Fun day in Celestun - Great tour to Celestun. We enjoyed the boat ride and seeing the turquoise water. There were hundreds of pelicans and dozens of flamingos. The lunch and time at the beach afterwards were fun. You could take nice photos with a phone camera, the photos with the 300 mm lens are great.

Fantastic and educational tour to Celestun. We booked our tour through GetYourGuide. - We used the tour company Viajes Colibri, We would highly recommend this tour company. Our tour guides name was Jael. He was very knowledgable about the biosphere at Celestun and it was very informative about the flamingos. He showed pictures on the way out to the biosphere. He had a great sense of humour and he took many pictures for us. We had no idea how the flamingoes gathered the shrimp. Flamingoes sieve 2000 L of water per day to get about 400 g of the brine. This is what makes their skin the deep colour of pink. It takes four years for the baby flamingo to attain the deep pink color. We saw many flamingoes and we were quite close up . I got video of the flamingoes with their heads in the water, moving their legs, which I think stirred up the water to allow them to gather the shrimp.

Great Trip! - We just returned from a trip to Merida. On our last full day, we toured Celestun to see the Flamingos. Our tour guide Juan was wonderful! He had great knowledge of all of the birds that we had the possibility of seeing. The boat ride was fabulous and Juan did a great job. We would definitely take this tour with Juan again

Celestun Beach and Mangrove canoe ride from Merida - Great tour. It was windy that day so they adjusted our trip through the mangroves to canoes holding 4. What an experience. Much better than the jarring that we would have had in the larger boats. The pink flamingoes were an experience! The mangroves and wildlife in them were fascinating. Don't forget the bug spray if mosquitoes like you. Michelle was a great tour guide.

Celestun - Fabiola was fantastic...drivers were carfeful...the lunch was delicious. She was very well informed Would highly recommend her and the tour Angela

Go see the flamingos! - Tony was a wealth of knowledge and a wonderful tour guide. Make sure you bring something to swim in, as you will be given an opportunity to take a Mayan Bath during the tour , and after the tour is complete, you eat lunch and spend a couple of hours on the beach.

Great day and great people! - Enjoyed our thorough tour guide and all the arrangements. Great tour, saw lots of birds. Great weather. One thing though, the information from Viator was incomplete. There was no description detailing that we could bring bathing suits and get in the water so we didn’t bring them.

Could have been better! - It was a long way to go (bus and especially the boat ride) for a short trip through mangroves and to see flamingos at a distance. We would like to have spent more time in the mangroves, and been given more detailed information. Our guide wqs very nice, but not very knowledgeable. One of the people on the boat was able to spot more birds and sea life than he could. Lunch was simple but tasty. The beach was clean and uncrowded. The change rooms at both stops were terrible (and the kitchen was behind the one right at the beach). Be sure to wear your bathing suit under your clothes so you don't have to change.

Most uncomfortable bus ride & tour! - They pack the bus and if you’re smaller(weight wise) they will put you in the very back of the bus!! No windows & extremely uncomfortable. The tour operator kept pointing things out the window along the drive but we couldn’t see anything…again no windows back there!! We arrived at our boat and we thought we were getting an English tour guide which we requested, not the case! He didn’t speak a word of English and basically no information regarding the flamingoes or along the mangrove, he just stood on the boat doing nothing! Complete waste of time! Next stop is the beach which is a 5 minute drive from the boat to the beach. We decided we needed a breather from bring crammed in the 4 back seats so we sat in the other comfortable seats. All we heard were complaints & people gripping!! Since when did these seats become reserved?!! Extremely disrespectful! Then you spend at least 3 hrs if not more at the beach a little long seeing I thought the main event were the flamingoes?! Trip back home the tour guide held us back getting on the bus until everyone else got on the bus and in their chosen seats and we once again we had to sit in the very back, no windows & extremely tight quarters & very uncomfortable! The guide said everyone is bigger…what???Meanwhile we’re in our mid 60’s and we don’t count?! Because of our size we had to be crammed in the back seats of the bus? We complained and he ignored us! Complained to Viator and they couldn’t care less! We asked for a small discount and they refused. Horrible customer service from Viator & this is a really bad tour! Would definite NOT recommend this tour!

Tour didn’t show up at pickup point - The tour company never picked us up at the listed pickup point and never called. After an hour we called and they said we weren’t at the correct location. Document clearly states otherwise and hotel owner agreed. They refused to issue a refund.