I booked this tour, saying I was a beginner, and was told it was no problem. When I got there, the guy in the office was curt and rude, telling me I was too fat to kayak. I went anyway. The bus we rode in was filthy and without air conditioning, and neither of the men wore masks. They put me in the kayak, saying āwe want to make sure you fitā (I fit just fine FFS), and it was humiliating. The āinstructorā left me in the boat on the river for 1/2 hour, leaving me to struggle with no guidance. He told me before we left that if I didnāt do what he said, heād āget pissed.ā It was troubling to be sure, but I was all in with no phone, my purse and keys left behind in the office in a basket (no lockers, also troubling). So the āinstructorā came back, and without giving me a demonstration and zero information on safety, we were off. He was immediately angry with me because I was struggling under his inadequate instructions, saying āmy boss told me you were going to be trouble.ā He was continually yelling at me, and when I said āok,ā acknowledging him, he told he told me to stop saying āok.ā When I didnāt he started mimicking me like a child, saying āOkā to every question I asked. I told him he was inappropriate and he told me I was annoying and obviously had a learning disability. He was weird and unstable and I felt super unsafe. At one point I tried to make my way to the shore and get help, but I was stuck. He was nice one minute and totally unhinged the next. He started towing me, and it seemed like he was purposely ramming me into rocks and trees; my arm got sliced and at one point he got me stuck in rocks so badly the boat flipped and I got dumped. I got back in (he was screaming at me the entire time)āand we kept going. He said stay in the middle but we were on the sides of the river constantly. When we got back I told the guy at the office that the guide was mean and unprofessional, and definitely not for beginners, and he blamed me, once again, because I was overweight.
I thought this would be a fun birthday adventure. It was not.