07 Mar 2023
Unfortunately what we were led to believe through many positive reviews and the list of “what to expect” (Party Cruise”?), our experience would have been different, but this cruise lacked much. First of all, we did not have a safety briefing, which many might know (we ourselves are boat owners). We believe this would be a requirement for such a cruise. We have no idea if they even had one life jacket. We had no “fun and festive vibe.” If it weren’t for the fact that one passenger fortunately had the capability to set up her phone and speaker, there would have been no music at all. What we mainly had hoped for was dolphins and some education of the surroundings; such didn’t happen either. We understand dolphins cannot be commanded to appear, and we were alerted to 3 that appeared briefly in the far distance, yet we learned only what the Captain answered when a passenger made an inquiry. We never saw a lighthouse. Before we knew it, we were headed back, about an hour 15 minutes later.
If we had paused or anchored, we would have time for snacks & welcomed socialization. The Captain was very pleasant and helpful with my boarding (as I had a slight mobility challenge) and he got us back safely, however he appeared to lack the background knowledge expressed by the other captains mentioned in the reviews. Perhaps if we had been on the Tiki vessel, it would have been a positive experience as mentioned in most of the reviews, but we didn’t realize we had a choice.