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
By: Ernest Che Yeow Wu | Mon May 27, 2019 at 08.23 AM
Our guide Chris and our driver Tommy were the reason for 5 stars. Chris was super professional and knowledgeable, gave excellent talks and tour of the history of each place we visited. Very friendly and humble. Our driver Tommy was superb t..oo. Very safe driving and always smiling.Read full review
Overall it lived up to our expectations. Would have liked more variety with the food too much Chinese and not always good. Didnt enjoy the ginseng factory and the fruit shop was a waste of time nothing to see. Our guide was a little diffic..ult to understand at times but he always gave us 100 percent and made everything run smooth with so many people to please he did a great job although his choice of music needs some work. Our driver was faultless and professional at all times. If we had known exactly where we would end up at the end we would have made a better choice of hotel and not spent an extra 45 minutes driving back to downtown Vancouver when we could have booked in Richmond. The good part is we saw the beautiful Rockies in all their glory. Banf and Lake Louise just stunning a memorable lunch at the Chateau and to actually stand on the glacier in Jasper what a memory the whole thing was money well spent.Read full review
Overall the trip was ok for the price paid. We selected the default option for the hotels, and all the hotel stay was great.
The additional meal topup are mainly Chinese cuisine (proper 6-8dish dinner, for lunch usually simple buffet with ..similar dishes). Actual activities is only 2days, the rest of the days are just touch and go. The last day of tour mainly is on the coach.Read full review