Grand Canyon Trips: Heli, Plane Rides For Valentine's Day (Feb. 14)

Grand Canyon Trips: Heli, Plane Rides For Valentine's Day (Feb. 14)

by Beth Adams

Are you planning to celebrate Valentine's Day in style by heading to Vegas? You can make your trip even more memorable with a Grand Canyon helicopter or plane tour. You'll see many beautiful sights, which is very romantic when you tour with someone you love, but Valentine's Day is a busy time at the Canyon, so you need to book your tour as soon as you can.

Flights from Vegas go to the West Rim and the South Rim, which is farther away in Arizona. Tours depart hourly on Valentine's Day, just like they do every day of the year. There are two basic tour options that let you choose an air-only tour or one that lands at the Canyon.

If you choose a West Rim tour, your helicopter is allowed to descend into the Canyon and land on the bottom near the Colorado River. As you can imagine, these tours are popular, so they sell out fast, and that's why you need to go online and buy your tour as soon as you can. It's a good idea to book your tour when you make your hotel reservations so you don't put it off and forget. Waiting too long means you risk paying more for your seats if you can find any available.

Touring By Helicopter

Helicopters fly over Lake Mead and the mighty Hoover Dam on the way to the Canyon. Once at the National Park, you will complete a scenic flyover, before heading back to Las Vegas. If you choose a landing tour, you will have some more time to explore. I prefer landing tours because they offer more adventure. My favorite is the one that goes to the bottom of the Canyon, and it even includes a Champagne picnic, which is perfect for Valentine's Day. There's even the Skywalk at the West Rim - an impressive glass platform that is 4000ft above the bottom.

If you want to take a helicopter tour of the South Rim from Vegas, you'll begin with a plane ride to the rim and then you'll choose a 30 or 50 minute helicopter tour. The shorter flight tours the North and South Rims. The longer tour goes over the South and North Rims and also includes a jaunt to the eastern boundary of the park, so in all, it covers about 75 percent of the whole National Park. It is worth the extra expense to take the longer tour because you see so much of the park.

Touring By Airplane

Although the airplanes follow the same flight path as the helicopters that fly out of Vegas, there are a couple of differences, such as the airplanes fly higher and they can't fly into the Canyon and land on the bottom. Also, the airplanes can transport 19 people per tour and the helicopters can only take six. That makes an airplane tour the best choice when you're traveling with a big group of people.

Airplanes can't fly to the bottom, but they can land on top of the rim, so you can still enjoy all the fun activities at the Canyon including taking a helicopter ride to the Canyon floor. When you take a plane tour of the South Rim, your airplane follows the same path as the longer helicopter tour. If you want a land experience at the South Rim, you can add on a scenic 2 1/2 hour bus tour through the park.

Airplane tours are more affordable, but they do sacrifice some of the visibility that you get while in a helicopter. Deluxe helicopters offer 180degree views from the front, whereas airplanes are limited to the oversized windows next to your seat.

Conclusion

There's no better time to visit the Canyon and Vegas than on Valentine's Day. The tours are available at different price ranges, so to have the best experience, you'll want to spend as much as your budget allows. When it comes to adding on tour options, you get what you pay for, so the more, the better. Two of the best options to consider are the longer helicopter tour of the South Rim, and the landing tour of the West Rim that comes with a Champagne picnic on the Canyon floor.

Choose one that suits you, and make this Valentine's Day the best one yet.



Grand Canyon specialist Beth Adams is a huge fan of <a href="http://grandcanyondaytrips.com/tours/"><b>these Canyon tours</b></a> and suggests readers visit here for a list of the top heli and plane rides for Valentine's: <a href="http://www.grandcanyondaytrips.com/grand-canyon-flights-helicopter-airplane-tours/"><b>http://www.grandcanyondaytrips.com/grand-canyon-flights-helicopter-airplane-tours/</b></a>

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