Transport: The trip included a bus ride, truck ride, boat ride, and horse ride. It would have been better for the trip to have included two smaller buses instead to expedite the travel time. Just between the first and last traveler drop off it took well over an hour making the trip longer than required. We were eager to get back to our hotel rooms at the end of the trip. Much longer than anticipated and advertised. Trip duration: Between the pickup and dropoff it took nearly 14 hours. ![]() That was their solution? I'm convinced they've got it written that way so when they don't have enough people for both tours they just combine the 2 for their profits.ĭO NOT GO ON THIS TOUR OR USE THIS COMPANY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When I emailed for someone to explain why the ENTIRE post for this tour says one thing and we went on a completely different tour their response was "there is one line in the description that says we do whale tours during season". (I should have known when they said they'd email instead of air dropping or handing us a flash drive I'd never see those pics.) Paid $50 for photos we STILL haven't gotten yet. The complimentary drinks were dark rum and sprite? Who drinks rum and sprite? Especially after being sea sick for 3 hours? Also the only snacks we were given were warmed up ham and cheese? The assistant that helps you is very nice and try very hard but it was very clear they live in destitution and give you the hard sell on giving tips.įor some reason we did the BS whale watching trip first so by the time we got off the boat for food we were all sick and exhausted - couldn't eat the food. my poor horse had a bum right ankle, I was so mortified by their conditions that's all I could think of. The poor horses have to walk on this insane 25% concrete path that had 6" deep edges. Half of our group knew they get sea sick and would NEVER sign up for 3 hours of whale watching in 4' seas but guess what we ended up doing? YOU WILL NOT GO TO BARCARDI ISLAND HALF THE YEAR. They took us on a completely different tour that they hid in the notes(whale watching vs bacardi island). ![]() Rafael was our tour guide and he was awesome! Great tour with friendly tour people and locals. Overall the day and trip was beautiful and so much fun! We made so many friends and memories. Then you take the boat to Cayo Levantado which is a beautiful island off the coast and hangout there for about two hours they also provide everyone with a pina colada in a pineapple with or without rum! After spending time at the beach you make your journey home the same way it started, boat, bus, hotel bus transfer. Lunch is a typical buffet like you see on all the tours, the food was good and you can eat as much as you want. Then you spend about an hour at the waterfall and then walk back to your horse and ride back to lunch. So if you're not interested in getting a little dirty, walking, and sweating I do not recommend this tour for you. The walking is a sweat and a decent workout as its uphill and downhill (do not recommend if you don't want do any walking), we did this for my Dad's 66th birthday and he enjoyed it very much but he's also very fit and grew up on an island. Once you reach near the waterfall you do some walking which is about 10-20 minutes before you reach the waterfall. You get matched up with a horse keeper and they guide you through the path to the waterfall Salto del Limón, it's about a 20-30 minute journey on horseback each way. Then once you reach Samaná you take a truck ride to the area where you have lunch and the horses are kept. The bus ride is a few hours to the coast where they take you on a boat to the Samaná peninsula, not to worry there is bathroom break about halfway! Then the boat is ride is about an hour, it can be choppy so if you get sea-sick take medicine before. ![]() (this happens for almost all tours in Punta Cana because there are a lot of hotel/resorts and they are very spread out, so it actually saves time instead of riding on the bus for hours to everyone's hotel as there were about 25+ people in our group). The day starts early, we were picked up from our hotel at 6:15am and joined two other groups on the bus then were transferred to another bus with the rest of our larger group from other areas. This was an awesome day tour if you like adventure.
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