07 Feb 2023
Absolutely not worth it. The owner and driver were clearly not interested in tailoring anything to us. He was mostly focused on how many times he could take use to his recommended shops (where he got a cut of what we bought) even after we told him no more shops! Basically this tour is 10-13 hour days sitting in the back of a van in the desert. Owner will point out the window and say a few sentences about a town as you drive past it. We stopped once in morning and once in afternoon to take pictures and then back in the van for several hours. Boring as hell. He would take us to basically pit stop restaurants where we’d have to eat in the tourist section (paying ten times the cost) while he hid somewhere in the back to eat with locals. Food was bland. Literally… a tangine was steamed veggies and piece of chicken but no salt/spice. We mentioned it to him and he just kept taking us to the crappy food places (likely so he could get a cut). He said many tourists done like salt. WTH. He provided no water or SIM card. On the last day he offered his hot spot when we had just four hours left bouncing around in the back of the van. This is an overpriced car ride from sunrise until sunset. Only cool experience was camel ride but of course it was dark by the time we got there from our 13 van drive.