Delfiniti of Mexico — Attraction in Guerrero

While I am aware that the issue of cetaceans in captivity is an important and contentious one, it is not one that I have given sufficient attention to offer much insight on. The dolphins my eight-year-old son and I interacted with certainly seemed healthy and happy enough, and the aquarium seemed more than large enough for the number of dolphins living in it (but I am not a marine biologist, and so have little more than my impressions to base this on). Moreover, everyone I observed (including my fellow visitors) treated the dolphins with kindness and respect.

My son and I signed up for the full interaction, which I recommend if you can afford it. We made our reservations the day before with Jesús Rodríguez, who kindly obtained us a substantial discount.

The experience itself is largely indescribable. Luz, the dolphin we interacted with, not only seemed healthy and happy as I mentioned, but also friendly and patient with her visitors. The interaction was informative as well as exciting, and so my son and I also learned a bit about dolphin behavior and physiology.

As some other visitors have mentioned, photographs are strictly prohibited within the facilities. Notably, this restriction is not limited to interactions with the dolphins. While profitability may indeed be a factor here, I also suspect it reduces the likelihood of a visitor doing something stupid in an unsupervised interaction with one of the animals.

The photographs provided by the professional photographers are indeed expensive--in our case, they cost almost as much as the visit itself. That said, the people responsible for the pictures are clearly professional photographers, such that the photographs are of much higher quality than anything I would have snapped with the camera on phone, or even with one of...

Simply put, an incredible experience. My initial thoughts were that it was a bit spendy. However, it was a fun, thrilling hour where the whole family had non-stop smiles. The stars of the attraction, the dolphins, are healthy, happy and welcoming hosts. Our host pair, Nene (16) and Mia (4), were beautiful, friendly and very entertaining. The trainers were also great. They kept it fun, humorous and educational. You can't take your own cameras or video equipment in; at least you're not permitted to use them. But they record and photograph your session. The staff photographers are also quite good. Again, this is also a bit spendy but it's worthwhile. When we went you could pick from a couple of options for your time with the dolphins. The first is about 20 minutes and costs about 80% of the price of the second 45 minute experience. If you're healthy, can swim and willing to get into the pool with the dolphins, DEFINITELY choose the 45 minute experience. For the slightly higher price, you get so much more. At the time we went it was roughly 20 USD more and worth every bit. If i remember correctly, they currently have 10 bottle nose dolphins. Should you go, give our regards to Nene and Mia. We miss...

If you cast your morals and values aside, that the dolphins are kept in tanks to small for them and go like I did, do NOT buy pictures or a video. We were on our vacation and the link was only good for seven days by the time we got home the link had expired, but they had assured us that it would be no problem to resend us the link to access the pictures and the video. It is now multiple emails and phone calls later. I have not received any of our pictures. When I got someone on the phone, they told me I had to email and give the specific date and time that our tour was so that they could narrow down the focus of the pictures. But we did get on site are so blurry they’re not even worth hanging on a wall. For over 300 $400 you would think there would be one picture that we could get that was clear but apparently...