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• Amazing experience

  Ideline B,

  Dec 1, 2025

  - Review from Viator

  5.00

  Amazing experience! We got to see so many dolphins!! 400 at least! The crew was awesome! They made sure we had plenty of time to watch them around the boat. Even though we couldn’t swim with them because they were babies, it honestly didn’t take anything away from the day. On the way back, we even spotted a whale! Totally worth it, super memorable. Highly recommend!

• Great dolphin tour

  sabinewL493PR,

  Jan 11, 2025

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  I made this trip together with my daughter on 07.01.2025 and am totally thrilled. We were there at 8:30, and we got a wetsuit borrowed. It was good that we had a fleece and rain jacket, cap and headband with us, as it was quite cold and windy in between but they also have blankets on board. The crew is super nice and everything is thought of. We particularly liked the fact that they take the protection of animals seriously. We saw bottlenose dolphins right at the beginning, then some schools of the smaller common dolphins. Also a flying fish, a small penguin and a hammerhead shark. Swimming with the dolphins didn't work as it can't be done when the dolphins are hunting or having babies but it was still quite great. Finally we met a group of pilot whales, what an experience😍. I will not forget this day in my entire life and would definitely recommend a trip with the Dolphin Seafaris 100%. Many thanks to Lizzy, Vincent and Dior and of course to the great captain!

  

  

  

  

  

• Unbelievable dolphin cruise!

  addimorris,

  May 6, 2024

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  As a dolphin cruise, this was amazing. We dangled our feet off the bow and boated alongside them as they swam and jumped and played all around us! It was magical. I even touched one with my foot! Definitely the best dolphin sighting of my life. The guides said one of the pods was about 90 dolphins and the other was about 250! There were just so many swimming so close, I had never seen anything like it before. Unbelievable. As a dolphin swim, it was a bit disappointing (at least to Mom). We thought we were going to be able to jump in and freely swim with the dolphins, but even if we were allowed to, we would have only been permitted to hold onto the back of the boat and put our heads in the water to see them as it pulled us. When I learned that that was all we could do, I wasn’t as sad as my Mom not to be able to “swim” with them. Because, even though we found two HUGE pods of dolphins, we weren’t allowed in the water because there were babies present (NZ law).

  

• No (hopefully only slow) refund of the money after cancellation

  Katja G,

  Mar 29, 2024

  - Review from Viator

  1.00

  Tour got cancelled the day before because of weather conditions, all ok. Since then no answer, no refund of the money.

• Happy Days

  Teresa F,

  Mar 27, 2024

  - Review from Viator

  5.00

  The dolphins swimming and playing in the water alongside of the boat was awesomely amazing!! Just being on the water was an experience in itself!

  

  

  

  

  

  

• Magical dolphin encounter!

  197grahams,

  Mar 16, 2024

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  The tour was extremely well organised. Heavy rain was forecast, so to avoid a bad experience we were contacted to see if we wanted to pull our tour forward by 24hrs, we did. Wonderfully enthusiastic and knowledgable guides. Great sightings of dolphins. Very sadly we could not swim with them on this occasion due to the pod having young babies (conservation rules, quite rightly too). Still I was gutted as this is the experience I’ve been seeking and keep failing. But the tour cannot be faulted for this. Refreshments free on board, and informal Q&A with the guides made this a magical and value for money trip!

  

• Misleading advertisement

  Vladislav K,

  Mar 3, 2024

  - Review from Viator

  1.00

  Let's be clear. It's overpriced, misleading and not worth the money. What they advertise is swimming and snorkeling with dolphins - none of this is actually true. The reality is that you get drag next to a boat while having snorkeling equipment and watching dolphins for less then a 10 minutes. That's not what I call swimming nor snorkeling. And that will only happen if the crew decides it is OK to do so. At the end of the day your chances of actually being in the water (not swimming nor snorkeling) with dolphins is pretty slim. Do yourself a favour and save your money, you can thank me later.

• Great day out on Dolphin Seafari

  NZSloans,

  Mar 2, 2024

  - Review from Tripadvisor

  5.00

  Great day out on the dolphin seafari. Saw heaps of beautiful dolphins. The staff were amazing and a special shout out to Maeva who was so knowledgeable and to Captain Kerry who was most entertaining.

  

• Sadly… no dolphins

  kristy,

  Feb 24, 2024

  - Review from Viator

  4.00

  Didn’t see any dolphins. Very sad but only their fifth time not seeing them since November. Wish we could have at least gone for. Bit of a swim. We do have a free trip whenever we come back!

• Amazing

  MarcAntoine L,

  Feb 18, 2024

  - Review from Viator

  5.00

  It was purely amazing We had an amazing pod. The crew was kind, helpful, professional and we learned a lot thanks to their passion. Thank you

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