Elite Goody Tours

Me and my daughter took a tour to Washington DC. We had an excellent adventure that she will never forget. Great time and memories were created.

Amazing I highly recommended. Very Friendly and Understanding. I will 100% be using elite tours again!!!!! Life Changing thank you guys

I am nice giving 1 star. Our October 2022 trip in honor of my deceased mom was a complete rip off. I will never understand how a business can promise specific locations to visit, take your money, and be ok with the fact that they did not deliver. That is wrong on so many levels and I am reading that the problem is still happening. Don't waste your money like I did.

They did not know how to plan enough time for driving from Des Moines Iowa to Branson MO. We were ALWAYS behind.Schedule always being changed because not planned well.Bad seats at the Sight & Sound. Hardly enough time to eat some meals before getting to a show then late for the show because Applebee's wasn't prepared with staff for us.Terrible old bus that was jerky.Driver headed south at Kansas City instead of north going home. A passenger finally went up front and asked hi. Why we were going south. That put us way further behind. Passenger also had to tell him where to go in Kansas City. Office scheduled the stop at Country Club Plaza which has now been overtaken by the homeless.Office person did terrible planning. They never even passed out bottled water. On all my other bus trips they pass out water and snacks.I wouldn't travel with them.

It was a rip off tour. Most of the passengers on these tours are seniors . Savannah-Charleston We were on the bus most of the time. Didn't get a iteninary till a few days before we left. THE iteninary was over-crowded, that we didn't have time to enjoy any attraction. How do you get thru a museum in less than a hour. We stay at hotel/motel dumps with lousy cold breakfast,dirty (one smell of mold) and no baggage handler. Did not have rooms reserve 3 of the 7 nights. Ate on the run and the 2 meals they offered was for a $10 Cracker Barrel. The tour guide also didn't help we watch 4 movies, no games, no singing no fun activities and very few interesting facts. No group pictures. I would not recommend this tour company.

We were scheduled to go on their northeast tours of the leaves October 8, 2023. Didn't get the itinerary till 8 days before and that is only because I demanded it be emailed. Called the hotels that were on the itinerary and surprise surprise..... most hotels did not have the reservations like Toni and Steve told me. I canceled my trip with them! Going on our own and know we have hotels and transportation all guaranteed. Think twice before using this tour company.

ELITE GOODE MACKINAC ISLAND TOUR 2/5 This was our first and possibly last bus tour. Other than a delightful day on Mackinac Island the trip was fraught with problems. Apparently, this was the first time this tour - from Omaha to Mackinac Island was over five days - previous tours were six days. Unfortunately, the tour group didn't change the itinerary so the other stops along the way were either late or rushed or both. Accommodations were hit and miss - two of the hotels were okay and two were substandard. Only one of the hotels had a full breakfast, another was out of everything except pancakes. Our attractions included:- Abraham Lincoln Museum - outstanding but what should have been a 4-hour tour was shortened to less than two- Meijer Gardens and Sculpture - fascinating but again 2 hours when at least four was needed.- Tulip Festival - this tour description was misleading. We expected to see over five million tulips in bloom instead we set in the rain and watched a two-hour parade hosted by the city of Holland, Michigan - that apparently has 50 school marching bands. (the rain, obviously was not the fault of the tour. - Tour of Notre Dame was cancelled due to 'protestors' at the school. No other tour was substituted or suggested and we deadheaded for 12 hours back to Omaha. Meals- Lunch at Coral Ridge Mall food court that included several good options- Dinner at Peoria Water Front area was a bust. The tour guide didn't have any idea about what restaurants were there and apparently did not understand that many restaurants are closed on Monday so we ended up driving about for 45 minutes and finally parked on a side street in walking distance of a Chili's and Texas Roadhouse. - Tuesday lunch was a little better. The schedule was to eat at Wendy's . Someone suggested that dumping fifty of us at a Wendys' at noon was not a great idea so we parked in another parking lot within walking distance of a Subway and another fast-food place- Wednesday night was almost a disaster. When we stopped at Meijer Gardens at 4pm and given 2 hours to tour I mentioned to the tour guide that spending two hours (which really wasn't enough) would get us into Mackinaw City after nine oclock and most restaurants would be closed. The guide, said: "no, it is a two-hour drive." We arrived at our hotel at 10 pm. Part of the delay was the terrible storm. About three hours into the drive passengers begin to complain that the diabetics on board needed to eat. This resulted in the guide screaming at a passenger that she was "working on it." To her credit she called ahead and had several pizzas delivered to the hotel.- Lunch on Thursday was at the 'parade' and several food trucks - nice variety (a Walking Taco was kind of cool.)- Dinner Thursday was at Bob Evans. A little slow but given that two tour buses arrived at the same time, it was okay. - Lunch on Friday was back at Coral Ridge mall.- Mid-morning breaks were at truck stops or once at a Highway Rest Stops Some high points included:- Baggage handling by the bus driver - bags delivered to the door at night and picked up outside the door in the morning - The driver, Van from Navigator Busses out of Fremont, Nebraska, was excellent especially on a scary four-hour drive from Meijer Gardens to Mackinaw City in a horrendous thunderstorm with tornados on our tail. - Our trip to Mackinac Island on the ferry and a lovely day on the island (the sun came out) The carriage ride around the island and brunch at the spectacular Grand Hotel were the highlights of the entire trip. Some low points- We have a saying in Texas that you can say just about anything about somebody if we preface your comment with "bless his/her heart." I expected a running dialogue of interesting facts along the way and other than learning that Grand Rapids was the River City with a population of 111,000, there was very little of that. The entire tour seemed to be run by the seat of your pants - last minutes decisions. - Having never been on a bus tour we expected comfortable seats and socializing with other passengers. The seats were less comfortable than an airline seat - without a fold down tray, cup holders, or storage. So if you came on board with a cup of coffee you held in your hand until it was gone. We struck up a conversation with the folks across the aisle and had dinner a couple of times but that was the extent of our socialization.- We expected at some we would have gotten together as a group and introduced ourselves and 'mingled.'- Cancelling the Notre Dame tour on the last day and not even suggesting an alternative was very disappointing. The tour guide seemed almost giddy that 'we get to go home early Guys!!' That is hardly the point of a five day tour. Summary- We take much of the responsibility for our disappointment because we failed to look more carefully at the itinerary and look at reviews of the tour company.

I had a great tour experience with our Guide. Janice Jones. She made our tour pleasant and enjoyable.

if you are fortunate enough to have Pam as the bus driver from Navigator, she makes the trip. I got caught up in luggage and tour guide cared less if I was hurt or not. fast trip to the North East. More time in Boston. Would have been nice to have had seafood while there.

Terrible experience on Savannah/Charleston Trip. Missed things that were promised on an itinerary that I never received prior to going on this trip. My mother booked this trip and requested prior to leaving that her hotel rooms have grab bars in the showers and only 2 of the rooms had these even tho she was told that they would be provided for her. With the exception of 2 hotels, the rest were subpar and dirty and one of them was on a hill with no bus parking which meant that all travelers had to haul their luggage up a hill to the hotel. Most travelers are seniors and that is just unacceptable for a tour company to book a hotel that does not accomodate their clientele properly. We did not see the lighthouse we were promised, we did not go to the Charleston city market because the streets were not accessible by our bus, our plantation we were supposed to tour the house and see a Gullah presentation but you could only do one or the other as we didn't have time for both due to poor planning and time allowance. When we went to Savannah for our historic district tour downtown, the company did not have the proper licensure for the bus so we had to wait on the bus for 30 minutes while our driver and tour guide had to go get the certificate we needed to tour the district...UNACCEPTABLE that we had to miss 30 minutes of our time when the company should have had all of this prior to our leaving. They also booked us to go to the aquarium in Atlanta, Georgia at 5:45 p.m. on a Monday....really?? Prime rush hour traffic and they thought we would get to the aquarium at 5:45. Needless to say, we didn't get there until 7 and it's only open until 8 and we were also supposed to eat our dinner at their cafe which closed at 7:30....so you could either rush in and eat and miss the aquarium or rush around the aquarium and not eat and not see everything because you didn't have enough time.If you like gas station and fast food, then elite goody tours is the trip for you. The majority of our meals were in fast food districts or gas stations...Just a few things you should consider before wasting your money with elite goody tours....I tried to resolve my issues with Steve by sending a personal email to him. He, however, didn't want to hear anything i had to say. He called me and tried to speak over me and tell me he had no control over traffic (which most of my problems with this trip had nothing to do with traffic) and he wanted me to know that he had been in business for 36 years and his business is doing great. I just wanted people to know that if you have problems on this tour, know that he has no interest in rectifying the situation and reimbursing for things you paid for and did not get....BUYER BEWARE