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From Carnival’s web site: http://www.carnival.com/ShoreExcursionDetails.aspx?region=MR&portcode=CSL&excursionname=Dolphin+Swim&excursioncode=314019
“Guests’ interaction in the water with the dolphins is approximately 30 minutes. Pregnant
women and guests with heart or respiratory conditions are not permitted on this
excursion.
Photos and videos of your experience will be available for
purchase. For the safety of the dolphins, please remove all jewelry”
The two tickets that my daughter used stated “No Cameras
allowed”. I assumed that the swimmers
could not bring cameras including water proof cameras since they wouldn’t want
them to hit the Dolphins. I assumed
wrong.
When we arrived at the place they made all “guests” sign in. It turned out that the guest sign in sheet
must have “fine print” on the bottom of the page, I don’t remember it and they
did not call attention to it. None of
the other three “guests” with me that signed in remembered it either.
We went up to the “swim” area. The swimmers broke up into groups of 8 and were
taken around the pool. My daughters were
about 100 feet away. As I brought my
camera up to start to take pictures the “tour guide” said “No pictures allowed”. I said “what?” and he said he would explain
in a minute.
He then stood behind the small roped off area that kept the
guests from getting any closer, and told us what we signed downstairs prohibits
us from taking any pictures or video and that pictures would be taken by them
and available for purchase after. Then
he said he was part of the security team and would watch us along with video
cameras in the area.
Since I made the only “fuss” about this, the whole time we
were there, except for a minute when he went somewhere, he was never more than
10 feet behind me. When I moved around the
roped off area to see my kids better, he followed me.
Here comes the worst part:
First let me say, one of my daughters did this swim a few
years ago in another Mexican city and for the 40 minutes they were in the pool
then, they got to do many activities with the dolphin and I could take as many
pictures as I wanted to.
At Cabo Adventures, they spent so much time setting up
pictures that they hoped you would buy; half of the 30 minutes in the water was
watching other people pose with the dolphin.
So they both got a “kiss”, got to “pet” and one swim around the pool and
that was it.
Then comes the even worse part: The cost of the pictures. It cost me another $100 and since it was
already $160 per person, this was just the worst experience I have ever had
dealing with something Carnival recommends.
I did complain when I got back to the ship and they were
very apologetic and gave me a 20% refund and said they would try to get the
listing changed to say that no cameras are allowed at all, including
non-swimmers.
I suggest if you want to swim with Dolphins, you do it
somewhere else.