Apache Trail / Canyon Lake Steamboat Cruise
- Location:Phoenix, Arizona
- Duration:8 hours (approx.)
- TOUR Code:5350ATCLS
13 reviews of Apache Trail / Canyon Lake Steamboat Cruise
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Places, travel and the guide was great, it really exceeded my expectations. I have widely recommended this tour.
Truly awe inspiring experience in the canyon looking up and on the road looking down! Decided that if we moved to Arizona, it would be to the foot of the Superstition Mountains! Loved the food in Tortilla Flat.
This trip was a great way to see the desert, and to learn about the area. Our tour guide drove us along the apache trail, with several stops along the way and then we rode on a steamboat on the canyon river. We were picked up promptly at 800 am and returned to our hotel at 400 pm. The tour guide was extremely knowledgeable and friendly and stayed with us all day! We definitely recommend this trip and would use this company again. Thank you.
The drivers were fantastic - extremely knowledgeable.
Great tour with plenty of things to do. The website didn't state the corect time to complete the tour. The tour takes approx. 8 hrs. Although, the cruise was the highlight of the tour we found the stop at the gold mine to be equally enjoyable.
An enjoyable day was had but was a little bit disappointed with the length of time spent at Tortilla Flat where there was not really much to see or do other than have lunch. For me personally, 2 hours was far too long. Aside from this I did overall have a great trip. The highlight was the steamboat cruise which truly was a visual delight. Compliments also goes to the Informative narrative by the driver.
Interesting and alot of fun. Our guide was terrific and we really enjoyed the boat cruise. It was beautiful and relaxing. Next time we are going to go to Tombstone. Recommend this tour to visitors and locals.
My trip to Apache Trail/Canyon Lake (Steamboat Cruise) was wonderful!!! My tour guide (TOM) was excellent. He was very upbeat and knowledgable. The only downfall I had on the trip was the restaurant on Canyon Lake was horrible. They made us wait for an hour for a hamburger. The cruise was set to take off in 5 minutes and we still did not receive our food. I ended up walking out of the restaurant and eating popcorn on the steamboat. I also wished we had more time at Apache Trail and Tortilla Flats to look around and shop.
It was a very enjoyable trip, Our tour guide/bus driver was polite, courteous and knowledgeable and also on time, couldn't ask for more.
Good trip, well worth doing if only for the boat trip. One of the best tour guide's that we have ever had.
This was a nice, easygoing tour. The tour operator's people were very nice and helpful. Our tour guide was very good. He answered any and all questions and was very outgoing as well. My wife, our daughter, and I had a good time.
My wife and I were the only two (2) passengers on this tour. We were picked up promptly at 8.30am at our hotel. Tom was the driver ,drove safely and was very knowlegeable.
We first arrived at Goldsmith at about 10.00am.
We were asked to be back at the bus at 10.30am. We wandered about the various buildings,it was very interesting. My wife noticed it was 10.40am.We hurried back to the bus. My wife felt that Tom was not too happy !. My point is you need about an hour to go through all the buildings. I did not get to go gold panning or into the mine. I cant imagine what it is like if there were 10 or more passengers. We then went to Tortilla Flats.It was along the original stagecoach road, although it is now paved.lol Very windy. We got there about 12 noon.Were told to waiting at 12.45pm. We did have time to eat at the local inn. Enjoyed sitting on the saddles at the bar. Food was good.Did not have too much time to wander around. Was picked up at 12.45pm taken to paddle boat. Left at 1.00pm. Enjoyable cruise Saw quite a few mountain sheep.No eagles.About 100 minutes on water. Arrived back at hotel safely
Overall good experience. I gave it 3 stars based on what thought was shortness of stops.
I think at least 1 hour at each stop would be about right. Suggest tour operators start tour at least half hour earlier. Neil B.
Our tour driver Tom was informative and funny.The ghost town visit was fun with good photo opportunities.We enjoyed the lake cruise and the staff was friendly.The only small drawback to the whole day was the marginal food and very slow service at the marina tavern. All in all, a fun day.
