Combination Dolphin, Shark and Stingray Encounter

Combine the Dolphin Encounter Program with the Shark and Stingray Encounter Program for a truly memorable experience!

Although not a swim program, the Dolphin Encounter offers an up-close-and-personal opportunity for guests of all ages to meet these incredible mammals in the safety and comfort of waist deep water.

While gentle animal trainers supervise, guests and dolphins will share kisses, hugs, and 'dances.' Participants have the chance to touch the dolphin's smooth, rubbery skin and feed their new people-loving friends some fishy treats.

You will enter a warm sandy pool where a dozen or more gentle stingrays sweep the bottom with their velvety wings. Glide across the surface of the pool with a mask and snorkel, and touch the backs of these beautiful, friendly sea creatures. Because these gentle creatures no longer have their powerful stingers, you're perfectly safe to swim and enjoy the sensation of their graceful bodies moving around you.

Of all marine creatures, none is more fearsome or more fascinating than the shark! Ocean World is the only marine encounter park in the world to offer guests the chance to hold, to touch and to explore the deep sea secrets of the nurse shark. Under the careful supervision of trained staff members, participants will touch, hold, feed and ultimately swim with a small school of adult nurse sharks. These magnificent creatures will amaze you with their sandpapery skin, their fearsome teeth and their relaxed attitude towards human visitors, giving you an understanding and an appreciation of this beautiful and awe-inspiring creature that very few people will ever share! This is truly the adventure of a lifetime and a rare opportunity to meet nature on its own breathtaking terms.

Have your picture taken by the professional photographers - you'll want brag to your friends back home!

Admission is included when you book this interaction program.

Schedule Details Departs: Daily Departure Point: Tour departs from most Puerto Plata, Playa Dorada, Cofresi and Maimon hotels. A surcharge is charged for passengers transferring from Sosua, Cabarette, Rio San Juan, Bahia Principe, Playa Grande and Luperon (payable direct and only available on certain days). Departure Time: Dolphin Encounters operate on the hour, every hour, from 10:00am until 5:00pm (last program of the day).

Stingray Encounters operate at the following times:

• 9:30am
• 12:00pm
• 2:00pm
• 4:00pm

Shark Encounters operate at the following times:

• 10:00am
• 12:30pm
• 2:30pm
• 4:30pm

Hotel Pickup: Hotel pick-up is included from most major hotels in Puerto Plata, Playa Dorada, Cofresi and Maimon. A surcharge is charged for passengers transferring from Sosua, Cabarette, Rio San Juan, Bahia Principe, Playa Grande and Luperon (payable direct and only available on certain days). You MUST provide your hotel details in the 'Hotel Pick-Up Box' at time of booking. If you do not indicate this at the time of booking, you will be required to call and advise them of this information directly. Itinerary: Park Schedule

• 9:30am - 5:30pm: Caribbean Snorkel Reef, and the Love Bird Encounter Tropical Bird Sanctuary, all run continually throughout the day
• 9:30am: Stingray Encounter; Sea Lion Encounter
• 10:00am: Dolphin Swim and Encounter; Shark Feeding Show and Encounter
• 11:00am: Sea Lion Show; Dolphin Swim and Encounter
• 11:30am: Sea Lion Encounter
• 12:00pm: Dolphin Swim and Encounter; Stingray Encounter
• 12:30pm: Shark Feeding Show and Encounter
• 1:00pm: Dolphin Swim and Encounter
• 1:30pm: Sea Lion Encounter
• 2:00pm: Dolphin Swim and Encounter; Stingray Encounter
• 2:30pm: Shark Feeding Show and Encounter
• 3:00pm: Dolphin Swim and Encounter; Sea Lion Show
• 3:30pm: Sea Lion Encounter
• 4:00pm: Dolphin Swim and Encounter; Stingray Encounter
• 4:30pm: Shark Feeding Show and Encounter
• 5:00pm: Dolphin Swim and Encounter

Schedule is subject to change. Please ensure you call to reconfirm your Encounter times and check with Ocean World Staff upon arrival.

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