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I am back from visiting Belize and must say, I was disappointed with Major Tom. First of all, my group grew from 20 people to 48 people. I emailed him several times making sure that we would have enough time for everyone to cave tube and for around 20 of us to do the zipline. He assured me over and over that we would have plenty of time to spare. Long story short....we arrived back at the port with just enough time to catch our tender! We didn't even have time to stop for that lunch that he kept telling me about. Thank god I broought a few cans of Pringles and other snacks!! My friends were like vultures, we were starving. The whole problem started right when we got off the ship. We located Major Tom and he proceeds to tell me that 1 person from my group must collect all the money and only 1 person can go in his "office" to pay. (The office was a women sitting on a bench, it was a joke! I approached her with about $2,500.00 in cash in my hand just waiting for somebody to rob me. I was very uncomfortable.) Anyway, try collecting money for 48 people with no pen or paper and keep track of it!!! It took us an hour or more. Totally ridiculous!!! If he would have allowed 1 person from each family to pay her, it would have gone much ,more smoothly. Or better yet, while he and I were busy emailing eachother, he could have told me that 1 person would be responsible for collecting and I could have done it on the ship the day before!
The cave tubing was ok, we were pretty rushed for time. So there wasn't much explaing going on from our guides about the caves. Our guide was Samuel, he didn't speak a single word to us. The bright part of this day was the zip line. Everyone enjoyed it.
Then we were heading back to our bus and were shocked to find out that they gave our bus to another group and moved our belonging from our bus to this bus. I'm being kind when I say "moved", they basically hurled everything from one bus to another. Needless to say, everyone was in a frenzy. All of us had money in our bags, luckily no money was missing. Just a couple pairs of shoes and towels.
If you book this tour with Major Tom, if it's a large group, collect the day before and write everything down on paper. And when you leave your bags on the bus, put all of your belonging inside the bags and zip them shut. Hope this helps someone.
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