Audio Tour Alaska

Our family of five (including a ten year old and twin six year olds) covered 2k miles in a week and a half, spanning from Anchorage, to Denali, to Talkeetna, to Seward, to Valdez. We listened to this guided tour every mile covered. Valdez was the only drive not included (recommend for future iterations!) The content was highly interesting, and relevant — updated in the past 12 months. The stories were fun and there are a couple different voices you get to hear from. No internet connectivity required, just download all the tours ahead of your trip, and off you go. Pleasant music plays in between each segment, which auto plays based on your location. I highly recommend! And wish more locations offered such an informative, pleasant, user friendly audio tour.

I recently downloaded this app to use with my family that was visiting from the Midwest. We listened to three narrated tours during their stay. It was enjoyed by all and as a local, even I appreciated the information and learned a few new things too! We all agreed, aside from the fun facts shared, that the best part was all the personal stories that were included from a local resident. I recommend this app to locals if you're having family and friends visit or are a tourist coming here on your own. It might just “peak” your interest!

This is no GyPSy guide. But with lack of other options and a lot of miles to cover, I figured I’d give it a shot. Overall, I would say it is a solid 4. Could definitely provide more info (and less reading from that Katherine something book, geez!) but two extremely annoying things took it down to 2 stars for me. First, having bought all tours, the app does not allow you to select which one to download but instead downloads all of them. And each tour is really two separate downloads (one for each direction). I just happened to be starting with Fairbanks to Denali part and it meant I had to sit there and wait for ALL other tours to be downloaded. Literally ALL of them instead just the three I needed. What a waste of time! The other extremely annoying part was the annoying music that would start playing at the f of EACH AND EVERY narration. Seriously? This meant that I had to switch back to the app (and in reality, keep the app always on) to pause this nuisance instead of having my maps app up or listening to music or podcasts or ANYTHING but that awful tune. How are both of these not configurable/selectable? Very, very dumb. There were also a few narrations that didn’t finish playing before switching to the next one (and I was going about the speed limit). Until GyPSy or someone else comes along, this is your only choice. Not bad but a few things are just extremely poorly designed.