In Turks and Caicos, the water does the work.
Which catamaran actually reaches the far cays. Whether the clear kayak earns its price. What a golf cart really costs on Grand Turk. Every tour in the islands, reviewed.
A Turks and Caicos day begins where the sand stops.
A catamaran to the outer cays, a glass-hulled kayak through the mangroves, a reef you can stand up beside, a cart with a full tank. Pick the shape of the day, then book the right one.
The Caicos boat day: how far out do you want to go?
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Half a day gets you the Grace Bay coral heads and a sandbar to stand on. A full day reaches the empty cays with lunch cooked on the beach. A private boat goes wherever the wind lets it.
Coral heads and back before lunch
Out past the Bight to the reef, two or three stops on the coral, gear on the boat and the beach chairs still where you left them.
Sandbar, snorkel stop, lunch on the sand
The long version: reef in the morning, an empty cay at midday, a grill going on the beach and the run home with the trade wind behind you.
Your own boat, your own route
A skipper, a cooler and no fixed itinerary. Six people split it and it costs less per head than the shared half day.
Providenciales is where this water got famous.
Twelve miles of Grace Bay, a barrier reef a few hundred metres off the sand, and a marina full of boats heading somewhere better. Almost every trip in the islands leaves from here.
The tours everyone in Turks and Caicos ends up on.
Every review →The trips more travellers take than anything else in the islands, and what each one actually delivers.
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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, slides, and beach pickup.
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
4
Morning Half Day Cruise from Providenciales with Snorkeling and Iguana Island
from $159
5
2 Hour Champagne Sunset Cruise from Grace Bay, Providenciales (Adult Only)
from $121
6
Mangrove Clear Kayak Tour
from $125
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Drive GDT – Golf Cart Rentals
from $110
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Exclusive Supreme Snorkeling Tour
from $149
The mangroves behind Provo are the quietest hour on the island.
Glass-hulled kayaks over eighteen inches of water, juvenile sharks and rays passing underneath, a drone overhead if you want the photographs. The channels behind Leeward stay flat on the days the north shore will not.
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What a day in Turks and Caicos costs.
Every tour on the site by price, from a cart for the afternoon to a boat with your name on it for the day.
Golf carts, the sightseeing tram, an hour on a jet ski and the shore-side snorkel runs.
The classic half day: reef trips, catamaran sails, the mangrove kayak run, iguanas and a sandbar.
Private boats, whole-day charters and the deep-water fishing trips — priced per group, not per head.
Grand Turk still looks like the Caribbean did in 1970.
Salt ponds, wild donkeys asleep in the road, a lighthouse at the north end and Cockburn Town’s Bermudian shopfronts fading gently. Take a cart, drive the whole island before lunch, and be over the wall by the afternoon.
- 1Drive GDT – Golf Cart Rentalsfrom $110
- 2Exclusive Supreme Snorkeling Tourfrom $149
- 3Grand Turk Historical Sightseeing Tour by Tramfrom $25
Three things you can only do in Turks and Caicos.
Beaches and reefs run the length of the Caribbean. Glass kayaks over the Leeward flats, the rock iguanas of Little Water Cay and a reef that stops dead in two thousand metres of blue belong to this bank alone.
The Clear Kayak
The transparent kayak became a Turks and Caicos product before it was anywhere else, because the water behind Leeward is shallow, glass-flat and lit from below by white sand. You paddle over rays, baby lemon sharks and turtle grass with nothing between you and them. Most operators now send a drone up as well, which is why half the photographs you have seen of this country were taken from one of these boats.
- 1Mangrove Clear Kayak Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 794 reviews
- 2Mangrove & Iguana Clear Kayak Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 507 reviews
- 3Clear Kayak Photoshoot in Turks and Caicos Islands Providenciales★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 221 reviews
Little Water Cay
Rock iguanas live on a handful of uninhabited cays off Providenciales and nowhere else on earth. Little Water Cay carries a few thousand of them, protected since 1999, with raised boardwalks so the burrows stay intact. Boats stop here on the way to the sandbar; the iguanas walk straight up to the planks and wait, entirely unbothered.
- 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
- 3Afternoon Half Day Cruise from Providenciales with Snorkeling and Iguana Island★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 431 reviews
The Wall
The barrier reef runs the length of the north shore, close enough to swim to from Grace Bay, and then it simply stops: the shelf ends and the seabed drops thousands of metres into open ocean. Snorkellers get the shallow half — elkhorn coral, parrotfish, the odd turtle — and the blue edge beyond it, which is the part nobody forgets.
- 14hour Group Half Day Snorkeling Excursion in Grace Bay★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 2,614 reviews
- 24-Hour Catamaran Sail and Snorkel Tour from Grace Bay★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,465 reviews
- 3Morning Half Day Cruise from Providenciales with Snorkeling and Iguana Island★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 1,222 reviews
When the wind turns, Turks and Caicos moves leeward.
The Christmas winds blow hard from December to February and the north shore goes short and choppy for days at a time. The answer is always the sheltered side: the mangrove channels behind Leeward Going Through, the flat green water of Chalk Sound, the cuts where the kayaks and the paddleboards still go out while the reef boats sit it out.
Turks and Caicos keeps its best hour for the end of the day.
All evening trips →2 Hour Champagne Sunset Cruise from Grace Bay, Providenciales (Adult Only)
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Lady Grace Signature Catamaran Sunset Sail from Ritz-Carlton
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3 hour Glow Worm Sunset Cruise from Providenciales
Read our review →Book these before you fly to Providenciales.
Most of the islands can be arranged from your hotel the night before. These cannot. Small fleets, single boats and a few slots a day decide them, and the good ones go weeks out.
- 01Drive GDT – Golf Cart RentalsBoth islands run on carts and the rental fleets are small. Cruise days clear them out entirely.
- 02Clear Kayak Photoshoot in Turks and Caicos Islands ProvidencialesSessions are timed to the light and the tide, so there are only a few each day.
- 034-Hour Catamaran Sail and Snorkel Tour from Grace BayA handful of catamarans work Grace Bay and high season fills them long before you land.
- 048HR Catch and Grill in Turks and Caicos IslandsOne boat, one trip a day, and the crew cooks what you land. There is no second sitting.
Provo, Grand Turk and the cays between
Providenciales227 tours- Grace Bay26 tours
Grand Turk37 tours
Jet Skis in Providenciales19 tours- Golf Carts in Grand Turk14 tours
Kayaking in Grand Turk8 tours- Clear Kayaks in Grand Turk8 tours
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