We paid for the 20 minute ride last week with ‘Mountain Helicopters’ at $229 per person.

We were very uncertain whether paying an extra $330 for another 10 minutes would be worth it and unfortunately it wasn’t. We wish we had of just paid $119 pp for 10 minutes...

We regret spending the extra $$$$ very much. The girl at front desk was lovely and the pilots wife was lovely but it went downhill from there.

As we approached the helicopter we were all thinking the same thing..’please don’t let that be the helicopter we are going up in’ as it looked like something off the Ark.

Needless to say it was the one we went up in....

It was lovely seeing the glaciers but certainly wasn’t as amazing as we thought it would be. We got just as nice a view from the snow fields we were at the day before. The pilot hardly spoke to us and seemed very rushed/preoccupied. The flight wasn’t the full time (we know it was cut short by 4 minutes as 2 of us timed it) and there was hardly any commentary at all. My husband remarked to me when we landed ‘weren’t we suppose to see more than that?? I know 4 minutes to lose doesn’t seem like much but it is over only 20 minutes.

Once back at the hanger we were left in the chopper whilst it cooled down and we watched the pilot racing around pulling another chopper out of the hanger and filling it up with fuel and then off he went. When we asked his wife about it she said he was going to pick up hikers. That explained why he seemed in a rush the whole flight and seemed preoccupied. We mentioned to her the flight was cut short and she said ‘only by a minute’. We will have to agree to disagree on that one!!!

If I had my time again I would have only booked the 10 minute flight and I would have asked to see the helicopter prior to booking as the one on their advertising material isn’t the same archaic machine we went up in.

Reviewed over 6 years ago