Shake Rattle and Roll Segway Tour of Tucson

The tour on a segway is a unique way to see more of Tucson than I ever could have on foot. The segway was easy to learn how to use and our guide was extreamely knowledgeable about the segway and Tucson. I had a great time and would recommend it for everyone.

OUr Segway tour was a surprize birthday present for my husband. We loved the Segways. They were easy to learn to use and fun to ride on. I would love to use one for everyday transport. Our guide, Scott, was friendly and showed us some landmarks that we didn't know about even though we've lived here for years. The milkshake at the end of the tour was frosting on the cake!

Scott was an excellent guide and I had the good fortune (?) of having a one-on-one tour. We went around the University of Arizona campus and surrounding neighborhoods and both the Segway and tour were fun. Being on the Segway, we saw 2-3 times as much as we would have on foot -- and got a lot more stares and thumbs-ups.

We loved our "Shake Rattle and Roll" tour and plan on taking our guests in the future on this excellent event. Everyone who moves to Tucson should take this tour, especially if they are at all curious about the University. Our host (Scott) was superb and his narration during the tour fascination. This is one tour you just have to take!

Wonderful experince, great guide and tour. would consider buyng one some day too

This was a great gift to my wife. The instructions on use of a Segway were very good and understandable. While we are local to the area, the guide had good information about the West University, Pie Allen and Iron Horse neighbohoods. We enjoyed learning a new mode of transportation and seeing the West University neighborhood from a different perspective.

Since I was the only one on the tour, Scott was able to take me places not on the normal tour. It made for a very pleasurable experience.

I have been ever so curious about the Segways since they first came out (and the related technology developed for an amazing wheelchair for the disabled that can climb stairs and manuver in sand or gravel). We had a great tour guide (Scott) who spent the first half-hour teaching us how to manage safely, then off we went on a tour to and through the university area then back into town and across the beautiful Rattlesnake Bridge. The tour was capped off with a delightful vanilla milkshake and we giggled happily all the way home. Even in May the morning heat was too much for me- bring lots of water and maybe a freezer pack to wear under your helmet to keep cool. Lots of fun. My legs really ached after the first half hour or so- like lots of beginners I was using my feet (shift weight to the balls of the feet to move forward, to your heels to reverse) until I got comfortable with leaning to control it's movement. Would love to own one of these!

We took this tour mostly for the experience of riding a Segway PT. Neither of us had ever ridden one before. Our guide, Scott, was very humorous ---and patient. He was well-informed and gave good explanations to questions about the Segways themselves, about "riding as a pedestrian," and about the tour areas we visited. He gave the two of us individualized training before we started. We took off first down some quieter streets of a colorful and historic neighborhood. Then we headed straight on to the busy campus of the University of Arizona, which quickly honed our Segway-driving skills even more! Next we rode through some of the oldest neighborhoods in Tucson, where even a local (myself) learned a thing or two about early Tucson and the railroads. But by far the coolest part of the tour was Segway-ing across the Rattlesnake Bridge. This is an enclosed pedestrian bridge which spans one of Tucson's busiest thoroughfares and offers good views of the city, the university, and the mountains. The length of the bridge (that is, the "body" of the snake) is made of a mesh-like material, allowing for visibility of the surroundings (including the traffic below!) Also the curb which runs the length of the bridge on either side is only a few inches high, making it easy to overlook. For me this created the sense of maybe actually being in the belly of a giant metal snake (or something!) rather than being just on a footbridge. That was cool enough! But to glide through this rattler and over the hectic traffic below so effortlessly and smoothly on my Segway was really great, great fun. Though brief, it reminded me of the sense of flying that comes sometimes in dreams. We finished with a tour-de-force (at least for our novice skill-level!), returning to our starting point via the crowded sidewalks of a busy Fourth Avenue shopping and restaurant district. By now we had become confident in our basic Segway skills; and happily, both we and Fourth Avenue survived unscathed. Both me and my guest are unreservedly enthusiastic about this activity. We very much appreciated that the guide keeps in touch with the clients via a microphone/earphone sound system, especially since riders go everywhere in single file. This contrasts to many local horseback riding opportunities, where only the first two or three riders can hear the guide, and where the last rider in the line-up may be carried off by a wayward horse if the guide can't hear the rider hollering. As far as I know, things like this probably don't happen with a Segway tour like ours. We wouldn't change anything about the Segway Tour (Shake, Rattle, and Roll) we took. Except that it is a little expensive---let me say immediately that it's worth the price; but it is a little expensive.

We were provided with sufficient training to operate the Segway safely. The places around Tucson that were displayed were interesting, a little more information about some of the places would have been appreciated. The only down side was the fact that we were standing on the Segway for more than 2 hours with only 1 time that we all got off and were able to move around. The run through the University was quite interesting and enjoyable.