How This Site Works
This site compares bookable tours out of Puerto Vallarta, from a 2.5-hour baby turtle release on the coast to a 7-hour Yelapa waterfall and beach day across Banderas Bay. The options sit scattered across many operators, with pickups from the hotel zone to Marina Vallarta and Nuevo Vallarta, which makes side-by-side comparison hard.
How Every Tour Card Is Built
Every tour card here links to one live booking page, and that page is the final word on prices and availability. A rating of 4.8 across 771 reviews for the Marietas Islands tour, or 3 hours on the Los Arcos cliff jumping trip, appears here exactly as the listing states it. No figure gets averaged across tours, rounded for neatness, or filled in when the operator publishes nothing. Where a tour keeps its price off the listing, the card says so instead of guessing.
Prices get the same treatment. Every figure on a card comes from the listing, including the basis. Most tours here are priced per person, so a card reads from $48 per person for a Los Arcos snorkel run or from $169 per person for an ATV day at the Jorullo bridge.
Grouping follows how a day actually unfolds, not a marketing label. Snorkel boats to Los Arcos and the Marietas Islands form one category, whale watching another, and sunset cruises, jungle ATV and zipline trips, food and tequila walks, and Yelapa beach days each stand apart. Seven categories, 27 tours, no tour counted twice.
Durations appear as the listing prints them. A 2.5-hour turtle release and a 7-hour Yelapa waterfall and beach day are described in their own terms, because a family weighing a short evening outing against a full day on the water needs the honest shape of each option, not a rounded slogan.
Where Every Number Comes From
Every price, duration, rating and review total shown on a card comes from that tour's live booking page. Printed brochures and third-party directories contribute nothing.
| What every tour needs to earn a card | Operator name, exactly as booked |
|---|---|
| Ratings and review counts | Star rating and review count |
| Prices | From-price and its per-group basis |
| Tour duration | Duration in the listing's own units |
| Pickup or departure point | Departure town, such as Marina Vallarta |
| Cancellation policy and refunds | Free cancellation, where it applies |
How The Figures Are Treated
How This Site Earns Money
This site earns money in one way: when someone books through a link on a page, the booking platform pays a small fee for the referral. The traveler pays the same price shown on the listing, with nothing added on top. That income keeps the catalog running. Rankings, ratings and write-ups follow the listings themselves, so an operator cannot pay for a higher spot or a friendlier description.
This site earns money through affiliate links on the tour listings. When a reader books through one of those links, the operator pays this site a fee for the referral, and the reader pays exactly the same price as booking directly. Nothing is added at checkout, and no tour company can buy a better position in the comparisons. Rankings follow published ratings, review counts, price and itinerary, not who pays what. The disclosure page lays out the arrangement, including which booking platforms take part.
Money never decides where a tour lands on these pages. A small local operator running a baby turtle release for $39 sits beside a large company's catamaran, both judged on the same listing data. If payment shaped the order, the comparisons here would mean nothing. It does not. Position comes from the numbers tours publish themselves, and nothing else enters into it.