I just got back off the Valor last night, and I did the Victor Bodden tour based on all of the positive reviews that were posted here. Unfortunately, we didn't have as great a time as most people have previously posted. Once we located the Victor Bodden rep that was directing the passengers to their drivers, she couldn't even find us in her roster, even though I had reconfirmed with them right before we left for our cruise. After she took care of everyone else, she passed us off to another rep who finally found us a driver (George). The driver, although nice, was very quiet and it was like pulling teeth trying to get any information about the country out of him or just even having a conversation. He first took us to the zip-lining location, and it was absolute mayhem. It was so disorganized and there was such a huge crowd of people that kept on getting bigger by the minute. There was no line to pay, nor to get your equipment, nor to zipline. You had to push your way through everybody to try to get anybody's attention to get anything done. It didn't help that we had been assigned such a meek guide! We ended up waiting for an hour and 15 minutes just to get started- unacceptable. When we actually did the ziplining, that was fun. Our tour guide then (quietly) took us to eat at a restaurant that was on a beautiful beach at Half Moon Bay. Because we had been standing around for so long to zip-line, we didn't have time to do anything else except get back to the port location and do shopping for maybe 20 minutes. I wish we would have had a different experience with a different driver (and we are not people that are difficult to please). If your experience with Victor Bodden tours is SO dependent on which driver you get, then I can't say that I would recommend this tour group.
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I just got back off the Valor last night, and I did the Victor Bodden tour based on all of the positive reviews that were posted here. Unfortunately, we didn't have as great a time as most people have previously posted. Once we located the Victor Bodden rep that was directing the passengers to their drivers, she couldn't even find us in her roster, even though I had reconfirmed with them right before we left for our cruise. After she took care of everyone else, she passed us off to another rep who finally found us a driver (George). The driver, although nice, was very quiet and it was like pulling teeth trying to get any information about the country out of him or just even having a conversation. He first took us to the zip-lining location, and it was absolute mayhem. It was so disorganized and there was such a huge crowd of people that kept on getting bigger by the minute. There was no line to pay, nor to get your equipment, nor to zipline. You had to push your way through everybody to try to get anybody's attention to get anything done. It didn't help that we had been assigned such a meek guide! We ended up waiting for an hour and 15 minutes just to get started- unacceptable. When we actually did the ziplining, that was fun. Our tour guide then (quietly) took us to eat at a restaurant that was on a beautiful beach at Half Moon Bay. Because we had been standing around for so long to zip-line, we didn't have time to do anything else except get back to the port location and do shopping for maybe 20 minutes. I wish we would have had a different experience with a different driver (and we are not people that are difficult to please). If your experience with Victor Bodden tours is SO dependent on which driver you get, then I can't say that I would recommend this tour group.