Hoover Dam Tours

... at the Backstage Cafe. 7:45 get picked up for tour. Explore Hoover Dam. Get back to Luxor at lunchtime. Reality: Breakfast Our Hoover Dam tour is this morning.  We got up and went to get breakfast at the Backstage Deli right next to our ...

... River. The views of the Hoover Dam from the bridge were awesome - views previously reserved for helicopter tours only. Given Darren had been to Hoover Dam previously the new bridge was of more interest to him as it had not commenced construction when he ...

... we weer door een cotnrole met scanners voor de tassen. Daarna kunnen we op weg naar de kassa. Hier blijken de kaarten voor de Hoover Dam tour uitverkocht. Ze hebben nog wel kaarten voor de power plant tour. Dus nemen we die. Nu konden we in de rij staan ...

We couldn't make it to Vegas without a stop at the Hoover Dam. A narrow road snaked through a few valleys and canyons and opened up to a great big lake before taking us back into a constricting passage and then we saw it. The Hover Dam. We were too late ...

... Navigator). Then it was off to the Hoover Dam (guided by the GPS with Mark & Cytrina passing on the directions). The Hoover Dam was amazing - wow. We paid for parking ($7) and then just walked around the outside (skipping the Visitor Centre and other ...

Today was an exciting day, we got to experience the immensity of the Hoover Dam in person. There really is no way to explain with words or pictures what its like to actually be there. Luckily for us, our campsite is only about a 20 minute drive from the ...

... lunch but when am I next gonna have the opportunity to see the Grand Canyon so why not hey! The first stop was the Hoover Dam - I've seen programs on it before and seen videos and studied it in geography so I wasn't expecting to be that impressed ...

On the way to Las Vegas we stopped at the amazing Hoover Dam to see what that was all about. It's an awesome place - built in the 30's in the wake of the depression, this project put thousands of men to work on one of the world's biggest engineering ...

Drove from Vegas (late as usual) to the Hoover Dam about 26 miles away. We drove across the Dam after going through security as its the 6th biggest terrorist target in the US. After parking up in the RV car park we walked to the Tours office in 126f heat ...

... many more. I am numb to them. We didn't realise it when booking but we inadvertantly had booked through Tickets for Today a tour to the Hoover Dam with a company called Comedy on Deck. The idea behind it is that the tour is given in an amusing way. When I ...

... Hotel.  So, we swung around to pick up the couple at the Stratosphere Hotel before heading out.  Destination Hoover Dam was about an hour away along highway US93! Having never been to Hoover Dam, I didn't know that ...

Hello again! And so, from Vegas it was a hour or so to the Hoover Dam on the Nevada-Arizona border. Rising more than 700 feet above the raging waters of the Colorado River, it was called one of the greatest engineering works in history. The dam built ...

... a fantastic night which ended at 4am!!!!   The next day, we packed up, checked out and drove to the Grand Canyon via Hoover Dam. It  wasn't that far away. I had heard of the infamous Dam but not extensively. We had already seen some whopper ...

... the slightest, even though you fly at 125MPH at 1200feet. The views are nothing short of spectacular, we flew over the dessert to Hoover dam (looks small actually, tho I have a feeling it’s a lot bigger at 10 feet) then followed the river across ...

... day trip.                 Plenty of tour companies offer Hoover Dam tours.  The guides will take you across the top of the dam and tell you the history of this amazing feat of ...

... into the palm of a hand. Talk about slow developers! We then headed off to our final stop of the day – the Hoover Dam. A remarkable feat of engineering, built during the Great Depression. Workers earned a pittance and had to work all but 4 days of ...

... , I got on the highway and headed west (still) to the Hoover Dam. Insert some dam joke here. Lots of people visit the Hoover Dam. I mean, it was packed. Go figure. But it is pretty amazing. It sits right across the dividing line between Nevada and ...

... temperature of 47 degrees Celsius.  The next stop was the western section of the Grand Canyon - which is approximately 140km from the Hoover Dam wall. After driving for a few hours and since it was getting dark, we decided to stay in a little town ...

... have been and what routes we took. Heading out the route to Los Vegas being a well marked route and took us over the Hoover Dam. A security check and vehicle search spot before the dam was carried out by Homeland security. The guy took a liking to ...

... was exhausted, we had to comfort stops oin the way home, the bus driver pulled over into the stopping lane while passing the hoover dam and it is magnificent at night!! hoepfully Scott has some decent photos, I could n9ot get any!! We went back and did a ...