Akumal Dive Shop

Reserved ahead of time to take a refresher course for myself and discover scuba for my wife. The email exchange was straightforward and friendly.
When we arrived, we met with the instructor, Marco, who was as friendly as can be and made the training and pre-​dive course information easy to understand for my wife. We then did some basic training in Half-​Moon Bay and Marco was very patient with my wife, who had never scuba’d before, as she went through the skills and swam around the bay.
After he was comfortable with both of our skills, we refreshed our tanks, got into a boat and went a few hundred yards from the shore and got back in the water. My wife, who was very nervous at the start of the day, had a great time and came up with a smile. We even came back to do it again two days later.
The dive shop is organized and the equipment is well maintained. Lockers and showers are available — the shower is really warm, a necessity after a couple of dives. The accompanying divemasters, Eduardo and Isha, also took some great photographs and video of us on our dives. We can’t give enough praise for Marco and the divemasters, who were wonderful company.
If you want to dive in Akumal, this is the place to go. We’ll be back.

Nicest staff and great snorkeling gear at great rate. Huge lockers and showers included. Don’t rent from the little huts along the beach, they are so rude if you don’t get their tour!

Great place to get all your rental gear. My advice is to take the colectivo to the road entrance. Politely breeze past the street guys trying to sell you tours. Once on the beach turn right and follow the water front to the dive shop. Ask them to point out where to swim to see the reef and your best bet at swimming with the sea turtles, if that doesn’t work swim out to where you see other tours and follow them. When I was there we saw a ton of everything. It was awesome and one of the highlights of my honeymoon. There’s showers and lockers in the dive shop, nothing fancy but it works. Make sure to use reef friendly sunscreen and don’t touch the coral or turtles. I would just rent a mask and flippers if they let you, you don’t really need the life jacket, but I’m a strong swimmer. There’s shops on your way back to the highway if you need to pick up some convenience items.

Wow! Can diving get any better than this?
I visited Akumal Dive Shop for a refresher course before diving on the reef, since it had been a few years since my last dive. My divemaster, Adiel, was funny, friendly, and very knowledgeable. Both of my dives with him were excellent, and he was extremely talented at pointing out turtles, fish, invertebrates, and other interesting life on the reef.
Prices were very fair, one morning I came as a walk-​in and paid about $ 65 for a one hour dive and full equipment rental. It’s about $ 40 if you already have your own equipment.
My one criticism is the lack of organization when it comes to booking. I tried a few times to book in advance, and my reservations were always lost. At least they are very flexible and got me on the dive boats the same day anyways, even during a relatively busy part of the season in January.

Akumal es un lugar perfecto para disfrutar la vida subacuática, lo tiene todo. Lo que más me gusta y la razón por la cual soy fan de esta playa, es por la experiencia mágica de nadar con tortugas y por el arrecife, que es parte de la segunda cadena arrecifal más grande del mundo. Una vista impresionante, está como de dimensión desconocida. Corales de todo tipo, colores suaves y fuertes, tenues y fosforescentes que oscilan con el vaivén del agua.
El acceso a la playa de Akumal es gratuito y rentan ahí mismo, equipo para practicar snorkel por si no llevas el propio, la renta es altita, pero vale la pena por la hermosa experiencia que tendrás.
El fuerte de esta tienda, es el buceo, así que, con ellos puedes bucear si ya eres buzo certificado, o conseguir la certificación a través de ellos. Cuentan con cámara de descompresión. Es un establecimiento grande, una empresa seria y ecológicamente responsable. Pégateles si quieres disfrutar de esta maravilla submarina de más cerquita.