"AVOID. Fraud company. Your tour will not happen."

Booked the Niagara Falls trip 2 months back. The payment was promptly taken. Got an email 2 days before departure that the trip was cancelled! No alternatives given. Yet to get a refund. Unprofessional. Unethical. Avoid at all cost!!!

"TakeTour: 6 days US East Coast tour"

Taken 6 days US East Coast tour from Washington from 4th June 2018. On date completed 4 days.
TakeTour should be named as ChinkiesTour. It will clear all confusion and expectations from other nationals who may look for other available alternatives.
Good ...very good for Chinkies I mean Chinese....Lunch ..Dinner...narration....everything is in Chinese...at times English also.
At the end ...you will crush yourself for booking with TakeTour...if you are not Chinese.....

"Terrible tour guide .only interested in…"

Terrible tour guide .only interested in optional tours.
Tells you nothing of any thing
Sits like a dummy from strat to finish
You might as well have had a goat with you
Speaks Chinese and terrible English
Waste of money and precious time
Do it on your own at least Las Vegas

"4 day Grand Canyon- Vegas - Read Fine Print"

Took a trip to Grand Canyon, Vegas and Antelope Canyon. Bus that picked up and drove for 10 hours was a large van. Not a touring bus. Great driver with enough bio break halts. Reached Las Vegas at 8 PM and they did not show us anything. We were too tired to explore ourselves. Flagstaff hotel was very good. However, for Breakfast, the first few people took all the food and about 50% did not get anything to eat. We had to buy from neighborhood store. Hotel did not replenish. 70% of tourists were Chinese origin. Tour guides speak English and Chinese fluently. Also, payment of sights is Mandatory. Tips is Mandatory. There is nothing optional to see. Only sights where payment is required is the stop. So expect to spend another $200 per person apart from tour tickets. Plus spend on food. Driver only takes Cash. Non negotiable and Mandatory

"Terrible experience"

Terrible experience
I along with my 4 year child took the Washington DC tour on 17th and 18th May 2018. We joined from Philadelphia and had a nightmare of 2 days during the tour.

1) The pick up time from Philadelphia was 12:30pm. But the actual pick up was at 3pm as the bus was late from new york.

2) Because it started late, the tour guide, Eva, cancelled sightseeing of DC on that day and asked us to be ready at 5:45am the next day.

2) The tour guide, Eva, was highly inconsiderate of the child. Her only agenda was to tick the visits than to make us feel worth of the trip. Go to Lincoln memorial for 5 minutes, then white house for 5 minutes.

3) When we went to Capitol, Eva kept pushing in a very rude manner. The Capitol staff was very helpful seeing a stroller and a child. After the tour, I took the child to bathroom but Eva disappeared to the next stop without waiting for even 5 minutes.

4) When we called her many times, she told, just take a cab and come to xyz museum.

5) Museums in DC are nice and big. Eva allowed barely 25-30 minutes at each place. All she cared about is the tick box, not the experience.

Overall, it was a highly disappointing and frustrating experience, mainly because of the tour guide's rude behaviour and her mis planning. Take tours should fire her or at least train her on how to behave with tourists and be considerate of kids and mums.

I would recommend taking a greyhound to DC and then taking a local tour than going with taketours who have such useless tour guides. I feel I wasted my money.

"Never again"

Never again! Rude tour guide, worst bus driver he didn’t know his way

"Don’t go in taketours travels bad bus…"

Don’t go in taketours travels bad bus bad smell and bad time management they come late and they won’t give minimum time to see the places they won’t even bother for passengers rest room issues always they want getoff their duty intime. Charges are also very high . Better pool up with your friends and book good hotels

"take tour disappointment."

We took take tour 4 days tour with 10 people after our Alaska cruise in Seattle starting May 20, 2018. We paid usd 311 per person. I have been trying to ask the name of the hotel, and they never gave us the name until we arrived. They promised for pick up at cruise terminal at 12 noon, and they did come at 12:30 pm for the so called free pick up. Then they send us to a motel so far away from the city far south from airport, Red Lion in Federal way. The next day they we started the tour. They ask us to pay $10 per person for the FREE pick up the day before.
In Mt rainier, we had to pay $35 each for park admission, which is a mark up of $25 from the official park entry fee.
The unfriendliness of the guide and the driver, the rip off, lies, turned us off, so we end up giving up the last day tour, because they made us sick.

"Poor Trip"

We 4 persons tour was taken from Gaiherburg 7 days 6 night tour to USA and Canada today is last day since 20th May our Guidd and Bus is changed to 1668 earlier it was 1698. The Guide in earlier was very nice co-operative and Garry was taking care of alk passengers in mice way but in this bus the Guide Angila is poorest she did not bother about the passengers who have participated from other countries. Our hotel stay at New Jersy Holiday Inn was worst. She did not take care of the passengers and not covered the points of interest like white house in Washington DC and also in New York.
We are at all not comfortable since yesterday with this new bus.
R R Bhaskar
Mohan Vashishat
Padma Vashishat
Nita Bhaskar

"5 days tour to Antelope, Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce Canyon with TakeTours"

I have recentely returned with my family from a 5 days tour with this company from Los Angeles to Las Vegas ,Lake Powel , Antelope canyon, Bryce canyon,Zion Canyon,and Grand canyon (west rim):tour code 673-2546. on the dates May6- May10. Our guides' name was Edward and the drivers' name was Yu.I have read some bad reviews here before going, but decided to take the risk because of the low price. I am very glad I gave them that chance.The trip was wonderful! the guide was absolutely excellent, very polite, explained everything both in English and Chienese, I understood him perfectly, even though I speak only English. they didnt charge one penny more than they stated in their website, you do have to read it all, because they have added costs that are mentioned in the itinerary. I dont know how they managed to take us to see so many places in such a short time without making us feel rushed, and without missing out on any highlight, but they did it. I especially loved the walking tour in the Lower Antelope Canyon! it was amazing and was worth the extra cost charged for it. the bus was comfortable, much better than driving those distances yourself! the hotels were ok and clean, even most had swimming pools, so my kids enjoyed a swim in the evenings.They made enough stops for restrooms and even took us to supermarkets so we can buy groceries and not spend money at the hotels.The guide even gave us the weather forcast for each day and answered all our questions. We managed to make some new friends on the bus in spite of the language barrier. Everyone was nice and atmosphere was great. The driver Yu, was friendly and a careful driver, I am extremely jumpy with fast rekless driving and I felt calm and confident with this driver.This tour was above and beyond our expectations. I felt obliged to write this after reading bad reviews and nearly missing this trip because of them.