Dreamgate cenote diving day: 2 cavern dives in the Sac Actun-Nohoch-Dos Ojos system
Dreamgate cenote diving is two cavern dives in a cenote of the Sac Actun-Nohoch-Dos Ojos system, with a cave guide or instructor. The price includes hotel pickup from Playa del Carmen, the entrance fee, tanks with air and weights. You can add a third dive in El Pit or Nohoch Nah Chich to the day.
Dreamgate cenote diving: the cenote of the day
- Dreamgate lies in the jungle off the Cancun-Tulum road past Dos Ojos. It is in the Nohoch section of the Sac Actun-Nohoch-Dos Ojos system, the second longest underwater cave system in the world. Description, cavern line map and dive videos: /2024/06/24/cenote-dreamgate/
- Third dive options: El Pit (/2023/04/08/el-pit-cenote/) or Nohoch Nah Chich (/2024/06/22/cenote-nohoch-nah-chich/).
How the day goes
- Pickup at your hotel in Playa del Carmen at 7:30 to 8:00. Then paperwork, tanks and the drive to Dreamgate. Gear assembly, safety briefing, the first dive. Fruit and drinks, then the second dive. With a third dive: the drive to El Pit or Nohoch Nah Chich, gear reassembly and the dive. After that you pack up, we return the tanks, and you are back at your hotel.
- Prices are for a group of two to four divers staying at the same place. A solo diver books individually at the group price plus $50. Snorkelers only accompanying divers, subject to availability. Book at least 24 hours in advance.
What is included / not included
- Included: hotel pickup and drop-off from Playa del Carmen, cenote entrance fee, cave guide or instructor, AL80 tanks with air, weights and belt, bottled water and fruit.
- Not included: Nitrox 32% fills ($9 per tank), photo and video service, diving insurance, camera fee where the cenote charges it, equipment rental (recreational scuba set $25, torchlight $5, dive computer $10 per day), tips.
Price
- 2 dives in Dreamgate: $139 per diver, snorkeler $69.
- 3 dives, Dreamgate with El Pit or Nohoch Nah Chich: $209 per diver, snorkeler $99.
Certification
- Open Water Diver or equivalent for Dreamgate and Nohoch Nah Chich. Advanced Open Water Diver or equivalent when the third dive is in El Pit. Cenote ratings by CREER, the regional cave diving committee of Quintana Roo (Comité Regional de Espeleobuceo, Ecología y Regulación): https://creer-mx.com/cenote-ratings-and-status
What to bring
- A swimsuit, slippers, a towel and a set of dry clothes: we do not allow wet clothes inside our cars.
- Your own scuba equipment, or rent it from us (recreational scuba set $25, torchlight $5, dive computer $10 per day).
Rules of the day
- Buoyancy: the overhead environment requires good buoyancy control. The guide checks every diver’s buoyancy before entering the cavern zone; a diver whose buoyancy does not meet the safety requirements for overhead diving does not continue the dive.
- Medical: every participant completes and signs the standard Diver Medical Participant Questionnaire before the activity. A YES answer to any question in its final section requires written approval from a physician before diving. Without it the guest does not dive.
- Liability: every participant signs the standard diving General Liability Release and Express Assumption of Risk before the activity. Without the signed form the guest does not dive.