Hol Chan Full-Day Bucket List Snorkeling and Marine Life Tour

Must do if you are in Caye Caulker! We were giving the option to wear life jackets, which is much easier and allows you enjoy the fish, and snorkeling equipment. We were also given lunch: a much dryer stewed chicken, Chinese food like rice and rum punch. Our tour guides Salam and Art were very helpful, patient and knowledgeable about the area and fish. We made MANY stops and saw all different varieties/colors of fish, we saw nurse sharks, manatees, sting rays and turtles. We also made a stop in an underwater shipwreck and a hotel by the end of Caye Caulker that had sting rays and mini sea horse sanctuary. My only recommendation would be to use a boat that had better stairs. We all come out with leg injuries when trying to climb up from the water to the boat.

We had an awesome time! John and Charles were great, very knowledgeable and fun! We saw so much more than I expected and had plenty of time to enjoy all of the variety of each stop. Thanks so much!

I have snorkeled all over (Hawaii, Cozumel, Cancun, USVI, Aruba) and hands down, this was the best snorkel trip ever! Saw a manatee, tons of coral, fish, rays, & nurse sharks. Our guide, Salam, was incredible w his narration and putting us in the best spots. Do this trip!!!

Wonderful guides,great views,safe and fun,love it,we had a great time. Would recommend this tour. The sea creatures were amazing to see the overall experience was awesome.

Tour guides were amazing! They were knowledgeable, funny, laid back and nice. We swam with manatees, nurse Sharks, stingrays, and Dolphins. The coral reef was amazing and beautiful. We even saw seahorses! The guides provided free fresh conche ceviche and rum punch that was delicious!

The title of this tour caught my attention, but I didn't do my homework before booking it. Manatee season in Belize is during the summer months. We spent an hour of our December tour sitting in the boat while the two guides "looked" for manatees. We also spent an uncomfortable amount of time sitting on the boat waiting for the two guides to "MacGyver" the boat's engine. I was deeply concerned each time we stopped to actually snorkel that the engine wouldn't start again when we were ready to move on from that spot. The tour's description promises that they take GoPro photos videos for you, which they did. Unfortunately for us, we never saw them. There were two boats that went out together on our tour day - we met some of the people beforehand who went out on the other boat. When we received the email of the day's photos, I recognized the people we had met earlier, and only photos from their boat's GoPro were there. When I emailed Daniel asking where our boat's photos were, he said they had combined the files from both GoPros, and that he had sent us everything. I had checked out GoPro near the end of the day, and we had taken over 100 pictures/videos on our boat alone, and the email they sent had only about 80. Lesson learned the very hard way to have your own equipment to take underwater photos! One final thing to note is this tour leaves from Caye Caulker. We easily got there from Ambergris Caye, but it was added time on the water, adding to an already long day. Everything else aside, there were some great sea life encounters in the water - lots of nurse sharks, rays, colorful fish, coral and several turtles. The conch graveyard was quite unique, and the turquoise waters were very beautiful. No matter the company, you have a good chance to see all of the above, as all of the snorkel boats go to the same areas. My recommendation is that you don't pick this company to take you there.