We didn’t get to go to this beach during our visit of the ruins as they found some turtle nests, which was pretty cool! The beach, however, looks very nice with great looking sand and clear water. Giving this one a 4-star just due to it being entertained with an experience I’m detailing below, in a “package” format, where we had a bad experience.

The people at the entrance to the Tulúm Ruins sold us on doing their “guided boat tour and snorkeling to see turtles”, which we can’t recommend. First, it’s a very long walk to get there from the ruins - and you have many taxis along the way trying to get you to spend more money for a lift, as well as a lot of traffic as the roadway there is currently under construction and so you’re sharing the road.

Once we finally got there, it was hard to find someone who knew what was going on. When we did, they gave us a loose timeframe for when we’d leave, and then just totally disappeared. We finally found them and got on the boat. They tried to mix up seating and spread our family between another. We get the weight distribution needs, but they were unwilling to discuss it and seemed more on the side of angry about it.

We were not told that our guides wouldn’t speak any English (and honestly they shouldn’t have to, but we would have liked to have been informed since this is a tourist destination), so we relied on another family on the boat who was nice enough to translate for us.

We got out to the “destination”, which sadly was a relatively small area of ocean with no less than 10 boats and 80+ people all clustered together. Then, the guide never asked how good anyone was at swimming (like if they can swim fast, if they are comfortable in that deep of water, etc.), and never talked about a plan either. They had everyone jump in, and then basically just sped through the water occasionally yelling for people to “come here”, only to be in an entirely different area when people would arrive. We basically got to see some coral and a couple of sting rays, but nothing else.

This entire part of the experience was just extremely unprofessional, rushed, and honestly very chaotic, and you’d have sworn that they had never done this whole thing before.

If you go to see the ruins, I’d recommend heavily avoiding the “boat tour and snorkeling” offering. There’s a much better place for this about 30 minutes away at Akumal Beach, where the water isn’t as clear, but we saw 5 sea turtles very close to us with a guide we found on Airbnb.