Optional Tours & Classes – Phoenix
Consider enhancing your Rally experience with these exciting tour or class opportunities. Tour and class reservations can be made online when making your reservation for The Good Sam Rally, or if you are already signed up for The Good Sam Rally, call 1-877-749-7122 to have a class or tour added to your reservation. We recommended that you sign up for optional tours and classes as quickly as possible, since space is limited. There’s something in Phoenix and the surrounding area for every interest!
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Optional Tour Descriptions
Tour A: Star Trek
We’ll explore 100 years of aerospace history at the acclaimed Pima Air and Space Museum, one of the largest museums of its kind in the world. A guided tram tour provides the lay of the land, followed by a box lunch in the café. After lunch, we’ll take a one-hour guided tour of the nearby Titan Missile Museum, a former ICBM site that played an integral part in Cold War history. Guests will descend 35 feet into the underground missile complex and access the launch-control room behind 3-ton blast doors and 8-foot-thick silo walls.
Tour duration: 9.75 hrs.
Departs: March 21 ~6:45 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Cost: $87 per person
Cost for Tour A includes transportation, guided tour, admission and a box lunch.
Note: The visit to the Pima Air and Space Museum requires considerable walking. The Titan Missile Museum has 55 steps leading down into the facility and 55 steps back out. This tour is not accessible for non-ambulatory guests.
Tour B: Sedona Secrets
Experience the beauty of Sedona and the soaring red rock formations of Bell Rock vista. Stroll around the ancient cliff dwellings of Montezuma Castle National Monument, one of the most significant and best-preserved ruins in the Southwest. We’ll stop in Sedona’s Tlaquepaque (“best of everything”) Arts and Crafts Village on the banks of beautiful Oak Creek and in uptown Sedona for lunch on your own with our professional tour guide’s recommendations. Before returning to the Rally, we’ll stop at Alcantara Vineyards on the Verde River, one of the largest producers of reds and whites in central and northern Arizona.
Tour duration: 10.5 hrs.
Departs: March 21 ~7:15 a.m. – 5:45 p.m.
Cost: $99 per person.
Cost for Tour B includes transportation, guided tour and all admissions. Lunch is not included. Wine tasting is an optional $10 per person for a regular tasting and $15 per person for a VIP tasting.
Note: This tour includes considerable walking and is not accessible for non-ambulatory guests.
Tour C: Tucson Treasures
We are sorry but this tour has been cancelled. We invite you to join us on one of these other exciting optional tours.
Tour D: Biosphere 2
Just north of Tucson at the base of the stunning Santa Catalina Mountains lies the University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2, one of the 50 must-see wonders of the world. This unique living laboratory addresses some of the most contemporary issues facing our planet. We’ll take an hour-and-a-half guided walking tour under the glass and explore the different environments and climate zones. Then we’ll enjoy a box lunch in the Biosphere 2 café before returning to the Rally.
Tour duration: 6.5 hrs.
Departs: March 21 ~8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Cost: $85 per person.
Cost for Tour D includes transportation, guided tour, admission and a box lunch.
Note: Due to steep terrain and stairs, this tour is not accessible for wheelchairs, walkers or strollers.
Tour E: Spring Training: Padres Versus Dodgers
Spring training is in full swing in Arizona. The Rally has your reserved tickets for the San Diego Padres versus the Los Angeles Dodgers at Camelback Ranch-Glendale Ballpark. This state-of-the-art baseball facility is the largest in the Cactus League and is the spring-training home of the Dodgers and the Chicago White Sox. Located on 141 acres, this Sonoran Desert–inspired ballpark offers baseball fans more than top-quality playing fields and facilities. It also features picturesque walking trails, landscaped grounds and an orange grove. Fans enjoy the modern amenities and design as well as dramatic mountain views that create one of the most inviting spring-training experiences in all of baseball. We’ll enjoy a great view of all the action from infield box seats.
Tour duration: 3.5 hrs.
Departs: March 21 ~12:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Cost: $70 per person.
Cost for Tour E includes transportation, escort, infield box seat, $10 concession voucher and all gratuities.
Note: The tour will return to the Rally grounds at the completion of the game. The game starts at 1:05 p.m., and a typical game lasts two and a half hours but can go much longer. The ballpark is approximately 30 minutes from the Rally. Games, opponents, game times and locations are subject to change.
Tour F: Luke Air Force Base - SOLD OUT
Luke Air Force Base, just west of Glendale, is the largest and only active-duty F-16 Fighting Falcon training base in the world. The base is named in honor of Phoenix native and American fighter ace Second Lieutenant Frank Luke Jr. (1897–1918). Luke was the number two U.S. ace in World War l, second only to Eddie Rickenbacker. Luke died following a fiery dogfight in France and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. We’ll take a two-hour guided tour of the base before returning to the Rally.
Tour duration: 3 hrs.
Departs: March 22 ~8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Cost: $28 per person.
Cost for Tour F includes transportation and guided tour.
Tour G: Around Town
Discover all the insider secrets of both Phoenix and Scottsdale with our professional tour guide who knows where all the local skeletons are buried. We’ll also visit the Cosanti sculpture studio in Paradise Valley where the world-famous Paolo Soleri wind bells are made and sold. Next, we’ll shop in Old Town Scottsdale and have lunch on your own with the tour guide’s recommendations before returning to the Rally.
Tour duration: 7 hrs.
Departs: March 23 ~8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Cost: $70 per person.
Cost for Tour G includes transportation and guided tour.
Note: This tour includes considerable walking and is accessible to non-ambulatory guests.
Tour H: Highlights of the Heard Museum
We are sorry but this tour has been cancelled. We invite you to join us on one of these other exciting optional tours.
Tour I: Arizona Renaissance Festival
Escape to the Arizona Renaissance Festival and Artisan Marketplace where pleasure and celebration are the only orders of the day, as decreed by the king! Spend the afternoon rubbing shoulders with royalty, banter with the village fool and dance with the gypsies. There’s something for everyone with 12 stages of continuous live entertainment, each packed with a unique mix of comedy, music and mischievous antics. The marketplace features more than 200 artisans with open-air shops displaying a variety of unique handmade wares. Watch as the ancient skills of glassblowing, leatherworking, weaving, woodcarving, blacksmithing, candle making and pottery are displayed. Lunch is on your own with a variety of food purveyors on hand offering everything from the classic turkey leg and sausage roll to pizza. We’ll enjoy an afternoon of swordplay, wordplay, raucous music and roaring comedy at the Royal Faire.
Tour duration: 6.75 hrs.
Departs: March 24 ~8:45 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. (originally schedule for March 23rd this tour has been moved to the 24th)
Cost: $63 per person.
Cost for Tour I includes transportation, escort, admission and all gratuities.
Tour J: Taliesin West ™
Frank Lloyd Wright began building this Sonoran desert masterpiece in 1937 as his personal winter home, studio, and architectural campus. It is located in the foothills of the McDowell Mountains in northeast Scottsdale. This special 90-minute guided walking tour will allow you to experience firsthand Frank Lloyd Wright’s ability to integrate indoor and outdoor spaces. Visit the cabaret theatre, music pavilion, seminar theater and Wright’s private office all linked by dramatic terraces, gardens, and walkways overlooking the rugged vistas. The living quarters and the dramatic Taliesin West living room are the highlights of this tour. The living room was the social gathering place for Wright and the many famous guests he entertained. Knowledgeable guides explain how the site relates to the natural desert and provide a general overview of Wright’s theories of design, history of the site, and activities of Taliesin Fellowship community life.
Tour duration: 4 hrs.
Departs: March 24 ~8:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Cost: $56 per person.
Cost for Tour J includes transportation, admission and guided tour.
Class Descriptions
RV Safe Driver Training Program
This six-hour onsite classroom is designed to increase driver awareness, identify drivers’ abilities, understand and identify drivers’ vehicle(s), determine conditions that affect driving and make participants safer drivers. Everyone completing this course will receive a certificate that may entitle them to a discount on their insurance rates. The terms and amount of discounts will vary by state and company, so check with your insurance agent regarding your RV coverage. We’ll have a one-hour break for lunch (not included in the course fee).
Tour duration: 7 hrs.
Departs: March 21 ~9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Cost: $85 per person.
Cost includes instructor and certificate of completion.
Dutch Oven Cooking Class
Learn how to cook almost anything, anywhere in this comprehensive, hands-on cooking class. All the basics will be covered: the utensils and supplies needed to cook a Dutch oven meal; time frames and heat levels for different dishes; and how to clean, season and store your oven. A full meal will be prepared from start to finish. Class is taught by Barbara Kennedy, from Cowgirls Forever, a well-known local chef.
Tour duration: 4 hrs.
Departs: March 21 ~9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Cost: $60 per person.
Cost includes instructor, use of Dutch oven and all ingredients.
Craft Class
Professional craft teacher Pam Rider, will express her love of the Southwest at the Phoenix Rally with instruction in two unique crafts: a Bear Claw Paper Quilt and a Zuni Fetish. All participants must bring their own scrapbook paper, (3 sheets – 1 solid color, 1 overall print and 1 small print), scissors, glue stick, and pencil. Patterns large samples, additional supplies, and directions will be provided.
Class 1: March 22 from 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Class 2: March 23 from 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Class 3: March 24 from 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Cost: $6 per person
