Real American Rockies - Customer comments
Travel to the very heart of the American Rockies, experience the real cowboy and indian country amongst quite breathtaking scenery, quite incredible wildlife, truly amazing National Park’s and world renowned National monuments such as Mount Rushmore. You can scroll down to read our customer experiences or click the link below to view this itinerary
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Roger
Just deleting this old e-mail when I realised that we hadnt written to you to say that we had a quite splendid holiday. Your itinery was excellent and all the accommodation at least as good as we expected and frequently better. Will certainly use you if we decide to visit the USA again and are about to give friends your details Cheers John
Morning Roger
Have just returned from my fly drive holiday and just wanted to say how pleased we were with all the aspects of the holiday from the itenery to the hotels we stayed in and all the information and maps sent to us. If I was to go on this type of holiday again I would definitely choose your company again.
Thank you for all your help
Anne
Dear Roger,
We arrived back last week from a fantastic trip and would like to thank you for arranging this for us. We have memories of wonderful scenery that will last a lifetime,.
I think you will be interested in a couple of points we made so that we could let you know about them when you book this holiday for others in the future.
The only real problem we encountered was on our second night when we arrived at the Holiday Inn in Estes Park. They had no record of our booking on their computer system. The staff were extremely polite and sympathetic but unfortunately they just had one room left and it was a very smelly smoking room so we had to use that. We made a telephone call to our friends in Torrington Wy. who we were meeting the next day and we were not charged for this call as means of apology. However, they did try to say that usually the fault for this sort of thing lay with the tour company rather than with them. ( We were not so sure).
After a great time with our friends visiting Mt Rushmore, the Badlands and spending time on a ranch in Sheridan we started out on our own. We visited the Cody Museum and left at 5p.m. to drive to Yellowstone which would have been fine if we had read your directions properly. However we got it wrong and ended up aiming for the North East entrance. We left Cody on the 120 and then turned left on the 296 which is a scenic highway. This was the best mistake we made. It took us four hours to drive to Yellowstone but if future visitors would prefer more scenery and less time in the museum then do tell them to drive the 296. ( “Wow ” type scenery around every hairpin bend!)
We didn’t visit Salt Lake City because it was so hot so we drove south from Jackson to Pinedale and spent a very pleasant night at the Best Western there. They were very helpful suggesting a very good lakeside restaurant and also booking an extra night at Vernal for us. Pinedale was a very nice little town with good little gift shops but not busy or touristy.
All your instructions and suggestions for places to visit were extremely helpful and we were so glad that we had the extra stop at Gunnison otherwise we would never have seen the Black Canyon.
The only other problems we had was a very slow check in at Jackson ( they said they can’t get cleaning staff so rooms were not ready by 3p.m.) the heat which no one can do anything about and the B.A. flight delays both ends which seem to be par for the course these days.. We visited Fort Laramie with our friends and the temperature was 107 and very similar in Utah.
Thanks again for a memorable trip,
Barbara and Jim (Southampton)
Just a line to thank you for organising our American holiday for us. We had an amazing time and the itinerary was perfect. Unfortunately we were turned back at Rocky Mountain National Park on the first day due to snow on the high peak trail, but we visited everywhere else on the list. We particularly enjoyed Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse Monument which they started carving 50 years ago, a great experience. Of all the states we visited Utah was the one we liked the best. It has so much variety and the Canyonlands were just beautiful. Once again thank you for your help.
Pete
We got back from a great trip to Denver on Sunday. To confirm the comment I picked up on your website - SatNav from Hertz was outstanding - what a blessing when trying to find hotels!
Thank you for the brilliant suggestion of arriving and staying at an Airport Hotel and getting the car the next day. All worked well - we were very pleased with the quality provided. Our stay at Grand Lake was in what might be described as a lower bracket of hotels but looking around the town there weren’t a lot of other options! Special mentions for that indefinable “we felt good here” were earned by Holiday Inn Estes Park and BW Inn at Jackson Hole. Estes park as a town gets a poor write-up in our guidebook; we found a clean, orderly, beautifully located town that did not match the guide at all.
No firm plans yet for next year but rest assured that when our thoughts turn to the US again we’ll be back. Many thanks again - a satisfied customer
Peter