english bus as well. Worth it for those who do not understand Mandarin or Cantonese.
Opted out of meal plan, which seemed to be mostly chinese buffets. Can't comment on quality of the meal plan due to that. Got a little more variety (in our opinion) with various fast food/restaurants/bars along the way.
Tour guide will ask for tips $ at the end for both the driver (same driver is with your group the full 4 days) and themselves. $10 per passenger per day (so $80 for a group of 2). Supposedly helps with behind the scenes upkeep, re-fuelling, etc. Given the price we paid initially, I'm surprised they were able to fit as much as they did in the tour to begin with (i.e. admission fees/hotels each night), so we were cool with this, though a little frustrating when any cost like this isn't clear from the beginning.
All in all would definitely recommend this tour to friends. The landscape of the Rockies, and the full route driven is gorgeous, photos do not do it justice, you have to see it in person. It was a bonus that the tour was so good, which let us focus on fully experiencing the wilderness without distraction.Read full review
In the tour's itinerary of the Rocky Mountains says many things that are going to be visited, but we only saw a couple of them. We say most of the things from the bus, without getting off or stopping to actually see it. We spend most of the.. time on the bus.
It was very disappointing.
Also, the food was always Chinese, no variety.Read full review
It was a wonderful experience! The only downside is that,I hardly understand Alan the tour guide when he speaks in English.Not only me & my husband and 2 other Filipino couple in this trip and a lady from Perth Australia,but in fairness to ..Alan,he is well very organized.Also I appreciate it much if the original itinerary was followed like the Moraine lake.Read full review
Por: Ernest Che Yeow Wu | Lun 27 de mayo de 2019 a las 08.23 AM
Nuestro guía Chris y nuestro conductor Tommy fueron la razón de las 5 estrellas. Chris fue super profesional y conocedor, dio excelentes charlas y tour de la historia de cada lugar que visitamos. Muy amable y humilde. Nuestro conductor Tommy era superb t..oo. Muy seguro conduciendo y siempre sonriendo.Leer reseña completa
En general estuvo a la altura de nuestras expectativas. Nos hubiera gustado más variedad en la comida, demasiada china y no siempre buena. No disfrutamos de la fábrica de ginseng y la frutería fue una pérdida de tiempo, nada que ver. Nuestro guía era un pocodifícil de entender a veces, pero siempre nos dio el 100 por ciento e hizo que todo funcionara sin problemas con tanta gente para complacer a él hizo un gran trabajo, aunque su elección de la música necesita un poco de trabajo. Nuestro conductor fue impecable y profesional en todo momento. Si hubiéramos sabido exactamente donde íbamos a terminar al final habríamos hecho una mejor elección de hotel y no gastado un extra de 45 minutos conduciendo de vuelta al centro de Vancouver cuando podríamos haber reservado en Richmond. Lo bueno es que vimos las preciosas Rocosas en todo su esplendor. Banf y Lake Louise simplemente impresionantes, un almuerzo memorable en el Chateau y estar de pie en el glaciar de Jasper, un recuerdo inolvidable.Leer la reseña completa
En general el viaje estuvo bien para el precio pagado. Seleccionamos la opción por defecto para los hoteles, y toda la estancia en el hotel fue estupenda.
Las comidas adicionales son principalmente de cocina china (cena de 6-8 platos, para el almuerzo suele ser un simple buffet conplatos similares). Las actividades reales son sólo 2 días, el resto de los días son sólo toque y vaya. El último día del tour es principalmente en el autocar.Leer la reseña completa