Hermanus Whale Watching Day Trip

This trip was a wonderful way to experience some of what Cape Town has to offer beyond the city. Although the weather didn’t allow for the boat trip, our guide, took us to several excellent land-based viewing spots, giving us different perspectives and opportunities to see and experience the whales. The routes to and from Hermanus were slightly different, keeping the journey interesting. Our guide, Brahms consistently shared interesting facts, local information and highlights. His knowledge and enthusiasm really added to the experience and made the day thoroughly enjoyable.

It was a very interesting excursion: unfortunately we could not go on the cruise to see the whales because of the terrible weather with wind and rain, but the guide took us to a point on the road that runs along the beach where we were able to see these splendid animals in their movements. Overall we were very happy. In addition to whale watching, we saw the various aspects of the Cape Region. The driver/guide, whose name I unfortunately don't remember, was excellent.

Great tour and an excellent guide! Very knowledgeable, friendly and kept everyone on time at each stop. A really enjoyable experience and highly recommended. 👍🏽 My only minor criticism would be that, given the distances travelled and time spent on the tour, complimentary bottles of water should be included. Apart from that, a fantastic tour and highly recommended! 👍🏽

Contrary to the description, whale watching is not part of the tour; you have to take care of getting a 12 o'clock tour with one of the 2 (3) external providers yourself beforehand, which, however, was already booked out days in advance for us. So we took the bus to Hermanus, which was not extremely exciting, spent 3 hours in Hermanus, and then drove back home. Unfortunately, we did not see any whales. You can only do the wine tasting and the tour of pretty little Hermanus if you have not booked a whale watching tour. A real shame.

This is a total scam. It all begins with an error from the company that told us to be at the pick up point at 8:30 in the morning, we got there 10 minutes earlier to find out that we have missed the shuttle to the real pick up point, so we had to take an Uber to go to the real pick up point. We promptly complaint about this and the employee of the company said someone made a mistake because they should have told us to be at the pick up point at 8:00. In addition, we only learned that the tour did not include the price for the boat after we have paid. On the day of the tour, we learned from our guide that tickets for the boat should have been bought in advance, and that he would try to see if there was a cancelattion upon our arrival at Hermanos. Of course all boats were fully booked by the time we got there. Personally, I was lucky to be able to purchase an extra spot in one boat from a nice lady that had an extra ticket because her husband could not make it. But the rest of the tourists were frustrated since they did not have tickets and getting there it was impossible to buy tickets since the boats were fully booked with no last minute cancellations. In the end, we paid for an expensive wine tasting (not avalible for the ones lucky enough to be in the boat), far away from Cape Town. Additionally, one of the partner boat companies was unavaible due to their boat that was broken. The company should have had the descence to allow refundable cancelations in such cases. As I said, I was lucky to find an extra ticket for the boat from one of the tourists in our group, but all the other 10 people lost the day, out of 15 in the total group.