Montserrat Helicopter Tour

Has anyone done this tour lately? Is the volcano still active?

We were looking at this also! Were you looking through Caribbean helicopters or through the cruise ship?

We were looking at this also! Were you looking through Caribbean helicopters or through the cruise ship?

I originally saw it as a Royal Caribbean Excursion.

We did the helicopter tour through RC in 2015. It was awesome. There was a little bit of smoke but not much. It was a pretty bleak landscape.

I did it in January 2015 through RCCL. Amazing!!

We had a long wait for the ride - one helicopter had some issues and had to land on Monserrat. Which meant passengers had to go through customs. Then we had a rain storm which delayed us. We were lucky enough to get a pilot that takes the scientists over. He was wonderful.

FYI - 1st helicopter ride and scared to death but it was so smooth. Would do it again in a heartbeat.

I would love to give my husband this helicopter excursion as a Christmas gift, but his weight is probably slightly above the weight limit. Do they actually weigh you when you get there?

Yes, they do weigh you along with anything you are carrying on (backpack, purse, etc).

Volcano is not active right now. It is amazing the devastation the volcano did and amazing to start to see the regrowth of the vegetation. Seeing the ash left behind going right up to the ocean - beautiful!

If you ever have more time, you should actually go to Montserrat and stay a week. There's flights and a ferry from Antigua. I've been both before and after the volcano. Plymouth, the former capital, used to be a bustling little place until it was buried, now its a modern day Pompeii and you can visit with police escort as there's some safety issues, you don't just go and poke around by yourself. A new airport was built since the volcano, the old was destroyed. There's no large hotels, just guesthouses or villa rentals ranging 2-5 bedrooms many with private pools and not expensive comparatively to other islands. Its a slow paced island, friendly people, very pretty black sand beach at Woodland's beach.

We just did the helicopter tour as an excursion through the cruiseline. There were four of us and the pilot. I got to sit up front with the pilot and the helicopter has a class bottom floor. Amazing experience. The views were spectacular. Interestingly enough, in addition to my daughter and I the other two passengers were crew from the ship. Well worth the money. And yes, they weighed us.