Original Deadwood Tour — Local services in Deadwood

The bus tour was great. Our driver (think it was Randy) was awesome. Great info & personality to boot! Very interesting!

Our only complaint was booking... we did the combo bus tour & Tatanka exhibit & no where did it say that you had to do the Tatanka separately on your own during the booking. Very confusing. Especially when doing the last bus tour at 3:30 pm & didn't find out until then that it was not together from our driver & the Tatanka place closed by 5pm; we had planned to leave the next morning early. The driver provided the number for the person in charge & she was accommodating to open a little earlier for us in the morning due to the confusion. We appreciated the compromise so we could keep as close to our original am schedule as possible.

Costner's Tatanka story of the bison was very...

The tour was decent, but I felt the guide we had was more of a comedian than a tour guide. He spoke very fast and threw in a bunch of references that really clouded the history. I did not learn as much as I could have if he had not had so many jokes and references outside of the tour. I also felt the cemetery wasn't really helpful overall. A lot of the early buildings we could have walked the strip to figure out instead of taking the bus. The tour guide was, however, very knowledgeable; it was just information overload with jokes that really didn't need to be there. I did get a lot of...

Captive audience for the most UNfunny tour guide ever. Had I been traveling solo I would have hopped off the bus within the first 5 minutes... 2 minutes. Tour guide Dave was so painful to listen to that it made it difficult to notice if he was actually telling factual information about Deadwood. He had jokes about religions, prostitution (good old days), being drunk, and any other offensive thing he could try and turn into some joke. It felt like he was trying to be unbearably UNfunny. He reminded me of every person who was gonged off The Gong Show. How does he still...