My wife and I are  in Vegas for a military reunion and had a day to sightsee so we booked the Airbridge Hoover Dam tour. I upgraded to the tour with the buffet lunch. I was excited to see this feat of American engineering. They took us to the \""Welcome to Las  Vegas\"" sign (not really necessary, and selfish people on the tour waste everyone's time posing for pictures while others stand there waiting for their turn. Then to the Ethel M (for Mertz?) chocolate factory and cactus garden( the chocolate factory was so so..they hustle you to  shop here!!) but the cactus garden was interesting as I am from the east coast. Then off to the Dam. I booked this tour TO SEE THE DAM!! We were given 75 minutes to tour, and the tour inside the dam took 65 minutes. That left 10 minutes before catching the bus, so the official tour guide said run up to the observation deck to view the dam above ground. I had to leave to catch the bus, and most of the people on the bus were seething that we didn't have enough time to really see everything, at least walk across the top of the dam. We then had to make a trip on the bus to drop three people off at a small airport for a helicopter ride they had booked, another wasted twenty minutes. The next stop was to the buffet at the oldest running casino in Nevada, The buffet was messy and the food was mediocre, but the worst part was we were given 75 minutes to eat,  the same amount of time as visiting the dam! I guess they hope we will gamble our extra time away as 30 minutes would have been plenty for lunch. \nI called Airbridge and complained about all this wasted time. We had never been to Vegas before and understood we would be visiting a couple of other places, but a 7 hour tour when the dam is less than an hour away and then giving you 90 minutes to see it while you hang out at commercial venues is a blatant rip off and waste of time. I would ask any tour you book how long they will actually give you to tour the dam. That's what you are paying for, right?