My husband and I took a swim with the manatee tour on Friday 7/10 at 6am. We had Trish and Wade as our guide and captain. We had a phenonmenal time. I highly recomend getting out early and going on the first tour of the morning. We stayed at the Holiday Express and it tooks us all of 5 minutes to get to River Ventures. The woman at the front desk, I believe her name is Judy...I forgot. But she is super nice and extremely helpful also. The morning of the tour, you watch a short video of the rules of swimming with the manatee, and they were repeated several time prior to our water experience. The company takes everything seriously, regarding how you interact in the water with the manatees. As they should. Our Captain, Wade and guide Trish looked diligently for the manatees. After about 20 minutes, we were lucky to locate them. We even saw a Dolphin swim pass. We saw about 6 manatees in all. Trish was great, guiding us to them, reminding us that they had to approach us and not us approach them. She was very professional and you can tell she loves what she does. In one spot we were with the manatees for a good 30 minutes, before another boat tagged on to our group. So I apprecaiated our guides working hard to get us to the location first. I would recommend this tour group. I am so happy I chose them.