19 reviews of Grand Canyon West Rim Van Day Trip with Optional Skywalk

The van was not luxury and it smelled of smoke. The tour guide did not get out with us for most of the trip, which that was disappointing.

The Grand Canyon is beautiful and the Hoover Dam is amazing, but the rest of the trip was a disaster. Because of the low number of attendees, we were upgraded to a "luxury van". The van was dirty and smelled bad, and we were packed in shoulder to shoulder. There was a 14-mile stretch that was not paved and very rocky, and the driver turned the air-conditioning off because the vents were blowing in dust. The temperature was 117 degrees. The chocolate factory tour was actually a single wide trailer on the side of the road in the desert. There was no Wild West show or homemade ice cream. There were two choices for lunch. The first site only had outdoor seating, so we were taken on a school bus to the other location. When we walked into the dining hall, we discovered that the A/C was not working, and the back doors were open for ventilation. The wagon ride lasted about 10 minutes and did not go into the canyon as described. The "luxury van" overheated on the return trip, while stuck in traffic at the Hoover Dam, so the driver again turned the air-conditioner off. We were all irritable, nauseated, and heat-fatigued when we finally returned to our hotel.