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Reviews

• Disappointment in a very expensive tour ..

  Daphne C,

  Nov 12, 2025

  - Review from Viator

  2.00

  We booked to visit Robbins Island through Viator and cannot understand why we were charged R1719.44 per ticket, whilst a colleague purchased online from Robbins and paid only R600, for the exact same experience. What is the reason for such a large variance please?

• A dive into history that touches you deep

  MADHAVILATHA G,

  Nov 8, 2025

  - Review from Viator

  5.00

  A visit to the prison in Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was captivated in a small cell for 18 years leaves us with deep pain. The prison is now a UNESCO heritage site, standing as a silent witness to the apartheid era and racial oppression. The ration charts based on prisoners' color with meager food for black prisoners and the limestone quarries where political prisoners worked hard make us feel grateful for the freedom that we enjoy.

• Robben island trip

  Karen G,

  Nov 7, 2025

  - Review from Viator

  4.00

  Great opportunity to listen to the history . The tour is a little regimental, not much opportunity to walk independently around the prison . Half day tour actually takes about 5 hours. Keep an eye on the weather as the crossing could be choppy .

• Very boring tour, the...

  Andres C,

  Nov 2, 2025

  - Review from Viator

  1.00

  Very boring tour, the guides talk too much and very poor time to take pictures and walk around. The buses are awful, very old and very small seats, must to change. I recommend to change the way of this tour, making more attractive.

• No to purchasing tickets from Viator. Price seems different for everyone

  Twylla G,

  Nov 1, 2025

  - Review from Viator

  3.00

  The only disappointment upon arrival at the island was touring around it in a crammed bus taking pics out a window. The guide was tremendous. I will never use Viator again because they gouged us compared to what others paid.

• Amazing and Connecting with my history

  Wonderfamily12,

  Oct 27, 2025

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  This trip was amazing. We got picked up on time by our driver and given a briefing before our tour . We knew what to expect and where we should meet . Thanks again for helping us to bring our history alive

  

  

  

  

• Robben Island Tour

  Jenny B,

  Oct 27, 2025

  - Review from Viator

  5.00

  An awesome tour ...so great to learn more about the history and see Robben Island. Really makes it so meaningful that former inmates are the tour guides. Our bus driver was so amazing...very personable and the transportation went smoothly. So thankful we got to do this.

• Cannot recommend this...

  Catherine B,

  Oct 22, 2025

  - Review from Viator

  5.00

  Cannot recommend this tour highly enough. We really loved every minute and our tour guides were excellent.

• *******avoid Aim Cape Tours (Pyt) Ltd*******

  Mark H,

  Oct 21, 2025

  - Review from Viator

  3.00

  I wish to express my dissatisfaction with this trip. I booked two tickets for a 10am commencement time. We arrived in good time in advance of the start time and enquired where we should queue in preparation for the start. I was advised (rather rudely) by the information desk we were too early; boarding wouldn't start until 1am. In light of this information we decided to get refreshments nearby. As I paid a large increase over the standard ticket price hoping for a premium service as we were on a tight schedule, I messaged via you App to convey my disappointment. Whilst having refreshments, I received a phone call off your local representative stating we needed to be at the venue as queuing had commenced; I informed him we would be there in 5 minutes. When we meet up with the Aim Cape Tours rep he was overly keen to persuade us to reschedule to a later trip. I explained to him there was no alternative due to our scheduling and this was the only option. He kept trying to press different times/dates, but when I repeatedly declined these offers he finally admitted our tickets had been sold and no others were available. The local rep told us to join the queue for boarding and went off. He return after approximately 5 minutes and tried to offer an alternative time, when I declined he asked us to exit the queue and wait to after the boat had been loaded to see if something could be negotiated! Once all the other passengers' had been boarded we did manage to join. However, no tickets scanned like other passenger's and seemed very much like some separate unofficial transaction had happened. My contemporaneous messaging to verify my testament are recorded via your App, please view. I paid £150.18 for this trip, but direct was 1200 zar (£52.29 at todays exchange rate). Your experience was no way any premium over standard. Moreover, your local appointed company caused massive stress by their total mismanagement of a simple transaction.

• Great Tour Guides/ Lousy boat return

  AMY S,

  Oct 18, 2025

  - Review from Viator

  3.00

  Make sure and try to get a boat back to the mainland that has windows that open for ventilation OR actually a/c that WORKS. We were in stuffy hot cabin with multiple people vomiting. They said the A/c would be better once We were underway but it did not improve. The seas were not too rough either. 100+ crammed in a small space creates a lot of body heat!

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