点评:Samana bay whale watching - Good and bad, we booked the three hour 9.15am trip and arrived as requested at 8.45am (office hard to find no name sign outside) but we didn’t leave until 10am, they had to wait for coaches with people who were on a full day trip. On the way out we had to call onto an Island to drop off provisions (lunch for the day trippers). We spent about an hour watching the whales, to be fair quite a lot of Humpbacks, though mainly just showing their backs, one did a full breach but in the distance. The guide spoke only in Spanish and German and hardly any English so most of the time we had to guess what was happening. We then went back to the island to drop off the full day passengers for lunch and we then headed back to port, finishing after 2.5 hours not the three as advertised. I guess the time cut short was to ensure the full day people got their lunch! The boat was full, seating in rows of four that really would be comfortable for three people, guess that’s the way they make money or keep the cost down. The onboard photographer took our photo and tried to either sell directly to us if not it was via email who knows?? He was hard to understand so we declined both options. Without stops at the island and setting off on time I think we could have had around two hours of whale watching, what I had expected. So good we saw whales very bad poorly organised and done on the cheap.
翻译:萨马纳湾赏鲸 - 好与坏,我们预订了上午 9.15 的三小时行程,并按照要求于上午 8.45 到达(办公室外面很难找到没有名字的标志),但我们直到上午 10 点才离开,他们不得不等待教练进行一整天旅行的人。在出去的路上,我们不得不到一个岛上来运送食物(一日游者的午餐)。我们花了大约一个小时观看鲸鱼,公平地说,有很多座头鲸,虽然主要只是露出背部,但在远处,有一只座头鲸完全跃出水面。导游只说西班牙语和德语,几乎不会说英语,所以大多数时候我们不得不猜测发生了什么。然后我们返回岛上,让全天的乘客下车吃午餐,然后返回港口,2.5 小时后结束,而不是广告上的 3 小时。我想缩短时间是为了确保全天的人们都能吃到午餐!船已经满了,四排座位,对于三个人来说真的很舒服,我猜这就是他们赚钱或降低成本的方式。船上的摄影师拍了我们的照片,并试图直接卖给我们,如果不是通过电子邮件,谁知道呢?他很难理解,所以我们拒绝了这两种选择。如果没有在岛上停留并准时出发,我想我们本来可以有大约两个小时的观鲸时间,这正是我所期望的。太好了,我们看到了鲸鱼,非常糟糕,组织得很差,而且做得很便宜。