1 Day Tour to Bacalar, Cenotes and 7 color Lagoon with lunch from Cancun
Description
Fall in love with Bacalar, a place with a treasure of nature the Laguna de los Siete Colores that in addition to its unique beauty also keeps other surprising treasures such as the magical cenotes that surround; also full of history with the pirate channel, ecotourism and beautiful landscapes. One of Bacalar’s most important tourist experiences is a trip to the cenotes. What undoubtedly makes the Bacalar cenotes special is that their natural splendor and the knowledge that they are almost completely unique and entirely naturally-occurring, making them extremely popular with weddings and photographers. The 7-color lagoon extends peacefully and picturesquely next to the Bacalar village as a perfect setting for lovers of adventure and nature.
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Itinerary
Get on the transport that will arrive at your hotel. We will take you to the road and at 30 minutes from Chetumal, you will find Bacalar, one of the most beautiful magical villages. We will start this adventure at Cenote Azul where you can also enjoy a delicious breakfast. This cenote has a diameter of approximately 200 meters and a depth of 90 meters. The funny thing about this cenote is that it's outdoors and you can appreciate it from the road. Its view is amazing as it is surrounded by jungle and beautiful vegetation.
Our transportation will take us to another beautiful site in Bacalar. Arrive to a completely natural spa where you can swim, relax, take pictures and admire the beautiful views of the lagoon.
We will enjoy a beautiful pontoon ride to different cenotes, the pirates' route and Bacalar 7 Colors Lagoon. You will admire beautiful natural cenotes of Bacalar, which will make you fall in love with their unique characteristics that form an extraordinary landscape. Finally we will pass through the Pirates Channel that flows into the beautiful Bacalar Lagoon, where you can see 7 beautiful shades of blue, an extraordinary treasure of Mexico. This lagoon is one of the main attractions of Bacalar. The background soils, the different depths and the sun rays help the waters show an incredible diversity of blue colors. We will have a panoramic visit to the famous Port of San Felipe, where you will know a little more about this fort and its history.
We will arrive at a restaurant where you can taste from the main menu a dish of your choice. Afterwards we will take a picture on the famous letters of Bacalar and then go back to your hotel in Cancun or Riviera Maya.
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Pickup Locations & Times
If your hotel is not in the previous list please let us know in which hotel are you staying so a representative of our company can contact you to indicate the correct place and time of your pickup. We ask you to indicate the hotel where you are staying in the special requirements box and also with your email. This service has only one schedule, between 6:30 am to 7:45 am. The schedules vary according to the hotel, our representative will indicate the exact schedule via mail or via text message. Every service and every part of the tour is directly operated by our staff. This is why we’re able to guarantee an excellent and high quality service. Most of the web pages you see are simply selling tours as a middle-man, providing little to no guarantee of quality, safety or assurance. Here, you buy directly from the tour operator.
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Important Information
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(14)
Good organized tour and good places where we visited cenotes and the lagoon with all its tones doing activities for my blue cenote was the best
I have loved the place but it is an excursion that would do more on its own staying one night in bacalar at least, too fast everything, I missed walking through the bay of pirates, the lagoon of 7 colors let you loose in a port of boats and is massed I do not know appreciate the colors everything is by boat without getting off the boat q is a boat, I missed many things to appreciate of such a beautiful place
Hola Maria, ¡Muchas gracias por tu comentario! Nos alegra que hayas disfrutado de Bacalar. Entendemos tu percepción sobre el tiempo y la rapidez del recorrido; este tour está diseñado como una excursión de día completo, por lo que algunas áreas se visitan en un tiempo limitado. Respecto a la Laguna de los Siete Colores y la Bahía de los Piratas, la experiencia incluye el paseo en lancha desde el puerto, lo que permite ver los principales atractivos. Para quienes desean disfrutar con más calma, recomendamos considerar una estancia de noche en Bacalar, lo que permite recorrer y apreciar cada rincón a su ritmo. Agradecemos mucho tus sugerencias y comentarios; siempre buscamos mejorar la experiencia de nuestros visitantes. Esperamos verte de nuevo y que puedas disfrutar aún más de este hermoso destino.
Our first day tour in Cancun. It was windy that morning. The tour guide came to let me know that it was not safe to be in the water. I'm so glad they have plan B. We took a ferry and drive our own scooter in Holbox Mosquito. Our tour guide was very nice, they make sure we are safe and enjoying our trip. Thank you for the Holbox experienced!
The excursion started off with us being picked up from the zona hotelera at 5am and picking up others in playa del carmen and Tulum. We arrived at almost 11am to cenote azul and we enjoyed a nice breakfast and hour swim. Please keep in mind that sunscreen is not permitted. Also drinks are not included with the food so make sure to take money, preferably pesos. We then dried up and got back on the bus to a beach club to swim in Bacalar lake for another hour. There are several photo ops with a stunning view. After we dried up, we got back on the bus for a pontoon ride. We were given a brief history of the lake and some areas that are preserved for birds. We then stopped at another area of bacalar to swim for an hour. Sunscreen is also not allowed in the lake. After the swim, they took us back to another restaurant, where we ate our lunch. After we ate, we had another hour to browse around where the vendors were selling souvenirs and snacks. The tour guide Arturo was very informative, friendly, and he speaks multiple languages. The driver was also very helpful and if you needed to enter the bus early he had no issue letting you in. Overall, I had a great trip but I had some cons. The trip says it will be a maximum of 20 people, but we were picked up in a large bus which was packed. I want to say our group was 55 people, which made our drive back home longer because there were so many stops along the way. Also, it says the tour guide company is Holbox and Bacalar tour, but we were hosted by Suaste tours. Again, we had a great time, but wanted to give an honest review.
Thank you so much for your great review! We’re thrilled to hear you had an enjoyable experience with us and appreciate your feedback on how we can make it even better. For marine life preservation non biodegradable items are not allowed. We hope to welcome you back soon and give you a 5-star experience next time!
There is no where else I've found that has waters as beautiful as Bacalar. Be careful with local food and drink as they do not wash their food with purified water so if you're not used to ingesting mexico water, just be careful and enjoy the beautiful lagoon and cenote!
Hello Cherina! We’re so glad you enjoyed your time with us, and we truly appreciate your positive review! Your feedback is valuable and helps us aim for perfection. We look forward to the opportunity to make your next experience with us even more amazing!
We had a beautiful day into bacalar. We were picked up in playacar at 6:20 am and transfered to a beautiful coach in playa del carmen by 7:00. We then stop at playa Azul cenote for breakfast which was delicious and swimming in the clear water. Then onto bacalar lagoon at a club for swimming at hammocks and water swings. We had refreshments here. Onto the pontoon boat after this. We saw the black hole cenote and got to swim in the bacalar lake. We were then taken back to our lunch at another restaurant. Lunch was delicious too I had chicken. We were allowed to tour Bacalar city then where we got to see the fort Felipe and the bacalar letter sign. This was an English tour and the guide on the bus does speak clear. English he gives us direction. The boat guide and most people in bacalar we found to only speak spainish. That limited us. I can only understand a small amount of spainish. The German girls could not understand any. We paired up with them. Another woman on the boat spoke some English and she was helpful too. We all enjoyed the tour. Personally I would stay a night or 2 on this lake in bacalar it's stunning beautiful!!! It is a long day on a bus, but the centoes, lagoon and lake are fantastic.
Hello Jacqui! We’re so glad you enjoyed your time with us, and we truly appreciate your positive review! Your feedback is valuable and helps us aim for perfection. We look forward to the opportunity to make your next experience with us even more amazing!
Hassle free day tour to Bacalar. It was a long day, but worth it for the beautiful sights, delicious food and great hosts and coach driver.
Hello Guy! We are glad that your visit to Bacalar was very good. We look forward to seeing you again for other wonderful experiences in the Mexican Caribbean. Thank you for your preference. Have a great day!
When we booked this trip there was the option for Spanish or English speaking tour. We chose English. We were the only English speakers in a very large group of Spanish speaking tourists. The company that offered this isn’t really set up for offering a tour to English speakers. They did make an attempt by having one guy on the bus that spoke English but we felt like an inconvenience on the tour and we weren’t given the interesting and useful information that was relayed to the Spanish speaking guests. We were told the basics..”go here at this time” “this is where we are going next” etc. we felt we missed out on a lot of the tour as a result. We also felt that we were very much an afterthought and we had been put on the Spanish tour to make up numbers. Bacalar is beautiful. The restaurant they took us to for lunch was great. The pontoon ride was fun. If you’re English speaking and don’t have a knowledge of conversational Spanish then don’t book this. You’d be better to hire a car and do the drive yourself from the Cancun area. It’s a very very long uncomfortable bus ride and if you’re driving that far and not even benefitting from local knowledge about the things and places you’re passing then driving it yourself at your own pace seems a better option to me. Or see what options your hotel offers since they are always more catered towards the English speaking guests.
Hello dear traveler, thank you for informing us about this situation. We are a certified company with specialized English-speaking tour guides, due to the low season we had to do this tour in one group only. You went to our Spanish speaking group, but you had a private tour guide just for you. At the beginning of your tour, you were in the discomfort of going on this tour and when we arrived in Bacalar we gave you the option to get on our pontoon with our specialized captain to attend to the English-speaking people and give them the explanation of what you see during your tour of the lagoon. We are a company committed to our travelers, we know that you visit our country to enjoy the wonders that Mexico has to offer, that is why our staff is qualified to assist all travelers who decide to take the tour with us. Thank you for your understanding, have a nice day.
The lagoon it’s beautiful and amazing watercolors!! And good food. Jose was a nice tour guy, just in my personal opinion needs a little more communication. But everything was good!!
Hello! we appreciate your comments and preference. We are glad to hear that you enjoyed our tour and had a wonderful day full of magic and fun. We look forward to see you again!
We were picked up from our city hotel in Cancun at around 5:25 am and arrived at Cenote Azul around 11 am. There we could enjoy our breakfast with a view of the cenote and then swim in it. Around 12:40 p.m. we continued by bus to Cocalitos, a beautiful place where we could swim, take nice photos and have a drink until about 2 p.m. After that we were taken to the boats where we went across the blue lagoon and could see Cenote Negro and Esmeralda and swim in the lagoon. After the boat tour we could walk to the restaurant where we had lunch around 4:15 p.m. and had free time until 5:30 p.m. to take pictures in front of the Bacalar letters or to walk around the village. We were back at the hotel around 11pm. The drive was very long and I would recommend taking enough water and snacks with you. Our tour guides Gabriel and Genner were great! Gabriel explained interesting information in Spanish and Genner then told us the most important things again in English. Breakfast and lunch were delicious! It was a nice experience! :-)
Hi Nora! Thank you for sharing with us your values comments! We are happy to know that you had a wonderful day with us. We are commited to give you always the best service to remember your visit on this amazing tour. We hope to see you soon in the Mexican Caribbean!
