21 Apr 2023
"Cruising Adventures", took us on small boats to a nearby island, to dive with fish, manta and small sharks, and feed pigs by the beach.
But this experience turned out to be a disaster.
-The small boats were really unsafe and to the security norms, the engine didn't start easily, huge vibrations throughout the trip, another couple's boat engine went off in the middle of the sea...
- The crew was very inexperienced and young, some of them didn't speak english (only creole)
-The beach were they took us wasn't really nice, and with only 2 pigs there, one of which on a leash because it was supposedly aggressive.
- They told us to give them some chips in the palm of our hands, which we did. It went well until the "quiet" pig went strong and bite the hand of my fiancee, creating an open wound in the palm of her hands. We got it all on camera.
-The team there didn't have any disinfectant or any medical kits.
- So we took our boat back to mainland and went back to the marina. There, one of the guy of the company drove us to the pharmacy, but it was managed by a teenager who didn't have any disinfectant or antibiotics.
So we went to the hospital. After a 3000$ deposit, 2 hours, my girlfriend got a tetanos shot, a box of antibiotics and a nurse cleaned her wound. It took us 3 hours and ended up costing around 670$.
We got a refund of 300$ for the excursion.