Any recent reviews on Tropical Delight?

[2Cruzin Fools]

Has anyone been on this excursion lately? Is Capt Mango still the captain? We have done it twice before and always had a great time, but you know how things change over time. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Friscorays]

Here are two less than encouraging ones, neither is particularly recent:

Wes:

"We did take the one you're referring to once and were disappointed.....cat was small and too many people. Although the staff was great there really was no compairson to a Tiami cat. "

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showt...opical+delight

Giorgi-one:

"Catamaran is an old bare bones boat. You have to climb down a ladder backwards into one of the hulls to use the bathroom. "Uncrowded atmoshere?" Excursion was way oversold. There were not enough seats for all passengers. Luckily, some of the younger passengers moved to the net up front (full sun). My wife and I never got seats. My wife sat on a step and had to move every time someone wanted to move forward. I stood the whole time.

"Serious Snorkeler". We were in the water for about 1/2 hour. Not much to see anyhow. Another passenger told me the reef was dead. I have had much better snorkeling off the beach on most Caribbean islands.

"Sumptous meal" was dried chicken, dried rice, macaroni salad and cole slaw.

Boat made a beach stop. Antigua is supposed to have 365 beautiful beaches. Our captain found the 366th beach which was awful. About 10' of sand with lots of scrub brush. Main reason for this stop was to give local vendors a shot at the passengers. My wife thought she saw Captain Mango take his cut from one of the vendors.

This excursion is basically a 6 hour ride in a dumpy, crowded old catamaran. They did provide drinks and thankfully this did not turn into a typical "booze cruise". Unfortunately, I never saw any reviews on this excursion and was naive enough to believe the description. Actually, I didn't really think it would be as good as described, but did not imagine it would be a total fabrication. This was first ship excursion we have done in last 10 cruises and it will probably be at least 10 more cruises before we do another ship excursion."

http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showt...opical+delight