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| - We had been planning our Vegas trip for quite some time, and we had high hopes for this tour.
First, the positives: I'm glad we got to see the Grand Canyon, and the Hoover Dam. The time spent at the Grand Canyon West Rim was nice because we got to do it on our own (the people at the Indian reservation handle those parts of the tour, including transport). That's pretty much where the positives end.
Our tour guide (Jean Claude) was not good. I don't know if it had to do with language/cultural barriers but, the entire bus ride was awkward and uncomfortable.
Among other things:
- Frankly, we couldn't understand half of what he was saying to us. It's not necessarily *because* he had an accent; just most of it was unintelligible. He'd end most of his stories/anecdotes with the word "whatever" as if he wasn't really interested in what he was supposed to be giving us a tour of.
- He described what we had just paid his employers a combined $230 for as "four hours to look at a big hole in the ground."
- He ranted on and on about Las Vegas, being very critical about it, talking about all of this "if you found Jesus here, you'd better go home" nonsense...and at one point even conjectured that women on the bus could make a living being prostitutes. He kept rambling on and on and on, throughout the entire trip. It got to the point where I started wishing I had brought my headphones with me so I could have just tuned him out. The best parts of the bus ride were when he stopped talking and played the educational DVDs about the Dam and the National Parks. He was just trying WAY to hard to be funny, and it just ended up being alienating and inappropriate. And, for the record, we're not prudes or anything...he just wasn't funny. Every time he'd spout off about something, the entire bus would just do this awkward "let's just chuckle for a bit to placate him" kind of thing, just to get through it.
- And, the topper: At one point he was trying to tell people the order for hotel drop offs. When he couldn't get the attention of several individuals from one of the resorts, he said, loud enough for most to hear, and I quote: "they must be Asian."
At the end of the tour, when we *didn't* tip him (after a five minute lecture to the entire bus about how we *should* tip him since that's how they make their money), he sarcastically told us "thanks for the tip." Here's a tip: be better at your job.
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