Definitely a very cool experience! My boyfriend surprised me and took me to the Christmas Light…read moreTour in Detroit! First time on a Helicopter I thought was pretty cool, 1200 feet in the air. We hit speeds of 140mph! It was a beautiful sight. We saw views of Campus Martius Christmas Tree, The Ice Rink, Detroit River, Detroit River, The Ren Cen, & The Bridge to Canada. They do offer a few different packages so make sure to see which best suits you. There is a few minutes flight safety video you have to watch before your flight. This runs until January 8th so please make sure to check it out or you will have to wait till next year ! I hope to do more flights in the future in different city's & states !

The Detroit City Airport (DET) used to be the main airport for the city back in the 40's. Then the…read moreairlines moved to Willow Run Airport (YIP) out in Ypsilanti, Mi. That was too far away so Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW) became and still is the main airport for the area. It is out in Romulus, MI. Some think that DET airport is small but in reality it is similar to the Bob Hope Airport (BUR) In Burban, CA. It has the same runway layout. The Galaxy C-5A has landed many times at BUR so it could also land here at DET. The DET is conveniently located only 6-7 miles from downtown Detroit. From a pilots viewpoint this airport is very conveniently located.

The Rosa Parks Downtown Detroit Transit Center is located directly across the street from the…read moreMichigan Avenue People Mover Station. It was also closest to my hotel and the DAX Bus to Detroit's international airport. The station is at the intersection of Michigan and Cass and is an elevated station. Handicapped accessible with stairs, escalator and elevator, it is easy enough to navigate and get from the street to the platform. Michigan Avenue is after Times Square and before Fort/Cass. The People Mover is fare free at this time thanks to sponsorship by Priority Waste. [Review 976 of 2025 - 456 in Michigan - 24530 overall]

Thirteen stations on the People Mover and in 2025, the rides are free. It's very hard to beat free…read morewhen it's also convenient and easy. It is a fully automated monorail and the trains run in a single direction. It takes around 15 minutes to do a single loop which isn't bad even if you have to go all the way around when your stop is only four stations in the other direction. Stations feature unique art installations and they are above ground. I did not see any security guards but they do have cameras everywhere. Just watch your surroundings and you should be fine. And q quick question to Detroiters: Why haven't you added and reviewed every station on this system? [Review 715 of 2025 - 420 in Michigan - 24275 overall]

The people mover has a stop on the second floor in our hotel. It was tricky to find. The Detroit…read morePeople Mover loop is approximately 2.9 miles long. A full rotation on the automated light rail system takes about 15 minutes, connecting 13 stations within Detroit's Central Business District. There is no conductor, just two cars with a button to call for help.

Okay, so I took the blame for getting lost. I booked an Uber…read morefor a late arrival around 2 a.m. I was just a couple of bridges away from my Uber. I asked for help and was told to go the way I came--which was a bit confusing. It turns out, it's not that tricky when you pay attention to the signs. But my luggage was easy to spot. Overall, it wasn't too bad to navigate, and the terminal was a good place to end up-

I've flown in and out of this airport for years and never seem to have any major issues…read more Baggage claim is usually pretty quick too. Lots of places to eat, drink and shop at including a few local breweries like Jolly Pumpkin and Atwater. I decided to kill some time and walk the entire terminal on my last visit. I discovered a few interesting things like a lottery vending machine, salad vending machine (Farmers Fridge), duty free and an Air Margaritaville. I'll have to check that place out next time. The bathrooms are pretty good, could use an update but not the worst I've been in. Lots of art around the terminal too.

I had the privilege of joining the First 313 Tour on March 13, thanks to an invite from a community…read morefriend. We began at the historic Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit, where a lineup of impactful speakers shared insights on their organizations, our community, and the cemetery's rich history. The group then traveled by bus to Fort Wayne for more educational exploration. I learned so much--insights I'm still unpacking today (March 21). The narrators from City Institute, Outlier Media, and others were phenomenal, making history come alive. I look forward to supporting these organizations and joining future tours. I highly encourage everyone to invest their time in these experiences. A huge thank you to my friend for sharing the invite!

If I could give them "0" stars I would. And here is why.... to start, there were 6 of us total for…read morethis tour. That's $52/person. So here is the breakdown of what that got us. This is a long story of epic fails. - a generic meet up point on a gps map, to which when we got there, there were no signs or anyone in a blue DFX shirt standing in the open waiting for us. We had to basically talk out loud and then a guy sitting down near us wandered over and realized we were his group. He did have a dfx shirt on, but hidden underneath another long sleeve button up shirt. -No bus. See photo. It was raining, and we are expecting to be driven around. My girl ran a 10K that morning with the distinct impression she wouldn't be walking around Detroit. -We start out a block from the coney places, but for some reason were guided to the furthest away place first. To which we are walking in greektown to Pizza Papalis. The guide walks us past the place until one of our crew states we are at the end of greektown near the freeway. To which the guide replied "sorry, I was looking at my phone". Keep in mind it is drizzling and we are all hungry. -We then turn around and finally get to the first stop "Pizza Papalis" to which we are seated and basically told that it takes 45min for their signature deep dish to be cooked. So basically we figured out that this should've been the last stop. So we have to settle on a thin crust pizza which isn't their best signature food... so what's the point? Our guide ordered two larges, so basically we eat about 1, and then now have to carry full carryout boxes of pizza to the next stop. -next is the Golden Fleece, also in greektown. We walk 5 buildings down stomachs absolutely full of pizza and sit down. The waitress stated that we were early. 45 minutes early, so nothing was prepared. Which got us "looks" from the guy cutting the lamb. Which reconfirmed we were going in the wrong order. The food here was great, but our tour guide spilled an entire water on the table in front of me. There will be another section later about the guide. So we are full on pizza and only eat a few gyros and again I now have multiple FULL carryout boxes I'm carting around Detroit in the rain. -the last stop is lafayette coney island. On the way we are like, I wonder which is better american or lafayette, we shouldn't have to choose right? See pic, well our guide made us choose as we were walking. So we go to Lafayette. These coneys are good! However our guide pays then comes back to the table and says that's it, tour is complete. So we never even went to american which is literally attached next door!!! -Our guide was out of place. He was a nice person, but he literally had ZERO facts about any of the places we went to. He had a lack of awareness of where we were walking to. He had to continuously look at an email on a piece of paper to try and figure out what we were supposed to be doing. He mistakenly took us on the tour backwards. He left our group multiple times at each food place for 10 minutes at a time to go smoke cigarettes. He spilled pizza and water on our tables. He actually got up from our table at Lafayette for so long that someone else took his seat. Then he tries to sell us on DFX at the end and just leaves with his food. Are tour guides supposed to leave with multiple boxes of food that the customer pays for??? This is probably an enigma tour in comparison to everything else I've seen or read about with DFX. But my major concern is this, we were all from the Detroit surrounding areas, and I got the impression our guide thought this gave him a "lazy pass". Maybe he was hungover, maybe he wasn't the normal guide, maybe he was disgruntled because he had plans that Saturday and now had to be in rainy Detroit, who knows.... BUT If we were out of town tourists, there would be a horrible feeling of being taken advantage of that would make you never want to come back. That pisses me off as a Michigan/Metro Detroit resident of 30+ years. It was bad representation of the turnaround the city is trying to accomplish and we felt like we had gotten fleeced out of our $52 per person. Nothing was learned, nothing was gained except a bloated stomach, an indecision of which coneys are better, and some sore wet feet.