We booked an 8 hr day cruise with the family, and honestly it was a rough day. We wanted something shorter but it wasn’t available.
We spent most of the day on a boat travelling to and from the snorkelling area. 1.5 hrs too and from which we didn’t expect. This was difficult as we had a few people in our party that were easily sea sick. It wasn’t disclosed to us that we’d spend this much time travelling.
When we got to the snorkelling area, it was on a wooden landing with a small slide, a banana boat ride and a space to snorkel. We snorkelled as a family and there weren’t many fish at all, the staff had to throw bread in the water to attract a few but overall there weren’t a lot of them. We were on this landing for two hours, and there truly wasn’t enough activities on this landing to validate being there for two hours. At this stage we had been on the tour for four or so hours and hadn’t had any food.
We were then transferred to the Bali Hai resort which was very nice, and were given a fair lunch. It personally wasn’t my favourite but we were just glad to be eating. They then wanted us to lay around on beach chairs, which made us unhappy as it had been a long day and we were ready to go home.
They then offered to take us on a little seaweed village tour, and considering we still had hours until they were taking us back home, we thought we’d fill in some time.
They took us to some dilapidated building with a few individuals sitting under a shelter with some seaweed piles. In all honesty there wasn’t much to look at and it felt like they brought us out just to spend money at a few local stores.
We were grateful to go back to the hotel, we were exhausted and felt generally unwell, it was a very long day and honestly could’ve been cut in half.