05 Aug 2025
A must must visit tour when in NYC. If you have only 1 day for Niagara falls then go for this. It's almost 22-24 hours (14-16 hrs in bus & 6-8 hrs at Niagara falls) tour but it's worth it.
1) Bus is not fancy but decent seats to manage 14-16 hours of travel. Don't expect too much comfort
2) Pickup time can change in last 24-48 hrs, it happened with me twice but this time was lucky as rescheduled time was within my reach & was able to agree to rescheduled time (last time had to cancel as I had other plan)
3) Bus stops every 2 hrs for toilet breakup & will also stop for breakfast/lunch (at ur own cost) if it starts in morning, in our case it was morning trip & not started at 1130pm in night
4) Post reaching, immediately they took us for Maid of Mist tour (few people purchased ticket there itself, didn't found much difference in cost, so make your choice) & this is the best part of tour. SO DON't MISS MAID OF MIST at all, this is the most fun
5) Post boat tour, we went on guided tour of Falls for about 2-3 hrs and it was all walking tour for approx 4-5 km. Our guide BRYAN was awesome & provided some very interesting facts & history
6) CAVE of WINDS was not included in tour but can be done by skipping some part of guided walk tour. Please note you will get very wet & you need to do it fast like within 1 hr & may have to take quick food instead of relaxing a bit.
7) If not doing CAVE of WINDS, they you will have decent 2 hrs to relax dine & shop before you go for fireworks show
8) Due to our morning start, firework show was possible which starts 10PM for 5 minutes, its nothing too great but good to see if your there
9) 1020PM we started & reached hotel at 6AM. Again couple of stops for toilet & stretch
It was all in all a very good tour and drivers/guide were awesome. Only 2 things due to which I slashed 1 point
> Time - it runs very tight & due to this only 1 person decided to do Cave of Winds, if we can add 2 hrs more to schedule, I don't think anyone would mind
> Bus - making seats little more comfortable & have better slide down will make trip more good