Grace Bay gets the postcards. The best days are further out.
What a half-day off the beach costs, whether the clear kayaks are worth it, and what to do with a day on Grand Turk. Reviews of every tour you can book in Turks and Caicos.
Grace Bay by boat, the mangroves by clear kayak, Grand Turk by golf cart.
Four days out that most first visits end up including, and what each one costs.
01The first morning4hour Group Half Day Snorkeling Excursion in Grace BayFour hours on the reef straight off the beach. More travellers take this one than anything else on the island.
02The day under sail4-Hour Catamaran Sail and Snorkel Tour from Grace BayA catamaran out of Grace Bay, swim stop and drinks aboard. Put it mid-week and plan the rest around it.
03The clear-hull hourMangrove Clear Kayak TourTransparent kayaks through the mangrove channels behind the island. Rays and young sharks pass under the floor.
04The Grand Turk dayDrive GDT – Golf Cart RentalsA cart, a full tank and an island you can drive end to end before lunch.
Four hours offshore is the standard unit of a Turks and Caicos holiday.
Snorkel mornings on the reef, catamarans with a swim ladder and a bar, and the runs out to cays nobody lives on. What each kind of boat day costs before you get to the dock.
Providenciales has the beach. Grand Turk has the rest of the country.
Nearly everything bookable here leaves from Providenciales, and the cruise pier on Grand Turk runs a different island altogether. Start with the one your bed is on.
Boats, buggies and golf carts: what Turks and Caicos books first.
The full catalogue →What each one costs, how long it runs, and what people say when they get back in.
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4hour Group Half Day Snorkeling Excursion in Grace Bay
Review of a four-hour Grace Bay catamaran tour with reef snorkeling, Iguana Island, lunch, drinks, water slides, and rooftop sea views.
From · $125
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4-Hour Catamaran Sail and Snorkel Tour from Grace Bay
from $145
3
Love Buggy Island Tour with Lunch
from $229
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Morning Half Day Cruise from Providenciales with Snorkeling and Iguana Island
from $159
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2 Hour Champagne Sunset Cruise from Grace Bay, Providenciales (Adult Only)
from $121
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Mangrove Clear Kayak Tour
from $125
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Drive GDT – Golf Cart Rentals
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Exclusive Supreme Snorkeling Tour
from $149
The mangroves behind Providenciales, paddled through a glass floor.
The channels on the sheltered side of the island run waist-deep and flat, busy with rays, turtles and juvenile sharks. A transparent hull makes the floor of them the whole point. Most trips are two to three hours and go out on the tide.
- 1Mangrove Clear Kayak Tourfrom $125
- 2Kayak Eco Tourfrom $296
- 3Clear Bottom Kayaks Mangrove Tourfrom $125
Turks and Caicos is not a cheap island. Here is the spread.
Every tour on the site grouped by its per-person price. The bottom end is the tram, the tubing and the runs in from the airport; the top end is a boat with your name on it for the day.
The Grand Turk tram, parasailing off the beach, tubing, and the shared runs from the airport.
Where most of the island sits: half-day snorkel boats, clear kayaks, catamaran mornings, buggy tours.
Private charters, full days with lunch cooked aboard, and the boats you take for the whole party.
- 1Love Buggy Island Tour with Lunchfrom $229
- 2Kayak Eco Tourfrom $296
- 3Snorkel Eco Tourfrom $366
A wreck in shallow water, an island of golf carts, and iguanas that live nowhere else.
Turquoise water you can find anywhere in this sea. The rest of this list is local.
The iguanas that live nowhere else
The Turks and Caicos rock iguana holds on across a handful of uninhabited cays and nowhere else on earth. Little Water Cay sits ten minutes off Provo by boat and has boardwalks laid through the scrub, so you can walk among them without standing on the burrows. Most half-day cruises stop here; the good ones give you long enough to actually look.
- 1Morning Half Day Cruise from Providenciales with Snorkeling and Iguana Island★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 1,222 reviews
- 2Mangrove & Iguana Clear Kayak Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 507 reviews
- 33HR Emerald reef snorkeling, iguana island and shipwreck tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 247 reviews
A freighter aground in shallow water
A cargo ship broke its tow in a hurricane and grounded on the banks off Provo, where it has sat upright ever since, hull clear of the water and reef growing over everything below it. Boats and jet skis run out to it through the day, and the snorkelling around the hull is shallow enough for anyone who can swim.
- 13HR Emerald reef snorkeling, iguana island and shipwreck tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 247 reviews
- 2Shipwreck Adventure in Providenciales★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 233 reviews
- 3Abandoned Shipwreck Jet Ski Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 190 reviews
An island that runs on golf carts
Grand Turk is around six miles long and has no use for anything faster. The carts go out by the dozen when a ship is in, and an afternoon of one covers the salt-era streets of Cockburn Town, the lighthouse at the north end and whichever beach is empty. Reserve before the ship docks; the fleet is finite.
- 1Drive GDT – Golf Cart Rentals★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 690 reviews
- 2BMC Rentals -Golf Carts & Jeep Wrangler in Grand Turks★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 · 345 reviews
- 3Golf Cart Adventure MaxKart Auto Rentals★★★★★★★★★★ 4.0 · 270 reviews
Turks and Caicos runs on one departure a day. Four to lock in early.
Most of this island can be sorted from a beach chair the afternoon before. These four run on tides, ship schedules and a single sailing, and they fill.
- 01Mangrove Clear Kayak TourThe mangrove channels are paddled on the tide, so the departure moves through the week and the workable slots go first.
- 022 Hour Champagne Sunset Cruise from Grace Bay, Providenciales (Adult Only)One sailing a day, and the boat leaves whether or not you made it back off the beach.
- 03Drive GDT – Golf Cart RentalsGrand Turk keeps a finite fleet and a cruise ship empties it inside an hour. Reserve before the ship docks.
- 04Morning Half Day Cruise from Providenciales with Snorkeling and Iguana IslandLittle Water Cay is a protected reserve reached only by boat, and the trips that call there run to a fixed timetable.
The wind gets up here from December, and the answer is the sheltered side.
The north-east trades blow hardest through the winter and put chop on the ocean-side reef. The channels behind the island stay flat, and Grand Turk holds a whole day of dry land in reserve: carts, buggies and an old town you can walk in an hour.
- 1Mangrove Clear Kayak Tourfrom $125
- 2Drive GDT – Golf Cart Rentals
- 34Seater UTV Golf Cart in Grand Turk
Provo, or the other island
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