Parasailing Adventure in Punta Cana

Posted By : Beth_G
Our party was my 15 yo daughter and myself. We were picked up at our hotel, but outside the security gates. The driver was not allowed to access the hotel driveway. That should have been my first warning. We had to locate someone to take us down to the gate in a golf cart, as it was unsafe to walk. The driver was not in a company van as I would have expected - it was a private car. It was dirty and smelled of cigarettes. We were driven to a shop, where the driver parked on the side of the street, he told us to “ wait please”, and he went in. A few minutes later, he came out and we continued on. No idea what that was all about. A few minutes after that, we stopped to pick up a young woman dressed in club wear (at 2pm). I thought she was a “working girl” and I was now pretty concerned. They seemed to know each other, but spoke rapid Spanish, and my high school level language comprehension couldn’t keep up. My daughter was convinced we were about to be trafficked. We were then driven to a sketchy looking local beach. We were dropped off outside and led through a dim alleyway past various gift shops. This area smelled like an open sewer and there were several stray dogs roaming around. They were NOT friendly. The beach was treacherous to walk on with the mounds of sargassum. Once we were finally on the parasail boat, we had a great time. All 20 minutes of it. Back at the beach, we were led to a little gift shop, and the high pressure to buy something started. We are not buying souvenirs, and I told the host this. The friendliness level went way down after this. Finally, while we were driven back to the hotel, our driver (same car) was pulled over for an unregistered vehicle infraction (high school Spanish coming in clutch!).

I’m giving 2 stars only because the parasailing itself was a lot of fun. Everything else was dirty, unsafe, scary and overpriced. I can’t believe I paid over $150 for this.
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Posted On : 2024-06-23 10:22:20

Posted By : Marcus_F
Had a wonderful time was fun but we had to wait over an hour for our turn on the boat but other than that wonderful experience
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Posted On : 2024-06-15 12:52:58

Posted By : Gina_S
It was a very good excursion. My only suggestion was to have someone on the boat to take pictures while we were in the air. No one would have believed I was up there if it wasn’t for someone on the excursion with us that took the pictures for us. That’s a MUST!
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Posted On : 2024-06-08 15:33:18

Posted By : Starquita_P
Very nice staff awesome handsome driver. The ride was amazing to see the area with a breeze on a hot day was much needed. Wish the ride was longer but memorable
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Posted On : 2024-05-08 11:08:28

Posted By : Kyla_Z
It was cool for my first time but being advertised 25 minutes and only being in the air for 5 minutes was a bummer. Our taxi had no clue where he was going and we didn't start until an hour after our reservation. After, we were left on the beach for 30 minutes waiting for a guide to bring us back and call our driver. We paid $25 for pictures, still haven't received them and it's been a few hours, still waiting. After paying $25 for pictures and $160 for 2 people for 5 minutes they still wanted a tip... If I were to do parasailing again, I'd book with a different company. The only thing I was happy about was it being my first time and I was mesmerized, other than that it wasn't worth close to $200 for a 5 minutes.
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Posted On : 2024-03-30 14:46:27

Posted By : dlittle1
Very fun! Everyone was very helpful getting into the boats. Would have stayed up longer if given the option.
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Posted On : 2024-03-06 09:55:16

Posted By : Davinia_G
It was a great experience overall, the gentleman are very nice. I’m afraid of heights with that I got sick the gentleman took care of me. If you like things like this it’ll be great for you
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Posted On : 2024-02-24 16:51:44

Posted By : Jack_L
People were very friendly and respectful. Especial Carlos Guillén . Beach area of Los Corales was very nice! Teen complained that was a very short ride but the experience was super!
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Posted On : 2024-02-20 10:53:59

Posted By : Jennifer_K
I researched several companies to do a parasailing excursion and picked this one specifically because it advertised 30 minutes in the air. I booked it even though it was a little more expensive than other vendors for this reason. Communication about the pick up time at the resort was difficult. I tried to message through the app but no one answered my question. I had to have the front desk at my resort call on my behalf to get the details. Then those details changed by an hour with only a hour notice. Very frustrating. Before going up in the air I reminded the driver “30 minutes” and he agreed. We were only in the air for 10 minutes total. When we came back to the boat I said it was only 10 minutes and the crew just nodded and said “yes, 10 minutes”. They quickly shuffled us off the boat and back to the beach. Very disappointing. Overall, there is nothing special about this excursion. Next time we will go through our resort for half the price.
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Posted On : 2024-02-13 15:04:56

Posted By : Diane_D
I looked at several parasailing excursions. The reason why I choose this one was because it advertised to parasail for 30 minutes while some of the others only said 15 minutes. We were shuttled to the parasailing boat with a little boat. We were probably up in the air about 10-15 minutes instead of 30. The boat didn’t move much because they were shuttling people on and off the boat. The one good thing was we were scheduled to parasail at 11. There were dark clouds so they said they couldn’t go but then we went at 1 when it cleared up.
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Posted On : 2024-01-06 21:06:50