carolina safari jeep tours

Have to say the Carolina Safari Jeep Tours is an amazing quality experience. This is way above your average tour in fun, value and information. It is really sharp for everyone in your whole family too.

We saw alligators, birds, islands a HAUNTED GRAVEYARD --which my little one%26#39;s loved with the spooky and well told ghost tales---we even saw a castle and the salt marsh ecosystem and the fiddler crabs. We heard pirate stories. Let%26#39;s face it we heard about SO MUCH AND IT seemed the 3 or more hours flew by. You got to bring a camera. The views are truly beautiful. It is reasonable.

I just loved this tour and think it is a highlight of Myrtle Beach.

Thumbs up and up and away!

carolina safari jeep tours

nassie,

I have always wanted to take this tour! Where do you go to get on the tour and what time does it start? Thanks!

GiraffeE

carolina safari jeep tours

Do they have a web site? How much is the cost to go?

My family and I took the Carolina Safari in Myrtle Beach a couple of weeks ago. I was left with very mixed feelings. I wouldn%26#39;t do it again.

Our driver/guide, Virgil, was very entertaining. The man is a wellspring of knowledge. If you met him in a bar you%26#39;d gladly buy him drinks to listen to him talk. He can speak with authority on many topics beyond the scope of the tour. He%26#39;s well suited to be a guide except for the fact that he made many off-color remarks and dropped many double-entendres. While at a red light he turned to the Mustang-driving women in the next lane and yelled ';How%26#39;s your tang?'; Moments earlier he had used the full word, the one that starts with a %26#39;P%26#39; and ends with %26#39;tang%26#39;. This might have been funny, but kids were in the jeep.

The jeep had a lame P.A. system, one microphone and one speaker in the dashboard. Virgil did much of his talking without the microphone, trusting that he could be heard ten feet away at the rear of the jeep. This didn%26#39;t work too well in a open-air jeep traveling at highway speed. At one point he asked if the people in the back could hear him, they replied ';no';, he responded with ';too bad';. I still don%26#39;t know if he was joking.

My main gripe would be with the jeep. The jeep is HORRIBLE. I%26#39;ll try to describe it. It%26#39;s a regular jeep that is stretched but not widened. A row of seats runs down each side of the jeep, but they do not face forward, the seats face INWARD!?!?. If you%26#39;re on a sightseeing tour why wouldn%26#39;t the seats be facing outward, or at least forward? Though facing forward wouldn%26#39;t do you much good. Because the seats are elevated, you can%26#39;t see through the windshield either. The seats are just standard boat seats such as those found in bass fishing boat and, since the jeep is windowless, you%26#39;ll find yourself desperately leaning backwards out of the jeep so your head can catch some cooling wind at 55 MPH. To get to the point, you%26#39;ll spend almost 4 hours rubbing butts and knocking knees with strangers while not being able to see much of anything until the jeep makes a stop. If it%26#39;s a hot day you can plan on sweating. If it rains, Virgil has a bag of plastic ponchos under his seat.

This is a tour, not a safari. None of it is off road. There%26#39;s no need for the cool-looking but horribly uncomfortable jeeps. The vehicles are obviously old and it%26#39;s time to upgrade. An air conditioned school bus would be a big improvement. A modern stretch van would be even better. You%26#39;d be cool, able to see the sites and actually hear all of Virgil%26#39;s witticisms.

Overall, I%26#39;m glad we went. Total cost was $113, but I would never do it again it those jeeps.

I%26#39;m glad that ';Nassie'; enjoyed this safari so much. This person joined this board yesterday, has posted 3 times, and recommends the Carolina Safari in every one.

Different strokes for different folks.....I guess. I must say that I have taken this tour a number of times, and have enjoyed everyone! I have even learned new things about an area that I feel like I know inside and out ---- and yes, its not the most comfortable of the tour buses that cruise some of the major cities, and yes it is open-air...but I think thats part of the fun of it. Yes, Virgil can be a bit rough around the edges at times, but thats what makes him Virgil (and these are very rare occassions) Where can you be taken all over creation, told the history of the area, learn of the flora and fauna, learn of our local lore, ghost lore....all for the price of $30 pp?? I mean, the Aquarium is almost $20 these days....but, as I said, different strokes......

And yes, they do have a website....just to see Alice%26#39;s Grave is worth rubbing knees with any stranger LOL

http://www.carolinasafari.com/index.htm

:)

I have always had a great experience on Carolina jeep safari tour. It is very fun and very informative. I highly recommend it.

I took the tour with my family and sister and her husband I used to live in murrels inlet. but wanted by sister to experience some of the things I remembered when I lived there. We were not disapointed. it was very informative and if your not familiar with the area you see and hear about things you would otherwise miss.

highly injoyed it.