Full Day Cruise of Saona Island with Pick Up

9 to 10 hours
Pickup offered
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

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Overview

This tour is your shortcut to discovering the idyllic beaches and natural swimming pools of Saona Island in a day, without having to worry about organizing hotel transfers and boat tickets. After a hotel pickup and catamaran ride to Saona Island, explore its scenery, gain access to an all-inclusive beach bar, and feast on a delicious Dominican buffet lunch.

Hassle-free trip to Saona Island with boat and bus transportation included
Travel on a catamaran that has an open bar and restrooms
Tour visits one of the largest sand bars in the Caribbean
No hunger pangs: A delicious buffet lunch is included

What's Included

Dominican Typical Lunch
Alcoholic Beverages
Professional Tour Guide
Roundtrip Transportation
Catamaran Sailing, Speedboat ride, Natural Swimming, Paradise Island

Souvenirs
Photos

Meeting and Pickup

You can head directly to the meeting point, or request pickup

Meeting point

Barceló Bávaro Palace
nº1, Calle Principal Hotel Barceló 1, Punta Cana 23001, Dominican Republic

Pickup points

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Start time

07:30 AM

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

What To Expect

Isla Saona

3 hours • Admission Ticket Free

Saona Island

50 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Saona Island

40 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Saona Island

3 hours • Admission Ticket Free

Saona Island

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Saona Island

50 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Not wheelchair accessible
Not recommended for travelers with back problems
Not recommended for pregnant travelers

No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
Most travelers can participate
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 80 travelers

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.

Reviews

3.5

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Overpriced for what you really get. Not all inclusive

Cristian_M, Jan 2024

Hired this supposed to be “small group” tour to Saona Island, we were a party of 5 Pick up was delayed due to miscommunication with driver and picked us up by 8AM in a van only to take us to a Gift Shop where we boarded a minibus (capacity of Aprox 25 pax), with another 30 people in total extremely uncomfortable conditions, for a 90’ ride. We boarded a speedboat to board a Catamaran. Inside the catamaran, we had a very nice photo shoot (additional price of USD2.00/picture) and we were supposed to have a free bar included, however this only consisted of Water, Rum, Sprite and Regular Coke served in 3oz disposable plastic cups. We arrived at Saona Island by noon, and had a 2 hour layover. A Full Buffet was supposed to be included, however only Pasta with Tomato Sauce, Chicken, Pork chop and Rice with seafood were available as mains, potato and cabbage as salads and only pineapple for dessert. Beer was sold for another USD8.00 and a glass of white wine was sold for an aditional USD35,00 (extremely overpriced), Coke, Rum, Sprite and water were available “free of charge” The beach was beautiful, blue-turquoise water with barely any waves, very nice for spending the day, in fact we would’ve appreciated if we could stay longer than 2 hours. We then left for the “sea-star pool” (none were there), and we spent only 15 minutes there only for swimming and taking pictures. We then headed back in a speed boat to Bayahibe, our departure location, only to arrive soaking wet due to a storm we had while sailing, the speedboat did not have any kind of ceiling. Upon arrival in Bayahibe we boarded the same bus that took us from Punta Cana, and when we were arriving in Punta Cana, the driver decided to split us into two groups, being the mayority of the bus going to 2 resorts, he made us deboard and tried to forcefully make us board a mini van with capacity of 10 pax (the ones heading to 2 of the resorts, were about 18 people). In conclusion: Saona Island is beautiful and worth visiting, however this Tour Operator (Turcana) made the experience very unpleasant in what regards to the Transportation and not delivering what they promise on the website. I think it is extremely overpriced for what you really get.

Response from Host, Jan 2024

Dear: Marin, We regret his comment about the Saona tour, however, we want to clarify some points of his comment. Because it seems to us that you are confusing our description with that of another product that you probably saw on some platform. Firstly, no one has a tour of Saoan for 5 or 6 people, unless it is private. In our description, we clearly inform you that it is up to 80 people. In our description, we talk about open bar drinks (not premium drinks or wine) The trip from Punta Cana to Bayahibe is approximately 90 minutes as we describe it in the information and as you confirm in your comments. The photo session is optional, if the client wants it he can purchase it, in the tour description we specify that photos is not including -exclusion part-. (the tour does not include a photo) On the catamaran or in the crystal glass is not safe because can be danger, that why all boar activities used it. The tour includes typical Dominican food on the beach in Dominican style, and we gave them that, just as you mention. The tour does not include a bottle of beer, or wine (at not point in the tour is a bottle of beer or glass of wine mentioned. On the island, which is public, it is available to everyone who visits the island if they want to buy it. No necessary if you don’t want because you have your drink including you can buy. (it’s no part of us, it’s a shop independent for who want it) Time on the island is approximately 3 hours, and we gave them that. In the natural pool 45 minutes. Speed boat is part of the attraction of the El Splash water, that what mean speed boat. The entire Saona excursion uses a support vehicle to pick up the clients and take them to the base to leave in a single bus, otherwise the pick-up would last 4 hours, and on the way back we stop at the base and to distribute the clients in different bus, otherwise it will arrive at the last hotel at 11 at night. Certainly, the pick-up time was at 07:30am and the bus picked you up 25 minutes later, for which we personally apologized to you via telephone. We are very sorry for your comment; however, we believe that it is different from all the clients who participated in the tour that day. All the guest that participate on the tour were happy with the service, because we give them exactly what is in the tour description.

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