TripAdvisor is a valued website for travel fans, luxury or otherwise. The Popularity Index on TripAdvisor measures users' best choices within and between destinations. One of this column's favorite new Popularity Indexes is the America's Top 10 Tours. The most popular organized tours in the United States are both wide-ranging and interesting, and luxury travelers would likely enjoy most of them. This is an ordered list, however, even the 10th most popular tour in America is fantastic and fun. Of TripAdvisor's top ten list, these are Luxury Travel's most diverse picks to best supplement a luxury vacation.
Luxury Travel's Best of TripAdvisor's Top 10 Tours
Wings Over Kauai
Hawaii is one of the best tropical vacation destinations in North America. Luxury resorts in Kauai are wonderful, and the outdoor adventure opportunities seem endless on this westernmost vacation island in the chain. The Wings Over Kauai tour is a tour by airplane, which helps travelers really understand the scope, and wildness, of Kauai. From the Na Pali Coast, to Waimea Canyon, up to Hanalei, Kauai has more rugged, undeveloped land than any other populated Hawaiian island. Wings Over Kauai allows tourists to see it all.
Real New York Tours
Even long-time New Yorkers may not know their city as well as the Real New York guides, in fact, they probably don't. Luxury Travel had the unpleasant experience of listening to a bus tour guide literally make facts up about the city during a tour of downtown NYC; rest assured, the Real New York guides never stoop to this low. The Real New York guides don't only go over the popular highlights of the city, but lesser-known areas and historic details that provide a real sense of the city.
Soaring Tree Top Adventures
Durango, Colorado is a popular ski town in the winter, with fly fishing, mountain biking, and rafting when the snow's gone. An outdoor adventurer's delight, Durango has charming B&Bs as well as hotels and rentals. One of the best vacation tours here is Soaring Tree Top Adventures; this is a zip line course that lasts all day. It's the "largest, highest and safest zip line tour course available," according to its website (soaringtreetopadventures.com) and is accessible only by the Durango & Silverton Railroad.
These three are the most distinct of TripAdvisor's reader-generated Top 10 Tours in North America. The others are Explore Savannah (Savannah, Georgia), Wild Earth Llama Adventures (Taos, New Mexico), Savor Seattle Food Tours (Seattle, Washington), City Food Tours Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Bering Sea Crab Fisherman's Tour ( Ketchikan, Alaska), Scott's Pizza Tours (NYC, NY), and The Urban Safari (San Francisco, California). Whatever American vacation is chosen is sure to be enhanced with a unique, interesting tour of the destination.
Jennifer W. Miner - Jennifer has years of travel writing experience, spoken at several national conferences, and more. See Jendeavor.com for more details.
