11 Jan 2024
Several things are really not good in this trip.
First, you don’t have any activities on the 1st and last day, so it’s actually a three day trip. After arriving at the airport, they put you on a 7 hour travel from the airport to Isabela island. You need to change 8 different transportations and imagine doing this with your luggage. You will take a bus, a boat, a car, a water taxi, an uncomfortable speed boat for 2.5 hours and then a water taxi and a bus again. These troublesome journey can be easily avoided, since inter islands flight takes only 30min.
Many of the day tours they offered can not be called tour at all. They didn’t provide bike. One hiking is just several km from hotel and you can do it by yourself. Flamingo lagoon is in town. For the snorkeling, although Isabela island has so much to offer, they only drop you at the port, where all the boats parked. And they took you everyday basically to the same spot! You can do it by yourself for free, since many local people snorkel there.
The price is ridiculous. I paid $1730 for the trip and found out that all the tour doesn’t even worth $300, and the hotel is $260 for four nights, speed boat round trip costs $60 and local food is around $10 per meal. So I wonder where they spend the $1000 dollar. This can be easily avoided if you book through local hotel. Overall it doesn’t worth at all for the price they asked.