Great Bus Trip!
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 1/6/11
We went to the sugar bowl with Little Rock Tours. The bus ride there was WONDEFUL, I can not praise our driver, Bernie, and Rene Boop, our guide, more. They were concerned about the traveller's comfort and took great care of us. Since it was a football excursion, Rene played fun music and videos for us and encourage spirit things like "calling the hogs" I would ride with them anywhere. The ride back was good, but the bus was hot because of a problem with the a/c, however, again, Rene and our driver offered unscheduled stops and did the very best they could. I'd still ride with them anywhere. :)
The things that went wrong and maybe could have been planned better are the following:
1. Shuttles to and from Canal Street were not timely. Many of us waited a very long time for the buses (over an hour if you just missed the one before) and while I understand traffic was bad (that's why we didn't want to drive ourselves) after the first shuttle delay, planning could have been MUCH better.
2. The hotel was HORRID!!!!!!!. I can't blame the tour group for that, except to say that better screening of where they place their guests would have avoided us spending 2 nights in a hotel who's moldy stench was unpalatable, not to mention that I didn't have hot water the first morning...actually no one did. I would have liked to have been closer to some shopping and restaurants.
Overall, the tour was good. We got to the game (unfortunately we lost) on time. The buses were parked in a different place then expected for pick up, but we found them. Little Rock tours is a good group of folks to travel with...just in the future, please review hotels better.