Niagra Falls Day Trip...DISASTER!!!!!
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 7/14/10
My husband, 10 yr old son and I took this Niagra Falls trip with Bedore Travel on 28th June 2010, it cost us 1300 dollars, we were so looking forward to it. As planned we were collected from our hotel at 5.15am and taken to JFK. To begin with we were to fly into Buffalo but instead were flown into Rochester and were bused (with no air-conditioning) to Niagra....this took an hour or more out o the time we had at the Falls!! We crossed the border into Canada at 12.00 and were immediatly taken for lunch which was buffet style at the Shearaton...this was lovely. We had to meet our guide again at 1.15pm to be taken to the Maid of The Mist. The boat trip was amazing, such a wonderful experience. We got off the boat and had time to grab our souviner photo before being rushed straight onto our bus again and crossing the border back into the US, we were back on the US side at 2.45!! We then were taken to Goat Island a viewing point of the falls on the US side, we had 30 minutes to have a quick look and back on the bus for 3.30. From here we were taken to Buffalo airport where we were to get the 5.25pm flight home to JFK.....alas.....this flight did not happen...to be honest I dont think there ever was a flight home!!!! The company didn't try to get us another flight!!!! We were told 2 other groups would be joining us and we would be coach driven home to New York which would be a 6 too 7 hour journey!!! Needless to say there were some very, very unhappy people with many questions left unanswered.We had two comfort stops during our journey home and as promised arrived at Times Square at 1.45am....this was the only part of the trip which went to plan!! On booking this trip we were led to believe that we would have 3 hrs at EACH side of the Falls...this was totally misleading...we had from 12.00 to 3.30 and lunch time had to be taken out of this. We have been on many guided trip such as this in the past and have never been rushed or treated in a manner such as this before. We have never been contacted by the company with regard to compensating us in any way....I feel they took our money and ran, knowing they probably would never see us again. We were the lucky ones!! Two couples had flights out from JFK at 5am the next day and it cost them 600 dollars on top of their tour price to get another flight to JFK. Basically what I would say is that for the price, it was very very poor value for money, I wish we had of paid a little more and gone with another company, please reconsider before you book with Bedore Travel....they do not fulfil their promises. Mark, Leanne & Matthew Smylie from Northern Ireland