I want to acknowledge my tour guides from the 5 day Rocky Mountain Tour.
Yifu and Victor were the guide/driver for the Jasper portion.
Lisa for Day #1 of Banff.
Yifu for Day #2 of Banff.
Each was excellent in the care they provided for me a..nd those on my tour.
Please acknowledge their excellent care and service.
Thank you!Read full review
Miss information on the train booking. Promised sleeper three times but it was not true! Accommodation on the train poor. The Banff hotel was not cleaned each day as requested with specific notes ., food was good. Some of the stops were no..t long enough to do the walks planned. Use the wash room or do the walk but not both.
Driver/guide in the van were excellent days.Read full review
My wife and I really enjoyed the trip. The majority of guests were Chinese (overall 18 participants that day), but our tour guide Gordon nicely managed to tell everything in Mandarine and in English. The trip was quite cheap compared to oth..er offers on can find, but it was still very pleasant. The tour bus was comfortable and not too big. The Icefield trip (which can be booked additionally) was quite interesting and a nice experience to have! I would recommend to book the optional Columboa Icefield Day with the Skywalk - otherwise the final part of the trip is just spending time at the tourist center (in Jasper Park), which I imagine is not very interesting for the 3.5 hours the stop will be there! On the way to the Jasper Park, there are multiple stops with very nice views, where everyone has about 15 to 20 minutes to take pictures and enjoy the atmosphere. Jasper Park is definitely worth seeing!Read full review
By: Patricia O'Callaghan | Tue Jul 30, 2019 at 04.41 AM
The first tour of Calgary city was just a tour of the library and a music museum so for me it was not a tour of Calgary. The tour operator was great. It would have been better to know the intinary in advance to make a decision to go or not ..or at least to be able to be dropped of in Calgary then meet back in 3 hrs. Where my accommodation was in Calgary it meant a lot of early days and late nights I felt I was on the. Coach longer than I,was off it. Reticulous when every one else stayed where the tour was I then had a 2hr drive back to the hotel which was no where near any where you could go to eat.The hotel I was in at Banf was an inn not a hotel and it was old fashioned and tired and the breakfast room was not attached to,the inn also there was no lift. I just couldn't get up,the stairs with my case I had to ask for a room change on the ground floor which they could not do. It was resolved by them taking my case to my room and in the morning bringing it back down. Other than the tour of Calgary the rest of the tour content was good.Read full review
By: A trusted customer | Fri Jul 12, 2019 at 03.50 PM
We have mixed experiences about this tour. First of all I'm mentioning bad onces & then I will cover good parts.
Bad Experiences:
1. 1st Day Hotel experience is really very bad. The Clarion Hotel in Calgary City having lot of problems lik..e - water logging in bathrooms, mal-functionl AC, very rude behaviour from font desk staff, making delay in alotting rooms though there wre plenty of vacant rooms are there and we already booked rooms in that hotel a month ago.
2. Transportation from Calgary Airport to Clarion Hotel was very problematic as the authorized Cab driver as well as Hotel Front Desk staff were not co-operating for re-imbursing the money initially. We got the money after we had round of escalations with Hotel Management & Tours4Fun.
3. We have prior experiences in travelling with a tour group where personally we didn't checkedin the hotel. But, in this scenario, first 2 days, we have seen this issue where we need to show all details and enquire about our hotel resevations. There was no Tours4Fun or Wester representative to handle that.
4. 4th day's lunch was just a disaster. There are lot of resturants in Jasper town with ecomonical options for meal/foods. But, not sure why they had booked for a Korean Resturant(Kimichi House) with extremely bad-tasted-soup-only-meal. We were not able to eat this. And they were not providing altenate meal option also though it was already paid by us. They should understand that the meal option should be acceptable to generic people and not for a specific region. Even most of our chinese travel-mates also could not manage to eat that bogus meal. Wester/Tours4Fun also not refunding that meal money for both of us.
Good Experiences:
1. Bus coach driver Paul & Tour Guide Lisa were really good & friendly. They were showing and explaining the places very descriptive ways.
2. Lunch at Fairmont Spring Banff Hotel was just awesome.
3. Hotel Voyeger Inn at Banff & Athabasca Hote at Jasper town are good hotels and nice arrangements in rooms. Though both of them are lacking elevator as they are very old & refurbishes recently. The sceni views from them just breathtaking.
4. Breakfast bouffets are good in all 3 hotels - Clarion at Calgary, Hotel Voyeger Inn at Banff & Athabasca Hote at Jasper town.
5. The places where we went for visting all are superb and gorgous. I can't explain their beauties in words.Read full review
By: Daniel Valenzuela | Thu Jul 11, 2019 at 10.31 PM
The trip was amazing until unexpected at the end the driver asked for and collected a $9.00 per person tip which the full bus would have been about $200. We assumed the tip would be collected when we purchased our ticket. Luckily we had t..he money on hand. But the rest was done very professionallyRead full review
It was great fun. Very well managed and well paced over the 4 days. Hotels were great (except Clarion), food was great.. Most importantly, we had a great tour guide (Lisa Rong) as well as a very courteous driver (Paul) with Westar. Lisa rea..lly went out of her way to take care of guests and some of our personal requests specially on the food menu. The driver Paul was very knowledgeable - he knew the mountains and lakes and certainly a great story teller.Read full review