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Adventure Hummer Tours

Adventure Hummer Tours

Adventure Hummer Tours
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7:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Monday
7:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Tuesday
7:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Wednesday
7:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Thursday
7:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Friday
7:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Saturday
7:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Sunday
7:00 AM - 7:00 PM
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Looking for the highlight of your Palm Springs vacation? Take an adventure aboard our open-air Hummers to the San Andreas Fault and Joshua Tree National Park with our expert naturalist guides. Morning and afternoon tours are offered daily year-round. Climb to over 5,000 feet to Eureka Point in Joshua Tree where you can see all the way to Mexico! Consistently Voted #1 Tour.
Palm Springs, California

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Shawn A
Springfield, VA26 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Jul 2023 • Family
The owner of this company worked with us to have a tour scheduled. July is their downtime and most days are too hot to adventure. After some persistence, we found this company willing to pick us up and all included. Bob is the man! Bob gave us an experience we will talk about for our lifetimes. A bit pricey, but you get a worry-free, informative, and scenic tour of Palm Springs. I would not hesitate in recommending this company for an unforgettable outdoor experience!
Written August 14, 2023
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Thanks for your great review! Our specialty is rocks you know! There is always so much to see in Joshua Tree National Park and having a guide like Bob with so much knowledge about its natural history makes the tour definitely worthwhile! I also appreciate you mentioning how we were able to make last minute adjustments to your adventure due to the extreme heat of the day.
Written August 15, 2023
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Donna R
22 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Feb 2020
Going in February, we choose the closed vehicle, and very glad we did as it was pretty cool and breezy that day. Josh, our tour guide, was enthusiastic and quite knowledgeable about the area. We got out of the vehicle numerous times to see the beautiful scenery. The tour may seem a little pricey but well worth it! Definitely recommending this trip.
Written February 25, 2020
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ecifuen1
Pittsburgh, PA2 contributions
4.0 of 5 bubbles
Feb 2019 • Couples
We were looking forward to the adventure of the Hummer Tour in Joshua Tree Park, however, the temperatures were on the cold side the day of our tour so we were offer the alternative to ride the van instead, decision we made as a group with other 3 couples. Even though we didn't ride the Hummer the tour was pleasant and informative. Louis was a great tour guide, very enthusiastic and knowledgeable about the area. He was very accommodating, trying to satisfy everyone's needs. The price was on the high side.
Written February 18, 2019
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dontrelle_8
Watertown, WI4 contributions
1.0 of 5 bubbles
Jun 2013 • Family
I just returned home from a vacation out to Palm Springs with my wife and her entire family. There were 8 of us that went on the 3 hour San Andreas Fault Tour (We went on the 4-7 tour on June 25th). We were all very excited to go on this tour because it had been recommended to us. I spent over an hour in the days prior reading reviews from Trip Advisor on people's past experience with their tour. Needless to say, we were all very excited to go. It started off with our tour guide showing up a few minutes late. Then, we had to stop at a gas station so that he could get ice to put in the cooler. In my opinion, this should be done BEFORE we are even picked up. We found out that this was his only tour of the day so there is absolutely no way that the cooler should not have been full with ice. Throughout the entire tour, we felt extremely rushed. On their website, it is advertised that an hour is spent off the hummer which allows for walking around/taking pictures. I am a huge photographer and very much enjoy taking pictures. This was my first time out to California and I was looking forward to being able to walk around and take pictures at the different places. We had nowhere near an hour of being able to walk around and take pictures. When we got to the turnaround spot up for the hummer ride (which is what I will call it, instead of a tour) we were off the hummer long enough for our tour guide to walk off and go to the bathroom and for me to take a few pictures in about 15 minutes. Not at all what is advertised. The other thing that bothered me was a couple of times I saw our tour guide pull out his phone during the tour because he "got a message." The only time he should have done that is when he got the message from his office and had to call to let them know that we got out of the canyon. Very unprofessional. The next thing is that on the way down, music is played. Is it really too much to ask for the playlist to be put together beforehand? Every time a song was done, he would have to stop (not very smoothly either) and find the next song. In my opinion, this shows lack of preparation. The final straw for me was the time we arrived BACK AT OUR RESORT. We pulled in and got out of the hummer at 6:38. That is 22 minutes short of the minimum time. We booked the 3 hour tour, not the under 2 1/2 hour tour. For a professional tour company, the #1 hummer tour company for Palm Springs, this is extremely unprofessional. When we looked at the time his reply was, "sorry folks, I didn't know that we would be back here that quickly." That is completely unbelievable. He has been doing these tours for years. He knows exactly how long it takes to get from point A to point B. There is no reason we should have showed up back at our resort that early. This is not a cheap tour. It was $79 per person. We were all extremely disappointed that we paid that amount of money for that "tour." I do not and will not recommend going on this tour. You would be much better off going into Joshua Tree on your own and go on a tour guided there. You would have more time to walk around and do things on your own. This is a $79 hummer ride. I also looked for a way to send them a message to share my unhappiness with the day. There is nothing on their website for me to do that. The next thing I checked out was Facebook. I sent a message on Wednesday and still have not heard back. I just checked and there has been activity on there 6 hours ago. For a professional tour company to not follow up with a displeased customer or, dare I say, offer an "apology" is sort of baffling to me. At first when we got back I wasn't so displeased about the experience, but the more that I think about it and the more that I go back on their website and read about this tour, the more displeased I am. It was a waste of $79. I also wanted to leave my experience here so that others can read about what my family and I experienced. Thank you for your time.
Written June 29, 2013
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We are disappointed that this guest did not inform his private guide he wanted to stay longer. Our guides base there decisions on the private tours interests. Our time log shows that he only was 10 minutes short on his tour. It was a hot day and we understand that guests can decide to leave various walking sites earlier. We have informed the guide and asked him to try to be more punctual. The guide was Louis Cannata who earned a medal of Valor from the governor of California and is one of the best in the business. He is discouraged that this review only dealt with changing songs for the guest on the stereo. We only strive to offer the BEST service.
Written July 27, 2013
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ScotlandTheMacs
Perth, UK65 contributions
1.0 of 5 bubbles
We booked a Hummer tour and paid by pre paid dollar card by phone. The tour was cancelled, we were told because of vehicle failure but someone else in the company told us that the minimum number wasn't reached. Biggest problem; the company had charged our card twice and refunded only once. Despite repeated calls to the office I got no help whatsoever, no reply to email communication and I therefore was unable to use $250 worth of spending money until a week after returning to the UK...when it was of little use to me. Disappointing experience. Wonder if their attitude would have been different if I had accidentally got their money?
Written December 19, 2009
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Keskeret
Vancouver36 contributions
2.0 of 5 bubbles
$129USD++ per person for a four hour tour of the Colorado and Mojave Desert that takes in Joshua Tree National Park. The tour commenced with a pickup in Palm Desert at the local Mortons steakhouse. Your ride is an open air hummer that allegedly had seen time twenty years ago in the Gulf War.

It is cold in the desert mornings so you are provided with blankets to to keep warm. (Note to operator - please give the blankets an occasional launder!). The first stop in the Colorado Desert was to a palm tree oasis fed by water that has gurgled to the surface from plate action in the San Andreas fault. The advertised "walk on a bridge" consisted of stepping on a few boards across the oasis mud. The tour could have used more time at the early settlement cabin to explore what looked to be very interesting artifacts.

The second portion of the tour involved a trip to Joshua Tree National Park. This is where the advantages of an open air hummer came into play. Your field of vision is much improved when you can look up and all around as you are wending your way into canyons. The hummer showed it's capability over a regular 4X4 on the bumpy trails.

The tour included "snack and refreshment". We were provided with water...and a small bag of potato chips or cheezies. Chips and cheezies??!! Oh c'mon! Did the local Ralph's run out of fruit, granola bars, local dates, trail mix, and fresh baked oatmeal raisin cookies?

In Joshua Tree National Park you have a chance to get out of the hummer and hike up one of the hills for a view of the surrounding Mojave desert. The commune with nature was spoiled a tad when the tour operator crumbled and threw the contents of a bag of day-glo cheezies out to attract the local ground squirrels...

Portions of this tour were informative and worth seeing if you have never seen the desert before. But for the cost $129-$159pp and value for money...well if you have the time and nothing else to spend your money on, then give it a go.
Written January 31, 2010
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gerardo b
San Diego, CA3 contributions
1.0 of 5 bubbles
Aug 2012 • Couples
when you make your reservations they are very clear that if you need to cancel you need to do it at least 48-72 hrs in advance.my reservations was made for the sunset tour(3:30pm) on saturday Aug 4th 2012.
Bill called me on saturday Aug 4th the day of my tour around 1:30 pm to let me know that the tour has been cancel............ really 2 hrs before!!!! i was already in Palm Springs and that was one of the ONLY reasons for us to go to Palm Springs.
But yet my credit card was charged for the tour the day of the reservation.I will up date to see how long they'll take to refund my credit card.
Written August 6, 2012
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It was 115 degrees that day in the desert, all guests besides this hardy customer did not want to go that day and provided a cancellation. This guest was offered a 50% discount on a private air conditioned tour and even a free ticket for another date. Yet, the refused the offer. Just as is the case with other Jeep or the other Hummer company in town, we require at least 4 persons on our tours for our lowest published rate. Hopefully this guest will take us up on our offer for a discounted tour or settle for a private tour in our new H2 air conditioned tour. Cheers
Written August 10, 2012
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SkyHighTravelLover
IAH87 contributions
3.0 of 5 bubbles
Feb 2013 • Friends
We took the 4 hour sunset Hummer tour of Joshua Tree national park, which includes San Andreas fault. It costed $150/person after discount and taxes.
We parked our car at the main pick up location. There were plenty of parking spaces and the area looked safe.
Our first stop was " Coachella Preserve", an Oasis in San Andreas fault. Though the place looked nice but you don't need Hummer to go there. You could go by yourself and spend as much time as you want. It's free to get in.
It's totally not worth to be included as a major highlight in the tour. I would rather spend less money and go only to Joshua tree national park.
Also, 3 hour San Andreas tour and 4 hour Joushua tour are pretty much the same except you travel a little bit deeper into the park in the latter.
Then we went directly towards Joshua tree national park via Berdoo canyon road, which is free to enter by private vehicles. Before you enter the national park thru this road, there is a open shooting range. People come with their guns (all kinds) and play shooting targets. It's very sad that they leave too much trash behind.
Then we traveled about 13 miles on Berdoo canyon road to a view point in the park, where you get some time off to walk and take pictures, and then turn around & ride back on the same road.
The road was really tough & hard to navigate at few points but overall it's just a bumpy wash road surrounded by canyon walls. You get 2 stops in the tour where you can get off, walk and talk pictures.
On their website they mentioned "We take you where no one else can go to explore this magical place". This made us to think that we really need a monstrous 4x4 like H1 to travel this road but we were disappointed to see lot of smaller SUVs doing fine on this road including a Ford Escape.
There were lot of vehicles on this road on that day. 4x4 high clearance is recommended but it is definitely not true to say "We go where H2 Hummers and Jeeps dare not go". I didn't see any such place in the tour. All 4x4 vehicles did just fine.
You don't get to see many Joshua trees on this road and also you WILL NOT be seeing the prettiest parts or famous points of the park. If you really want to see Joshua Tree national park this is NOT a good choice, no matter what their website says.
This is basically an off road experience in a H1 Hummer rather than visiting or enjoying the national park. If you have done many off roading before then this tour probably won't amuse you much.
H1 is huge and really comfortable. Water and granola bars were provided.
Our guide was friendly and knowledgeable. He knows the area very well and made the tour more interesting. Though we did enjoy the tour but felt little disappointed at the end because we felt the value of the tour is less than what we paid.
Written February 21, 2013
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Heather B
Greater Gettysburg, PA16 contributions
3.0 of 5 bubbles
The Palm Desert area is absolutely breath-taking, so it's very cool when you are able to maneauver a vehicle in canyons and up mountains and all over the desert. The problem; it's basically the same scenery for 4 hours. The ride itself was not uncomfortable; not bumpy. My boyfriend and I were the only ones on the tour, so it was nice not having to "put up" with other people. It worried me that there was no bathroom for me to utilize for 3 hours, but we stopped at the little oasis bathrooms first thing, so that helped. The heat was incredible; awfully hot! I just thought there would be more to to it for $278/person. And for that kind of money, the only snack they gave us was water and a hardended granola bar - wow. I think if they knocked the price back, it would make things a bit better.
Written September 12, 2010
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conniemoore151
Mukilteo, Washington9 contributions
1.0 of 5 bubbles
Mar 2018 • Couples
A must read before you book!

March 30, 2018 2pm -8:30pm.

Met George our driver at another resort hotel for pick up. Nice enough guy and knowledgable about the tour. George had never driven the large hummer looking van and waited for us since we were told while booking the reservation to look for a white van.

Once we picked up all the people (8 of us) then we made it to the gas station. After we left the gas station had said to my partner that the van sounds like he put in the wrong gas. I was running really rough. George said nothing. After many back fires and the van filling up with exhaust I asked George. "Hey George, did you put the wrong gas in?" He looked at the dashboard and answered " Oh I guess I did". Diesel was what it needed and he put in gas. Off we went for 50 mins of driving (George unapologetic) in a rig that smelled like fumes so much that some of us covered our faces so we could breath, The thing back fired and ran slow and I asked if it was safe to drive. Georges answer "umm I think so". Barely got to the stopping point to get the hummer! This thing chugged up the last bit of the hill.

We then switched vehicles and off we went to Joshua Tree. Cool to see the sites but had no time to spend up there. Maybe 15 mins. We got the sense he was behind schedule. Leaving to go back down, they had sent someone to check on us since we were so late.

Got to the meeting place and switched over to another van to take us all back to the resort. I am in the front seat with George driving. I felt totally unsafe. He drove too fast and especially with a preteen in the car with us. At one point I see him doing 97mph in a 50 zone and I finally call him out. "Hey are you really doing 97mph?" Georges answer "umm oh I guess I am". I say to him he needs to slow it down as we have a kid in the back. He does and the rest of the ride (20 more mins) was fine.
This outfit in unsafe and I will be calling to get a full refund. There is no regard for our safety. Not once did they make us put on seat belts. We were in an open rig. They just do not care. That was obvious.

I see the bad reviews they get and the owners always come back with something. Well, on this one, there is no come back Mr owner except a full refund! You cannot deny how unsafe he was or how he ruined a hummer with putting gas in instead of diesel and we all suffered from the fumes for 50 mins. Terrible! You should be ashamed. All I want to hear is how you are going to correct this for future customers.
Written April 4, 2018
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Thank you for a well needed review of this horrible day. As you said, our new guide, put gas in a diesel! It may not seem like a big thing to most - but, it was HUGE! It is even an easy thing to do after a second shift among 10 vehicles each requiring gas or diesel. BUT, This alone may cost an entire engine. What concerns me more is the reported speed you are clear about. It is the policy of this company to terminate a driver for excessive speeds. Unfortunately, the van you were in was a rental and was not equipped with our GPS tracking. As this was not available, I would normally FIRE such an employee. But, I do not have sufficient evidence behind your most sincere report. The employee has been dealt with. FULL REFUND GRANTED- with apologies. Jerry -
Written April 10, 2018
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