What's the problem with booking a Galapagos tour from the Galapagos Islands themselves?
A friend of mine did just that last year after flying over from Guayaquil.
Think he said he got a 5 day cruise for about half the price of similar cruises listed in Guayaquil and it was a good trip.
Doesn't seem that tough to do unless something has really changed in the last year.
Nothing mentioned about that on these sites, though, which say a few times you can book a tour from the islands themselves.
If I could do it, I would blindfold my guy and put him in my suitcase on the first flight to Greece. Who needs clothes?
2 weeks? wrote:
If I could do it, I would blindfold my guy and put him in my suitcase on the first flight to Greece. Who needs clothes?
That'd be a rough flight if your suitcase goes into the cargo hold...
I think the issue of booking after arriving at the Galapagos has to do with quality. The better (more expensive) trips put on by people like National Geographic, have much nicer ships with nicer facilities. The top end trips also generally have much smaller numbers of people on the ships, better more experienced guides and naturalists who are well-known worldwide. These trips also get preference from the Darwin Institute and in terms of the land experience...smaller groups, more spacings between the groups, etc. Some of the less expensive trips are fine, depending on what you are looking for. Keep this in mind -- it is a once in a lifetime experience --do you really want to "go on the cheap"? There is also well-established risk with the less expensive trips with horror stories about diesel fumes, over crowded and understaffed ships and shore guiding, poor meals, cramped sleeping quarters, and on and on. In a nutshell, you usually get what you pay for, but everyone has a different expectation level.
Country Club wannabe wrote:
Purely for my amusement and for the benefit of the OP, I lured you fools into my argument and won. Game is over, I won. How foolish do you think I am about that bet? I know the answer to your little riddle and I am not suckering in. Adieu and good wishes that you can be jst like me one day.
Just because people stopped talking to you does not mean you "won." Just so you know. (Unless your definition of "winning" is coming across as the biggest fool of the thread.)
Grecian Greaser wrote:
I think the issue of booking after arriving at the Galapagos has to do with quality. The better (more expensive) trips put on by people like National Geographic, have much nicer ships with nicer facilities. The top end trips also generally have much smaller numbers of people on the ships, better more experienced guides and naturalists who are well-known worldwide. These trips also get preference from the Darwin Institute and in terms of the land experience...smaller groups, more spacings between the groups, etc. Some of the less expensive trips are fine, depending on what you are looking for. Keep this in mind -- it is a once in a lifetime experience --do you really want to "go on the cheap"? There is also well-established risk with the less expensive trips with horror stories about diesel fumes, over crowded and understaffed ships and shore guiding, poor meals, cramped sleeping quarters, and on and on. In a nutshell, you usually get what you pay for, but everyone has a different expectation level.
This is pretty accurate. When I went I toured via Gecko's, all paid for before leaving my country of residence. It wasn't luxury but excellent value for money - great guide, good crew (excellent cook!), reasonable boat (though a little cramped sleeping quarters). Smallish group of like minded and similar aged people for the most part. It was a few years ago now, but I do recall there were most definitely places to book Galapagos tours both from Quito and also from the business/residential areas of the Galapagos also.
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