We just did Dolphin Encounter a few weeks ago and loved it! You get to hug, kiss, feed and dance with the dolphin. I put myself and rest of family in a different group so that I could get good pictures. This meant, I sat on one side of the dock while they got in the water onto a platform to do their "tricks"! I also had another person take our picture with the dophin while we were posed for the one they take. Be sure you take a camera and put your name and address on it. Also, we booked it ourselves and were told to take a boat ferry to another island where we would leave from but we could have left from a place just down from where the ship was docked instead. That costs us $15.00 and 1 1/2 hours as well!