★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · Kauai Eco Adventure Helicopter Tour
Ten minutes in the air rearranges the whole trip.
How much of a canyon flight is actually flying. What doors-off means once you are strapped into it. Reviews of every helicopter flight you can book.
Four helicopter flights people build a whole trip around.
The Strip, the canyon floor, Manhattan from the Hudson and breakfast below Everest. What each costs, and how long you are off the ground.
01The night flightLas Vegas Helicopter Night Strip Flight Tour with Optional DinnerTen minutes over the Strip with the neon at full strength, and the option to land for dinner afterwards.
02The canyon run45-minute Helicopter Flight Over the Grand Canyon from Tusayan, ArizonaForty-five minutes out of Tusayan, across the rim and down the gorge, which is the only way to feel the depth of it.
03The Manhattan lapManhattan Sky Tour: New York Helicopter FlightUp the Hudson past Liberty, round the tip of the island and back on the pad inside twenty minutes.
04The Everest morningEverest Base Camp Helicopter Tour landing at Everest View HotelKathmandu to Kala Patthar at first light, then down to the Everest View Hotel for coffee with the mountain in the window.
Six places where the helicopter is the whole reason to turn up.
Neon, red rock, a glacier that has to be landed on, sea cliffs with no road behind them, and a harbour that only makes sense at eight hundred feet. Six bases, and the flights worth booking from each.
Vegas, the Canyon and Manhattan are three completely different helicopter days.
Close to half the flights here lift off in the United States, and they have almost nothing in common. One is ten minutes of neon, one takes most of a morning, one is a single lap of an island. What it costs to board each.
The helicopter flights more travellers board than any others.
Every helicopter review →The seats that fill first, from a ten-minute hop over the Strip to a morning that ends on the floor of the Grand Canyon.
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New York City: Manhattan Helicopter Tour
From Downtown Manhattan Heliport, you’ll fly over the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Wall Street, Central Park, Times Square, and more. Choose a 12 to 15, 18 to 20, or 30 minute flight with recorded commentary in several languages. Pilots such as Christian, Dave, and Michael have earned warm praise for calm, professional flying.
From · $299
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NYC: Manhattan Sightseeing Helicopter Tour
from $299
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Las Vegas Helicopter Night Strip Flight Tour with Optional Dinner
from $89
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Dubai: Sightseeing Helicopter Ride from The Palm
from $195
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Grand Canyon Village: Helicopter Tour & Hummer Tour Options
from $289
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Grand Canyon Deluxe Helicopter Tour with Landing from Las Vegas
from $598
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Dubai: 12-Min Helicopter Adventure Above The Palm
from $193
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Kauai Eco Adventure Helicopter Tour
from $449
Na Pali, Molokai, the Great Barrier Reef: coastlines built for a helicopter.
Sea cliffs three thousand feet high with no track behind them, a reef that only reads as a reef from altitude, and islands where the one road goes the wrong way. These flights exist because the ground gives up.
The helicopter flights that land on a glacier and let you out.
Franz Josef, Fox, the Tasman, the Knik out of Anchorage. Twenty-five minutes up, ten minutes standing on ice that has been sliding downhill for centuries, twenty-five minutes back. The cloud base decides all of it.
Three helicopter flights with no equivalent on the ground.
A hotel terrace at 3,880 metres, an open doorway over a Hawaiian canyon, and a waterfall you cannot read from a viewing platform.
Breakfast below Everest
A first-light departure from Kathmandu follows the Khumbu up to Kala Patthar, sets down on the ridge for ten minutes of thin, loud, extremely cold air, then drops to the Everest View Hotel for coffee with the mountain filling the window. Passengers are weighed to the kilo, five seats leave a morning, and the whole thing is finished before the afternoon cloud builds.
- 1Everest Base Camp Helicopter Tour landing at Everest View Hotel★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 668 reviews
- 2Everest Base Camp Helicopter Tour landing at Hotel Everest View★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 218 reviews
- 3Everest Base Camp Trek with Helicopter Return from Gorakshep to Lukla★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 161 reviews
The door comes off
The Hughes 500s that fly Kauai leave their doors on the ramp, which is why every photograph from Waimea Canyon and the Na Pali coast looks the way it does. Nothing loose comes aboard, the harness is checked twice, and the noise once you are out over the water is far more than anyone expects.
- 1Kauai: Hughes 500 4-Passenger Doors-Off Helicopters★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,951 reviews
- 2Kauai Private Doors-Off Helicopter: Ultimate Waterfalls & Canyons★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,510 reviews
- 3Oahu: Magnum PI Hughes 500 4-Passenger Doors-Off Helicopters★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,372 reviews
Over the lip of the falls
Victoria Falls, Niagara and the Hana coast all come with a viewing platform, and all three read completely differently from eight hundred feet, where you can finally see where the water goes and what it has cut. Twelve minutes is the usual flight; the spray decides how close the pilot is willing to get.
- 1Kauai Private Doors-Off Helicopter: Ultimate Waterfalls & Canyons★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,510 reviews
- 2Helicopter Scenic Flight over Victoria Falls 12-13 minutes Flight★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,391 reviews
- 3Niagara Falls, Canada: Scenic Helicopter Flight★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 1,068 reviews
What a helicopter seat costs, from a twelve-minute hop to Everest.
Every flight on the site grouped by the price of one seat. The distance between a city hop and a Himalayan morning is about a hundredfold.
Twelve-minute city and falls flights: Niagara, Cape Town, the Strip after dark, Sydney Harbour.
The standard scenic half-hour to hour: canyon rims, alpine landings, Manhattan laps, Uluru at sunset.
Doors-off Hawaii, canyon-floor landings, Milford by air, and the Everest morning out of Kathmandu.
The weigh-in and the cloud base decide whether a helicopter flight happens.
Every operator weighs passengers at check-in, because a light aircraft is balanced seat by seat and anyone much past a hundred kilos is usually asked to buy a second one. Then there is the sky: low cloud on a glacier, wind over a canyon rim, spray at the falls. A scrubbed flight is refunded or rolled forward, and it is the pilot who decides, not the desk.
Four helicopter flights that will not wait for your itinerary.
Most of this list can be arranged the night before. These four run on four-seat aircraft, weather windows that open for an hour, and calendars that filled up in spring.
- 01Everest Base Camp Helicopter Tour landing at Everest View HotelA handful of seats leave Kathmandu each morning, in one weather window, and peak season is spoken for months ahead.
- 02Kauai: Hughes 500 4-Passenger Doors-Off HelicoptersA Hughes 500 carries four. Kauai flies a small number of doors-off departures a day and they go before the doors-on ones.
- 03Franz Josef Glacier: Helicopter Flight & Alpine LandingThe glacier gives up only a few flyable days a week in winter, and every scrubbed flight is rolled onto the next one.
- 04Grand Canyon Deluxe Helicopter Tour with Landing from Las VegasOnly a fixed number of aircraft are permitted to land on the canyon floor each day, and that number does not move for anybody.
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