What‘s Included

Meeting and Pickup

What To Expect

Reviews

• Don't waste your money

  Stacey H,

  Jan 13, 2025

  - Viator

  2.00

  The individuals were friendly and the excursion well organised. However, they indicate a 90% success rate with the whales, which I think is a misrepresentation. I went during peak season, and they hadn't seen a blue whale for a couple of weeks. In the week before I went, the only whale that they had seen was a fin whale on only one of the days and it's unclear whether the customers were able to successfully snorkel or whether it was just a sighting from the boat. I went with the company twice to try to snorkel with the whales in peak season and no whales were encountered on either day. The price is exorbitant, and only justifiable for that once in a lifetime experience of snorkeling with the blue whale with an appropriately licensed company. Their refund policy when no whales are seen is insufficient given what appears to be a very low chance of a successful snorkel with blue whales (or any whales). Don't waste your money on this experience. Instead go on a whale watching experience on one of the bigger boats where it appears that there's a higher success rate of finding the whales for much much less money, and snorkel with the turtles from turtle bay for only about $2. If interested in snorkeling with dolphins, it's possible to do this for much less money. I do not recommend this experience--it is an absolute waste of money.

• Amazing experience

  James H,

  Apr 21, 2024

  - Viator

  5.00

  Fantastic! I saw pilot whales, dolphins and turtles. Then, unbelievably, a massive fin whale swam underneath us. Incredible. The skippers are skilled in finding the whales and are friendly and helpful.

• Not sure but felt like a scam this day

  Michael S,

  Mar 20, 2024

  - Viator

  2.00

  Well it was one of our most looking forward moments on our Sri Lanka Tour. The booking and booking personal was smooth. 1 Star for this. The pickup was file as well. Just arrived we got a quick welcome and our mask and flippers. Flippers are really not needed like they told us. Then a guy spoke to us and another guy who went with us and mentioned dolphins and turtles which was a bit suspicious … but finally came with … but you’re here for the wales as he found out that were not really exited for that. And mentioned there was a Finnwale around. So off we go with some hope. Well after some time we saw a lot of boats. And we were a bit exited. Coming closer we saw a lot of dolphins. The crew asked us if we wanna try to jump in there. All 4 of us said yes and we tryed. We did this 2 or 3 times you could see them …. Maybe for a second cause they were really scared of the 10 or more boats chasing and surrounding them. So after some tries the feeling got worse cause the dolphins obviously were scared and not very amused about the witchhunt. The Crew felt that and asked us if we wanna try some more or wanna try for the „whale“. All Pax wanted to see the whale so we drove a bit further. But sadly it looked like they don’t communicate anymore and it looked like we needed a lot of luck to see a whale. At this Point i, and i guess the other pax, lost our hope. So we made a big comeback Route with some 10-15 min stops. „The whale needs to breath after this time“ From now on i think the Crew knew there was no whale this day if they didn’t knew this much earlier. At least it felt like that. So i tryed to enjoyed at least the boat trip. The first time on the trip i felt a bit scammed. Some stops later we were back like i imagined. And the crew asked us if we want to see the turtles. We said yes and they drove us there. After a quick search they found two. And one of the crew jumped into the water and lured them with some food. So we jumped into this water and they were quite used to humans. So we could touch them a little and make some nice pictures. A fun thing was that a guy came and we could feed them a little. That was a good Experience at least. So another star for the crew trying to give their best to make the best out of a bad situation and for the qt turtles. After a while we got back to the starting thing. As everybody sorted their minds we were asked if we want a refund or we want to go the next day. So all pax said we want the refund cause we unfortunately have no time to go another hole day. The guy needed to phone and come back with the offer of a 35 percent refund. Because we saw the turtles and dolphins. Now i really felt scammed because there was the official deal: 50 percent refund if you don’t see a whale. So we were a bit pissed and 1 guy immediately left. We showed the guy the deal again because a dolphin is not a whale. Then he came up with: „Of course you can have the 50 percent.“ At this point I felt bad about this trip and had a feeling really got scammed. So the guy organized us a Tuk Tuk which brought us back to the hotel. Looking back at this we are not happy about that trip and it felt like there never was a whale on that day. For sure that’s just how it felt to me. But the straight to the dolphins and the slow turn back made me feel this way. They should be honest about if there is a whale or not cause you at your vacation have no time to waste for a mediocre boat trip. I hope they read this and think about that. If I ever do this again, or try, i would plan some days to have a higher chance to get this experience.

• We got to see the whales...

  Florian B,

  Mar 30, 2023

  - Viator

  5.00

  We got to see the whales we wanted, and the guys even stayed out with us an hour later, until we got the perfekt shot on camera. Thanks again for the amazing experience!