By: Rajesh Ravilisetti | Tue May 28, 2013 at 08.46 PM
Went to this tour on May 22-24 2013 with family and its a nice trip. best for a small family with no infants or seniors with you or else you will end up exhausted and unsatisfied.
Pros -
1. Economical,
2. multi city,
3. accomodati..on.
Cons -
1. 90% of dining stops are chinese restaurants only
2. Driver is not mannered and as he is not employee of Tours4Fun ,he speaks the way he want to talk with customer. No courtesy. If you request some thing he says i'm not related to Tours4fun.
3. Tour itinenary is not proper (Niagara Dam and Old Fort sucks and Philadelphia is not required instead extra time at Washington is good)
Others -
1. Tour Guide is Ok,
2. No breakfast in the hotels you stay but still you have to get ready by 7AM for touring. (As we are not satisfied with this on day 2 they arranged breakfast on day 3).
3. As mentioned Lunch and dinner is at own cost.
4. No proper information given by guide on Walkin Glen state park as its 2 miles in length with around 1000 steps - hard with children and seniors. Prior information would be very helpful to decide.
Let me give you some more details about this trip so that you can plan it better.
Day 1:- Stop at secret caverns and its very good but not suitable if u cant go down 3 to 4 stairs and come back. Niagara night view - not that as we expected but OK. Night hotel stay is very good.
For lunch - stop at some resting area with few restaurants. not bad.
For Dinner - They stopped at Chinese restaurant which suits for people who love chinese food. We have Burger king near by but they dont stop there even if 50% are interested in dining there - so we just walked to that place and got some.
Day 2:- 7AM to old fort and then to power plant which can be ignored as you will get extra time at Niagara falls as they will drop people there if you skip those 2 places.
Then Maid of the mist - awesome experience
Lunch at Niagara falls Food court building with lots of restaurants - felt better as we can choose food we want.
Dinner stop at chinese restaurant and dropped at hotel at 10 30PM
Day 3:- At 7 AM start to Washington memorials and then to White house and then to Air space museum where they gave 1 hrs 10 mins to see the museum and also have lunch - they are mad. It takes 2 - 3 hrs to enjoy that museum and that too on friday with lot of students in line.
Then moved to Philadelphia to see liberty bell - nothing great and i think they can ignore this and spend extra hrs in air space museum. Read full review
This was an excellent value-packed tour. The driver and the guide were excellent. The tour included several states and some breath-taking sites including Martha's Vineyard homes, food and beaches. The Breakers" Vanderbilt Mansion is amazing....
Alicea, our Guide, was patient, resourceful and gave clear directions/info. we will do it again
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This trip is obviously a budget tour, the old saying is you get what you pay for. Be prepared that if you do not want to do all the attractions you will be sitting around and waiting a lot of the time. If you do participate in everything th..ere is a cost of $210 per person plus your $24 per person service fee.
The bus was basic and the seats quite uncomfortable and the tour is definitely packaged towards the Chinese guests with dinner both nights organised at Chinese restaurants and on the night the only other food option close by was Indian. We stopped for 1 hour for dinner 20 minutes from our motel when there were a large variety of different eating options near the motel.
The first two days we were sitting at the front of the bus and there was plenty of leg room but the third day the tour guide reallocated seating and we were relocated to the back of the bus where there was no leg room at all (and I have short legs. The driver advised us that they had put the seats at the back of the bus closer so they could fit another row of seating in. There was also a vibration in the back of the bus that my husband described as either being a tyre out of round or a tyre out of balance. This vibration got worse the faster we went.
On the way home after a delay at US immigration as one of the passengers was refused entry back into the US we finally set off on our way. After about 5 minutes the window directly behind me (on the rear LHS of the bus near the toilet) blew open and my son was able to get it closed but the noise of the wind whistling through the gap and the cold air was terrible.
About 10 minutes later the rear window at the right hand side of the bus started to open. My husband tried to stop it but the handle was at the back of the window and it blew opened, this then caused the window behind me to open again. We told the driver to stop but he just kept driving, not only did he keep driving but he did not slow down. A few seconds later they got the window on the Right Hand Side closed but the window on the Left hand side blew totally off, even after this happened and the tour guide went down to the front of the bus and again told the driver to stop he continued driving for several kilometres before he pulled over.
After he inspected the bus he advised us he would have to drive to the next food stop (20 minutes away) and he would find something to tape it off to get us home because if we had to wait for another bus it would take 7 hours for it to get there.
It was freezing cold at the back of the bus with the window missing and I feel the attitude of the bus driver was disgusting, it does not matter where you are driving if there is an emergency which there obviously was, you can stop for a short time. Had he done that then the window would probably not have blown off.
Linda
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This was my first time traveling with this company and I was very impressed with their service. Our guides Holly and Crystal were good... The hotel was good.... Overall, I really enjoyed myself....
By: Claudia Colindres | Wed Jan 09, 2013 at 08.01 PM
We had a wonderful time at our tour!
Everything was very well planed. The only thing we didn´t like was the food court where we were taken for dinner and lunch, it was a very cheap and food was very greasy.
The sightseeing and everyt..hing else was great, the hotel was also very nice.
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If you plan to put in as much as you can in one day this is the tour for you. For a quick tour of New York.
You get to see all the important tourist sights and
the Tour Guide is very helpful and knowledgable.
Entrance fee to sights are ..not included in the package, so you need to have money on you to pay for the entrance fees. Lunch also is not catered for.Read full review
By: Tatyana Dobrodomov | Mon Jan 07, 2013 at 01.53 AM
I did not expect to see so many places in one 3-days tour. Very well done L&L Tours! Special thank you to our wonderful guide, Mars and the best driver, Ivan. The guys are fun and professional.
We took this trip during Christmas time and it was really cool, most of the people were Chinese but it didn't make any difference. Tour guide - Teresa was very nice. Hotels were amazing! Really good price.
By: margaret kennelly | Sat Oct 13, 2012 at 08.48 AM
An excellent tour all round. Our driver and tour guide were very helpful. Our guide, Kai Choo (hope I've spelled his name correctly) was very informative and gave us plenty of information to make the trip both informative and enjoyable. Wel..l done! Excellent value for money.Read full review
I went on this tour with my sister and niece.We had a great time. The guides were very informative and had a good sense of humor.It was well worth the money. I will definitely recommend this tour to my friends.
We enjoyed our tour very much, not only my family but also everybody who joined the tour. Everybody joined all the attractions except the Imax movie. But the rest we joined. Our guides namely Steven and Jackie together with our driver, they.. were very nice, organized. we were on time allways, we were on schedule. They r also very helpful. I suggest you join all the attractions, except the corning glass museum, imax movie and the CN tower. The hotels where we stayed are also nice, big and nice hotel. We stayed at Universal Inn at Niagara falls, and Quality hotel in Toronto. they were both nice. We are satisfied. An excellent tour!Read full review
This is an awesome tour. Everything was perfect. The hotels, bus and attractions.
You just need to plan on some extra money for the attractions.
I really enjoyed it
At the start of the tour we met 'Vito', the tour was then jam packed with sites, photo opportunities, titbits of information and humour. The tour guide Marc (an extra) was a good presenter, made it very fun and interesting. The locations we..re great. My partner went on the tour 9 years ago and he said it was as good as then and better with the advantage of all of the series's. The bus was comfortable, clean and air-conditioned (and there were toilets). If you are wondering whether to go on this tour or not....you absolutely must!!!!Read full review
The tour guide showed clips from the show that corresponded with the actual sites. She was entertaining & gave lots of interesting facts & trivea. We really enjoyed it! :o)