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| - A very expensive disappointment. Let me start by saying our tour guides were very good - courteous, knowledgeable, committed and professional. It's not necessarily their fault that this tour fell short in a number of ways and was not worth the $800+tips for 5 people that we paid for it. First, the start time was delayed about 30 minutes while we waited for people who were significantly late to the tour. Not just a little late. This is so rude to the guests who actually planned well and arrived on time and it cut our tour time short. The boss-owner was the one who insisted we wait, I'm sure so he could collect the high fees at the expense of the rest of us.
We rented 2 cars for 5 family members and one of ours broke down way out in the desert. Those family members had to ride with the guide...not happy at all about not having our own vehicle, which we had paid for. We were promised that we would get water at the start and end of our tour and at one of the mid-tour stops so we didn't bring any of our own from the hotel. We got no water - I even asked one of the guides about it and he laughed. It's a long tour and you get totally covered in desert sand - we really could've used that water. We didn't see any wildlife, no real scenic sights, just sand and cacti. The cars don't go very fast and you are expected to maintain a very close proximity to the car in front of you, which takes a lot of concentration and does not allow for much sight seeing for the driver.
The final bad taste in our parched and sandy mouths was the much-hyped "Selfie" contest they run on Facebook each month. At frequent urging of our booking agent and guides, our kids eagerly entered the contest, following the rules as laid out. It took days after the end of the month to name a winner and, once named, the winner was someone who didn't follow the rules but still won. That kind of sums up the Green Zebra Adventure: not what was promised: no on-time start, no water, no operational Tomcat vehicle, no wildlife or scenic vistas, no fair-and-square selfie winner.
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