Great Blue Hole Tours and Tickets

There are plenty of ways to experience the Great Blue Hole. Looking at ratings and reviews previously given by customers, these are the best tours available right now:

• Belize: See & Experience it ALL in 10 Days, 1st Class Custom Tours

• Great Blue Hole Belize and Lighthouse Reef Atoll Dive Adventure

Yes, you can visit the Great Blue Hole year-round, although seasonal weather can make visiting less pleasant or comfortable. Hurricane season in Belize (June–November), can impact flight schedules and result in rough seas, which can make reaching the Great Blue Hole impossible, or at least, more challenging and bumpy.

It depends. Flying is the only way to see the scale of the Great Blue Hole relative to the rest of the reef. However, diving allows you to travel inside the hole to admire its deep blue water and the stalactites and stalagmites on the sheer cliffs that surround it.

It depends. Flight tours over the Great Blue Hole are available from Ambergris Caye, Caye Caulker, and Belize City, flying a loop back to their airport of departure. Diving tours that reach the hole by boat typically leave from Ambergris Caye or Placencia, although Ambergris Caye is a little closer.

Expect a diving tour of the Great Blue Hole to last all day, since the boat ride takes 3–4 hours 1-way, and you also need to allow time for diving. Overnight liveaboard diving tours are possible. On the other hand, scenic flight tours over the hole take around one hour.

Diving the Great Blue Hole is not for beginners and requires at least a PADI Advanced Open Water certification. Alternatively, you can complete a PADI Deep Diver course, a specialty course designed for diving environments like this. Beginner divers can find plenty of other opportunities on Belize’s reefs.