DUNE Mexico Blue Dream

Location

The scuba diving center is located in Playa del Carmen.

Dive Overview

With warm weather year-round due to its tropical climate, warm and clear water, and many dive sites with beautiful flora and fauna, the Riviera Maya is truly a divers paradise all year long.

[Read More: Riviera Maya Travel Guide]

Accommodation Overview

Dune Mexico Blue Dream Accommodation Overview

DUNE Mexico offers you a very large selection of the best hotels & condos in Playa Del Carmen. All of them are located close to the dive center and also near to/on the beach. Different options available for all kinds of budgets.

 

Bric Hotel & Spa

A boutique hotel located a couple blocks from the dive center. The BRIC hotel offers 14 charming hotel rooms, each with en-suite bathrooms, air conditioning and full services including concierge, WiFi Internet, and pool.

Hotel Hacienda Paradise

The Hacienda Paradise Boutique Hotel is a 4-star boutique hotel in Playa del Carmen, located just a block away from the world-famous Quinta Avenida (Fifth Avenue) and its vibrant ambience, boutiques, stores, restaurants, bars and entertainment facilities, as well as some of the most spectacular beaches on the entire Mexican Rivera Maya.

Illusion Boutique Hotel

The 4-star Illusion Boutique Hotel is a stylish boutique hotel with a contemporary design that provides 45 spacious and attractive rooms of different types perfectly adapted and equipped to cater to the different needs of guests.

Dive Information

 

Playa Del Carmen Dive Sites (LEFT) & Riviera Maya Cenotes (RIGHT)

Playa Del Carmen Reef Diving

When it comes to reef diving, Playa del Carmen is your perfect base location. Many of the greatest open sea diving sites along the Great Mayan Reef Barrier are located right off the shores of Playa del Carmen in the heart of the Riviera Maya. Depart from Playa del Carmen to explore the most colorful and interesting diving sites in the worlds second largest coral reef. Water temperature and visibility, combined with the flourishing underwater life of coral reefs, make Playa del Carmen a superior diving destination all year round.

Cenote Cavern Diving

The Yucatan Peninsula is famous for its unique underground conditions. Its limestone soil has percolated rainwater over millions of years to give place to the worlds longest underground river system. Parts of the surface land have collapsed over the years creating sinkholes called Cenotes, windows into this amazing underground world.

Diving in a Cenote is a unique experience. These caverns are windows to the worlds largest underground river systems and were sometimes used by the ancient Maya for sacrificial offerings. Their water is so clear with over 500 feet visibility that it will make your cavern diving adventure unforgettable. In some Cenotes you will see beautiful stalactites and stalagmites, amazing light effects as the sunlight shines through cracks in the ceiling and halocline effect.

Cozumel Wall Diving

In 1961, the famous oceanographer Jacques Yves Cousteau came to Cozumel with his crew on the Calypso to film a documentary. With the first airing of that film, Cozumel has consistently been on the top of many diving lists among divers destinations. It is quite normal to see vast coral heads, brilliant sponges, hundreds of tropical fish, rich ecosystems and steep walls that sink into the abyss. Tunnels and caves twist through the reef, providing a rich environment for many species, including some not found anywhere else on earth.

Cozumel is world-renown to be part of the second largest barrier reef system in the world and is considered some of the best wall diving in the world. While diving in Cozumel, the average visibility is more than 130 feet or 40 meters and vertical drop-offs to deep blue abyss is what Cozumel diving is famous for. When diving in Cozumel there is over 15 world famous wall dives like Palancar, Santa Rosa, Colombia, San Francisco, Punta Sur, Maracaibo, Yucab, Cordona, and the list goes on. Large sponges and beautiful corals are what make Cozumel a definite must-see for any certified diver!

Wreck Diving

In Playa Del Carmen, Mama Via is a former shrimp boat intentionally sunk in 1995 for the fun of divers. At maximum 27 meters/90 feet depth, you will enjoy this dive site who is also full of marine life! Also, we propose a wreck in Puerto Morelos. The wreck is an armed C-56 Juan Escutia, donated and sunk by the Mexican Navy in 2000. This 30 meters depth site is known for the wreck of course but also because you might have the chance to see many spotted eagle rays.

In Cozumel, there is a C-53 Felipe Xicotenantl, a Mexican Navy Minesweeper sunk in 2000. C-53 is in 80 feet of water and sits on the sandy bottom in Chankanaab Bay. The sides have been opened up to allow divers to enter and exit safely. This reef is home to sardines, and other reef fish.

Bull Shark Diving

This is the extreme scuba diving experience for certified divers who want to experience the most thrilling dive in the world. In November the bull sharks visit us to spend the winter here and they stay until March when they migrate north. This is a dive program that not only introduces adventure seeking divers to wild sharks but also gives them a closer look at these magnificent and mysterious creatures.

The bull sharks are a special species of shark that can actually swim in freshwater as well. The bulls of Playa are drawn here because of the freshwater cenotes that pump out into the sea along the coast. The exits for these cenotes are too small for a shark to pass through but the constant flow of freshwater leaving the cenote exits certainly draws them, as well as an abundant food supply of fish, into the area. Playa del Carmen is also known to have a rather large turtle population which is another food source for the bull sharks.

Packages & Rates

Diving Excursions

All prices are in USD. Tank & weight included

Site	Dive	Rate
Playa del Carmen	2 boat dives	79 USD
Playa del Carmen	1 dive PdC reef + 1 dive bull shark	110 USD
Playa del Carmen	1 dive PdC reef + 1 wreck dive	79 USD
Cozumel*	2 boat dives	140 USD
Cozumel	1 reef dive + 1 wreck dive	140 USD
Puerto Morelos	1 reef dive + 1 wreck dive	140 USD
Cenotes	2 dives in 2 different cenotes	140 USD

*For their Cozumel excursions, DUNE Mexico uses a fast boat that picks up the diver directly on the beach close to the dive shop and will cross with the speedboat to Cozumel's reef directly, no ferry!

Packages

Package	Dives	Rate
5 days / 10 dives (8 dives and white shark excursion)	4 dives PdC + 2 Cozumel + 2 Cenote + 1day Snorkeling with Whale Shark	625 USD
	6 dives PdC + 2 Cozumel + 2 Cenotes	525 USD
	5 dives PdC + 1 Bull shark dive + 2 Cozumel + 2 Cenotes	545 USD
1,2,3,GO : 3 days / 6 dives	2 dives PdC + 2 Cozumel + 2 Cenotes	350 USD

Snorkeling

Site	Inclusions	Rate
Playa del Carmen	DAY - Equipment included	40 USD
Whale Shark	1 DAY - Breakfast, lunch, transfer from hotel to Marina included	195 USD
Sailfish	1 DAY - Breakfast, lunch, transfer from hotel to Marina included	195 USD
Cenotes	DAY - Transport, guide, equipment, entrance fee, and lunch included	70 USD
Tour Hidden world	DAY - Transport, guide, equipment, entrance fee, flashlight, and snack included	95 USD
Underworld Journey	1 DAY - Transport, guide, equipment, entrance fee, flashlight, and snack included	105 USD

Brick Hotel & Spa

Prices are per person based on double occupancy.

Season 2019	From 21/12/2018 to 06/01/2019 From 13/04/2019 to 28/04/2019	From 07/01/2019 to 12/04/2019	From 28/04/2019 to 21/12/2019
Double room with breakfast	155 USD	115 USD	80 USD

Hotel Hacienda Paradise

Prices are per room with breakfast.

Season 2019	From 16/12/2018 to 06/01/2019	From 07/01/2019 to 20/04/2019	From 21/04/2019 to 31/10/2019
Double room with breakfast	298.75 USD	156.25 USD	106.25 USD

Illusion Boutique Hotel

Prices are per room with breakfast. Include round trip transportation to the dive shop.

Season 2018	22/12/2017 to 06/01/2018	06/01/2018 to 30/03/2018	01/04/2018 to 31/10/2018
Double room with breakfast	312.5 USD	161.25 USD	131.25 USD

5 Days Dune Mexico + Kraken Liveaboard Package

All packages include: Transfer airport hotel (roundtrip), 7 nights in double occupancy in the Bric Hotel and Spa or Hacienda paradise with Breakfast, Tanks and weights, entrance fees in Cenotes, marine park fees, speedboat for the Cozumel trip, and lunch/ snack for the excursion in Cenote and Cozumel.

Season 2018/2019	From November to March		From May to August		From September to October
	Cabin Sup	Cabin Standard	Cabin Sup	Cabin Standard	Cabin Sup	Cabin Standard
Package Hotel + 10 dives + liveaboard Banco Chinchorro	2,900.00	2,775.00
Package Hotel + 10 dives + liveaboard Los Picos	2,562.50	2,437.50
Package Hotel + 10 dives + liveaboard Alcranes	2,750.00	2,625.00

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