Thrill & Chill: Cave Tubing Tour From Belize City
Back at the ship by about 1:45 pm, 2 h 15 min before the last tender. That keeps your 1 h safety margin with 1 h 15 min to spare.
Safety margin
- 8:00 amShip anchors in Belize City45 min to get a tender and reach the pier
- 8:45 amLeave the pierAbout 30 min to the start point
- 9:15 amEarliest tour startTour runs 4 h. Latest sensible start: 10:30 am.
- 1:15 pmTour ends30 min back to the pier
- 1:45 pmBack at the tender pier2 h 15 min before the last tender
- 4:30 pmAll aboardLast tender usually leaves about 4:00 pm
Estimates based on the tour's longest published duration, our researched travel times and typical pier queues. Confirm the departure time on the booking page and keep your watch on ship's time.
About this tour
Explore majestic limestone caves, adorned with stalactites and stalagmites, formed over thousands of years. The cave tubing tour is the most popular adventure in Belize. Feel the thrill as gentle rapids guide your tube through secret chambers. After pick-up, the drive is about an hour from Belize City. Upon arrival at the park after using the changing/rest room, you will be issued your equipment. You get to walk through the rainforest trail for 30 minutes. This walk brings you to the entrances of the cave system. Here, you gear up with your life jackets, headlights, helmets, and tube. Once you are all on your tubes in one group, along with your guide, you start floating down this amazing underground river that creates this incredible limestone cave system naturally done by Mother Nature. After an hour of cave and open river tubing, your tour finishes where you started at the river by the rope. Sharing laughs and stories with friends or family in a safe, guided adventure
Private tour English, Spanish
What's included
- Use of helmet with headlights, tubes, and life jacket
- Bottled water
- Driver/guide
- A guided tour of the natural limestone cave system
- Transport by air-conditioned minivan
- Hotel/port pickup and drop-off
Not included
- Alcoholic drinks (available to purchase)
- Entrance Fees
Itinerary
- 1Belize CityAfter pick up you will be driving through the City of Belize making your way to the western highway to get to the cave branch National Park. Once here you will get to use the rest/changing room. Thereafter you will be issued your equipment for the tour which is a tube, helmet with headlights, and a life jacket. The tour gets started with a 30-minute walk through the well-kept trail through the rainforest to the entrance of the cave system. Here you get ready with your equipment with the assistance of your tour guide for the cave tubing tour through a natural underground river fed by pure spring water for about 40 minutes. Accompanied by your guide you continue down the open river tubing for another 20 mins to get to the starting point to finish this amazing tour. You will then make your way back to the parking lot to change into dry clothing and then make your way back to Belize City
Meeting point and getting there
Start point
See booking page
From the cruise pier
About 30 min by taxi
Allow 45 min to tender ashore first. Taxi fares and pier details.
Returns
Back to the start point
Good to know
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before. For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- At time of booking, Cruise ship passengers must provide the following information at time of booking: ship name, docking time, disembarkation time and re-boarding time
- Dress code is formal
- May be operated by a multi-lingual guide
- A maximum of 30 people per booking
- The duration of transfers are approximate, the exact duration will depend on the time of day and traffic conditions
- Subject to favorable weather conditions. If canceled due to poor weather, you will be given the option of an alternative date or tour
- Children must be 40 inches tall to participate in this activity
- Infants less than 4 years will not be permitted to do this tour
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Operated by A Plus Adventures Belize. Prices, availability and tour details come from the booking partner and can change; the booking page is authoritative.
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