Best snorkeling.. Chank or Money Bar?

[unsinkablemolly]

We are really just interested in snorkeling not beaches or water sports. Which are has the most sea life and calm water?

[JohninDC]

Probably Chank by a small margin, but the admission fee of $20 per adult would push me to choose MB unless there were other things at Chank that I was interested in.

 

Your call! :)

[Cafabi]

MB and Chankanaab are fairly close together, so we chose MB because snorkeling was our only interest. The current can be strong, so I suggest walking north along the shore before getting in. Then, you won't have to exert so much energy when you're done to get back to MB.

 

We had lunch there after and it was good. They have a place to rinse off and change.

[ABQrobin]

Here's the deal with snorkeling in Cozumel. I am a scuba diver and have been going to Cozumel almost every year for 18+ years for a week land based vacation. I can tell you that most of the coral reefs in Cozumel are fabulous, but too deep to snorkel. There are only a couple close to shore. Your best bet to see lots of fishlife is to take a boat out on a snorkel tour. ALL the snorkel tours will visit those same shallow reefs, Dzul Ha (right in front of Money Bar), Paradise reef (just south of the cruise ship piers) and a place waaaaaaay down south Columbia Shallows.

 

If you really want to see fish and coral, take a boat trip.

If you don't, then Chankanaab park and Money Bar have okay shore snorkeling.

 

robin