Pêche en haute mer

I bought this trip as a present for my boyfriends 30th as he really wanted to do it, sadly he was violently sea sick as was another passenger which was a shame for the other three of us who weren’t the trip had to be but short due to how ill they were but the captain offered to take us back out when he took the ill back which was a nice gesture.

My advice to other travellers and for TUI to include in their promotional information is for people to take in advance seasick tablets as the sea was particularly rough and having not taken any ( other people on the boat had been advised by their rep to take some ) I was sick for the duration of the trip. Thankfully the others on the boat were not and they enjoyed catching a number of fish.

one of the party was unable to attend due to extreme gastro illness picked up from hotel. didnt realise that it was trawl fishing, sea was rough but it was worth the few hours out

A small group of 5 was a bonus, however there were only 5 rods. The other family, a teenager and parents, myself and my husband. It was rough out at sea 6-8 foot waves. We were made aware of this before going out. All agreed they were happy to go. After about an hour it was clear the teenager and his father were suffering from sea sickness. They asked us how long we planned to stay at sea, the trip was 4 hours. We felt we could not sit back and see them suffer. We turned back. We lost the rest of the trip and were told there would be no refund. It’s a shame that we lost out due to others outside our party. They should have made the decision not to go when made aware of the conditions. We did manage to catch 3 fish on the way back but it was cut far too short. We did not get what we paid for due to no fault of our own. To anyone else thinking about this trip be aware that if one person wants to go back all go back and that’s the end of the trip. The skipper was lovely, however he tended to take over. We were not given option to cast out and bait up the hooks. My husband went to get a rod when it had a bite and had to be firm insisting he was capable. I think he saw it as his catch bless him. We felt more like spectators.