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Whale Watch Cabo

Muelle LMN, Cabo San Lucas 23450, Mexico
526241051004
Ranked #9 of 95 tours in Cabo San Lucas
5.0 of 5 stars 35 Reviews
Type: Boat Tours
Owner description: Cabo San Lucas's only dedicated Whale Watching company. Our small and personal group trips are led by certified whale biologists/photo pros. Enjoy...... more » Owner description: Cabo San Lucas's only dedicated Whale Watching company. Our small and personal group trips are led by certified whale biologists/photo pros. Enjoy educational whale watching tours focused on fun, informative and intimate encounters with Humpback and Gray Whales in the Los Cabos region of the Sea of Cortez, Mexico. Our 2.5 hour tours are aboard 'The Blessing' our comfortable and fast 32 foot Super Panga that allows us to be close to the whales but ensure non-invasive encounters. We also offer private tours suitable for families and groups to enjoy very personalized attention and itineraries.Your hosts are Janneke and Peter - Dutch and Canadian, english speaking biologists, whale naturalists and professional photographers. We are both dedicated to whale conservation and sharing wonderful whale watching encounters with you, our guests. We welcome you to a different whale watching experience in Cabo San Lucas. We aim make each trip fun, unique and focused on each one of our guests. Join us for a wonderful whale watching experience in Cabo San Lucas and take home great memories and even better photos! « less
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed May 17, 2012

My wife and I were looking for a whale watching tour in Cabo and made our decision to go with Whale Watch Cabo based on other TripAdvisor reviews. Peter, Janneke, and the captain (Santos) definitely lived up to the Excellent rating. I watch a lot of nature documentaries, but learned so much new information from Peter and Janneke. Their passion... More

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5 of 5 stars Reviewed April 23, 2012
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We were lucky enough to get out with our guide, Peter, the first week of April and although the whale watching is not as good this late in the season, Peter assured us we would see whales. We started out with a short tour of Pelican Rock, the Sea Lion colony and of course, El Arco. We then set out... More

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Janneke Louwes, Manager at Whale Watch Cabo, responded to this review
May 4, 2012

Thank you for sharing your experience whale watching with us, the Sea of Cortez always has many wonderful surprises to excite nature lovers, and you have painted a very wonderful (and accurate) image of what a tour with Whale Watch Cabo is like. Often we tell people our tours are almost more of marine wildlife tours, as we see not... More

SC
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed April 22, 2012

Thank you, Janneke and Peter, for a wonderful experience on both of our whale watching tours. We, too, felt that we were taking a tour with friends who cared that we got the best sighting and best photo angle. Your knowledge about and obvious passion for the whales was inspiring! We absolutely loved it...especially the mother and two week old... More

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Janneke Louwes, Manager at Whale Watch Cabo, responded to this review
May 4, 2012

We really enjoy getting such positive feedback from our guests, makes us feel like we are on the right track with our Whale Watching Tours. We do want all of our guests to feel comfortable, like enjoying a boat trip with new friends, just how we would want to feel if we were the guests. We realize how special an... More

Piscataway, NJ
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4 reviews 4 reviews
Reviews in 4 cities Reviews in 4 cities
2 helpful votes 2 helpful votes
5 of 5 stars Reviewed April 6, 2012

Whale watch Cabo was just as advertized: Peter & Janneke are friendly, knowledgeable guides who are also marine biologists - they're eco-friendly & respect the whales - they answered everyone's questions & obviously love what they're doing (unlike most tourist attractions - they seem more concerned with optimizing their guests' experience than with maximizing income). We came at the end... More

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Janneke Louwes, Owner at Whale Watch Cabo, responded to this review
April 12, 2012

What a great thing to say! Thanks! You are right, we do love what we are doing, and what we are doing is something unique here in Cabo. As the only marine biologists leading tours here in Cabo we combine responsible eco-tourism with data collection (in the form of photo ID) to further our understanding of the whales. We feel... More

Milton, Ontario, Canada
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed April 2, 2012

I have waited a long time to go Whale Watching... I found this tour on the web and was interested based on the reviews. We had a group of 14, and through email, Janneke and Peter were very responsive and helped us secure two boats with smaller groups for a better experience. Once we arrived in Cabo we felt welcomed,... More

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Janneke Louwes, Owner at Whale Watch Cabo, responded to this review
April 12, 2012

Thanks so much for your kind words. We hope to always have our guests feel more like new friends, even when we get 14 new friends all at once! Even though we study the whales, collect visual data/photos on our tours, at heart we are just two HUGE whale fans, so our enthusiasm for our tours and the wonderful people... More

Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed April 1, 2012

Janneke was a wonderful guide! She answered all the questions we had. We followed a mother and her calf, for quite awhile, the baby breeched numerous times, and mom too. It was so amazing. Captain Santos kept a very respectable distance as not to stress mom or baby. We would certainly recommend Whale Watch Cabo to anyone who wants a... More

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Janneke Louwes, Owner at Whale Watch Cabo, responded to this review
April 2, 2012

Hi Jeff and Beth - thanks for sharing your experience with other Trip Advisor users. We are so lucky here in the southern Sea of Cortez to have the Humpback Whales giving birth and nursing their babies. It is really something special to see the new borns learning to swim, growing stronger each day and within weeks, breaching, tail slapping... More

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed April 1, 2012

I just wanted to affirm that all of the great reviews are true . . . I booked a tour based on the reviews on this site, and I would definitely recommend it to others as well. Besides having a fabulous time with Janneke and only two other couples (6 of us total), the only other tips or comments I... More

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Janneke Louwes, Owner at Whale Watch Cabo, responded to this review
April 2, 2012

Hi Kate, thanks for the positive feedback and guidelines for guests! We are very pleased with all the positive feedback that we have been receiving in our first year running whale watching tours in Cabo San Lucas. Although we are the newest bunch in town, we are the only company that has 2 marine biologists for guides (who are also... More

Chicago, Illinois
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7 reviews 7 reviews
Reviews in 5 cities Reviews in 5 cities
6 helpful votes 6 helpful votes
5 of 5 stars Reviewed March 29, 2012

It was quite an amazing experiencing watching humpback whales breaching up close and personal! We did not expect to see this behavior continuous throughtout our entire tour! Peter was our guide and he provided a lot of good information about whales. It was a small group and a smaller boat. I personally feel that our experience was so much better... More

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Janneke Louwes, Owner at Whale Watch Cabo, responded to this review
April 2, 2012

Thank you for taking your time to share your experience with fellow whale watching enthusiasts. It is an exceptional tour that has the whales breaching the entire time, that being said, many of our tours this season have gotten to see multiple breaching, many whales, even both Gray and Humpbacks on the same trip! We always strive to ensure a... More

Ontario, OR
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed March 29, 2012
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person found this review helpful

If you are going on a whale watching tour in Cabo San Lucas, look these guys up. I am a big whale watching fan and have been to Cabo twice. I tried some of the other tour operators on my last trip but found this tour on Trip Advisor and based on glowing reviews decided to give it a try.... More

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Janneke Louwes, Owner at Whale Watch Cabo, responded to this review
March 30, 2012

Thank you for sharing your experiences with Whale Watch Cabo and the wonderful feedback. It was a pleasure to have you join us on our tours, we hope you will visit us next time you are in Cabo as well. I appreciate you pointing out that our whale watching encounters are managed differently than other whale watching operators here. Both... More

Chicago, Illinois
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18 reviews 18 reviews
Reviews in 12 cities Reviews in 12 cities
9 helpful votes 9 helpful votes
5 of 5 stars Reviewed March 28, 2012

We booked with Whale Watch Cabo after finding them on Trip Advisor having excellent reviews and liked the fact as biologists/conservationists would have in depth whale knowledge. Upon getting our confirmation my husband who is an avid amateur photographer contacted Janneke about what lenses and accessories would be best to bring along to capture our tour. She was very helpful... More

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