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Barcelona Watersports
Barcelona Watersports
4.9
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Join us for our luxury sailing trips, Sunset sails, high speed Powerboat rides and Motor cruiser adventures from the beautiful city of Barcelona. Learn to sail, powerboat or jet ski with our RYA courses and get your skippering licenses for Dayskipper to Yachtmaster. We have experienced English speaking skippers and are located in the heart of Barcelona.
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JHG1970
Barcelona, Spain4 contributions
Aug 2020 • Family
Hi,
My daughter and I have just concluded our 2 day RYA Powerboat level 2 course with Barcelona Watersports. We had Faith as our instructor. Was a Fab experience, she is obviously very skilled and knowledgable and was able to share of her wisdom in a fun and enlightening way. The RIB was great as well, with a Powerful 300 hp engine. Was windy and choppy, but that made the experience that much more realistic. Top marks all around. Great blend of theory and practice. Would 100% recommend. In fact, will try to encourage my wife and son to do the course as well!
My daughter and I have just concluded our 2 day RYA Powerboat level 2 course with Barcelona Watersports. We had Faith as our instructor. Was a Fab experience, she is obviously very skilled and knowledgable and was able to share of her wisdom in a fun and enlightening way. The RIB was great as well, with a Powerful 300 hp engine. Was windy and choppy, but that made the experience that much more realistic. Top marks all around. Great blend of theory and practice. Would 100% recommend. In fact, will try to encourage my wife and son to do the course as well!
Written 23 August 2020
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Bernard S
Marseille, France2 contributions
Aug 2020
Great staff and great boat. Everione very friendly. The boat was impecable!!
I do recomend this activité.
I do recomend this activité.
Written 14 September 2020
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Sonia M
San Diego, CA7 contributions
Sept 2021 • Family
My daughter and I had a wonderful time. We were the only customers which made it feel like a private girls outing. Talked, played music, danced... total fun!
Written 10 September 2021
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One P
Liverpool, UK41 contributions
Sept 2021
Was hoping to have something positive to say but unfortunately interacting with this company was negative. Poor communication, excuses and unorganised. Ended up costing a lot more than I expected. Unreliable booking. Promises made but not Kept. Basic communication missing. Website limited in functionality. Late replies that needed chasing making planning impossible. Reactive not proactive. No commitment to the customer. Immaturity of some staff. Like dealing with a child.
Written 25 September 2021
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Sorry to hear of your experience, but really sounds too odd. The website you booked through is Viator so not our website, the payment is made with them and we don't charge so I don't understand why it would cost more than you thought as that is paid on booking. Without seeing your booking it is hard to see what happened here but certainly not what we offer.
Written 12 October 2021
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Elena B
Barcelona, Spain42 contributions
May 2016 • Couples
Together with my partner, we chose Barcelona Watersports for a 5-day Competent Crew Course at the beginning of May, due to their location and reviews. But we will not continue to take other courses with them after this experience, mainly because of the instructor. The skipper Johnny proved to be quite disrespectful and unprofessional, making bad comments about his colleague skippers as well as inappropriate jokes with sexual content ; supposing it to be ‘’British humor’’ on couple of occasions he stated that he prefers not sailing with women on board but he has to do it (while 2 of the 5 students were women!).
He does not understand the difference between ‘’paying crew’’ and ‘’paid crew’’ always reminding us how important is to keep the skipper happy, repeatedly ordering people to make him tea or buy him coffee.
The days were not properly scheduled and there was a lot of dead time; time that could have been used for instructions, sailing or practicing rope work. He seems the type of guy that cuts corners and often gets away with it.
I would like to add that the course is advertised as ‘Breakfast and Lunch included’ and breakfast has never been offered for the 5 days (we always had to find the closest bakery and buy the necessary) and for the last day’s lunch everything (including water) was bought and brought on board by the students.
All this being said, I need to add that the boat “No Limits’’– a beautiful 41 feet Beneteau felt safe at all times. That and the fact the other students were wonderful people made me enjoy the sailing part of this week. The lesson learned is, for our next sea adventures, to check who the skipper will be (information that was never provided prior to our first day of the course) and his recommendations.
He does not understand the difference between ‘’paying crew’’ and ‘’paid crew’’ always reminding us how important is to keep the skipper happy, repeatedly ordering people to make him tea or buy him coffee.
The days were not properly scheduled and there was a lot of dead time; time that could have been used for instructions, sailing or practicing rope work. He seems the type of guy that cuts corners and often gets away with it.
I would like to add that the course is advertised as ‘Breakfast and Lunch included’ and breakfast has never been offered for the 5 days (we always had to find the closest bakery and buy the necessary) and for the last day’s lunch everything (including water) was bought and brought on board by the students.
All this being said, I need to add that the boat “No Limits’’– a beautiful 41 feet Beneteau felt safe at all times. That and the fact the other students were wonderful people made me enjoy the sailing part of this week. The lesson learned is, for our next sea adventures, to check who the skipper will be (information that was never provided prior to our first day of the course) and his recommendations.
Written 27 May 2016
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The director of Barcelona Watersports has communicated with this client and her partner through various emails after the course. Due to their dissatisfaction with our skipper we did offer further training with a different skipper FREE of charge.
Only on the last day did we realize that this couple were not happy with our skipper and since then we have addressed every single point the clients have made about our skipper, with the skipper. We have been in touch with the three other customers on that course and they were extremely happy with the course and skipper. It is apparent that this client took a disliking to our skipper. Without any former complaints we have used this skipper in the UK over the years and he has proved a great hit with the clients and fellow staff, ironically that is why we picked him to come out and work for us in Barcelona. The skipper thought that the course had gone very well until the last day when everyone was packing up, the client expressed her dissatisfaction.
The skipper was extremely upset and said corners had not been cut and meals that should have be provided were provided apart from the last breakfast as there had been a sail until mid-night the day before. Infact when the boat was cleaned there was still plenty of food leftover that we had supplied for the course. We know that the client is from a cruise ship background. A yacht course is very different. Crew are expected to all muck in and help with all duties around the boat, this has nothing to do with a "paying" customer, its part of the course and learning to work as a team. If our skipper made the customer feel like a skivvy, we have told him that he needs to work on how he gives his instructions. The jokes may have been in poor taste for this client but they do not reflect his true values, it is just "banter onboard," which in light of this complaint we have asked him to tone down for international cliental, as it can obviously cause misunderstanding and offence.
This is the first customer to put in a complaint about an RYA course in Barcelona and as a result we are watching the skipper in question very closely as we obviously do not want any complaints such as this again. As the customer said above our yacht is absolutely beautiful and our location is fantastic. We are a small company that acknowledges the importance of customer service. Again, as per our emails with the client we apologise that this couple were unhappy with the course.
Written 30 May 2016
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carlyshakes
8 contributions
Jun 2019 • Friends
Captain Faith was amazing and the boat was perfect for a group of 12 girls celebrating a hen do.
Seb was helpful via email and I think this trip is incredibly good value for money.
Would highly recommend!!!
Seb was helpful via email and I think this trip is incredibly good value for money.
Would highly recommend!!!
Written 22 June 2019
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Claire L
Brighton, UK29 contributions
Mar 2019 • Friends
I booked a sunset cruise with Barcelona Watersports for my friends and I! From the very first point of contact to the end of our time with them they couldn’t do enough. our trip. We were greeted on arrival by Federica, she handed us across to our skipper who was fantastic! He was warm, friendly, attentive (cava & snacks provided) and above all he made our few hours on board fun and very memorable! I highly recommend booking with these guys!
Written 18 March 2019
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We are glad that you guys enjoyed our sunset sailing trip. We love to share the beautiful landscape and skyline that you can see from a sea perspective.
Hope to see you guys again, was great fun having you on board!
Federica
Written 19 March 2019
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emichelleh
San Francisco, CA56 contributions
Jul 2018 • Family
We had a wonderful time with our British captain (I've forgotten her name). She was an excellent sailor and a great hostess. My kids and I had a wonderful time out on the water. She was patient with some of our fellow sailors who wanted to launch a drone and we all had fun looking for the drone when it's battery ran out and it crashed into the bay. Great afternoon - highly recommend. (expert tip: pay attention to your email because our meeting location changed and that was a little hairy but the experience totally made up for the logistical challenges)
Written 21 July 2018
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SoBrad
California9 contributions
May 2018 • Family
Such a fun experience... an absolutely fantastic afternoon! We loved Faith, she was amazing! Highly recommend!!
Written 7 June 2018
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ben_mobh
Canton of Basel, Switzerland4 contributions
Jun 2017 • Solo
High quality courses with a lot of practice and great fun. I have attended the powerboat & pwc courses in June. faith was a great Instructor.
I can highly recommend.
I can highly recommend.
Written 16 July 2017
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Thank you for your review and the recommendation. It is very nice to hear that you had such a great time on your two courses. We are looking forward to welcome you on the next one.
Written 26 July 2017
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Considering RYA DS. is there a way to know in advance who will be the instructor? (i.e. is that Jhonny still around at your Barcelona location? after reading the TA review I don't want to have a slightest chance to sail with him).
Written 13 November 2019
Hi. Thank you for the question. We run all our courses with either Steve or Mark and for next year Ash and Faith are becoming instructors in the cruising scheme too. No we don't use Johnny after we received that review, he has not been with us for well over a year. We have been getting all amazing reviews. I hope we will see you on the water!
Written 17 November 2019
Hi, are you allowed to bring your own snacks and alcohol on board?
Written 18 August 2018
I’m sure this would be no problem but they provided plenty of beer, wine etc included in the price. Really accommodating company.
Written 18 August 2018
Good afternoon!
We would like to book a boat (yacht) on July 7, 2018 for two people from about 13.00 to 18.00. Could you offer me some options?
Written 20 June 2018
amillerr2018
Essex, United Kingdom
I’m looking to book the sunset cruise, for me and my bf, however, how many people do you allow on-board? as I would prefer it was just the two of us? Thanks
Written 21 May 2018
Sebastian R
Vallpineda, Spain
Hi
Sorry for the delayed reply but we did not see you question. We can offer you a private Sunset sail for €325 for just the two of you. Let me know dates and I can check availability
Written 27 May 2018
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Written 24 July 2017
Quanto custa o Private Luxury Yacht Charter para um casal com uma criança de 4 anos por 3 horas no dia 30/06?
Written 24 June 2017
2 horas Privato questa €299 cada hora mas €100
Si quieres salir sabato 1 Julio, 15:00-17:00 en un group, no privado questa
€65/ por persona
Written 26 June 2017
Hi
I am arranging a hen party end of August 2017 looking to book this boat trip , do you have any hints or tips for , this activity, or any other plus ideas for accommodation there are 20 of us going
Thanks for any help you can offer
Written 14 November 2016
HI Julie
I have sent you a personal message.
Hope to see you in August 2017!
Barcelona Watersports
Written 14 November 2016
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