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Adventure Hummer Tours
Category: Hotels & Travel Tours Tours [Edit]
42335 Washington StPalm Desert, CA 92211
(760) 285-0876
2 reviews for Adventure Hummer Tours
2 reviews in English
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Review from Allen K.
Pasadena, CA
4/4/2012
overall an OK tour or perhaps better than your average tour. 4 hours (or 3 depending on your tour schedule) in a open air military vehicle can take a toll on your body, however. Yet, the driver/tour guide tried his best to cater to everyone's needs and presented the desert in its most natural state. the off-roading part of the excursion is really just for going up the mountain range and coming down. This isn't a dune-buggy type of experience where you say, "let's see if it will climb this hill." Simply, the Hummer is just for transportation purposes. If your objective was just to see the Joshua tree national park, you can drive up there on a paved roads and save the tour fee. Still the tour itself was interesting enough and somewhat fun to do. I wish the Hummer had soft tops though...
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Review from Steven P.
Concord, CA
1/4/2008
This review is more of a warning than a fair review of this business. Had the circumstances been different, I'm sure this would have been a GREAT tour, but it's the way that the company handled the circumstances that created a problem.
Rule #1: IT CAN GET VERY COLD IN THE DESERT!!!!!
It was an unusually cold day for Palm Desert and Joshua Tree. The Hummers are OPEN-AIR! No doors, no heater.
This was an unusual day, and the tour should have been canceled. NONE of the 10 passengers were appropriately dressed to be comfortable on a 4-hour tour in 40-degree weather. This was plainly obvious to the driver, who even mentioned the fact that I was wearing sandals. NOT ONCE did he mention that perhaps we should consider walking back to our hotel room and getting warmer clothes!!!
Even though the company's website clearly shows Hummers with some soft doors and other types of protection from the wind, these were nowhere in sight.
On the good side, the tour guide did his best, but he seemed to be very unprepared for this situation. Apparently, it's supposed to warm up significantly as the morning goes on, but this never happened.
Suffice it to say that you don't want to ride in an open-air Hummer at 40 degree temperatures with wind and improper clothing!!!!!
I have been on MANY of these types of tours, and this wasn't a typical situation of bad weather....this could have easily ended up with someone getting hypothermia.
