Animas-Quimixto Tour: Access Semi-Virgin Beaches and Scenic Landscapes with Top Boat Crew

This tour is a great opportunity to visit semi-virgin beaches that can only be accessed via sea, with a pleasant trip admiring beautiful landscapes and enjoying the local flora and fauna with the best boat and crew which will do the impossible to May your trip be an unforgettable experience and a great party from beginning to end.

Duration: 7 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Malecon Boardwalk - Enjoy an incredible postcard of the Puerto de Vallarta, its malecon and parish seen from the sea aboard a comfortable boat.
  • Los Arcos de Mismaloya - Enjoy snorkeling in Los Arcos National Park and admire a wide variety of colorful tropical fish. (snorkeling equipment included)
  • Playa Las Animas - Las animas is the…
What's Included
  • Breakfast with a variety of options including hot cakes, eggs with ham, chilaquiles, bread, fruit, coffee, and orangeade.
  • Beachside meal with three dish options to choose from.
  • Travel insurance for peace of mind.
  • Snorkeling equipment provided for underwater exploration.
  • Unlimited drinks with a national open bar on board.
What's Not Included
  • Port tax $30.00 pesos (paid at the time of entering the maritime terminal)
  • Drinks on the beach
  • Services not specified.
  • Tips
Location
Terminal Maritima API
Boulevard Francisco Medina Ascencio
Interior of the Puerto Vallarta Maritime Terminal, module "B" Grupo Naviero de la Bahìa. Shambala II Pay $ 28.00 pesos of port tax.
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Saahil
Dec 30, 2024
Best day tour - Very good crew. Highly recommended!! If you want cultural experience! This is a great place! In Purerto Vallarta!! If you are a tourist you should go for it!!!
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Julia_s
Jul 27, 2024
Fun! - The vibe was amazing! I also think the food was pretty okay! The open bar was nice! Overall I would do it again with friends or family!
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Saritasassifras
Mar 20, 2024
Great Time! - I went on this trip with one of my best friends. The hospitality of the boat crew was fantastic. Every crew member was kind, funny, and outgoing. The ride there was really fun. They bring around cocktails and/or beer for you. The male crew members will definitely go out of there way to get you laughing and having a blast if you're female and it's your birthday! Those latin men sure know how to dance! There are two options after the snorkeling. You can either stay on the beach and enjoy the water and sun, or go to the waterfall. We chose to stay on the beach. The beach itself is beautiful, but do expect there to be a lot of people. Once at the beach you can choose to parasail or ride horses to get a better view of the beach and ocean. Both are nice experiences. Bring extra money because these are extra services. They are well priced however. But, I recommend them because you will be on the beach for a few hours. The snorkeling is brief, and so if you are looking for several hours in the water and seeing fish is your main goal, it might be better to book a more eco type of tour. But honestly, this trip was so fun, and the boat ride, the beach, the beach activities, were all so much fun! You also can't ask for nicer people. Also, I think try for a non weekend day with better weather and you will have even better luck than we did. We saw fish, but we were there on a high wave day with a little overcast. Chuy, Hector, and Jorge were wonderful crew! Thanks again Grupo Naviero!
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Dayana_q
Jun 27, 2024
✨ - Definitely recommend! Views were beautiful and tour guides were great! Arcos - Animas - Quimixto. By Grupo Naviero de la Bahìa (Bahia Alegre)
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Cristiancz8439vo
Aug 1, 2024
Disorganized, poor quality food, no one regulates environmental care - To board whoever wins , you arrive early or late, disorganized and I read the boarding , you can touch a place of sunshine throughout the way , the bay tour is beautiful , breakfast reaches to comply , we were not given napkins!, it is surprising that these tours do not use biodegradable utensils, we saw how forks and plastic cups fell into the sea !!! We do not use the snorkeling equipment but it is easy to deduce that hygiene measures are taken with the equipment , when you reach the cheers , you see a beautiful beach, sadly full of TRASH it is surprising that no one regulates, there are no recommendations or threats of fine!! Or something!! Someone do something.!!! Nothing between pieces of Unicel , bottles, soft drink covers, sparkling water and with diesel remains of the boats is a SADNESS!!!! Everyone uses the blocker they want, and obvious the impact to the water is noticeable!!!!! Food of little portion and an unsurprising taste, full of flies!!! It is surprising so many years that this beach has served as a tourist attraction and that neither the government nor the tourists nor the operators establish security measures ... one day will end that attraction ... total the beautiful bay walk , food and drinks (free bar) of poor quality, and nature struggles to survive while being exploited ..
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Djbarbero17
Jan 9, 2025
If you want to be left behind in the ocean alone on a tour, do this! - If you want to experience the usual suspense and horrific movie scene, like being left behind by the tour boat, this is the one! It happened December 2023 not February 2024. I posted this just now as I forgot if I did post a complain before or not. Very terrible and traumatic experience! I was excited to explore a Puerto Vallarta experience by island hopping but I wasnt expecting what I signed up for. On the very first stop where that photo is at, I remembered that location where they left me behind the ocean alone. like literally LEFT BEHIND ALONE!! I was snorkeling and I got up, boat was gone! I couldnt be grateful to a private family boat tour next to me who saved my life and brought me back to shore. I didnt have anything except my life vest, gopro and goggles. All my stuff were left at the boat and my stuff weren't return until 10:30PM to my hotel!!and guessed what, my cash I just had an exha! I had no money to buy food as my wallet and cash were there. They said they did a head count.. like, how tf I was left behind if they had a head count? Also, how you wouldnt noticed there's a bag on the floor of the chair where I was sitting was empty and nobody notices it? It was Sunday and they were closed so grateful some fisherman helped me out contacting the company and picked me up. I asked for my refund and and they gave a paper that I have to write down that they are not responsible to what happen to me? like wtf. its for me to get my refund back. like a true NEGLIGENCE. Never again! hope this never happens to anyone
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934anissac
Dec 22, 2024
DO NOT DO IT - I was approached by a salesperson in wal-mart while looking for plantain chips. He offered to help me find them, presenting himself as a wal mart employee, when in actuality he worked for a tour company selling excursions, and that was his intent when he approached us. We bought tickets for the los animas excursion and it was an awful experience. We arrived at puerto magico an hour early but still nearly missed our boat because they were so disorganized and working very slowly to give everyone their food tickets. There was about 250 people on this tour. The main host (he has a beard like Jack sparrow), who said the english speakers can call him 'brown sugar' (never got his real name) very rarely spoke in english, 90% of everything said was in spanish, and so all the english speakers were completely unaware of what was going on. For example, for breakfast we had the choice between a small serving of fruits and pancakes or a plate of nachos with eggs. One plate per person. These instructions were only in spanish, so when they came around, we took the first thing they had, which was fruits. when they came around with nachos, we asked for a plate and they got angry saying we had to chose one or the other not both. We would have known this, had they said it in english as well. There were about 30 english speakers left in the dark. You have the option to go to the waterfalls, 1 hr hike there, 1 hr hike back. me and my boyfriend were going to do it. But everything was so disorganized. When we arrived at los animas beach, they can't dock the boat. So they have a smaller boat, they used to transfer everyone. The boat fits 15-18 people. They used this to transfer 250 people to the island. It took a long time..... By the end of docking, we didn't know where the guy was, who was bringing people to the waterfalls so we missed it. Oh, and the lunch doesn't include drinks, you have to pay for those. I got a hamburger with cold and hard fries, I asked for fresh fries, they gave me hot and hard fries. The food was terrible, the staff was unfriendly, and I was highly annoyed that they virtually NEVER spoke in english until it was time to scold you for not knowing what the instructions were or to ask for tips. I didn't get to see the waterfalls, and the snorkeling is only for about 20 minutes. Don't do this excursion with this tour company, especially if you dont speak spanish
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Mbarrios87
Jun 8, 2024
DEFINITELY DO NOT RECOMMEND - This was a complete waste of our time!! We felt that we were totally taken advantage of! First off we were promised breakfast buffet and lunch. Just to find out that it’s one plate of breakfast and one plate for lunch! Breakfast was on the boat and consisted of 2 small cold pancakes with 5 small pieces of cantaloupe and papaya and a spoonful of yogurt or the option of 1/4 scrambled eggs and 1 cup chilaquiles! For lunch you had the option to choose between some items. We chose the fish “which was a very small piece with beans and lettuce!” Besides not being a buffet we had to pay for the drinks, which ended up being $900 pesos for regular non-alcoholic drinks, which we had to purchase since there were no other options other than swallowing your food and not having anything to drink! The snorkeling part consisted of jumping off the boat into filthy water and not being able to see anything when snorkeling for about 30 minutes. Oh and they really want to take your pictures when snorkeling so they can charge you about $800 pesos (depending on how rich you look that’s about how much they’ll charge)! We ended up paying $600 pesos per person to take the horses up to a waterfall hoping to get a better experience from the tour, we should have opted into staying by the beach! The waterfall was dry and they took us to a restaurant where we either consumed to sit by the shade or if we didn’t we got to sit by the sun! On the way back there was a boat "party" that was all about getting drunk at an open bar with beer and cocktails and dancing half naked to the loud music. My kids were mortified and just tired of the horrible tour we were having! I do not recommend this tour for kids! The boat ride was very long both ways, it was sailing at the very slow speed! Bathroom was filthy since there was only one bathroom for men and one for women. There were about 100 people on the tour. We had to arrive at the marina at 9:15 am and ended up leaving at 10:00 am and got back at 8:00 pm. Overall I do not recommend this tour, and will definitely stay away from “Bahia Alegre”
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Margie_d
Feb 8, 2024
You get some of what you pay for - You get some of what you pay for. This tour is what it said it would be…snorkeling in a big group, sitting on a beach, and waiting to eat your lunch. Fun atmosphere on the boat with the crew as drinks flow freely, but the beach and lunch experience was definitely not worth the wait. Dogs roaming on the beach, peeing on the chairs, and drinks on beach ran out. Not a lot of direction once you have paid for the trip. Doesn’t actually start at 9:15..didn’t load boat until 10 a.m. but thank goodness we didn’t leave on time as it would have meant more time just sitting on the beach and waiting to get taken back to town! Would definitely not recommend this outing.
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E_k
Nov 24, 2023
Not what we expected at all… - This tour was NOT WORTH it. Find other tour that do not have huge fluctuations in reviews. I should have known not to book this excursion. The day started off windy and raining..the water was extremely choppy and many got sick. No snorkeling on this tour… Also there was a huge delay in getting back. On our way back, we stopped to help a sinking boat, thankfully our boat was there in time to help those on that sinking boat. The food was low quality… Our experience of this excursion was beyond dissatisfying to say the least… Please read all the reviews and decide for yourself.
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