Cahuita Tourist Traps

I wanted to go see the dolphins and hired a tour at Roberto's tours in Cahuita Costa Rica. The tour included complementary breakfast before departure, 3 hours at boat to see the dolphins and snorkeling afterwards at the coral reef.

First I was charged $150 in advance with a 7% surplus for using my credit card. Then I was made to come at 5:45 am because that was the time dolphins "were close". At the time no one was there. 20 minuts afterwards a guy appeared and told me that there was no breakfast because the made (a 12 year girl) didn't come. Then I walked a mile to get into a old and fragile open fishing boat and with only one safety jaket for every three persons.

After 3 hours there was no sign of dolphins at all and everyone got sea sick because of the cruising speed, the sun and the hunger. The guy confessed that because the whole week it was raining dolphins went to Boca in Panama ... Why the heck then they sold me the tour in first place!?!?!?

Then I tried snorkeling: dirty water (again because of the rain days before) and we had to go to the least attractive spot. Nevertheless that it was a mere 5 feet deep I could not see almost anything. It was the most pittyfull and the least gratifying experience. It was so humiliating: a "gringo" swiming in a dirty soup trying to see a lonely and disgraced fish in dirty dead piece of coral.

When I was back I asked for a refund. After all I didn't get anything I payed for and they knew it beforehand. I got a rotound NO for an answer and when I insisted they (the three guys there) started to scream and swear at me!!! Un f...g believable!!! Obiously I am not coming back EVER! I better spend my next vacations in Baja.