28 May 2025
Dane from Marvyn’s Paradise Tours was great, very knowledgable and showed us all of the sights while driving between excursions. We would definitely recommend him as a driver ☺️
The horse riding was lovely - especially riding the horses in the sea, but it all felt a bit rushed and we felt pressured afterwards to buy the professional photos that were taken ($80 for the photos!!!). We didn’t buy them and the staff seemed quite annoyed by this, immediately walking away and not speaking to us anymore.
The rafting experience wasn’t worth it in our opinion - again it all felt quite rushed, we didn’t get to spend a lot of time on the river as we made multiple stops along the way to either buy drinks, to buy gifts or to get a mud mask ($40). We had to get off the raft to look at the gift stalls, despite not wanting to, and were hounded by all of the staff there to buy their gifts - being pulled in different directions. We ended up buying a couple of things after a while just so that we could get back onto the raft and continue our experience.
Overall, we both said that it really put us off being hounded to buy extras on top of the experience (despite giving generous tips for both experiences), and we felt that we couldn’t properly enjoy ourselves as they just wanted us to spend as much money as possible rather than wanting us to have a good time.