Let's try this again - the YELP censors deleted my review for no basis so let's see if this one stays up
Fucking Rip-OFF
Sorry to use the vulgar language but that is the only way to explain it.
OUR tax dollars built this.
OUR tax dollars maintain it.
OUR tax dollars pay the guides
The US government MAKES beaucoup bucks from the power generation
The US Government MAKES beaucoup bucks from selling the water
Bottom Line: "Hoover Dam has become one of the greatest individual investments ever made by the U.S. government. And it continues to increase its return year after year."
http://www.gurufocus.com/news/196312/hoover-dam--one-of-the-greatest-investments-in-us-history
BUT they charge us, the US taxpayers who built it, maintain it and pay the guides, $30 PER PERSON for a tour and $10 to Park to see what belongs to US. That's $100 for mom, dad and their 5 year old to see what they pay for and what actually makes the US government lots of money. And that folks is a Fucking US Government Rip-OFF and something we refused to partake in.
Drive over the top and look at it from the air and gawk at it all you want (like we did), but to be butt-raped by those prices when damns all over the US give FREE tours is highway robbery.