Cozumel Snorkeling: Explore Marine Life by Boat

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San Miguel de Cozumel

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Embark on a thrilling glass-bottom boat tour in Cozumel, exploring the vibrant marine life and snorkeling at El Cielo Beach. Relax, enjoy refreshments, and soak in the beauty of the Caribbean Sea.

Duration: 4 hours, 15 minutes

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

Playa El Cielo - A sandbar encircled by starfish, featuring a shallow area with stingrays.
Palancar Reef - The deep Palancar Reef is a highlight of this exciting Cozumel snorkeling tour.
Columbia Reef - Experience snorkeling at one of Cozumel’s most vibrant reefs.
Chankanaab Reef - Enjoy the vivid colors, corals, and abundant fish…

What's Included

Insured shaded units
Experienced Snorkel guides
Drinks included: Beers, Water, Sodas and a snack
3 reef snorkeling stops
Complete Snorkeling gear

What's Not Included

Marine Fee $11 USD

Additional Information

Award-Winning Tour
Embark on an exciting journey to the Caribbean aboard a glass-bottom boat. Marvel at the stunning marine life, relish the ocean breeze, and experience the most amazing snorkeling adventure in Cozumel.
The skilled crew will accompany you throughout the trip, highlighting the prime locations for marine life across three distinct…

Location

Marina FONATUR Cozumel

Carretera Costera Sur

Please meet us at the MARINA ASIPONA 15 minutes before your tour time. Upon arrival look for the Maybe-Tours office. Our Tours operate in Cozumel Local time.

Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings

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82katherineo

Feb 8, 2025

Ceviche and Stingrays! Muy Bueno! - Great day of snorkeling. Our guide Carlos was great! Saw spotted rays. Skates, lobsters, puffer fish, and tons of fish and coral at Columbia reef. We saw starfish at El Cielo and enjoyed fabulous ceviche and chips in the company of friendly rays as they glided past as we ate! A great experience! Thank you!

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Sunshine-guru

Feb 18, 2023

Awesome snorkelling experience! - We had a great experience on this tour! Very well organized from start to finish with the multiple types of transportation we required from our resort in Puerto Morelos. Our tour guide Alejandro and the crew were kind and hospitable, Miguel took some amazing underwater photos and the price to purchase them all was a reasonable $30USD. Definitely worth it for the clarity alone! The food was tasty and more than enough. Shoutout to a different tour guide, Rodrigo, who we ended up sitting beside on the ferry ride home, he shared a lot about the history of the island and photos. We appreciated it! Of note: it was a very, very long day. Our travel agent at the resort gave the impression it was 6-7hrs total, but was approx. 11hrs roundtrip. We didn't realize the lengthy travel time involved between the shuttle, ferry and speedboat ride itself to snorkel –which was early afternoon before we got into the water. Bring a change of clothes for the wait time/shopping after the snorkel tour itself, until the next ferry arrives. If you’re not one for crowds, this experience is not for you as we were part of a large group leading up to and from the actual snorkelling tour.

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José

Dec 10, 2022

good care - Easy booking on the Internet Contact and quick response by whatsapp Clear and welcoming meeting place Amazing snorkeling outing with great, fun and Mood friendly entertainers Thank you!

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Chrisrf5834rm

Jul 20, 2022

David and Cucurumbe are the BEST - This was the best! I am so glad we chose to take this excursion. David was our favorite tour guide that we have had in 4 chock full trips to Mexico. We also suspect he might be a literal merman given the way he jets down to the ocean floor to share the wildlife with you. The crew was gracious and went out of their way to make certain our whole family had a blast. Fatima (the paparazzi fish) took the best pics of our family and sold them to us for a steal. We had an epic day with this group. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

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Myriamri444qw

Jun 23, 2022

Tour with Claudio guide - Excellent from the beginning the tour Claudio guide very attentive at all times helped us a lot in the snorkeling my husband to my daughter and to me we could swim and watch the fish was very personalized the tour he was always very vigilant about us!

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Kiersten_h

May 20, 2023

Good although not what we signed up for - Great guides, however not glass bottom boat and only two not three snorkel options. Disappointed not what we paid for. Also, need to charge dock fee with reservation USD 20 went in a guys breast pocket...

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Carolinen571

Feb 15, 2023

Gorgeous views, lots of travel time from Playa Carmen - We booked a tour through our Playacar hotel for snorkeling in Cozumel. Probably not their fault but this tour is much more sitting and waiting to get to the snorkel sites than really snorkeling. Tour guide Danny was very good and we got some really cool photos. We did see a sting ray, fish, starfish, sea turtle. Just wish there was more time to snorkel at different sites. If your focus is to get in a lot of snorkeling, try another approach. If you want to ride in a boat, see beautiful Caribbean views, visit retail stores, and snorkel and swim a little, this is a great tour. (Btw charge was $30 to get copies of the cool photos. It was nice having a tour photographer).

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926mikea

Jul 28, 2022

Poorly Organised - We attended the "Cozumel El Cielo Snorkel Tour". The trip itself was ok, but the snorkel guide didn't really guide or try and find interesting things to see. We merely were put in the water at different spots. I also hadn't appreciate that despite a 9:20 start we didn't get in the water till 13:00. However, that's potentially my oversight. My main complaint is that when we returned to Playa del Carmen, we were left waiting up to an hour for our transfer back. If we were told there would be a long wait we could have looked round the shops, but none of this was communicated. We were subsequently standing by the road for 45 minutes to an hour. Some people actually abandoned the tour transfer and got taxis back because of the wait and lack of organisation. This was obviously very unpleasant and considering the cost of the tour I would have expected better. I found the tour to be terrible value and badly organised.

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Monserraths728

Jul 22, 2023

Bad experience on Cozumel tour - Lousy experience! He did not recommend the tour at all, travel with my mom and had an accident jumping ship derived from the little attention they put as they let you down how you can into the water, there are 2 guides for 20 people the safety measures are terrible, the life jackets do not fit you and when jumping they rise and your head is underwater, once you reach the destination they only leave you 15 minutes and get back on the boat, you do not enjoy it because they are more worried about returning for the next tour, they must improve in many things, unfortunately do not check their score before, but on Google they only have 2 stars and most reviews are bad, definitely look for another option if they plan to visit Cozumel!

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D9099zmsandrad

Sep 23, 2022

Disappointing - I went on an excursion to Cozumel on September 7 with Cucurumbe Tours, they charged us a “marine tax” of $500 per person and they didn’t give me any receipt, they told me they would give it later but it didn’t happen. I asked in a tourist module and was told that there is no such tax, that what must be paid is a port tax to Cozumel that costs $90 pesos, they are brazen abusers.

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up to 15 guests

1 - Adult