![]() ![]() No apology, no refund, they figure we won’t be back and they are correct. Long story short, we bought the photos and I missed out swimming with my grandkids. When we’re all done they offer us all the photos for $300 or $37.50 per person. So now I’m out the $95 dollars I spent to swim and our pictures are mediocre at best. The problem is they do everything in such a matter that only their photographer can get good photos and angles. Solution: I decided to not swim and take the photos myself. After declining this they then offered us a special price of $67 per person. It cost less than that for the experience. $45 per photo, $90 per person for photos. Here were the choices given to us at the beginning. So what’s the problem? If you want photos of the experience it was outlandishly expensive. The family enjoyed all of those activities. The program called the Royal swim allowed us to swim with dolphins, feed manatees, and interact with a sea lion. They also do dolphin shows for free several times a day where you can learn more about the dolphins and see them get fed and perform a few tricks.ĭid the Royal Swim with our extended family of 8. Quite expensive, but they were really good quality photos and we got 78 photos altogether. The package for both of us was $120, but we managed to get it for $90. There was no pressure at all to buy them. We decided to purchase the photos anyway as we had such a good time. It was great fun interacting with the dolphins, we got very splashed in the kayak! It was also lots of fun feeding the manatee, a great bonus! We declined the option of a photo package but photos were taken anyway. The activity was very efficient, we were not stood around waiting for long at all. ![]() There seems to be alot of misinformation about this place on the internet from people who have clearly never visited. The dolphins were playing ball amongst themselves without a trainer present and were very eager to interact with passers by. This is not an activity we would normally have considered doing, but after seeing how happy and active the dolphins were, we decided to book it. We were staying at the Dreams hotel next to this dolphinarium. Thanks for an amazing time and treasured memories Dolphin Discovery! □ Yes photos were a little pricey as others have mentioned but worthy memories and you did get quite a few for your money! Only downside was that our planned catamaran trip couldn’t go ahead due to wind but we just explored the harbour area. The manatee interaction was lovely- highly recommend this, getting up close with these amazing creatures and feeding them. None of this distracted from the fact that the rest of us also had a great time, learnt a lot and had plenty of time to interact with the dolphins. Upon letting them know, they enabled a smaller/ quieter group, adapted some of the skills for him to try and had wonderful patience with him throughout. The trainers Paulina and Jezz went above and beyond for my son who has autism. Always a little unsure of sea animals in captivity however the animals were well cared for, happy and had a lovely mutual bond with the trainers. Had the most fantastic day at Dolphin Discovery.
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