02 Mar 2023
I really did love this tour. However, there were a few snags that kept it from being a 5 star. The locations were not a problem. In fact, Isla Contoy was beautiful as was snorkeling in the reef. We have 1 hour on Isla Mujeres which was not a lot of time to see much. Additionally, the meeting spot to return to the ship was inside a specific souvenir/jewelry shop. Once inside to see the "meeting spot", we were descended upon to look at jewelry, taste tequila and buy items at a discount. This too away from the 1 hour we had to be back to the boat. The boat ride to the reef and to Isla Contoy was beautiful and was a pretty long ride. I enjoyed the view and the sailing of course. After a wonderful day, it ended on a bit of a sour note. More than half of the boat was English speakers. The boat crew was asked if the (loud) music could include perhaps some familiar English-language party songs like the way over. They said "Sure, we have songs in English as well as French too. Then they ignored the request because the crew was dancing and having fun. Which was all well and good but I paid for us to enjoy the tour. After asking a couple of times and nothing changed, I gave up. I guess as long as the crew has fun, what does it matter if the paying customers have a good experience.