| Rating |
Date Attended |
Reviewer |
Gender [v] |
Age |
Where From? |
Group Type? |
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Don't miss this !
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| Fri, Apr 4, 08 12:00 PM |
robertmiller |
Male |
60-69 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Group of Friends |
| From the scenic trip to Canyon Lake to the Dolly tour itself, the day was wonderfully filled with with the diversity of experiences Arizona offers. |
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Boat Ride
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| Thu, Apr 3, 08 4:00 PM |
blackforest |
Male |
60-69 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| We enjoy the ride. The captain and his staff were excellent. The information they provided was extremely useful and great. We will recommend the ride to our friends and family. |
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Good Trip; but one Question???
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| Thu, Apr 3, 08 4:00 PM |
GlenBagnall |
Male |
70+ |
Local |
Group of Friends |
| Your system works fine. Not a problem exchanging my voucher I printed for the tickets..
The Question? Why did the person in front of me only pay $80 for 4 tickets and I payed $88. and change???? because I payed over the internet that cost me more money?? She had made the reserveration and then payed when she got there with a check. Does not sound right to me!!!
Waiting to hear from You ................ |
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Good Boat Ride
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| Thu, Apr 3, 08 2:00 PM |
Chidester |
Male |
70+ |
Unspecified |
Other |
| Would recommend. All was well. |
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Nice Scenic Tour through Steep Canyons
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| Thu, Apr 3, 08 12:00 PM |
mcdonel |
Male |
50-59 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family With Children |
| This was a pleasant and scenic tour that took us through steep canyons that towered above the lake. Our tour was during the spring (April), which was a perfect time to visit the Arizona dessert. All of the flowers were in bloom and the temperature was very comfortable at about 80 degrees. The panorama was simply amazing, and it would be a good idea to bring some binoculars to help take in all of what nature has to share. We enjoyed the crew and were fortunate to see some wild life such as, Big Horn Sheep, Blue Herons, and a bit more. If you don't get the chance to take a nice leisurely cruise, you won’t want to miss this one. The price is reasonable, and if you have the time, you can enjoy a very nice meal at the marina restaurant. Don't forget to bring plenty of film or a digital camera for memorable pictures. |
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Best 90 minutes we've spent sightseeing
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| Thu, Apr 3, 08 12:00 PM |
Shaker |
Male |
60-69 |
International Tourist(s) |
Family With Children |
| Enjoyed everything about the cruise. Our captain did a great job. I didn't realize there was so much more to see in Arizona until you get into the out of way places whrere the cruise takes you. |
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Very Enjoyable Cruise
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| Wed, Apr 2, 08 2:00 PM |
Jimgavin |
Male |
50-59 |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family Without Children |
| We enjoyed the scenery, narration and music as all made the cruise very relaxing and interesting. It is something we would do again. |
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Great but could be much better...
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| Tue, Apr 1, 08 2:00 PM |
kenjacobsen |
Male |
50-59 |
Local |
Family Without Children |
| The Supes are beautiful and to me at least, magical, and gliding along among them on the smooth surface of a lake inside the Superstitions is inevitably a pleasure. I took my mom and even sitting in the middle of the boat on its "first floor" was nice.
Some things really disappointed me though.
First I can recall only one or at the most two sentences about the geology of the area. We're immersed for two hours in some of the most fascinating geology in the world and most of the narration was "Oh, look, there's a rock that looks like ET! There's one that looks like an angel! There's another one like it up the hill! That one looks like JSBach!" Whereupon Toccata and Fugue in D Minor is played on the sound system.
I'd be genuinely reluctant to take European friends on this tour, since it seems like just another embarassing example of the abysmally low education level in this country. Please, Dolly Steamboat, give us some real information about what we're seeing! What parts are igneous and what sedimentary? What is pyroclastic? Lava? Sandstone? Limestone? There's an area pointed out of actual petrified trees mixed with geodes and not a word on how it got there!
Second, the music that played loudly when there wasn't narration was often annoying, including some twangy Arizona country song, followed by Enya's "Sail Away", then something from "Titanic"! I wonder if we sank they'd play "Nearer my God to Thee?" I came to see the area, not hear music that's been done to death already, thanks. The jazzy backgroundy stuff with no lyrics was OK because it was unobtrusive, but there was too little of it among the schmaltz.
Otherwise, five stars. |
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Relaxing Fun
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| Tue, Apr 1, 08 2:00 PM |
JimBlake |
Male |
70+ |
Domestic Tourist(s) |
Family With Children |
| The youngest in our group of 8 from Wisconsin was 14 and the oldest was 78. One of us is in a wheel chair. We all liked the trip.
Seeing the mountain goat was a high point ... we don't have them in Wisconsin.
This was my second trip with you so I guess I must have like the first trip also. |
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Nice but could be better
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| Mon, Mar 31, 08 2:00 PM |
DRICKARD |
Male |
60-69 |
Local |
Family With Children |
| My wife and son and I enjoyed the cruise very much. However, as the captain and on-boards guides directed our view to interesting natural formations and bighorn sheep, they used vague ("about a hundred feet left of the ___" - who can tell how far 100 feet is when you don't have any common reference?!) and not very helpful clues to look for landmarks, such as reference to trees and shrubs they knew, but whose names were foreign to us.. We had to work hard to see even a glimpse of what was noted before they were gone. An inexpensive laser pointer could have helped us pinpoint the rock formations and landmarks outcroppings where the sheep were supposed to be. Most of the passengers in our vicinity along with us were frustrated by the inability to decipher what was supposed to be there, but many let on like they could see them so our female guide would feel she was being helpful, which she was clearly trying to be, jusdt not successfully.. |
