Aqua Adventure

I would love to give Aqua Adventure a higher rating, but the details around our dive leave me wishing they would provide more info up front. My husband and I scheduled a dive at the Guanica Wall and drove to the Copamarina Beach Resort. The resort was fine, the facility was nice enough, and our dive guide was knowledgable. The problem came with the boat ride to the dive site. I have never had a worse trip than that one, and I’ve been on plenty of dive boats! After years of going out in the Caribbean this was the first time I have ever gotten sick. The captain told us that the rough water was normal! I couldn’t get into the water fast enough, and I dreaded getting back on the boat. I was too sick to do our second dive.
The wall was a beautiful and good deep dive, our guide tried to be helpful, but I felt like someone should have told us in advance that the trip would be like that. I would have scheduled a different dive or taken meclezine or something!

Terrance was a great and helpful guide, getting us our third and fourth Open Water PADI dives! We dove off the shore at Caribe Hilton, and saw a decent amount of wildlife and got to swim through a bit of underwater architecture. Terrance brought a bottle of fish food down with us, which was fun to give to the tropical fish, causing them to circle around us in a very entertaining manner.

Can’t say enough about this dive hut. I was walking by and spontaneously decided to take a lesson. Luis and the others were so welcoming and helpful. I ended up with a private lesson that was over 90 minutes and 20′ under water. Luis made sure I was comfortable with all the basics and was so great when we were underwater to reassure me without words and help me fix water in my mask instead of letting me give up, which was my first instinct. Thanks to such a great introduction to scuba diving, I’ve now signed up to get certified back home in Miami!

I wanna give these guys props for working on New Year’s Eve with a super positive and relaxed attitude. You can tell they enjoy what they do. The ONLY thing that really bothered me was the heavy smell of gas fumes coming off the boat’s motor. If they fix that, this would easily be the most enjoyable tour ever. It was not bad enough for me to bring down the review rating to 4 stars though. The boat ride was a little long, but with the right crowd it can be enjoyable. Their tour was informative on all aspects, from safety briefing to ecosystem explanation. The tour guides are pretty chill. The hiking was the best part. We also got to chill on the caja de muerto beach and that was fun. I would definitely recommend the caja de muerto tour. Totally worth the ~$ 100 cost.

This review is for the snorkeling trip to caja del muerto.
We were looking for something to do on Christmas Day since most of San Juan closes down. We found aqua adventures online, and booked the tour for 145/​person for transportation from San Juan to the dock, the trip to the island, lunch and snorkeling gear. We did a number of similar trips in st thomas and always had a great time.
We were picked up on time in a white van. But unfortunately the trip got off to a sour note right away — the last family of four to arrive had to squash into the back seat of the van, which although has four seats, is not really meant for four grown adults. They elected to skip the trip altogether rather than sit their for the hour+ ride each way.
The rest of the day was very nice and we enjoyed ourselves, however for the price we were paying I really would have expected much better service! The boat was cramped and uncomfortable (and not even filled to max capacity!) and the lunch was horrendous. Cheapest bread, cheese and deli meat for a tasteless sandwich, some chips and fruit. Also one of the guides was really immature and didn’t even know any information about the fish and island — and then spent half the trip talking on his phone. They also left the snorkelers without any guide during the optional joke, which doesn’t seems safe to me.
Overall we enjoyed ourselves, however for the cost it just wasn’t worth it. If they could improve on a few things they would have a great trip.

This was a great experience, both the sea trek and the customer experience. Both the guys there helped us a lot in choosing what type of activity me and wife should do (since we both didn’t know swimming). We ended up choosing sea trek. It cost is 79 $pp and 25 $ for around 15−20pictures. Guys there are fantastic and will take care of you. Will go back again if I am back in San Juan and maybe try snorkeling: D

Surprised there are not more Unilocal reviews here, but check out Trip Advisor for lots of excellent reviews of Aqua Adventures. We took a scuba diving trip with Cade from their booth in the Caribe Hilton and it was one of my best dives EVER! Really top equipment, everything ready to go when we arrived for our appointment, and a dive tailored to suit your level. Loved feeding the fish ourselves. Cade was a true dive professional and we wished we had more time to go again with him. Aqua Adventures offerers tours and equipment rentals right from the beach at the Caribe for non swimmers to divers and I would highly recommend them. Thanks Cade!

Is there 6 stars on Unilocal?
I love everything about Aqua Adventure! They have a booth at the Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan, that were easily accessible from San Juan Marriott.
So, two weeks before we arrived, I did some research online and decided we would try Snuba here. I have never snorkel or scuba dive and figured why not try Snuba, right in between snorkel and scuba.
I read a lot of review on Tripadvisor/​Yelp, and decided to reach out to them. From the start, everything was handled with the utmost courtesy. I first emailed their online contact, Alejandro emailed me back within hours to explain what they offer, time slots, what to expect. And I replied to ask about the difference between beach and boat snuba, Alejandro replied with his answers and suggested that if we are beginner swimmers, try beach Snuba, if we have done snorkeling in the past, try boat snuba. Great tip!
Then, I tried making reservations online, but was told that I need to provide credit card info, so I emailed them back to see if I should call or if they have a secure website. Veronica (who is also our dive master) called me within hours to discuss and were able to confirm us for our trip.
Our tour is scheduled for 11:30am on Saturday. We were 30minutes early. We were greeted by Veronica when we arrived. She happily told us we can get started if we are ready as we were the only two (which is great!!)
We got ready, signed a form, pay and off we go to safety instructions and getting our gear ready. Veronica is amazingly patience, professional, funny and very good at what she does!
She gave us safety briefing, explained to us what to do, how to handle the gears, how to deal with breathing etc etc and thought us a few underwater sign language.
When we are ready, she brought us to the water and off we go. So… here is where I am not doing as great of a job as I should be. I am not a great swimmer and were not doing a good job breathing thru my mouth, so I get panic easily and keep going up. Veronica was very encouraging and told me to take my time to slowly get used to it and suggested I stay floating for a bit, and I get more and more comfortable, she would put my weights back to get me down further and further down.
It took me a while to get comfortable, but she was encouraging. My bf, who did super well, went straight deep down and was having the time of his life! Veronica would check on me and him and would bring us around to look for fish, corals, sea urchin, star fish… amazing!
Overall, it was super great experience, she would snap pictures and ohh funny thing, she suggested we snuba kissed and took a picture! funny lady!
If you go to PR, you should totally check them out. For $ 79/​pp and $ 25 for tons of really good pictures, this is something you’ll cherish forever, as I know I would!!! Kudos to Aqua Adventure for so being so professional and so friendly and make us very comfortable.
Also, their booth is at Caribe Hilton, you can use the bathroom and locker room, bring a lock.

I used Aqua Adventure to get my PADI open water diver certification. Jorge was an excellent instructor, and I ended up doing all the dive work in 2 days. The dives were held at the pool (for instruction) and ocean (for the actual dives) at the Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan.
Aqua Adventure also does scuba diving without certification, snuba and snorkel rental.