Are you trying to plan a Valentine's Day getaway that is exciting and romantic? Then consider an air tour of the Grand Canyon, because it would be the ideal blend of beauty, awe, and romance.

You can begin your air tour from the romantic city of Las Vegas, or you can catch one right from the South Rim.

You and your sweetheart can take a helicopter tour or an airplane tour, but the helicopter tour is the best experience. Though you can rest assured that both will provide a real sense of adventure, and memories that you will carry with you for a lifetime.

Air Tours Departing from Las Vegas

The Vegas helicopter tours depart from Boulder City or the Vegas Strip. You can select from landing tours or air-only flights, although it must be said that landing tours will provide the most memorable experience.

Landing tours come with the advantage of a Champagne Picnic at the floor of the Grand Canyon. It's the perfect tour for Valentine's Day, and you can even top it off with a boat ride on the beautiful Colorado River than winds along the canyon floor.

You also get to choose between a standard or deluxe tour, with the deluxe tour offering nice perks such as departing conveniently from the Strip in Vegas. The deluxe tour is ideal if you'll be staying in a Vegas hotel because it also comes with free transportation by limousine. You'll see Vegas from the air on these tours, and there's no better way to see the bustling oasis in the desert.

Eurocopter EC130 helicopters are the machine of choice for the deluxe flights. These modern choppers offer unparalleled viewing with luxury seats and the smoothest ride of any commercial tour helicopter.

Tours Departing From Arizona

The tours that depart from the South Rim in Arizona come in two varieties, a half hour tour and one that gives you fifty minutes of air time. Both tours are unforgettable, but the 50 minute tour almost doubles your flight time and in doing so allows you to see much more of the Grand Canyon. In fact, you'll cover nearly 80 percent of the one million acres that comprise the Grand Canyon National Park when you take the longer tour.

The tours that depart from the South Rim don't have a landing option, so if you want to explore the canyon on foot, you'll need to take a Vegas-based tour instead.

Airplane Tours over the Grand Canyon

If you want to take an airplane tour, you can depart from Vegas or the South Rim. The airplane tours that depart from Vegas have landing options, and one fun thing you can try is walking out on the glass Skywalk that lets you peer down to the canyon floor below you. This is definitely an experience that thrill-seeking couples will never forget, and just like the Grand Canyon itself, there's nothing like it anywhere else in the world.

The Vegas South Rim airplane tours are a lot of fun too because you can book a package that includes a half hour helicopter tour of the rim along with a 2-hour tour of the park by bus.

Conclusion

If you've been waiting for ideas that would set this Valentine's Day apart from any other, you won't find anything that even comes close to a Grand Canyon air tour. You still have a week left to make your bookings and give your special someone a Valentine's Day that they'll never forget.