A Fun and Exhilarating Islands Day Tour!! - Another one of our highlights from our trip to Cartagena. This 5 Islas Day Tour by DYK Tour VIP was a fun and exhilarating day tour! A lot came with this day tour… here’s the details…There’s an open bar on the boat that includes Medellín rum, brandy, vodka, aguardiente, national beers throughout the day while supplies last. The first stop is a panoramic stop at the Bocachica fort with historical explanation by the crew. Next is a snorkeling stop by Pablo Escobar Gaviria’s sunken plane. Next we visited the Isla del Rosario Oceanario where we had a choice to go visit the Oceanario or embark on more Snorkeling nearby. Next was lunch and relaxing on Isla Coral. The 3 lunch options offered - fried fish, grilled breast, and vegetarian option with sides of coconut rice, patacones ,and salad. After lunch we visited Isla Cholón, the Party Island which came with a welcome cocktail. The final stop was on Playa Tranquila to relax before heading back to Cartagena. This is certainly a must do while in Cartagena. If you decide to do this though just FYI… take advantage of the open bar on the boat and don’t buy too many drinks on the islands… they are expensive ASF 😂. Big special thanks to our tour guides - Eduar Romero, Maxwell jr, Pedro Alvarez, and Suk for leading us on this fun and memorable experience!

Secure the tour with recognized agencies. - Wonderful landscapes, but very little time on each island, we were not able to get the tickets to swim with dolphins in the Oceanarium, although they refunded our money, we took the tour just for that reason. As advice, demand as soon as you go down to the Oceanarium that they respect your experience. Also take the tour with a serious agency and with safe boats, require a life jacket, the sea changes from one moment to the next and becomes very dangerous. If you go with children, do not sit at the end of the boats. Everything is beautiful, the color of the sea is unmatched.

The worst excursion of my life - We bought a VIP excursion to 4 islands in Cartagena, the excursion was from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.!! With two hours on the last island to eat and rest. They recommended we go by bus since they picked us up at the hotel and it was only 45 minutes to the island of Baru, the trip lasted 2 and a half hours!! When we got to Baru we got on a boat that was falling apart, it didn't have an awning, it was broken (so for 3 hours we were under a blazing sun and we got burned), the seats didn't have mattresses, so with the waves we ended up destroyed . On the different islands that we visited, the sun loungers were disgusting, you couldn't even sit down and the little piece of beach that corresponded to us was extremely dirty. At 2:30 p.m. we arrived at the island where we had to eat and rest, another horror of a place, dirty and full of people, we told the guide that we didn't want to eat and that we wanted to return to the hotel (since we had to be there at 5:00 p.m. and we had to 2.30 hours by bus!! And he tells us that there is no bus and that we have to return by boat (which we did not want since we were burned out). The captain, a nightmare!! By the way, the food was also terrible! In short, it was a nightmare and a wasted vacation day!! The person who sold us the excursion told us that if we didn't like it, they would give us our money back...

Dreadful trip, not as described and dangerous safety standards - Trip sold to 7 of us all a Rosario Islands tour .. but after a very long wait and chaotic boarding this proved to be an alcohol dominated party trip with continuous painfully loud music, free beers and nothing alcohol free until the boat did an extra stop to pick up water and coke. Lifejackets were available but it was made clear they only needed to be worn when in sight of the police. Worse though was the helmsman's kill cord which - rather than being attached to his wrist or ankle to stop the engine if he fell overboard - was left dangling throughout the trip. We were so relieved to get back safely and to no noise

Rip off and far too busy - Though the views of the islands are good and the energy of the tour guides is nice, this is a complete tourist trap. They take you to 5 of essentially the same places where hawkers Rio you off for every object imaginable. Drinks are priced more than the UK and far worse quality. You do not get more than 10 seconds without having to send someone away.