Amount of waiting before/after Blue Lagoon Dolphin Excursions?

[mrsgthatsme]

I have been reading up on reviews of the Blue Lagoon Dolphin Swim/Encounter excursions and seem to be noticing that many people noted a very long wait between arriving at the meeting spot on the boat and actually starting their excursion (several noted a whole two hours between meeting up on the ship and arriving at the actual excursion.) Many commented that it was almost an hour waiting to leave the ship, then a long line outside the ship waiting to go to the ferry, then more waiting on the island before the excursion. Some even noted a long wait and late arriving ferries on the way back to the ship after the excursion. For those of you who have experience with this excursion, was this your experience? DD will be 11 and would do fine with that, but DS is not a huge fan of waiting, and we love the ship so much that I'm tempted to stay on the boat with him and have DH take my daughter to Blue Lagoon if the waiting really is a huge part of the excursion day. Would the amount of waiting you did deter you from doing this excursion again? Thank you!

 

[dcassetta]

I haven't experienced anything as extreme as two hours when going to Blue Lagoon, but there will be a wait. You have to gather everybody, and it seems like there's always someone who's late, then you have to lineup outside so you can check in with the Blue Lagoon people, and then they have to get everyone over to the ferry boat, get everyone on the ferry boat, and then it is about half an hour to get out to Blue Lagoon itself.

Perhaps you could go with your daughter, and your son could enjoy the clubs during that time.