It was a beautiful October afternoon, and we booked our harbor tour for that day. Overall, the experience was just okay. The organization as a whole seemed a little disorganized. When we bought our tickets earlier in the day, the person who sold them to us told us where to go when it was time for our tour. When we got to the dock, there were people sitting everywhere, and you couldn't tell where the front of the line was. The ropes were not the correct spaces, and so people were everywhere. It took the rep like 10 minutes to fix the ropes and get people to where they needed to be before we could begin boarding. We were toward the front of the line, so we got on pretty quickly. Once we got up there, the tour narrator, I think his name was Recesio? I looked at his name plate, and I think that's how it was spelled, started talking to us. Right away, we could tell that he wasn't going to be very charismatic, but I will get to him in a few minutes. While we were waiting for everyone else to board, I was watching the dock. Each party they stop and make them take a picture which you can purchase after the tour. We got ours as we were close to the front of the line, but it was taking them a LONG time to get everyone through for the picture. After a while, it was time to depart, and one of the reps realized that the line was SO long that if they didn't get everyone on the boat right then that we were going to be super late leaving. So, they started skipping the pictures and just had everyone board. It just seemed unorgaized. If you knew you were going to have that many people on this tour, maybe show up earlier and start pictures? Do those people that skipped the pictures not get a chance to get theirs done now? I loved ours and ended up buying it. Anyway, just seemed a little unorganized.
Now back to our tour guide, he wasn't monotone, but his overly corny jokes (yes I know, tour guides make these, but his were a little TOO corny), and lack of personality kind of made that part of the tour undesirable. He is from Seattle, but doesn't seem he has much experience outside of the city, considering when he talked about the midwest, he put Alabama in that mix of states that are in the "midwest". Sorry buddy, but Alabama is in the south, and if there were people from the south or the midwest on the boat, they might have been kind of insulted. If we had a different guide, it probably would have made the tour even more enjoyable.
The views were amazing though! Being able to get some of the history of Seattle, and see the harbor on such a beautiful day made it worth it.