Has anyone done BOTH cave tubing and ziplining with cave-tubing.com

[butterfly2]

If so in what order did you do the different tours? I am worried that we will run behind and miss the ship. What about the others who don't do both tours? I'm sure they won't want to wait on a bus for people who are doing a second tour (Ziplining)

[amor1964]

I hope someone chimes in. We have booked tubing and zip in Nov. with this company and I have been wondering about the logistics.

[Eastcstrob]

I'm interested in the answer as well

[bklwashere]

I'm interested as well...

[milanojosh]

At the risk of hijacking the thread (apologies in advance!), I'd love to know, as well, which one people who have done both prefer.

[headytiger]

My girlfriend and I did this option. We were the only ones in our group that signed up for zipline/cavetubing...which turned out to be a problem. We got off the bus and were escorted to the zip line area where we met our two guides. The guides did not work for cavetubing.com. It took about an hour to do the zip lining. The guides were super friendly and gave you a mini jungle tour as you went along. There's a toucan that hangs out near the zip line, they showed us a tarantula's nest, they taught us about the plant life, etc! The guides were super friendly. Be sure to bring tip money for them...they don't work for cavetubing.com. We didn't tip them (no cash on us) and felt bad, but they were still very nice to us. It was my first experience with zip lining and I was hoping for more of thrill, but it was still fun and my girlfriend loved it. It looked alot more impressive than some of the other zip lines we saw at other ports.

 

This is the problem we had. Once done with the zip lining, we expected to find someone from cavetubing.com waiting for us, but nobody was there. Most of their staff weren't wearing identification either and there are several other tour groups walking around. We were very confused and got pretty worried about being left there. We walked around for about 20 minutes trying figure out where we were supposed to be and finally tracked down our bus driver who was having a siesta... we were lucky that my girlfriend recognized him...he wasn't wearing any ID. He told us to take our things out of one bus and put them into another one. Then he found a cave tubing guide who took us out to the caves. They were very nonchalant about it. To us, it was very confusing and worrisome.

 

Because we went zip lining, I'm told we got a shorter cave tubing float then the group that just did the cave tubing. It was still very nice and relaxing though...didn't seem too short.

 

After finishing the cave tubing, we were very happy to see the rest of our group back at the bus getting ready to leave. What they didn't tell us is that all of the cavetubing.com buses return to port at the same time...they don't leave until a full head count is made.

 

So if you do zip lining, be sure they explain to you EXACTLY who and where you will meet up with once you were done. They didn't do that for us and we starting getting really worried about being stranded hours away from port.