Lamani Tour: NCL vs private

[tincansailor]

We'll be there second week of March. Whereas we are leaning towards using the NCL sponsored excursion to make sure we don't miss the departure time, it's more expensive and sure to be more crowded than a private tour. Does anyone have any experience with Island Marketing? If so, please share your experience.

[DonMar]

We booked through Island Marketing which uses Belize Cruise Excursions (Feb 07). They were very good. They were very helpful and flexible. I was able to push the start time up via e-mail on board ship. We paid the deposit on-line and paid cash at the end of the tour.

 

The ship excursion will be more money and will be more crowded, but it is a long trip and the risk of missing the last tender is real - but from all accounts on this board, everyone has made it back.

 

Our private tour was fantastic. We left very early in the AM. We were on the second tender. We were the only people (two of us and our guide) on the tour and at the site - WOW! We had the whole place - it was wonderful. We knew the risks and were willing to take them (we brought all docs with us - just in case). We made it back with time to shop.

[wdowns9]

We booked our tour through NCL; here is the time line of our tour so you can make the choice if you want to go with a private tour:

 

8a-meet in theater

820a - first tender to deapart

840a - arrive at pier

9a - depart for Orange Walk

10a - arrive and transfer to boat

1115a - arrive at Lamanai for lunch (30mins)

12p-215p tour ruins no free time to investigate

220p-depart ruins

315p-arrive at bus in Orange Walk

420p - arrive at pier

5p - last tender departs for NCL Spirit