Tours in Cancún

2h up to 50 guests 4.7(1769)

Speedboat & Snorkel Jungle Tour through the Cancún Mangroves

Two hours from the Jungle Tour Adventure marina at Km 14.6 of the Hotel Zone: you drive a 13-foot two-person speedboat behind a guide through the mangrove canals of the Nichupté lagoon to the reef of Punta Nizuc National Park, snorkel for about 45 minutes and drive back. Departures at 9:00, 12:00 and 15:00. $45 per person sharing a boat for two, $80 for a boat of your own, plus a $20 park and dock fee per person in cash on the day.

from $45 per person, two sharing one speedboat, minimum two to book

4h up to 6 guests 4.9(368)

Cancún · Fishing charter

Private Sportfishing Charter from Cancún on a 35-Foot Bertram

The whole boat for your group: a 35-foot Bertram with a captain and two mates, out of Sunset Marina in Cancun's hotel zone. From $780 per boat for a four-hour bottom-fishing trip, tax included, for one to six guests; six, eight and twelve hours cost $880, $980 and $1,180. A $10 fishing licence and a $5 dock fee per person are paid on the morning.

from $780 per boat for 1–6 guests, 4-hour bottom-fishing trip, 16% tax included

Cancún · Sailing & yacht charter

Private Sailing Catamaran from Cancún to Isla Mujeres

The Moana, a 40-foot Fountaine Pajot sailing catamaran, is chartered whole for your group from Marina Hacienda del Mar on the Puerto Juárez road. Four hours from $1,495 per boat for up to 15 guests, with crew, open bar, wine and a snorkel stop with gear and life vests; the Luxury Service for up to 8 adds a two-course meal cooked on board. The owner, French chef and sommelier Patrick Jouault, hosts the trip. The mandatory dock fee is extra.

4h up to 15 guests 4.9(84)

from $1,495 per boat for 4 hours, up to 15 guests, crew and open bar included

from $219 per person, two tanks at Chac Mool or Chikin Ha, gear, lunch and pick-up included

Two-Tank Cenote Dive from Cancún with Pick-up and Lunch

A full day from your Cancun hotel to the freshwater caverns of the Riviera Maya: two tanks with a guide who is a fully certified cave diver, gear, torch, cenote entrance fees, lunch and the drive both ways included. From $219 per person at Chac Mool or Chikin Ha, up to $279 for Angelita and Carwash. Open Water certification required.

5.0(243)

from $75 per person for an open-time flight of about 10 min, no transfer

Cancún · Parasailing

Parasailing at Playa Tortugas, Cancún — Open-Time Ticket

Parasail Cancun's ticket without transport: turn up at its desk in Marina Adventure Bay, Km 6.5, any time between 10:30 and 17:30, ride the water taxi out to the parasail boat and take off from its deck. The flight lasts about 10 minutes while the boat covers three miles, up to 260 ft over the Hotel Zone. $75 per person; the operator publishes no other charge on its price page.

10min 4.2(198)

5h up to 50 guests 4.3(3089)

Isla Mujeres Catamaran Day from Cancún with Snorkel and Lunch

A shared catamaran from Marina Punta Norte or Marina Las Perlas to Isla Mujeres: a snorkel stop at El Meco reef, lunch and an open bar on board, then two and a half hours of free time on the island with an hour of open bar at IXI Beach. Five hours in all, hotel transfer and the $20 dock and reef fee included. The site currently sells it at $97 per adult against a $129 list price; booked eight or more days ahead it shows $77 per adult and $53 per child.

from $97 per adult 12+, dock and reef fee and hotel transfer included

from $110 per person, two tanks, certified divers only

Two-Tank Dive at the MUSA Underwater Museum, Cancún

Two tanks among the submerged sculptures of MUSA, the underwater museum by Jason deCaires Taylor, with a Cancun dive centre open since 1990. The MUSA page itself no longer prints a price; the centre's rate page charges $110 per person for two tanks. Not certified yet? The same rate page sells a one-tank Discover Scuba dive at $120 per person.

5.0(295)

from $109 per adult (12+) without hotel pickup

Isla Contoy and Isla Mujeres Day Trip from Cancún with Snorkelling

A full day out of Punta Sam with Contoy Adventures: an hour on Isla Mujeres, 35 minutes of snorkelling on the Ixlache reef, then Isla Contoy — a national park where only 200 visitors a day are allowed ashore. Breakfast, buffet lunch and an open bar are included; $109 per adult without hotel pickup, $125 with it, plus a $20 park and dock fee in cash.

8h 15min 4.9(5097)

from $75 per person, round-trip transport from hotels in Cancún's Hotel Zone or downtown included

Cancún Snorkel Tour: Turtles, Reef, MUSA Statues, Shipwreck and Underwater Cenote

Total Snorkel Cancun packs five snorkel spots into 3.5 hours: the El Meco reef, a turtle area, MUSA statues, a shipwreck and an underwater cenote, all no deeper than about 9 feet. $75 per person with hotel transport in Cancún, plus a $20 surcharge paid at check-in.

3h 30min 4.6(699)

from $75 per person, marine-park and dock fees included

MUSA Underwater Museum Snorkel Tour in Cancún

An afternoon with Manta Dive & Snorkel: you float over the MUSA underwater museum — more than 500 life-size sculptures turned into reef — and a nearby reef, with a guide in the water. $75 per person with marine-park and dock fees included; ages 6 and up, no experience needed.

4.8(1143)

Two-Tank Reef Dive in Puerto Morelos National Marine Park from Cancún

A gentle day for certified divers: Manta Dive & Snorkel drives you from its Cancún shop to Puerto Morelos for two reef dives at 30–60 feet in a protected marine park. $220 per person with transport, all gear, wetsuit, guiding and park fees; check-in 8:30, back by 14:30.

6h 4.8(1143)

from $220 per diver, two tanks

from $145 per person, two open-water dives with an instructor

Discover Scuba Diving in Cancún: Two Open-Water Dives, One at MUSA

A first dive with Scuba Total, no certificate needed: a theory session on the pier above the lagoon, practice in the pool or calm shallows, then two open-water dives with your instructor — one of them at the MUSA underwater museum. $145, from age 10, with a short medical questionnaire.

5.0(323)

2h 45min up to 12 guests 4.8(708)

Isla Mujeres Snorkel Tour: El Farito, Manchones Reef and MUSA

A small-boat snorkel from Isla Mujeres with the family-run DC Explorer: up to 12 guests, departing daily at 11:00, to the three snorkel spots of the island's marine park — the shallow El Farito, Manchones reef and MUSA. $55 per person with a guide, park entrance and gear; 2.5–3 hours.

from $55 per person, shared boat of up to 12

4h up to 6 guests 4.9(60)

Cancún · Fishing charter

Private Fishing Charter in Cancún on the 26-Foot Panga Yemayá

The whole boat for up to six: Fishing Boats in Cancun's 26-foot panga Yemayá with captain and crew, rods, live bait, beer, water and sodas, and the fishing licence. $359 for 4 hours, $459 for 6, $526 for 8; plus an $8 dock fee at the pier.

from $359 per boat for up to 6 guests, 4 hours

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Things to do on the water in Cancún and on Cozumel

Eleven categories, eleven entry prices and three units: $45 per person through the mangroves, $75 per parasailing flight, $110 for two tanks at MUSA, 1,400 MXN per jet ski, $359 per fishing boat and $1,495 per sailing catamaran. Which fees sit outside the ticket, where the boats leave from and what to settle before paying.

With kids in Cancún and on Cozumel: the minimum ages for snorkelling, discover scuba and parasailing

Four years to board a boat on Cozumel, ten to snorkel in Cancún, three to sit in a speedboat, ten for a first dive, five for a parasail flight on one island and ten on the other: every threshold six operators print, with the supervision they require, the child rates and the three places where one page argues with itself. Checked in September 2026.

Per person or per craft: jet skis and parasailing in Cancún and on Cozumel

A jet ski is sold by the machine, a parasail by the seat, and that single difference decides the bill: 1,400 MXN for a machine two may share in Cancún, $75 for a machine on Cozumel, $75 a seat in the harness on both beaches. With the fees paid on the day, the arithmetic for two, and the deposit one operator prints as both 20% and $20. Checked in September 2026.

Fishing in Cancún and Cozumel: what is included and what the boat costs

Four hours of private fishing are $780 for the whole boat with Kianah's SportFishing in Cancún and 15,880 MXN, about $790, in Cozumel — one price for up to six guests, the other for up to eight. Both are per boat, so the useful number is per head: from six anglers the Cancún charter undercuts a shared seat, and the small print differs more than the price does.

Isla Mujeres: shared catamaran or private boat — where the two prices meet

A seat on the shared catamaran is $97 per adult; the private catamaran is $1,495 for the boat. Divide the second by the number of guests and the two lines only meet at fifteen — the operator's own maximum — and even there the private one stays a shade dearer. What each price includes, where the private boat really does win, and what the group size has to be.

Cenotes from Cancún: the price, the certificate and how they differ from the sea

Two tanks in a cenote are $219 per person with Only Bubbles, door to door with transport, entrance fees and lunch — about twice what two tanks in the sea cost at the same centres. A certificate is required for the dive and not for the snorkel, the day runs from a 6:30 pick-up to a mid-afternoon return, and the differences from the sea are the ones that decide whether you enjoy it.