Tulum Ruins, Cenote & Swim With Turtles from Playa del Carmen

Name: Tulum Ruins, Cenote & Swim With Turtles from Playa del Carmen
Brand: Cancun Bay Tours
SKU: 55848P59
Price: 119.00 USD
Rating: 4.5 (61 reviews)

Playa del Carmen, Mexico

TULUM RUINS HILARIOS CAVE AND SWIM WITH TURTLES FROM PLAYA DEL CARMEN

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up to 24 hours before the experience starts (local time)

9 to 10 hours
Pickup offered
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

Overview

Combine a visit to the ruins at Tulum with the chance to swim in both a cenote and in the bay of Akumal with this day-long tour. You'll start with the ruins, where a local guide will show you around, followed by a trip out to the cenote in the middle of the jungle. Your last stop will be at the Bay of Akumal for snorkeling with sea turtles, with the chance to dine on an included boxed lunch along the way.

Tulum ruins admission fees are included
Snorkeling equipment will be provided
Boxed lunches with sandwiches will be offered to all participants
Round-trip transportation from your hotel is included

What's Included

Tulum ruins ticket
Guide
Use of Snorkeling equipment
Lunch
Box Lunch with sandwhich, fruit, juice and sweet
Bottled water

Tulum local tax and reef Tax ($20 USD to be paid at check-in)
Gratuities
Life jacket rental is mandatory for swimming in the cenote. 3 USD per person must be paid in cash

Meeting and Pickup

You can head directly to the meeting point, or request pickup

Meeting point

La Bodeguita del Medio Playa del Carmen
5ta Avenida Calle 34 Norte Esq, Gonzalo Guerrero, 77720 Playa del Carmen, Q.R., Mexico
7:40 am

Pickup points

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End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Pickup details

We offer pick up service in most hotels. In the event that your hotel does not have a pick-up service, we will let you know the closest meeting point the afternoon before the tour by sending a message to your telephone or a notification to the email address indicated in your reservation.

What To Expect

Tulum Archaeological Site

1 hour 30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Akumal Beach

1 hour 30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Cenote Zemway

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Not wheelchair accessible
Not recommended for travelers with back problems

No heart problems or other serious medical conditions
Travelers should have a moderate physical fitness level
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 18 travelers

Operated by Cancun Bay Tours

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.

Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.

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Rebecca_K

Our guide, Adrian, was so funny!! He made the trip extra special. He educated us and kept us all moving in the right direction with humor and a big, positive attitude. We enjoyed the ruins, lunch, the center, and the many turtles. The guide for the snorkel really made an effort to get us up close with many turtles. They were so cute. We really enjoyed the day.

Reviews

4.5

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Enjoyable afternoon.

Rebecca_K, Mar 2024

Nice day

DanielJaneek, Feb 2024

A very good way to visit all places in one day. Everything was well organized, nice guide, good lunch. You just need to take into account that everywhere we have about one hour, but that is the price for a full program in one day. Tulum - beautiful place, but a lot of people and I would like to stay longer and ideally first thing in the morning. Cenote - very nice, I enjoyed it (except for the mandatory vests) Diving with turtles- beautiful place, but again a lot of people, the guide always finds a turtle, calls the others to look at it. You can't influence the interest of the other visitors in a particular place, if they accept it, this trip is great.

This is the one!

Lauren_Y, Feb 2024

This was seriously my favorite tour of my entire trip, and one of my favorites of all time. It was so well organized and executed, and everything from pickup to drop off went exactly as you'd hope. Tulum was lovely, the cenote was perfect and not crowded, and we saw so so many turtles!!! A true highlight, and well worth the money. If you're deciding between excursions, book this one!

A Great Day of Adventure

tz5svtx4pt, Aug 2023

This full day adventure was awesome! Our guide Michael was kind and funny. Salvador the driver was great too. The cenote was very refreshing (especially after Tulum) and it was not over crowded. We saw many sea turtles on our snorkel adventure at Akumal. Akumal was a little crowded but they have different snorkel areas so other groups aren’t crowding in your area when you spot one. The traditional Mexican luncheon they took us to was a surprise but very delicious. The only reason I can’t give this tour all 5 stars is because the heat and sun at the Tulum Ruins (Zama) were unrelenting. The real feel was 110°F. Other tour groups provided guests with large umbrellas and this group did not. Our visit to the ruins was informational ( Michael knows his stuff) but this part of the trip would have been far less miserable with a provided umbrella. Umbrellas would be a good investment for this group.

Just ok

Elizabeth_P, Jun 2021

The swimming with turtles wasn't a bad experience. It was a bit crowded and so we only saw maybe 3 turtles and one sting ray. The trip to Tulum was canceled due to COVID at the site and so we didn't get to go there or have lunch. The tour operator refunded us $20 per person. The cenotes was disappointing because we went to Casa Tortuga and they have 4 cenotes there but we were only allowed to do one. The tour guide Rocco was entertaining.

Book this one!

Kira_R, Apr 2021

Loved loved loved this tour!!! There was something for everyone and it was the perfect balance between history, culture and water fun! We saw so many incredible things and the tour guides were amazing! We saw so many sea turtles and beautiful fish, saw a sting ray too. We got fishy pedicures in the cenote too ;) We got to spend the whole day learning and exploring from Adrian, Juan Roko and Aturo :) HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

One of the most memorable moment during our vacation trip.

charlottevanacker89, Feb 2020

My husband and I recommend this excursion at 200% ! Tulum was gorgeous but I think we could have had better information from the guide that assisted us (big big group, we've been split in smaller ones). The best parts are definitely the Hilarios Cave and Akumal beach (just 9-10people). This cave is quite unique, the entrance a little bit impressive (yeah, the whole is small and you don't see the bottom from the top) but at the end it is not scary. There is a line you can hold, you're floating with the life jacket, you never have to put the head in the water. We saw plenty of stalactite and stalagmite and even bats. Our tour guide was amazing and extremely helpful. The lunch buffet was nice and then the time at Akumal beach was awesome. The beach itself is wonderful and what you get to see underneath even more beautiful. I know the point is to see turtles but there is even more. A big yes for this excursion ! To know : we were picked up early (7:20am) from hotel at Playa del Carmen but left for the excursion only at 9:15-9:30 because everybody is meeting at the same place and then people get distributed into smaller groups. I should have take a breakfast with me.