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• Amazing Natural Experience

  Handysmith,Mar 20, 2026

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  There is an official Oslob Municipality Facebook page for pre booking a spot that can be done after 9am and before 6pm the prior day. They do not reply to enquiries as this is a semi automated service. No payment is taken and only provides a booking number. Be careful as there are lots of fakes. The official page is oslobwhaleshark with a blue background and has the Oslob Municipality logo. However note if you are a senior over 65 you can be treated as a VIP and go to the front. We had a local guide who sorted this for us as it is not advertised anywhere. It is a chaotic activity so was glad to have a local helping us. If you hire a go pro then hand this to the boatman who films for you. Most important for everyone to know is each boat has a ladder to get back in the boat and even young people use the ladder. PS. I read a few peoples review about animal cruelty after they had done the experience. Ignore them as the whale sharks can swim away anytime they want. They are free to do what they want and happily move along for the easy free food that only happens in the morning. If they had fear or didn't like it they can simply swim away. Pre-briefing says to stay at least 4 metre away but one whale sharks tail hit me even though I was doing my best to move away. They have no reason to fear humans. It's the jelly fish people need to be careful off.

  

• Oslob Whale Shark Snorkelling

  Kym L,Mar 5, 2026

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  Once in a lifetime experience. It’s incredibly well run considering there are hundreds of tourists from many countries. If your hotel, like mine did, offers for a staff member to walk you to registration area for 100 peso, do it. There’s the registration area, the briefing area, the table to get the number for your tour & then find your boat. My hotel staff organised everything for me & even waited for me at the end. You get up very close to this magnificent animal. It’s a matter of meters from you.

• Great circus

  Margrev1,Jan 28, 2026

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  1.00

  Ridiculously early rise and then a big circus. Don't even have a normal picture because every time someone else flew into the picture. You have to wait a very long time and is in a small box with lots of people and boats. I wouldn't have gone afterwards. Didn't feel right.

• Avoid at all costs

  lornas885,Jan 18, 2026

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  1.00

  Awful exploitation of these beautiful sharks. Words cannot describe how disgusting the treatment by guides and tourists was

• AVOID AT ALL COSTS THIS VERY CRUEL SPECTACLE!!!!

  deborahhZ9619DV,Jan 3, 2026

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  1.00

  Avoid at all costs! I stupidly went here without researching the welfare of the majestic whales first, that was a big mistake!! These whales are fed shrimp feed to keep them trapped and when I say trapped they are in a very small area behind nets so they can’t naturally migrate and swim freely in the ocean! This is incredibly cruel and just a circus to make money! It is overcrowded , and mayhem . Once I realised what was going on and saw for my own eyes the utter cruelty , carnage and madness surrounding these sharks I refused to take part in promoting the cruelty, my tour guide was really shocked and didn’t understand it? I explained loudly why it’s cruel and everyone else present were promoting this. All the tour representatives and government should be ashamed this is being allowed to happen! THIS NEEDS TO STOP!!!! Please cancel and find another means to enjoy your stay don’t take part in this cruelty for “ that photo “! Research before booking , the whales are being kept behind nets in shallow water with so many people in with them it’s so un-natural and must be very stressful for them, they are being prevented to migrate and forced to eat the shrimp that’s provided solely to keep them there which in turn is harmful to them and their health. Their health declines and this obviously has a massive consequences for them, they naturally move within a in family unit and migrate and this is being prevented instead there being kept behind nets and take strikes from boats and humans who are over excited at this spectacle! It’s disgusting and if you take part you should be ashamed!!! Please help the whale sharks by NOT paying to take part in promoting this cruelty!!!

  

  

  

  

  

  

• Pls help me cancel

  Luvlu,Dec 22, 2025

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  Hi I’ve called and am trying to cancel my reservation for Dec 26. No one has picked up the phone. Thanks Confirmation number is 1310540359

• Whale Sharks and it's already a lot

  374anto,Dec 9, 2025

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  4.00

  The experience with whale sharks is beautiful, the others (Island, Monkeys) are not unique. I paied an extra fee since we were three rather than four, but overall I can recommend the experience

• Unforgettable whale sharks but tour experience fell short

  Lolita T,Nov 8, 2025

  - Review from Viator

  3.00

  The whale sharks were absolutely magical - worth it for that alone. Our driver and guide were kind, but the car smelled unpleasant and the tour details weren’t clear. The boat wasn’t private as expected, and the guide crossed some personal boundaries by asking for selfies and sharing stories that felt like asking for money. Still, swimming with the whale sharks was unforgettable and knowing the boats are government-run for protection was reassuring.

• You well be close to whale sharks, and get to swim next to them.

  Joshua B,Oct 31, 2025

  - Review from Viator

  5.00

  Our experience was awesome, we had great tour guide Gene. Gene took care of all of our belongings, made sure we got to the whale sharks briefing and boat loading zone. She was very entertaining helpful and enthusiastic. The tour company was trek tours, which we booked through viator. We saw plenty of whale sharks, they are friendly, one even snuck right under our boat without us even noticing him until he was right next to us. After the tour our guide recommended a brief tour of tumalog waterfall, which was at no cost to us. The waterfall was beautiful, romantic and they have the fish that eat the dead skin off of your feet. All in all, I would highly highly recommend this experience.

  

• Total experience.

  ngeliv nc,Oct 12, 2025

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  A stunning experience, go bottle diving or snorkeling, see yourself a few meters from those skies is hard to imagine

  

  
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