A Sunday Coach Tour from Jackson Hole to Old Faithful and Back

The ticket covers the guide, the vehicle, bottled water, snacks, and binoculars and spotting scopes for the wildlife stops. The guide is also the driver, in the operator's own words. Narration is in English only.

Lunch is not included. The itinerary parks at Old Faithful for two hours, and the operator says guests buy lunch at one of the park concessions, most likely Old Faithful, Canyon or Grant Village, with the guide choosing.

Entrance fees sit outside the ticket, and this route crosses two gates. Plan on a separate non-US-resident fee at each one. The park service lists USD 100 per person at Yellowstone and another USD 100 at Grand Teton, each on top of that park's standard entrance fee, and it applies to non-US residents aged 16 and over traveling with a commercial group. The booking page shows a single USD 100 non-resident line next to a USD 20 line marked US Residents, so read the checkout figure as one park's worth and confirm the final amount with the operator before you travel.

Yellowstone's fee page says it in so many words for exactly this route. Traveling through the South Entrance from Jackson takes you through Grand Teton, and each park charges its own entrance fee. The operator's own practical notes carry the same shape: a fee for Grand Teton and a fee for Yellowstone, listed separately, both collected from the guest by the attendant at the gate.

Children aged 15 and younger are charged no entrance fee and no nonresident fee at all. That covers the whole child age band this tour sells.

One pass changes the arithmetic. The America the Beautiful Non-Resident Annual Pass costs USD 250 and, in the park service's own wording, covers the nonresident fee for the pass holder and three additional nonresidents aged 16 and older traveling with a commercial group. The same pass covers the per-person commercial entrance fee for those four. A digital pass bought through Recreation.gov is usable the moment you buy it. The pass holder has to be present with identification, and the pass cannot be handed to a different person on a later trip.

Keep whatever you are handed at the gate. An entrance receipt covers seven consecutive days at both parks, so it is worth holding on to if you plan to drive back in later in the week.

Do not wait outside your hotel. The booking page states that the operator does not pick up at guest lodging, and that there are three specific pickup locations assigned by the area you are staying in. Plan to reach one of the three lots yourself, and be there for the 7:00 AM departure.

The operator names all three. Teton Village guests use the Ranch Lot on Granite Loop Road in the center of the village. Wilson guests use the Stilson Lot at 1455 Beckley Park Way, on the corner of Highway 22 and 390. Guests in the town of Jackson use the Home Ranch Lot at 39 Gill Ave, across the street from the Anvil Motel.

Hotel pickup and drop-off still appears in the list of what the public tour includes, on the operator's own page and on the booking page both, where it has sat next to the three-lot note since at least 2022. The lots are the rule that gets enforced on the day. The operator also warns that which lots get served varies by departure, depending on where that Sunday's passengers are staying.

The booking page asks you to call the operator at least 48 hours before departure to confirm the booking and the pickup. That call carries a second job. The park service expects a commercial tour company to know how many nonresidents and how many Non-Resident Annual Pass holders are in the group before the vehicle reaches the gate. Say which you are when you call.