{"id":188262,"date":"2014-12-29T04:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=188262"},"modified":"2014-12-29T04:00:02","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T18:00:02","slug":"lets-go-revs-road-island-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/lets-go-revs-road-island-tours\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Let\u2019s Go\u2019 revs up off-road island tours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLet\u2019s Go\u201d tour company held it\u2019s grand opening last week in its Lower Base facility. The company invites everyone to hop on a \u201cwonderful open air\u201d off-road and on-road experience on its Polaris RZR vehicle tours.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-188262 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/lets-go-revs-road-island-tours\/lets-go-pix-2-copy\/'>Let's-Go-pix-2-copy<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-188316'>\n\t\t\t\t\u201cLet\u2019s Go\u201d staff poses with one of their Polaris RZR off-road vehicles. (Dennis B. Chan)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/lets-go-revs-road-island-tours\/lets-go-pix-1-copy\/'>Let's-Go-pix-1-copy<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-188319'>\n\t\t\t\tRoman Tudela of \u201cLet\u2019s Go\u201d shows off the Polaris RZR\u2019s maneuverability. (Dennis B. Chan)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The company deploys 10 Polaris RZR units. Six are two-seaters, and the rest are four-seaters. They come with registered safety equipment, harnesses, default speed settings, and plexiglass windshields, for the safety of its customers.<\/p>\n<p>Tan Holdings\u2019 Ivan Quichoco called the RZRs \u201cvery powerful and exciting\u201d vehicles. But he added that they want to make its safe for people to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>They offer three distinct packages\u2014a 1-hour Mt. Tapochau tour, a more extensive \u201cnorthern\u201d island 2-hour tour, and a 3-hour \u201csouthern\u201d tour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou feel like you\u2019re driving a car but in a way you\u2019re driving a boat,\u201d said Mike Benavente, tour coordinataor. \u201cTo just feel that that outside ambience from the Saipan view is very exciting. The energy you get out of it\u2026It\u2019s just a thrill!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>He said a lot of beautiful sights on the tour include trails that \u201cyou have never seen before. \u201cHe recommended it for anyone who wants to see \u201ca different world\u201d on Saipan not usually encountered.<\/p>\n<p>He added though that safety for customers is the number one priority. \u201cThey are in good hands,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Tour mechanic Roman Tudela, described the vehicles as \u201croad ready.\u201d He helped put together the vehicles\u2019 roof, signals, and bumpers.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicles are geared to not go over 15 miles per hour, he said. The vehicles come with 4-point harnesses, he said, and windshields are Plexiglas and won\u2019t shatter.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers are required to have a driver\u2019s licenses to operate a vehicle, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to keep it safe,\u201d he said. This is just like racing equipment, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery day is different,\u201d he said of the tours he\u2019s gone so far. \u201cI used to race motocross, supercross\u2026 it\u2019s the same thing. Every day is not the same. It\u2019s always different\u2026the trails that we have up there, I have never seen. I never new about these locations,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the sights are meant to be remembered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to get it on camera on times,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Tan Holdings\u2019 Ed Arriola said that \u201cin this world of internet\u201d the tours give tourist something different to experience on island. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to keep up with our tourist demands. We have to give them what they want. And if we don\u2019t\u2026they\u2019ll have to look for another place to visit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLet\u2019s Go\u201d tour company held it\u2019s grand opening last week in its Lower Base facility&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":188316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[187,67,407,1290],"class_list":["post-188262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-lower-base","tag-people","tag-racing","tag-roman-tudela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}