Anaheim Whale-Watching: Orange County Beaches Tour

Embark on a thrilling whale-watching expedition from Anaheim to Orange County’s stunning beaches. Explore Laguna Beach, Newport Beach, and Huntington Beach on this unforgettable tour.

Duration: 9 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Laguna Beach - After pick-up from select Anaheim hotels, head to Laguna Beach, about 35 minutes south of Anaheim. Here, you will have amazing views of the Pacific Ocean from the cliff-top at Heisler Park.
  • Newport Beach - Next, head to Newport Beach where you’ll feel the ocean breeze as you head out on a cruise and search for whales in the…
What's Included
  • Round-trip transportation
  • Photo stop in Laguna Beach
  • Whale-watching excursion
  • Extended stops in Newport and Huntington Beaches
  • Fully narrated bus tour
What's Not Included
  • Food and drinks
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

Embark from Anaheim during the morning hours to discover the scenic beaches of Orange County.
Take a break in Laguna Beach for an exquisite cliffside photo-op!
Next, we pause at Newport Beach for a 2.5-hour venture to witness whales (whale sightings are not ensured).
Afterward, we set off to discover Huntington Beach / Surf City USA.
Return transport…

Location
Laguna Beach
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Bonnie_c
Jul 10, 2025
Great customer service! - It was a really fun day! Anaheim tours is a very organized company with great communication to their customers. They text you in advance to verify pick up information.. We went to 3 beaches and there was plenty of time to eat and shop. The whale watching was fun even though we only saw dolphins but they were great to see too! Highly recommend this company!
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Crystals281
Jul 5, 2025
Great time would go again. - Great tour we saw SOOOO MANY DOLPHINS and a whale. They worked hard to try to get us to see a whale. Driver was great and did his best to ensure a great time was had by all.
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Jennylang1129
May 4, 2025
Once in a lifetime experience! - This tour was truly a once-in-a-lifetime experience! We were able to see more than 1000 dolphins and some grey whales, even when they were at the end of their season and hadn't been seen in weeks. They did everything in their power to give us the best experience possible and I cannot recommend them more
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Delaneyw99
May 4, 2025
Perfect non-Disney Anaheim excursion - We had a wonderful day with Anaheim Tour Company’s Dolphin & Whale Watching Tour. Our driver, Alden, picked us up from our hotel in Anaheim & drove us to the OC beaches. Alden was excellent, engaging everyone in the van in conversation & providing us all with interesting information & great recommendations. The highlight of our day was the dolphin & whale watching tour where our small zodiac boat spent a good amount of time in a pod of 1000+ dolphins. During our trip to Disneyland, this was an exciting extra excursion & I would recommend to anyone!
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337dillonf
Apr 30, 2025
Had a great rime - I love using this company when Visiting Disneyland. It’s a great way to get out and do other things and I like that’s it’s smaller geoups. Today I did the Orange County Beaches. I had a really great time and our tour guide Alden gave us a lot of great info and history along the way, making the drive a lot more fun. 😀
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Sarah_m
Feb 20, 2025
Great - Cody was very informative and was chatty with our son, lots about Lego! We didn’t see any whales but it was still a lovely trip.
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A
Jan 23, 2025
No animals but nice tour - No show animals but beautiful! They gave me a voucher for another try so that is nice! I will try again. Going again tomorrow to take the zodiac cruise. Fingers crossed!!
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Deborah
Sep 15, 2024
Awesome tour - Had an amazing day from start to finish. Tom our driver was very good and looked after us every step of the way. Great beaches and boat trip was outstanding. Saw a minky whale, sealions and a nursery pod of dolphins. Surf comp at huntington beach also. Tom gave us all the good pointers on our trip, and even dropped you off where you wanted to go back in Anaheim. Thankyou
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Barbara_e
Aug 17, 2024
A Great Beach Trip - Tom was an excellent tour guide. He was informative and took our group to Laguna Beach, Newport Beach and whale watching, and Huntington Beach. He left us off in places that we could find our way back to easily and kept us informed. He texted me before pickup from my hotel and dropped me off at my hotel. The only unfortunate part of the trip was we saw no whales!! That was the main reason why I booked this tour. We saw lots of dolphins but no whales.
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L9788lcds
May 7, 2025
Do not come to Daytona beaches - Please everybody read this before you come to Daytona Speech or anywhere near. Don't waste your money coming toyou tona the beaches are ruined from hurricanes there's so much construction on the beach that there's no way you could enjoy your time with all the noise. Now they are enforcing $20 a day for parking at the beach bore on the beach. I'm a Florida resident I live in this county and I am handicapped I use my handicap flag and went to the beach I got a bill in the mail for 3 days. Just 3 days parking on the beach for 3 hour, I went for 1 hour a day so I could walk. I just got in the mail A BILL $71.30 for 3 days of parking on Volusia County. DON'T COME TO DAYTONA BEACH!!!! YOU WILL BE DISAPPOINTED 😞 STAY AWAY UNTIL THEY FIX IT UP. This is not Miami or Tampa to be charging people $20 a day for parking this county is ridiculous don't promote these beaches!!!!! The town is run down and there's a lot of homeless that walk around it's really not even safe to really come to Daytona so please stay away everybody
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Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).