Travel Reviews

Here are what REAL Travelers who came on tour with us
over the years have said about our tours, guides, etc…

• Overall, I am incredibly happy that I chose to do the Yellowstone Explorer trip with Au Pair Adventures. The trip completely lived up to my expectations, and in some ways, it even exceeded them. Yellowstone and Grand Teton were absolutely beautiful, the itinerary was well planned, the food was amazing, and Triston was an incredible tour guide. But most importantly, the people I met made this trip something I will never forget. I went into this trip expecting to see some beautiful places and have a fun week. I didn’t expect to leave with such a close group of friends and so many memories. I would genuinely recommend this trip to other au pairs, and I would absolutely do it again. Thank you so much for putting this adventure together and for giving us the opportunity to experience these incredible places together. And a special thank you to Triston for making the week so much fun, keeping everything running smoothly, answering all of our questions, making incredible food, and creating such a great atmosphere for the group. We truly couldn’t have asked for a better guide! Thank you again for checking in and for giving me the opportunity to share my feedback. I hope this helps you continue making these trips even better, because I honestly had an amazing time and will remember this adventure for a very long time. ❤️

• Who on earth can say, he/she swam with sea turtles and colorful fish and felt like in Finding Nemo, walked through a lava tube and volcanoes and felt like in live Geography lessons, walked through the rainforest/jungle and felt like Tarzan, saw whales in the ocean and felt like in Free Willy, was on the US best beach and felt like in a paradise, had a lot of fun with the Boogie Boards and felt like a surfer and met a bunch of really nice people from all over the world – and everything on Hawaii?! It was an awesome week and the best vacation in my life!!! :))

• Casey was the best tourguide ever:) joe was super cool to;) sunset sailing and limoparty were great! Nice stops we had on tour! Food provided was always super good;) got fruit and pizza i wanted;) equipment was good well organized tour

• The trip was amazing! It was even better than I expected. I met so many nice people. I am really looking forward to booking my next trip with APA. Thank you for all your hard work to make this happen, our tour guide did a great job, everyone loved her, all destinations were amazing, we made an unforgettable memories

• I really liked the Las Vegas hotel, it was close to the strip, roomy and clean! My favorite camp ground was at Grand Canyon. Loved the woods and the cool night temperature!

• I had the best time ever on the Yellowstone trip! I didn’t have many expectations before I did the trip and I didn’t know how it was gonna be but it was everything I expected and more! Emily made this trip so special, she had everything figured out for us and even provided extra stops to some spots we wanted to see that weren’t on the agenda! The food was so good and the camping gear was easy to handle as well! I will definitely do another trip with you guys and hope every tour guide will be as amazing as Emily was!

• I can just say. It was such a great trip. Honestly the best decision I could have made for my travel month. The first reason for this awesome experience was our tour guide Emily. She did not only the professional side of this job perfectly and drove us everywhere, but she also was super nice and felt like just another participant on the trip. She knew a lot about the places we went to and tried to make our experience super special with special tips or ideas from her, be it eating clam chowder out of a breadbowl in San Francisco, swimming up the river in Yosemite, or closing our eyes so our first look of Grand Canyon would be free without anything in the way. I know that Emily is leaving your company, but I have no doubt that your other tour guides also give everyone a great experience. But for us Emily did it the best. The schedule is great and we got to see so many things. One thing, that I would change if I could, is that one day of our time in San Diego, is given to San Francisco. I would have enjoyed two nights in San Francisco more and one night in San Diego would have been enough. Other than that I feel like the schedule was good. I had soo much fun and loved the time on the trip. I will keep this memories forever. But I can see that for some au pairs it is hard to take two weeks of with our limited vacation time. I really hope that you will have more participants again next season because you do really cool things. I recommended you to my friends.

• I had an absolutely amazing time on the trip ? Our tour guide (Julia) was/is awesome! What I really love about the tour is that you get to know so many different people, that you see and experience so much in such a short time, that you get to sleep outside under the stars and that you get to do things that ou wouldn’t do as a normal tourist. Honestly, I don’t have anything to complain about! Thank you guys for offering such a great tour 🙂

• Thank yous so much for an amazing trip! It was the perfect way to end my au pair year and experience I will never forget. I’m so glad I decided to take this adventure. I had the opportunity to visit so many incredible places, meet wonderful people, and make memories that will stay with me for a lifetime. Everything was well organized, and the entire experience was filled with adventure, laughter, and special moments. I would absolutely recommend this tour to other au pairs looking for a special way to complete their year in the United States!

• I really liked the guides. They encourage the group to have fun, to hiking, to do skydiving and they also are part of our group.

• everything was just easy going….we had enough time on our own and on the otherwise the tour guides were there ! just the right amount.

• I like the combination of camping and hotels. The Limoride in Vegas was awesome. And we had a enough time in the nationalparks and did what we wanted to do. Our guide was an awesome Tourguide and we had a lot of fun

• Everything is just awesome! Julia and Casey are awesome tourguides, JOE IS AWESOME! You can see, you can feel all the time how much you guys really want us to have an awesome time and that you want that with us! THANK YOU!!!

• I saw the most amazing places I’ve ever seen!

• Meals were excellent! On the first days both guides figured out quickly that we girls and one boy can eat a lot. I appreciated that they always bought a lot of healthy food. Also we had some vegetarians and one vegan girl in our group, but the guides totally respected that and bought extra tofu and things like that.

• The organisation of the trip is top! It is very comfortable to know somebody has a plan and you just follow and get to see lots of fun thinks.

• I love that I made so many new friends and it feels like I’ve known them forever. That’s probably my favourite thing about the whole trip. We kind of felt like a family in the end cause we all took care of each other and worked as a team:) It was really hard to say goodbye! I wish I could do it all over again!!

• I really loved travelling around it the Van, since it makes you get to know you Group a lot better and makes you develop a better and closer group-dynamic.

• This tour was awesome and so different but in a positive way to other tours because you didn’t have the feeling that you guys try to get our money. Everything what you want to do is your own choise and everything is based on to have fun and this is great.

• Omg the whole trip was awesome! It couldn’t have been better! Good organized, great people and our Travelguide was the best!!!!

• The campground on lake Havasu was beautiful! But also in Grand Canyon NP with all the elks around! The hostel in Santa Monica was great! The best hostel i’ve ever been in! But all places we stayed were really good!

• Breathtaking landscape!

• It was just awesome!! It was totally amazing what we did what we saw. We all had the time of our life. Our tour guides were absolute amazing they did everything for us and made this trip to what it was. They did a really great job. I would do this tour every year !!

• I really liked the fact that everything was organized so well and we could just enjoy this awesome tour.

• It was very good that they went food shopping, but also asked us what we all wanted to eat – and so on!

• This was the best week in my entire life!!!!!!

• I loved the tour. I didn’t exppect it to be that great because it was such a short time to visit all of those palces but the time was enough and everything was perfect.

• Our tour guides new a lot about the places we visited, and that made me get a better understanding about it – which always is more fun! Plus, I loved the great Grand Canyon and cozy Lake Havasu, and Las Vegas and L.A were so cool!

• Our guide was always in a good mood and showed us a lot of secret places and organized many fun things to do.

• I really loved our guides and that they was around our age, because we had an awesome time together! I also love there was some days with camping and some where we stayed at hostels.

• We were alot of girls – but still, we had a great time! We had a schedule, but it was still relaxed and we could enjoy the time we had!

• We have had activities together but we were able to plan activities by our own. I feel like it was the right combination. Our guide was very enthusiastic and you were able to see that he puts lots of effort in his work. He was always around, answered questions and kept in contact with everyone.

• I enjoyed having most of the meals included in the price so we didn’t have to search for places where we could eat. The amount was also enough.

• My guide was always talked about everything we saw and told us about old trees the mountains and everything. We really learned a lot from him. The food was great we always had veg’s and fruit. Always really good food and we also got to choose a bit. The selection was really really good and we were perfectly prepared for every day!! Awesome !!

• Our guide was the best! So much fun, so much knowledge and always in a good mood!

• I’d defiantly recommend other people to do it! Our tour guides was great, SO much fun. They were joking and so on, but also had everything under control – and knew what they were doing! Thumbs up!

• We had a really good tour guide and it was a lot of fun. I loved the places we vistited and the things we did.

• It was fantastic. We saw a lot of places and I feel like through the knowledge of a tour guide we stopped at the right locations for sightseeing.

• I am a vegetarian and I was surprised that they had vegetarian meals with them…even though they didn´t know there are any vegetarians. Food was always enough and great.

• Loved our tour guides!

• I was nervous about traveling alone, but everyone connected so far before the trip, the whatsApp chat was so helpful. It was like our adventure started a month early. Everyone came alone so I think you should advertise that, I was nervous before I knew everyone else was traveling alone so that was a nice surprise. It felt like we had already known each other forever when the trip started. I liked the van, and being in a smaller group not a big bus was better than I expected. I don't really like camping until this trip, you changed my opinion. I know i't helping keep the price down, but it's better experience and adventure to have this opportunity. The days were long and there was so much to see and we didn't sleep much so I need to sleep for a whole day after the trip. We were exhausted and hardly slept, but because we were having so much fun and excitement. Vegas was CRAZY. Our guides kept everything organized while still making the trip feel relaxed, and totally spontaneous, and like it was a real adventure, people don't know! You guys know, thanks you!! I recommend to my au pair friends 🙂

• I loved both of them (guides)! I almost cried when they left us. They will always be in my mind as the best and funniest Tourguides ever ! I ll think of them everytime someone says “SWEET!” haha

• I really liked the tour and would totally do it again 🙂

• I had a great trip, I don't have any advice on ho to make it better. We has the best week, I think I was luck my group was some amazing girls from all over we really connected. The guide did great job, we had good food and made camp nights comfortable. Having the Hotel, hostel and camping all in one week make the trip fun and not too worried about camping for a whole wek. I didn't know the camp spots would be so nice with showers and nice they have laundry and a store.

• I came on this trip not knowing anyone and left with friends from all over the world. It really felt like one big road trip with friends so that was so special. This was honestly one of the best experiences of my year. We saw so many incredible places, laughed constantly, and made memories I’ll never forget.

• Getting in a little SUP session on the Merced river on the Western Sun tour, Yosemite NP