Join Orca Wild Adventures and swim with the dolphins on an incredible day cruise in the Bay of Plenty!
The qualified team at Orca Wild Adventures are the region’s most experienced tour operator and will quickly locate the dolphins ensuring maximum time in the water with these highly intelligent marine mammals.
Once the dolphins are located, step on our boarding platform and join these incredible creatures in their natural environment. A once in a lifetime opportunity to get up close and personal to the the dolphins on this unique and truly magical experience.
Our innovative swimbars provide for the very best swimming and underwater viewing experience and are ideal for those who are less confident in the water.
As well as swimming with the dolphins, this memorable day trip also includes a visit to one of the Bay of Plenty’s beautiful islands. Enjoy a good old kiwi barbeque lunch and take to the crystal clear waters on a guided snorkel and discover the vibrant underwater flora and fauna.
Join us for an authentic New Zealand experience that will be the highlight of your trip to the Bay of Plenty.
All prices are shown in NZD ($)
Amazing experience with amazing service
Great day- many thanks
Swimming with dolphins is probably more of an advertising joke. There is always some excuse. Otherwise quite interesting!
Hey, we swim with dolphins most days. Please appreciate that these are wild animals and we do the best we can. So sorry that the you did not get to swim with them. Regards Orca Wild Adventures
Should be more transparent on the chances of swimming with dolphins. Seems like many days don’t succeed
Hi Rasmus Beyer, sorry you didn't get to swim with the dolphins. They are wild animals and sometimes it is just not feasible. We are totally transparent about our success rate at swimming with dolphins and it is stated on our website, we swam both of the last 2 trips . I am not sure why you think we are not, you cannot really assess this from coming out once with us. Anyway you obviously feel justified in a one star review even though we cruised with 80 to 100 dolphins for an hour, had an awesome snorkel and lunch, saw a large school of Kawahai and a leatherback turtle. Regards Mark
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volkerh from Germany wrote on 30 March 2023
Great day
This was a fantastic day. The crew is attending, offering sea sickness pills at the very beginning, supplied us with wetsuits, flippers and snorkeling masks. Skipper Marc discovered two dolphins, which guided us to a school of about 100 species. There were a lot of baby dolphins, so Marc decided not to let us swim with them. I really appreciate this, because it shows, that they take care of the wellbeing of the animals. Thanks for this experience 👍🤩