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Dolphin Discovery is based at Puerto Aventuras, Riviera Maya, around 50 miles South of Cancun, which meant around an hours mini bus trip which is included in the price and you are picked up from your hotel. The trip is very expensive at US$180 per person, adults and children alike (although ... Read review
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Advantages: up close and personal with nature Disadvantages: expensive and extras make it very expensive
...must go and do the dolphin trip. This review is not about the rights or wrongs of wild animals being held in captivity but about the experience itself. What I will say is that the dolphins are kept in a natural environment so they cannot either escape and predators cannot get in. They are extremely well looked after, cared for with deep affection by the handlers and stimulated and to my untrained eye appear very content. Dolphin Discovery is based ... ...after you have left! The dolphin encounter was absolutely superb and you are up close and personal and it is then you realize why it is so expensive. You are constantly photographed either kissing or being kissed by the dolphins (two of them), being pulled along by the dorsal fins or being pushed straight out of the water by them. At speed! You are in the water with them constantly and it is magical. And your grin grows bigger by the minute!! In ...
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09.11.2007
Once in a lifetime Review ofDolphin Discovery, Riviera Maya, Mexicoby
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...things to do was a dolphin swim - I was really really excited about it as it was something I'd always wanted to do.
We booked our swim through Grey Line Tours in Playacar and they were faultless.
A DOLPHIN SWIM, ISN'T THAT CRUEL?
Now I know there is a lot of split opinions on Dolphin swims/encounters and if you disagree with them as a whole then you may aswell stop reading now as this review is based on the experience and not the morality. What ... ...hide. It was awful. The dolphin swim is the polar opposite - they are kept in brilliant conditions and most importantly of all they seem to really enjoy the interaction with people.
Not all dolphin places are the same, I understand that some are kept in bad conditions etc, but this is just based on the one I have been too at Puerto Aventuras. Also the staff, who treat the dolphins excellently, spend time raising awareness of things the public can ...
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