Condor Express Whale Watching

Leticia Gonzalez

I just had the most amazing, wonderful experience during this boat ride in Santa Barbara. We saw 🐋 whales, dolphins, seals, such a moving experience to admire these beautiful creatures! I highly recommend this experience to everyone 👍

Robert Fowler

4 solid hours of throwing up overboard and saw no whales. Do not book this tour. The seas were super rough and it was honestly torture. I threw up three times in a row and it was the most sick I've felt in my life. It ruined a full two days of my trip to get feeling normal again. We didn't see any whales which was a major letdown since we had bounced on the big swells all the way out to the Channel Islands and back. It was cold but I still got sunburned since I felt too sick to put on sunscreen and needed to sit at the back outside where it the motion of the boat was minimum. More than half the boat was sick and many people were throwing up. We did see a large pod of dolphins at the very start in the first half hour which was awesome but then it turned into the worst 4 hours of my life. The staff didn't do anything to help the numerous people throwing up. Then when they finally get you back to dry ground, they offered us rain check tickets for another day. That isn't helpful at all when you are on vacation in Santa Barbara for only a couple days then you fly back home and you won't be able to ever use those rain check tickets and even if you could, you could not pay me enough to get back on that boat and get that sick again. It was terrible! It was a big waste of hundreds of dollars!

Elizabeth Schmitt

This isn't my 1st time on Condor Express, this is the best whale watching, seals, Dolphins, experience!!! We went as a family group and had such a fantastic time! The captain was amazing and informative, the entire crew was so nice. They serve delicious lunch and beverages. I highly recommend.

Roshni Sonali

The cruise was alright. We saw a lot of baby dolphins but no whales. Since we didn’t see any whales they gave us free ticket to come on the ride again which was nice of them, & the staff was friendly. The boat ride itself is very bumpy and if you have motion sickness/sea sickness watch out. Lot of people with motion sickness tend to sit at the back of lower deck as it helps them, the inside seating was suffocating and super bumpy. Come at least half n hour early to grab a seat they tend to fill out soon.