Our group of 6 will be staying a bit outside San Ignacio in early March (we have been told our accommodations are within walking distance of the town) and plans to book day tours leaving from town. Please recommend specific operators, their tours, approximate costs and any other information of which we may want to be aware. We're particularly interested in visiting ruins and doing tube rafting, but any suggestions will be welcome.
We will also be staying in Ambergris Caye and would appreciate information about the snorkel and scuba operators out there. 2 of us are divers and others snorkel, so if there are boats which offer both activities on the same trips, that would be helpful to know. Again, recommendations for specific operators would be great.
Thanks, Dave.
Best tour companies located in San Ignacio, Belize
Recent Activity
View all Mexico & Central America activity »
- 1 Cancun day trips
- 2 How much cash to bring to Belize?
- 3
Quick CR Trip Report
- 4 Just back from Puerto Vallarta
- 5 Notorized Letter of Consent
- 6 4 days before heading to Sandos Playacar
- 7 Tequila Visit, Jalisco
- 8 3rd CR trip suggestions please...
- 9 Puerto Vallarta Mayan Palace
- 10 Which would you recommend? Four Seasons Punta Mita OR Four Seasons Nevis?
- 11 Can u recommend a lux AI in PDC or Riviera Maya?
- 12 Do I need a permission letter to travel alone with my minor niece?
- 13 help blue bay grand vs sandos riviera
- 14 Last Minute Puerto Vallarta
- 15 Help ! - FRAUD concern, Mayan Palace/Cancun Bay Tours, Riviera Maya
- 16 CANCUN: Sandos Caracol Beach Resort & Spa, Riviera Maya
- 17 Where to stay on Mayan riviera?
- 18 Advice on trip to Costa Rica for myself and three late teenagers
- 19 Rental cars $s for Panama
- 20 Grand Mayan Palace - Nuevo Vallarta
- 21 Driving in Mexico
- 22 Sandos Playacar Beach Resort Cancun Mexico
- 23 After Tikal... suggestions?
- 24 2013 GTG - Bosque del Cabo, Costa Rica
- 25
Three weeks in August 2011 - trip report
I have spent very little time in San Ignacio, so have little personal experience. I do know that Pacz gets consistently good reviews.
I'm not a diver, my husband is. He says, to his knowledge, Hol Chan is the only place that snorkelers and divers go together. Most of the other dive sites are outside the reef, not good snorkeling spots. Hol Chan would be a very shallow dive, it's only 25-30 feet. Lots of check out dives done there.
My husband does his diving with Ecologic, although he hasn't been recently. His favorite dive master is now at Ramon's. Many of our friends dive with Chuck & Robbie's.
Greatest tour in that part of the world for me is a guided tour of Tikal or other area Maya sites in Guatemala with Roxy Ortiz: www.tikalroxy.blogspot.com
For the ATM cave trip we enjoyed: http://pacztours.net/actun-tunichil-muknal
Another cool caving option, much less visited: http://www.actunchapatadventure.blogspot.com
If you're walking distance to town, the providers will pick you up there. Happy trails!
We used Pacz tours as well and thought they were great. We also booked some excursions through our hotels.
Ditto on Pacz, they have a pretty good reputation; you can just show up at their office in town the morning of your tour (booked in advance, of course).
There are many companies that do both snorkel and scuba guests; for example, we had scuba folks doing Hol Chan while we snorkeled. But some places (Tres Cocos, Mexico Rocks patch reef) are snorkel only, I think, due to the shallowness); those can be pretty cheap, $35(http://www.belizedivingadventures.net/snorke/mexico-rocks/). Some trips are recommmended as scuba only, like the Blue Hole.
Trips to the Blue Hole sometimes take snorkelers and divers both. I've never gone, since, even for snorkeling it's over US$200.00.