We didn't really see anything cool but we don't hold that against the tour. We did snorkel as promised for roughly 45 minutes and that was fine. Thus, we could speak to literally no one and never were communicated with in terms of what was going on, where we were headed, etc. Once we finally got to our boat, we were unpleased to find that the staff could barely speak english and we were unthoughtfully placed on a boat with a Russian speaking family of 15 people. The actual excursion itself was poorly ran, oversold, and extremely unthoughtful. What an AWFUL way to spend a day on your expensive and precious honeymoon. Total on the day, we spend nearly 6.5 - 7 hours in transportation time. We did not arrive back at our resort until 7:45 PM!!! We spent over 1.5 hours just sitting on the bus at Sonoa island waiting for the rest of the people to finish their excursion. We got off our boat after our snorkeling tour at 3:45 PM. The transportation on the way back after our tour followed the same suit except worse. We finally got to our boat about 10:30 - 10:45 which was 3 hours after we were initially picked up and 1 hour later than our scheduled departure time of 9:30. Then we left to finally go to our island which was another 20 minutes away. ![]() We spent about 30 minutes on the bus there as most of the people got off for a Sonoa excursion. Then we drove 40 minutes to Sonoa Island (Not our island). After 20 minutes we were dropped off to a bus where we sat for another 45 minutes as all the other vans pulled up and dropped people off. We got picked up at 730 AM from our hotel by a smaller van. The organization and logistics is pitiful. Even after sitting on a bus for hours and hours. Their staff cannot speak good english and never communicated to us what was going on at any moment. Below are all the reasons this experience was so miserable and that we will never consider booking with Paradise again. However, this excursion was absolutely terrible and I wish I had known beforehand so we didn't waste an entire day of our honeymoon on a bus. One to monkeyland which was great and one to play golf at Hard Rock which was also a good time. We want on 3 excursions during our honeymoon in Punta Cana. This excursion was the absolute worst experience my wife and I have ever had with a company. Overall a great trip, but the logistics of transport (central depot for pickup and dropoff maybe?) could be dramatically improved. We got on the bus back to Punta Cana at 4 and got dropped off at 7! Not a problem, until you consider that Punta Cana is giant and the resorts are often at the end of a 10 mile road in and out. The bus company (probably to save money on drivers) had the same bus drop everyone off individually at their resort. They did a much better job getting us to the marina: pick up was at 7:45, we had ~15 min layover at the bus company depot then made it to marina by ~9:15ish. The transportation to and from Punta Cana, however, was definitely a low spot. Cannot recommend this part of the tour enough. The snorkeling was amazing, tons of fish and coral, the food on the beach was delicious. The island is beautiful, the boat is clean and we had enough room to stretch out. The snorkeling trip was fantastic! As soon as you get to the marina and Chantel and her team take over it is a blast from end to end. Like a lot of people this review has to be broken up into 2 parts:
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