I think it's important for us to let other cruisers know which excursions you loved and which excursions were not what you expected or where disappointing. Unfortunately, this excursion for us was more of the later.

The Dolphin complex itself is quite impressive, someone has obviously invested a good deal of money into the venture and on the day we were there, they are reaping their rewards judging by the amount of people there. The Dolphins appeared healthy and happy and seemed well treated with the small amount of time we had to spend them.

My boys and I decided to book this cruise as I've always heard how neat it was. We paid $99 per person for the excursion through HAL. We arrived at the complex to be led through some reptile and bird exhiibits as a huge group then taken and broken into smaller groups and fitted with flotation devices. We were then taken to the dolphins swimming pen where we were told to swm over to one side. Groups of appx 12 ppl had there own dolphin. There were probably 15 or so groups in the water at the same time.

Our entire interaction time with the dolphin was no more then 10 minutes, 6 of which taking a picture of the dolphin kissing your check (Extra fee for the picture). We put our hands out as the dolphin swan by twice, watched it jump had the picture taken and were herded back to the changing area. It wasn't what I had expected and I was disappointed.
Out of a 1 to 10, this one gets a 4 IMHO.

Please know this is just my opinion and others might feel differently about the excursion.

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