CairnThe Sedona Index

Should you tip your Sedona tour guide, and how much?

The records answer half of this: several operators print on their own pages that gratuity is not included — the vortex operators say it outright, the wine tour prices it separately — and the Hummer operator prints an automatic gratuity for larger groups at checkout. The amount for everyone else is custom, not record: forum consensus runs from a few dollars a person to a service-style percentage, and this index does not publish opinions as facts. Where an operator prints a gratuity term, it is on that operator's page here with the date it was read. Every figure here was read from the operators' own websites and carries the date it was checked; none of these Sedona listings has been independently verified yet. This answer was last reviewed on .

Booking, by the numbers

Yes — every tour operator Cairn lists in Sedona takes online booking on its own website. All 12 also take bookings by phone; every number is listed below and rings the operator directly. Cairn itself books nothing, takes no commission and adds no fee: book with the operator.

Compiled, not yet confirmed How these figures were compiled is explained below.

The one printed rule worth knowing before checkout

One off-road operator's page states an automatic gratuity added upfront for groups of six or more — the kind of line that surprises people at the counter. It sits in that operator's price notes here, dated. Everything else is between you and the guide.

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