9.6 Exceptional
Alan B
United States

Almost wonderful

The Whale sharks

Recommended for: Crew, dive guides, food

9.2 Superb
Christopher H
United States

Trip of a Lifetime

From the moment we landed, everything was top notch. The cabins, crew, and itinerary were AWESOME. We were able to spend 3 days at Darwin and Wolf, and saw scores of Hammerheads, Galapagos Sharks, Turtles, Eagle Rays, and even 3 Juvenile Whale Sharks. The crew and our dive guides were all amazing, always cracking jokes and dropping knowledge about what we were seeing above and below. I would do it again in a heartbeat!

Recommended for: The Marine Life, The Food, The Crew

10 Exceptional
Enrique F
United States

Felt like a dream.

We had a wonderful time on the Calipso. The crew and dive guides were fabulous and the diving was spectacular. We got to see everything we had hoped to see including a mola mola and whale sharks. We were a bit unprepared for how cold the water was, and the rental wetsuits weren't warm enough for us. Luckily we had great fellow divers who offered up extra layers for us.

Recommended for: We got to scuba dive with sea lions, marine iguanas, whale sharks, hammerheads and mola mola

8.4 Very good
Lisa K
United States

Most beautiful Liveaboard I've been on

I loved loved loved the sea lions. I didn't expect to be so impressed with them. I was going to see all the hammerheads, hoping to see Mola Molas, and Whale Sharks. We could tick off everything on the list, except seeing a penguin swimming in the water. I was in awe at the numbers of hammers, but the vis-being not that great-makes me want to come back again to see this again. The marine iguanas were also really cool.

Recommended for: outstanding crew service, huge numbers of marine life, so many windows on the boat

10 Exceptional
Ethan H
United States

Excellent!

Whale sharks in abundance! Mola mola in abundance! One of the guides was absolutely knowledgeable on many useful subjects. Some crew members went above and beyond including doing my laundry on the last night. Thank you

Recommended for: The guides were amazing! Crew was super friendly and helpful and the accomodations we're great

10 Exceptional
Jennifer A
United States

Amazing

Small dive groups, amazing dive guides and crew, loved the boat setup, newly renovated with efficient dive deck and plenty of room on the upper deck for relaxing, sightseeing and hot tub

Recommended for: Dive guides and crew were fabulous, boat was clean and efficient, itinerary perfect

10 Exceptional
Peter
United States

Beyond expectations

This was my third liveaboard trip and this trip was out of this world. The 8 days went too quick. Everyone on the boat was very nice and really fun to be around. A lot of laughs. Unlike other trips we’re people tend to sit at the same table and mingle this group was very social. Make for a far superior trip. Dive guides were very knowledgeable not just on what was underwater but above also. We we especially lucky since we saw everything imaginable even swam with killer whales. The boat was very nice my room had a nice big window we’re I could watch the sunset while laying down. I could go on and on but then may come across as a paid review. Lol.

Recommended for: The crew the food and of course the diving.

10 Exceptional
silas R
United States

AMAZING!!!

Diving with whale sharks, hundreds of scalloped hammer heads, penguins, sea lions, marine iguanas, and much much more!!

Recommended for: The diving, The service, The accommodations

10 Exceptional
Cindy P
United States

Galapagos Never Disappoints!

Seeing the diversity of species in the Galapagos always has you waiting for the next exciting moment! Every day was fantastic! The crew went above and beyond to help us in every way, from diving, to cooking, to cabin cleaning and all the little things inbetween. Couldn't have been happier with our amazing trip!

Recommended for: Location, Diving adventures, crew

10 Exceptional
Preston M
United States

Awesome Trip! Diving, Boat, Crew, Service, Food...all exceptional

We saw everything you'd hope for on a trip to the Galapagos!....Whale Sharks, Hammerhead Sharks, Galapagos Sharks, Sea Lions, Eagle Rays, Blacktip Sharks, Turtles, Seals, Dolphins, Pilot Whales, Tuna, Sea Horses, Frog Fish, Red-lipped Batfish, Galapagos Bullhead Shark....what a trip! Highly recommend the Calipso....we had a great time and will be back!

Recommended for: Diving was fantastic, boat is in excellent condition, crew is helpful & friendly

10 Exceptional
Derek G
United States

Amazing Crew & Wildlife

This was my first Liveaboard and did not know what to expect. Everything felt very professional and the entire crew was amazing. Our favorites were the dive guides and our panga driver! We were able to see all the wildlife we expected to including hundreds of Galapagos & Hammerhead sharks, Whale shark, Sunfish and marine iguanas. My 40th birthday celebration was also very special while on the Calipso - we hope to return in the future!

Recommended for: Overall Value, Crew Interactions, Galapagos Wildlife

10 Exceptional
Christine T
United States

Wonderful Trip of a Lifetime

The sea life and the excellent crew.

Recommended for: The Galapagos really delivers the best in diving - pristine, so many animals, a truly special place. The Calipso was well suited for scuba diving; the hot towels and hot showers on the dive deck hit the spot after each dive. The crew was engaging and fun.

6.4 Review score
Alvaro D
Spain

Needs to improve

Recent boat which has to improve many details, especially “before trip support & info”, and service details in crew. Diving is guided by official national park divemasters, supposed to be a plus, but this is not the case. Boat needs to improve its navigation capacities: unconfortable even with calm weather in hot season. Overall a nice dive trip for the unforgettable nature and diving spots, boat and needs to improve for worthing the money they took. Thank you

Recommended for: Destination, diving, natural life

10 Exceptional
Alvaro C
Spain

Awesome trip in the best liveaboard I've been

One day at Darwin, while being surrounded of hammerheads and galapagos sharks as usual, a group of silky sharks decided to surround us feeling curious, we were so excited to have such an experience, when a massive Whale Shark appeared from the deep blowing our minds. Believe what they tell you about the Galapagos, and if you go with this really big and comfortable boat full of details with a crew that enjoys their job, you will be in the perfect hands. (I've been in 3 other liveaboards around the world, so I can compare, this one was the best).

Recommended for: Sharks, staff and food

8.4 Very good
Abdulrahman A
Kuwait

It was a great experience

Hammer heads

Recommended for: 1- Wolf & Darwin 2-Friendly staff 3- Crossing the equater

10 Exceptional
Li P
Canada

Great dives

The guides I had are great. One is really knowledge about the islands. The other took plenty of photos of the animals and everyone and made a movie for us at the end. The food is amazing for a liveaboard. Rooms are spacious and bright. Water is frigid. They will tell you average water temperature is 23 oC in December. That is the warmest water we encountered. Half the dives had a temperature between 16 and 19. Bring some shorties in addition to the 7mm

Recommended for: Great dives, great food, very clean rooms

10 Exceptional
Carl G
Canada

All around great trip

The overwhelming amount of wildlife in the Galapagos

Recommended for: The sites, the crew, the boat

9.2 Superb
Caslav D
Canada

Great trip!

Diving with hammerheads, whalesharks, sea lions, and iguanas. Penguins and mola mola at the end. Area for improvements: selection of diving sites regardless of conditions; rushing during some dives; last day schedule.

Recommended for: Friendly crew, great food, nice and clean cabin

9.6 Exceptional
Sean C
Canada

Amazing experience with a great staff

Very nice boat, well set up with a comfort room with an amazing view. The staff was incredibly helpful and always willing to do that little bit extra to make it the best experience possible. Darwin and Wolf are definitely the highlights of the trip with all the shark action you could ask for.

Recommended for: Hammerheads, Orcas, Friendly Staff

10 Exceptional
IGNATIOS S
Greece

Excekwnt

Amazing diving

Recommended for: Service, guides, cabin

8.0 Very good
Simone U
Switzerland

What a great experience!

I saw so many things that I had never seen before (having 1000+ dives): Iguana, "walls" of hammer heads sharks, sealions playing with us ... Other things I had seen before, but just not in this obliviance, like turtles, sharks in general, big, big schools of fish, great variety of fish. Also: a very nice and helpful crew. They have the right to a certain amount of tips, so no need to go a long way to assist the guests. But still they do, they are just super people!

Recommended for: super diving, super crew, super food

10 Exceptional
Anne M
France

Perfection on the Ocean

Absolutely stunning boat and amazing crew! There's no better boat in the Galapagos : huge super comfy cabins with panoramic windows, very good and diverse food, and a crew with a very very big heart who takes good care of every one! Our trip was a really exceptional human experience. Thanks again Calipso and her crew. The diving was as expected in the Galapagos : one of the best in the world! We saw so many sharks, rays, sealions and dolphins on our dives that we thought we were dreaming. If I have a chance to come back to the Galapagos, I'd like to go on Calipso again for sure. Everything was so perfect!

Recommended for: The crew, the boat, the diving

10 Exceptional
Susanne D
Canada

Exceptional experience!!!

So many highlights I can’t even begin to describe them. The boat and crew were simply incredible. I would recommend medication for sea sickness as in august the Galapagos is choppy water. I would also suggest you have the necessary diving experience required to take this challenge on. Thank you Calipso for the trip of my life!!!!

Recommended for: The crew was incredibly helpful. The guides were very knowledgeable and while the diving was challenging The guides were very experienced. The food!!!!!! So good!!!

10 Exceptional
Janusz S
Finland

Excellent trip

Excellent boat with very friendly and helpful crew and professional diving instructors. Good food and fantastic dives. We were on the Darwin and Wolf route and now I can confirm that this is truly the sharkiest spot on our planet! Tens of hammerheads and Galapagos sharks were passing by in front of us a few meters away! Additionally, there were also orcas swimming near our zodiac boat! Everything was (almost) perfect! I have only a small remark to headquarters (not the crew) where they were, without any explanation, trying to change the category of our cabin on the arrival day.

Recommended for: Diving instructors, hammerheads, orcas

9.6 Exceptional
Margrit E
Switzerland

Top liveaboard experience

Marine life - big swarms of fish, Hammerheads, Whaleshark, Marine Iguanas, Turtles, and Sealions my new favorites !

Recommended for: Boat Comfort and especially friendly Crew Services and Dive Guides professionality

10 Exceptional
Gilbert H
Denmark

Simpelthen et fantastisk skib fås ikke bedre.

Det hele alt.

Recommended for: 3 ting kan ikke beskrive besætning og skib det var det hele.

9.6 Exceptional
Nigel S
Canada

Just a fantastic crew and a very well planned trip. Couldn’t be better!

Diving Wolf and Darwin

Recommended for: Great diving, Super amazing crew, Very comfortable accommodation

10 Exceptional
ales Z
Czech Republic

Amazing,my best diving ever

Whale sharks hundrets of hammerhead sharks mola mola diving with iguanas and cormorans and sea lions

Recommended for: Excellent guides and crew very comfortable boat

10 Exceptional
Marcela V
Slovakia

The best divetrip

Whale sharks, hamerheads, galapagos sharks, iguanas, turtles, mola mola, pinguine, playful seelions and a lot of others.. The best dive experience ever! Amazing boat, perfect service, experienced dive guides, extremely helpful and friendly staff. I got even suprise for my 100 dive (decoration in my room and big cake). Food was always delicious, jacuzzi after dive was super and there is very nice sundeck. Calipso is top!!!

Recommended for: Beautiful dive sites, a lot of sharks, perfect service on the boat

9.2 Superb
Nadine E
Germany

Perfect livesboard experience

Very well organised liveaboard with really friendly and helpful crew, great dive guides and breathtaking diving. Will definitely do it again!

Recommended for: Dive, eat, sleep - repeat

6.8 Review score
Alena Miriam S
Czech Republic

Good but not as much as I expected

I generally enjoined the trip, however Galapagos is slowly becoming overadvertised and overpriced tourist trap. I should have gone 10 years ago. The diving rules are unnecessarily strict specially for more experienced divers and it stops you from seeing more hammerheads. And recommended tip of 10 % of trip value is a bad joke provided the amount you already paid, on Antarctica cruise they suggest just 10$ a day for much better services.

Recommended for: Iguanas feeding underwater, Whalesharks, sea horses

8.4 Very good
Koen V
Belgium

Once in a lifetime experience!

Diving with hammerheads, sealions, iguana's and pinguins!

Recommended for: Nice boat, excellent staf, great dives !

9.6 Exceptional
Allan C
Canada

Bucket list - CHECK CHECK!

Saw all the critters as advertised. Crew were instrumental in all the getting us into position and looking at the right time. Would recommend to all divers at least once, the Galapagos of course and the Calipso specifically.

Recommended for: Beyond belief & expectations, Dives, Boat Crew, Destination, absolutely everything.

8.8 Fabulous
Gyula F
Hungary

Great boat & amazing sealife

We had some rough conditions on a few sites but all in all we have seen everything that we wished for.

Recommended for: Sealife diversity, Good guides, Comfortable boat

9.2 Superb
Kai K
Finland

Awsome crew

Crew friendliness and setvice were awsome. Dive guides were great. Huge mama whaleshark in Wolff Is.

Recommended for: Crew, dive guides and diving.

9.6 Exceptional
lionel B
France

Exceptional cruise

This is by far the best cruise I have ever done in my diving long life (30 years). Team super nice, dives fantastic, good comfort, very good food.

Recommended for: Dives, food, kind team

10 Exceptional
Andres S
Ecuador

A must do experience for every diver

Saw 2 whale sharks! Millions of hammerheads and even had a cave dive. Definitely a fun experience for advanced divers

Recommended for: Staff was very friendly and accommodating, food was very good and guides definitely know where the hot spots are.

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