Half-Day Aquatic Adventure: Swim with Sea Turtles

Dive into adventure with a private tour: swim with sea turtles, explore coral reefs, and discover cenotes. Perfect for families and couples.

Duration: 5 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Akumal - The journey kicks off in Akumal, a scenic beach in the Riviera Maya. Here, participants meet local guides who give a brief overview of the activity.
    With snorkeling gear and life jackets, visitors venture into the sea. This area is renowned as a natural habitat for turtles, which can be seen swimming calmly near the surface or grazing on…
What's Included
  • All tickets included
  • Bottled water
  • Alcoholic beverages
  • Lunch
  • Use of snorkeling equipment
  • Optional life jackets in the cenote
What's Not Included
  • DRINKS AT THE RESTAURANT
Additional Information

One of our favorite half-day tours. An aquatic tour for those who like to swim. On this tour you can enjoy yourself, your partner or your family. With a swim with the sea turtles, an incredible experience seeing them next to you, visiting the coral reef and its marine life. continuing with the visit of a cave cenote. Where you will feel like you are in an Indiana Jones style adventure or you can choose an open cenote

Location
Akumal
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Alfredo_c
Jun 24, 2025
Hisael is the man, Ruben made it happen, the whole experience was top notch! - Hisael was our guide, he was extremely knowledgeable and well versed in anything related to the state of Yucatan. He spoke 3 languages which came in handy considering we have a couple of kids who don't speak Spanish. He was very attentive and even accommodateda last minute change. Instead of having lunch we requested if it would be possible to take us to an outdoor and cave cenote. Great decision. This travel company is a must!
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Advis0r1
Jun 18, 2025
Sea Turtles and cenote - Our day trip started with a meeting with Ruben. He arrived at the appointed time in the morning and picked us up. His car was comfortable and clean. While we were driving to Akumal Beach, Ruben told us about the local attractions. By arrival, we went to the beach using the tickets purchased by Ruben. Everything was very organized: a place to store clothes, giving out vests and masks, meeting the guide to the turtles. The swim itself to the habitat of sea turtles was wonderful! At arm's length, we saw these sea giants, periodically surfacing nearby to gulp some air. Lots of fish and different creatures on the reefs. When we finished, we were offered water, drinks, and snacks. We were preparing for the next discovery. Since there were two of us only, Ruben offered a choice of cenotes, open or underground. We chose the underground one and were not mistaken. It was a beautiful place with unique natural architecture. The purest water, fish, and bats. We swam with masks and underwater torches through the entire cenote. And Ruben went underwater with us. The beauty and unusualness of this place were amazing, stalactites and stalactites, underwater rocks, cracks in the upper vaults through which the sun entered, and birds flew in. And bats constantly scurrying back and forth. I would love to go back there again! Well, at the end of our trip, we found ourselves in Tulum in a local restaurant, where they served a specially prepared dish according to an old Mayan recipe. We really liked everything! Next time, we will definitely book a similar trip with Ruben. We were lucky that we met him, a local resident who knows everything around and around this magical place. We highly recommend him!
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Petre
Jun 15, 2025
Five star experience tour - Excellent experience. Ruben was an excellent guide, we went snorkeling with the turtles and sting rays, lots of different fish species. After, we went to Yax luum, an underground cenote with the clearest water. All in all a five star experience. Thank you Ruben!
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Cal2uva
Mar 9, 2025
Perfect half day private tour. - Perfect half day tour to swim with turtles and enjoy a Cenote. All followed by a delicious local Mexican lunch. Ruben was incredibly friendly and told great stories along the way. Highly recommend it. Very much worth a bit extra to go on a private tour.
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Freja_f
Jan 18, 2025
Super - Vi had a great day in the company of Ruben. He knows so much out of personal interest, and it really shows! We had a great time all day, and would definitely recommend going to Akumal and a cenote this way. We are so happy with our decision to go in a private tour, and it did not disappoint! Ruben even took photos of u, and all contact was super easy on WhatsApp.
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Trip42636062959
Jan 7, 2025
Special Excursion Day with Family! - Ruben took our family to a cenote, snokeling, and lunch - we had the best time ever! He was knowledgeable, well traveled, and attentive to our needs.
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Vicman75
Jan 2, 2025
Perfect day in Tulum, Cenote and Turtles. - The private tour is highly recommended. Follow suggestion tour operator, in Riviera Maya leave no later than your hotel at 7:30 AM to avoid crowds in Tulum Our private guide, Victor Santos, tremendously dedicated to any requirement we had, excellent and safe driver. Thorough knowledge of all the places we were, was available for photographs at all times, without rushing and allowing us to enjoy Tulum: beautiful walled citadel with Mayan vestiges on the edge of the Caribbean Sea, with the best views for photos. Note: You can no longer go down to the beach in the Archaeological Area of Tulum. In Cenote (a beautiful Cenote open to the sky, not sunk in a cave, with a demarcated place to jump, very safe and crystal clear waters, with acceptable amount of people on site) and Swim with Turtles. Separate note for this last activity: beautiful place, sometimes very crowded with swimmers looking for a turtle, follow at all times the directions of the local guide so as not to disturb the animals. As we delayed the tours, we went to a local restaurant in Akumal, recommended by our guide Victor: a small local restaurant outside tourist area, homemade local food, very cozy and very tasty tortillas with beef and guacamole Then back to our hotel. The whole tour was 7 1/2 hours, so we took advantage of the day very well. Local Travel Mexico had contact with us at all times, before and after our tour. Fully recommended. Finally, repeat: Guide Victor Santos, the best in Riviera Maya. If you can, request that he be your guide.
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Craigpu6682ka
Oct 18, 2024
Private Tour Review-Local Travel Mexico - OMG This was an incredible excursion. We saw everything we wanted to see. We didn't want to use the resort activities and found this trip through Trip Advisor (and Viator). It was full day trip with a most excellent guide (Ruben). The trip ended up being quite a bit less ($$) than a similar trip through our resort (Club Med) and it was PRIVATE which meant that it was much easier to alter the trip as we wanted. We had two kids with us (6 and 10) as well as five adults. Van was comfortable, we saw a bunch of turtles, swan in a cool cenote and toured the highlights of Tulum. We also had a killer lunch at a small taco place in Tulum. Our only recommendatin would be to do Tulum earlier in the day because it was very hot by the time we got there late afternoon.
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Elizabethss6344jm
Oct 7, 2024
Great day - The tour was amazing! Lalo, our guide, was kind, informative, and funny, we really felt comfortable with him. The activities we did were so much fun, we saw all kinds of animals and the coolest scenery. Would recommend!
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J5680cerebekahm
Sep 22, 2024
Snorkeling with all the sea life! - Ruben took us on the most incredible excursion! We saw so much sea life at the Puerto Morelos Ntl Park. The weather was beautiful and we had the entire snorkeling area all to ourselves! We took out GoPro and got the most amazing videos. Ruben also snapped some great pics of us during the experience. Afterwards, he showed us some super local delicious tacos after the swim. The whole morning was a truly unforgettable local experience.
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From $139
up to 15 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).