Swimming with Wild Dolphins & Whale Watching With Transportation | 6 hours

50 Reviews | Trou d'Eau Douce
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With Private Pickup & Dropoff
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$503.04
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$503.04
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Inclusions / Exclusions

  • Mobile ticket
  • Offered in: English, French
  • Private transportation to and from the departure location
  • Professional Skippers
  • Bottled Water / Soft Drinks
  • Swimming with wild dolphins excursion
  • Snorkeling equipment
  • Whale watching excursion
  • Breakfast & Lunch

Overview

Get ready for the experience of a lifetime, a truly unique experience of swimming with wild dolphins and observing majestic whales, in their natural environment in Mauritius. Enjoy a morning of viewing and swimming with wild dolphins in their natural environment in the waters of Mauritius, and spend the afternoon spotting humpback or sperm whales in the open seas. With expert skippers accompanying you for both the swimming with wild dolphins and whale watching experiences, you're in good hands!

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Pickup details

We pick up at all hotels, B&Bs, apartments on the island. Please let us know which hotel, B&B or apartment you're staying at. Note that this excursion starts at 6:45am on the west coast of the island. Your exact pickup time will depend on where you are staying, but will ... typically be between 5:00am and 6:15am. Read more â–¼

Itinerary

Once you arrive, you will get on board the speedboat, and the professional and qualified skippers will start by briefing you on the most important aspects of this experience, including: - The types of dolphins that you will encounter and their habits - Guidelines for sustainable dolphin watching - Security measures on the boat - Swimming procedures You will then head to Tamarin Bay for the dolphin encounter. The skippers will accompany you in the water when it’s your turn to swim with the dolphins. You will enjoy 2.5 hours on the open sea viewing and swimming with dolphins. Depending on the amount of time left, you will then go to The Aquarium, a popular snorkelling and diving site with beautiful coral and tropical fish. Next, head back to the shore for a short period of time, and then start your 3 hour whale watching tour on the open seas to view these magnificent marine mammals in their natural habitat. Humpback whales can be sighted off the Mauritian coast between July and September/October when they move from the South pole to warmer seas near the equator, while the Sperm whales can be observed all year round.

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Additional Info

  • Not recommended for pregnant travelers
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • In almost all cases (at least 90%), you will see dolphins, but if this is not the case, a second outing will be offered on the boat free of charge for the dolphin viewing only (2.5 hours). It’s important to note that there will be no refund once you have completed the activity
  • There is a 60% chance that you will see whales, but if that is not the case, the local tour operator is unable to provide a refund due to the high fuel costs, so please consider this before making a booking

Free Cancellation

April 28100% refund
April 29No refund

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

  • For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
  • If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
  • Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
  • Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
  • This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
Reviews

4.4

50 reviews

Total review count and overall rating based on Viator and Tripadvisor reviews
  • 5 stars
    34
  • 4 stars
    9
  • 3 stars
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  • 2 stars
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Reviews by TravelOne travelers

Showing 1-5 of 34 reviews with 5 stars

Excellent day out, saw whales and dolphins and respected nature

Published on Jan, 2025

Excellent day out. Captain and his mate were super friendly, knowledgeable and interacted with everyone. A few bumps on the water but nothing to worry about. I particularly liked the environmental aspects of the team’s attitude. Watching other boats letting people dive into the water and literally scaring the mother and baby whale was terrible. 10 out of 10 for our operator.

Magical Experience

Published on Jan, 2025

What an amazing experience! We had a fantastic time, thanks to our brilliant skipper and his first mate. The wild swimming with Dolphins was amazing. One thing to understand, these are wild animals, they swim very fast and they will not hang around once you are in the water! Best view of them is from the boat where we got to see a pod of them playing. We headed off quickly from the first dolphin swim as a sperm whale and her calf had been spotted out at sea. We had received a very good safety briefing before we got on the boat and were told there is no swimming with the whales. Whales come to the surface to breathe, if they see humans in the water they will dive quickly which puts them under stress as they won't have taken enough oxygen. We found these beautiful creatures out in the deep sea. There were two other boats from obviously not as reputable companies who had allowed their guests in the water. How sad to see them swimming to chase the whales, total lack of respect for these creatures and the whales did indeed keep diving down to get away from them. We moved away from that group and discovered a second mother and calf. Our skipper stopped our engine and we observed them for a good 10 minutes they were just swimming along. Then one of those other boats came along and they dropped a swimmer close to the whales, they both dived below, mumma gave us a flash of her tail as she went! We were all sad that they had been forced below due to the ignorance of humans! We then headed back closer to shore, a pod of playful spinner dolphins were spotted so more swimming and viewing and then a quick snorkeling stop before heading back. This was the most magical experience and I would whole heartedly recommend, but only to those who can respect these beautiful creatures, if you are ignorant and self absorbed and just want.to be able to say you were in the sea with whales, please do us all a favour and stay on the shore!

A definite must!

Published on Nov, 2024

Great day out, well organised and faultless. We were lucky enough to see 3 whales and a pod of dolphins. Crew were very respectful of the wildlife and did not hound and harass them like some other boats that we witnessed. Would definitely recommend.

Sperm whales!!!!

Published on Sep, 2024

We saw several sperm whales, pilot whales and swam with a pod of 8 dolphins!!!! 10/10 all round, skippers were lovely, charming guys, couldn’t have asked for a better experience!

A bucket list trip.

Published on Aug, 2024

The crew were friendly and very knowledgeable. A great morning, we saw 3 adult and 1 baby sperm whales. Swimming with dolphins in the wild was incredible. Snorkling excellent. Highly recommended.

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