It is a very good place to start your diving cenotes journey due to the easy access and easy dive. Not much depth at all but few interesting bits to make it worthwhile. Halocline effect was quite strong, fish and the crocodile which unfortunately we did not see. Nice structures and swim throughs but quite easy so it is a great place to start diving in caverns and structures above you. The place itself has no real infrastructure around it so you basically get in and get out. Good for snorkelling as well if you have snorkelers with you.

Time to head back to Gary's for the BEST margaritas and food. Order your favorite quesadilla and everything else. You might have been disappointed in 2023, but that has changed under the management of his daughter who has brought back Gary's!!!! Everyone will miss Gary, but Gary's Casa Cenota is back!

Casa Cenote, also known as Cenote Manatí, near Tulum. This was a pretty unique experience, snorkeling through the long mangrove. I’m glad we went. It was $10 per person for entry. It was $7 for a small camera, and more for larger cameras. It was $5 for a locker. There were some shelves we could have left our non-valuable stuff on, but the workers were so unfriendly I felt like they might actually steel our stuff for not paying for a locker. Life jackets were available, I’m guessing for an additional fee, since everything else had a fee. We did not get life jackets, because we were snorkeling with fins. It is a long cenote that goes through a mangrove. There were lots of tarpon that were over a foot long. There were needle fish, and a couple other kinds of fish. The cenote is probably 20 feet deep in places, so it was fun to dive to the bottom and take pictures coming up, with the light shining through the water. There is reportedly a small, friendly crocodile that lives here. It seems like it lives back where you can only go if you pay for the tour. We did not buy the tour, and we were still able to snorkel for about an hour. The employees were not nice, like they have been every other place we have gone. From what I read online, this may have been because we didn’t buy a tour.