Snorkel/Swim with the Turtles Experience

Hida was warm, personable, educated, and provided lots of information. She was easy to spend the day with, and the snorkeling was great!

The tour in itself is not bad. However for the price you pay it’s not nearly worth it. The tour consists of driving around with Hida to the more less touristy parts of the island. You will be picked up and driven to the snorkeling spot which in itself costs $25 a person to rent the gear. I would recommend just taking one of the tour bosses to this spot if the snorkeling is all you’re interested in. Snorkeling was fun but does not require hida to be the one to take you there. After snorkeling she will take you to some breweries so if you are not a drinker I would really not recommend this tour. Throughout the tour she will give you some basic facts about the island and that’s kinda about it in terms of learning anything. She will take you to local vendors and essentially try to sell you their business and makes it a strong point that you should buy their stuff which I didn’t appreciate very much since the tour costs $250 per person already. Lunch is also not provided which for the price is ridiculous. There are far better ways to spend your money on this island and I would recommend a different excursion. At the very most I would say this excursion is worth about $100 per person and anything over that feels like robbery. It was not a bad experience but for the price you are not getting what you should get. We were combined with another group in a small car and had to fit 6 people in it. In total with tips she made around $1700 from our trip and all she had to pay for was gas and the snorkel gear which costs $25 per person. I recommend you do another excursion instead as doing this one was my only regret of my trip due to the cost.

Hida was an absolutely wonderful tour guide and helped us experience Grand Bahama Island from a local’s perspective. Due to some unexpected inclement weather, our original plans for the day wound up off the table. Rather than calling things off, Hida worked with us to build a new itinerary that I wouldn’t have traded even for our original plans. We toured a local fruit farm and tasted the family’s crops, we found a gorgeous beach that required us to off-road through a forest, we toured a rum distillery, and so much more. Any time a member of our group had a question, Hida not only knew the answer, but could make two phone calls and take us someplace we hadn’t even thought of going. Hida’s flexibility and creativity turned what could have been a lost day due to the weather into the most memorable day of our vacation. When we got back to the cruise ship, people were complaining left and right about how ripped off they felt by the cruise line’s shore excursions underdelivering because of the weather. We made the right choice booking with Hida and you should, too.