Explore the reef and everything it has to offer as you start the day off with a cruise out to the Moore Reef Pontoon. Relax on the new two-level pontoon boat as you snorkel and slide down the new slide into the Great Barrier Reef. After spending the day on the reef take to the skies for the voyage home and experience the beautiful reef from the air.
30 min - Check-in will be at the Sunlover Reef Cruises Desk. Once you have checked in you will make your way to the air-condition catamaran.
10 min - Your scenic flight ends at the Nautilus Aviation hangar. Your bus driver will meet you at the hangar to drop you off at your hotel.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
This was definitely a highlight of our tour in Australia - viewing the Great Barrier Reef from the air was wonderful. The organisation was slick and on time. The pilot (Julian) was brilliant. We had a great time - thank you.
The trip was enjoyable with a few downsides. The good...the reef! The flight back was stellar, gorgeous views. The downside..taking away so much of the experience..the trip itself was rescheduled 3x times and to top it off the helicopter flight was pulled forward leaving way earlier. So ended up paying $1500+ for approx 1 hour and 45min on the reef to : get ourselves settled, hoisted into gear, snorkel the reef, get out off the water and change ..as one has to go dry into the helicopter& lunch. The semi-submersible was out of action, there wasn't enough time for the glass bottom boat and had to scoff lunch down due (lunch itself was really nice however) all very rushed and time pressured. The overall intend was fab, the scheduling and time issues abysmal. For an average experience all up unfortunately. Would recommend the experience gladly if they get their scheduling issues under control and sorted.
We booked be Sun Lover Reef Cruise through Nautilus Aviation which is a cruise, snorkel, fly tour. All communication initially was via email and very prompt. After the cruise when we had to fly back, it was chaotic and poorly organized. We were given a fly-back time of 2:35, but we’re made to wait for over an hour since they were flying other passengers over the reef first. Had they given us a time of 3:45 (which is when we eventually flew back), our kids could have enjoyed the reef for a little more time. When we checked in at our allotted 2:35 time, we were simply told to wait by the small raft boat since the helicopter sent available. When we asked what time we could expect the flight, we were told “any minute now”, so we couldn’t really do anything except wait around, which ended up being an hour. Flight back was ok, just about average. Pilot was disinterested and didn’t really tell us anything about the reef or the parts we were flying over. Bottom line - good experience to fly over the reef, but I would recommend going with a different company.
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