Hallo Leute.
Ich weiß, das Thema war schon mal vor einiger Zeit dran, aber ich finde es nicht mehr. Hier noch ein Bericht von einer amerik Freundin über ihren Besuch beim Skywalk.
Ich wüsste gerne, wer von Euch schon am Skywalk war und welche Erfahrungen ihr gemacht habt.
Gruß
Elli
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Chris wanted to see the new "thing" at the Grand Canyon , so we went
this weekend. It is advertised as $25.00 to go out on the skywalk and
the pictures show a beautiful building next to the walkway. Well;
they are not quite "HONEST." It is $25.00 to go on the skywalk, but
it is $50.00 to be on the reservation. You find this out after what
they say is a 1 hour trip down a 57-mile dirt road. Wrong! this dirt
road is 57-mile alright; the fastest you can go is 25 mph; you do the
math!!! So, after this long drive you get the good news it is $75.00
a person!!
Chris said maybe we should forget it; I said after that road we are
not coming back so get out the damn credit card out. Then you get on
their bus for a 10-min ride to the "walkway"; built in one of the
ugliest place on the whole Grand Canyon; not a tree to be seen and
the water is grey below! Their building is not started, so you have a
trailer to go into to go through a metal detector and leave your
camera and purse in the trailer. The walkway glass was cracked which
lead me to believe they may have a few engineering glitches and I got
my ass off the thing right away after seeing that! Believe me it is
not as big or long as it looks on TV. They do give you a buffet
lunch, with your ticket, at "Guano" (means poop) Point. The Indians
used to go over the cliff here to pick up bird shit to use for Makeup
(war paint). You get to sit in one of the windiest places on earth to
eat your chicken or ribs covered with blowing dirt. We passed on the
lunch. There are buses leaving every 10-15 min with 52 people on
board at $75.00 per person $3,900.00 per bus from 8:00 am until 6:30
pm. That's $156,000.00 per day! I guess they are making a lot of
money. They are flying people in from Vegas and Laughlin to go see
this thing! I guess the Indians are smart; but not so honest about
all the details of the activity. We had to stop and change a tire for
a young girl who took her grandparents out there. They had the right
kind of car and good tires; but the road is terrible, they blew out
the side wall of the tire. They must have hit the side of the road
and a big rock. They did not know where the spare tire was and were
completely helpless. The tow truck would have come out there but it
would have been 2.5 hours and $400.00! The girl was very scared and
grateful we stopped to help. Some guys stopped to ask if this was the
right way to the Skywalk. Grandpa yelled out go back it is not worth
it!! One last detail, the hotel the Indians run to accommodat e this
adventure looks great online, but the sign at check in says "SINCE
THE TRAINS COME BY EVERY 10 -15 MINS PLEASE ASK FOR THE FREE EAR
PLUGS". We immediately cancelled our reservations and made it to
Kingman , AZ for the night. We got up at 6am and got the hell out of
Arizona!