Overview

Acquired Tastes Rafting is a medium-sized company. They are big enough to accommodate large groups, but small enough to tailor trips to meet specific needs. Their satisfied customers are their best source of advertising and they take pride in making each trip a quality experience. Many customers not only return to raft with them year after year, but they also recommend Acquired Tastes to their friends, relatives, and co-workers.

Acquired Tastes Rafting has provided safe, fun, exciting whitewater adventures under the same ownership since 1986. In an industry where most rafting companies have been sold at least once and some two or three times in the last 20 years, Acquired Tastes’ background of experience and the owner’s personal involvement in the day-to-day operation of the company ensures the quality of your rafting trip.

Customers frequently compliment Acquired Tastes on how skilled, friendly, and personal their guides are. Guides not only meet but also far exceed the guide training standards set by the State of Colorado. Most guides work for them year after year and share Acquired Tastes’ commitment to providing the best whitewater rafting trips in Colorado. Since they don’t need to train large numbers of new guides each year, they can bring a few hardworking, outgoing people into their guide training program each year and train them extremely well.

One of the primary reasons guides return year after year and have such a great attitude is that Acquired Tastes makes each trip a quality experience for their guides also. Guides do one trip a day – they are not pressured to rush you down the river in order to get back to the office to pick up more customers. They can focus on how much fun they can make your trip rather than on how quickly they can get you down the river. Because guides only do one trip per day, trips are also fun for them. They do not “burn out” like guides in other companies who run the same section of river twice in one day. Acquired Tastes’ guides have the energy and enthusiasm to make your trip a special experience!

Acquired Tastes uses only state-of-the-art self-bailing rafts. All boats have foot cones glued to the floor so guests can sit with both feet inside the boat. Because they feel secure, guests have the confidence to really enjoy their trip. Acquired Tastes furnishes America’s Cup life jackets, rain gear, and helmets for those customers who wish to wear them.

Acquired Tastes has a put-in right at their office for their Brown’s Canyon one-day trip so you do not have to be bussed to a public put-in. They also share a private take-out with one other rafting company. If you do the Brown’s Canyon Bonus Half-Day Trip or the Brown’s Canyon One-Day Trip, you not only get to do all eight of the major rapids in Brown’s Canyon, but you also do not have to contend with the crowds at the public takeouts.

Whitewater rafting is a very competitive business. You have many rafting companies to choose from for your trip. Acquired Tastes hopes you consider their experience, commitment to quality, and reasonable prices and choose them for your rafting adventure. Their friendly, well-trained guides and staff will make your rafting trip a special experience!

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