Adventure Photo Tours

We did the Grand Canyon tour on Saturday October 17, 2015. Our driver/​guide was Barry and he was terrific. Good sense of humor, awesome customer service, very accommodating. He made us all feel like he was there just for us… like he was part of the group. Ask for him… you will not be disappointed.

My children and I took the Grand Canyon 6 in 1 tour from Las Vegas. We had a lot of fun!
Our guide Scott was friendly and very informative.
We got picked up at 7:15 am and dropped off back to out hotel around 7pm.
The Grand Canyon was amazing ! And we also did the helicopter tour to the bottom of the canyon .
I bought a deal from Travelzoo. It takes $ 50 off the regular price. Hey any little discount helps since I was paying for 3 people.
I’d definitely recommend this tour and I’d like to take other tours they have to offer if I’m back in Vegas sometime.

Paid over $ 200 for the Hollywood Tour Day Trip from Las Vegas. Thought I was going to see where some stars live, their haunts and of course Hollywood Blvd. What I got was the vehicle breaking down in some remote California town for three plus hours. The guides, while very nice, said we would forge ahead and that people should cancel whatever other plans they had. (They do know if you pre-​booked most plans then they require 24 hours cancellation or one is SOOL). Because of the delay, hit most rush hour traffic. Long story short, the tour was not what I thought it would be, and the delays made it all the more disappointing. Was NOT worth the $ 200+ I paid. Got home at 2am (as opposed to 9pm) feeling gipped, and overly tired. SMH

Recent tour to Grand Canyon South Rim. Pick up was slightly later than informed (about 20 mins) but this was the first and last issue I had all day. Breakfast was ok, as was lunch. But I didn’t book this tour for gourmet food. The bus was excellent, clean, comfortable and well maintained (the driver got a spot inspection at the Grand Canyon…) The guide (Eli) was informative and obviously well read on the geography and history of the local area. I was impressed by how much effort he has obviously put in to his job. There were frequent rest stops. And interesting stop offs on the way like the Hoover damn and Route 66. Overall, I would recommend this tour company to friends and family, which is the best recommendation I can give.

Great tour! Easy to schedule and very enjoyable! Worth every penny… Kevin our Tour Guide is one of the best! If you get a chance do it! I really, really recommend it! It was long, but you won’t get tired or bored, so much to see and very informative… very small but I think it’s better that way. Two thumbs up.

My daughter and I went on the Grand Canyon VIP Mini Coach Tour. The tour included a stop at Kingman on Route 66 and the Hoover Dam. We were picked up at our hotel at 6AM so we had no worries of having to get somewhere at that hour of the morning. Our guide Barry was GREAT! He was very personable and funny. He was very knowledgeable about the area and we learned so much from him. The tour also provided breakfast and lunch. Bathroom breaks were plentiful. We didn’t arrive back to our hotel until around 8:30 PM. Pictures could not describe the Grand Canyon. Route 66 was amazing and the Hoover Dam was surely a sight to see and learn about.
Thank you Adventure Photo Tours and special thanks to Barry for making this such a fun trip!

I booked the Hollywood Tour and it was fantastic. The driver was timely and friendly. The tour van was clean and neat. We got complimentary water, apple juice, and orange juice. Our brown bag breakfast was a muffin, cheese, apple, and a granola bar to eat on the way. The driver pointed out all of the landmarks and talking points along the way. He memorized everyone’s name and even took our pictures at the sites we visited like the Santa Monica Pier and Beverly Hills sign. The drive from LV to LA is about 4.5 hours but the driver mad it fun. We stopped quite a bit for bathroom breaks, too.

Booked a Hoover dam tour with them. The tour guide was great but when we got to the dam we had 1hr 30 min for the «VIP» tour. If i would have known that i would have no time to even walk the dam i would have drove myself and saved the 100 $ a person. Will not use for anything else.

Booked a Zion tour with this outfit.
Although the tour was good and my fiancé enjoyed talking photography shop with the guide, honestly Zion doesn’t need a guide. They shuttle you from Vegas to the gates of Zion and set you free because the park doesn’t allow for outside guides. Why then are you paying a guide to drive you out? Got me… yeah there is some bits of info and such, but not really enough to make it worth it to me.
For $ 200 pp and 2 of us ($ 400), we honestly should have just rented a car but I didn’t know and thought something would be added to experience. Sadly it wasn’t a good bet.
They have lots of other tours and maybe it’s a bit different but Zion is a pointless tour experience but still a beautiful place still worth visiting!
Something I really disliked about this tour was the breakfast stop at McDonalds… only slightly classier than stopping at a casino dumpster hoping to find buffet leftovers or something. If I had known this I would have packed a breakfast with me.

Yeah, it’s $ 195 per person, but this will be as close as you can possibly get to the forbidden, high-​security, ultra-​protected home of actual aliens and their spaceships which have long been buried underground here outside of Las Vegas. This is the tour where you will hear tour guide Tim speak of the two friends of his who actually made it over the Area 51 fencing and began to roam the area on foot, only to be stopped dead in their tracks by two MEN IN BLACK who had been TELEPORTED out of nowhere to arrest & detain them for trespassing on gov’t property.
Here on this tour, you will begin to make sense of the inter-​relationships between this mysterious dry lake where sightings of UFO’s have been observed and nearby Ancient Indian Petroglyphs at the Valley of Fire that resemble Aliens! Also visit Little A’le’ Inn-​where numerous documentaries and movies including «Independence Day» have been filmed.“
After the tour stops to enjoy an Alien Burger at the Little A’le’ Inn, next up is the location of the infamous «Black Mailbox,» where numerous ET sightings have occurred and then to the absolute perimeter of Area 51 through a strange and deformed-(from ET radiation) Joshua Tree Forest.
This will blow your mind! There are guards (The Men In Black), detection devices, motion sensors, listening devices and cameras mounted among the cactus. The signs outside of Area 51 read, «The Use of Deadly force Authorized» and you can be sure they mean it. It’s fun to wave at the heavily armed guards in the 4×4 parked on the desert hillside but they don’t wave back, they just watch from behind their darkened windows-​ready to pounce on you should you penetrate their perimeter.
As much as the United States Air Force has denied the existence of Area 51, we know it is there but no one knows what it is they do there. This is how you can find out! Remember-​NO PICTURE TAKING ALLOWED! This is an Extreme tour to the world’s most top secret military facility, the real home of the X files! Not to be missed! Any UFO fan worth their alien authenticity needs to make sure to get on this tour and check Area 51 out!
The Area 51 Tour is a full day sightseeing tour that lasts approximately 8 hours and the van picks you up at your hotel around 7:00 a.m. It is scheduled to operate on Wednesday only, but as long as there are 4 or more combined people up for some extra terrestrial stalking, the tour can go out. Las Vegas is full of weird people and otherworldly adventures-​but the REAL FUN is right outside Sin City-​at Area 51-​where Uncle Sam is hiding SECRETS so crazy, that they remain locked away underground, so as not to alarm the public!

I don’t think they quite deserve 3 or 4 stars-3.5, okay, but not four.
I called the day before the trip to set something up. They had 6 people signed up. We made 8. Our Grand Canyon VIP tour eventually had 10.
The small number of the trip was nice and kind of helped bring our group together so we were talking and laughing with strangers. The driver had us introduce ourselves to the others. I doubt that happens on the bigger tours.
The driver showed up 20 minutes late for us, and even later for the people he picked up afterward. He initially didn’t tell me why he was late, just simply said «I assure you, it was through no fault of my own.» The people he picked up after us were very upset, and he told them it was the traffic. One of them said that she had heard it was something else. The driver said there was something else, but he didn’t want to embarass anyone or something along those lines. It was made pretty clear that the couple on the tour who didn’t speak much English had made him late, as when we got to places he told everyone, «these people cannot go alone. Someone go with them. Who’s going to go with them? Raise your hands. Make sure they get to where we are meeting.»
The bus was fine, 14 seats, but it wasn’t as nice as what was shown on the website, which shows leather-​like seats. It was normal bus seats. This was a disappointment to me, as the comfortable looking seats in the photo was one reason I was willing to pay 2X the cost of other tours.
The temperature on the bus got very cold for a time, though, and my friend told me that he had said there was only «hot» and «cold» on the bus. They did have blankets and pillows.
We stopped at Hoover Dam on the way, and the website said we would also stop at a historic locomotive. Presumably since we were running late, he didn’t stop at the locomotive, just asking if we wanted to. I wish he wouldn’t have done that: I would’ve liked to have seen that, but knew that a couple of other people were really upset we were so far behind. I feel like he cut the tour short by asking, when he said he wouldn’t cut it short.
Also, when we called, they said the tour was $ 190, but they wouldn’t give us the website cost of $ 180 over the phone when we mentioned it. (I didn’t want to buy the tickets on my smartphone.)They should’ve honored that.
My friend walks with a cane, and the driver was very good to her. As mentioned, they gave us breakfast (granola bar, apple, cheese and a packaged blueberry muffin) and a lunch-​chips, cookies, and a wrap (mine had not-​so-​fresh brown lettuce inside, but wasn’t bad.) We were also given ponchos at the Canyon, as it had been sprinkling a little and looked like rain.
The sheet they gave out that gave tips on the tour and photos also said that 10−20% tip was customary.
The driver was nice and charismatic, and at one point he pulled off so we could photograph sheep in a park, even taking my friend’s camera and taking a photo for her.
We watched «The Proposal», a couple of short clips on Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon, and «Son-​In-​Law» (wtf?) on the all-​day trip.
I liked the tour, but I just wished it wasn’t so much more money. Other tours-​granted with many more people-​cost half as much.

We just got back from Las Vegas this weekend and had pre-​booked a Hoover Dam ½ day tour with Adventure Photo Tours. Our tour guide/​driver, Bob was very friendly and so knowledgeable about the area. We were picked up at our hotel right on time. The mini-​bus was very comfortable and clean. The tour includes bottled water, sunscreen, hand sanitizer and nausea remedies for anyone needing it.
Upon our arrival to Hoover Dam, he drove over the Dam, explained everything and then dropped us off at the visitor center with our tour tickets. He gave detailed instructions on everything to see so we would not miss anything. We had close to 4 hours to explore everything that Hoover Dam had to offer and even time for a brief snack before heading back to Las Vegas.
Bob really took the time to make sure he answered every question that any of us had and was very comical too! I would highly recommend this tour and this tour company– they have a ton of offerings and as a Travel Professional, I plan to offer the tours to my clients now that I have experienced them first hand!

I booked a tour with Adventure Photo Tours through
. Because
is the reseller, I was not aware at the time that the company providing the service was Adventure Photo Tours.
I booked the «Grand Canyon VIP Mini Coach Tour» with
for roughly $ 180. I must say that I was pleasantly surprised with the trip. The bus was fitted with very comfortable seats, which reclined back and seats moved from side to side for more space. I liked the fact that it was a small bus, about 20 seats (I think)?
The morning started at 6am pickup from the hotel. Drop-​off was back at the hotel around 8:30pm (which may be longer or shorter depending on the traffic). We were fed some muffins, peanuts, granola bars, & juice for breakfast & snacks. Lunch was also provided. It was a sandwich (ham, turkey, or vegetarian), apple, chips, and water.
The tour bus made several stops for restrooms breaks. When we arrived at Grand Canyon (South Rim), the guide/​driver (Dan) spoke to each party individually on the route that they would be taking at Grand Canyon. Parties can walk the 2.5 miles, walk partial and take bus, or just fully take the bus. The only requirement was that we had to be back on the tour bus in 2 hours.
Some of the bonuses on the tour, we made stops at Hoover Dam and Historic Route 66.
On the ride back, we made several bathroom stops but also made a stop at a local gift shop (@ Double Eagle Trading Company). They had some pretty neat things in there to buy.
Some of the other additional things that the tour company had was as much water as you like. They also had hand sanitizer, sunscreen, or ginger root (for nausea). When we arrived at the Grand Canyon South Rim, the driver also asked if we needed jackets since we were so high up in elevation.
The driver was also the guide. He was very knowledgeable, and spoke to us on a lot of the history as we were passing certain areas.
It was an awesome experience. The driver, Dan, also told us that Adventure Photo Tours is a family owned business. I would definitely return back to this company for tours again. They provide good service with personal attention. Thank you.
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