How Much Is a Bio Bay Tour in Puerto Rico?

Bio bay tour prices, bay by bay

The bay you pick and how you get there set the price of your bio bay tour. Fajardo is $85 if you drive or $145 with hotel pickup, Vieques is $85 once you are on the island, and La Parguera is $169 or $199 with transportation included. Every row below has its own booking button.

For context, bio bay tours across the three bays run about $45 to $90 per person for the tour alone, before you add getting there, according to ThingsToDoPR's comparison of bio bay tours. Prices that include your ride, like Fajardo with pickup or the La Parguera tour, cover more of the night.

• Free cancellation up to 24 hours before on all three tours, so you can reserve today and plan the rest later.

What each bio bay tour price includes

Fajardo: $85, or $145 with hotel pickup

• Two-person kayak, paddle and life jacket
• Kayak 101 lesson and safety briefing on shore
• A guide on the water with you the entire time
• Snacks and cold refreshments back on shore
• The $145 option adds round-trip hotel pickup in an air-conditioned vehicle, on either evening tour

Vieques: $85

• Two-person clear-bottom kayak
• A local guide who leads the paddle and explains the glow
• The van from Esperanza to the bay and back
• About 45 minutes to an hour on Mosquito Bay
• You plan the ferry or flight and your night on the island

La Parguera: $169, or $199 with a lunch stop and Ponce

• Courtesy transportation from San Juan, with pickup at 2:30 PM on the $169 option
• A 5-minute boat ride to Caracoles island for sunset
• Snacks and refreshments for kids, rum drinks and beer for adults
• Time to relax on the boat while the sun goes down
• An 8-minute boat ride to the glowing lagoon
• The $199 option adds a stop at Ponce's historic town square and a lunch stop on the Ruta del Lechón, where you buy your own meal, on a day that runs about 11:30 AM to 11:00 PM

The whole bio bay night, added up

The full cost of a bio bay night is the tour plus getting there. Fajardo is the simplest: $145 covers the tour and the ride from San Juan-area hotels, or pay $85 and drive 50 to 90 minutes from San Juan. Vieques adds a $2 ferry each way per adult and a night on the island. La Parguera's $169 and $199 include transportation.

• Fajardo, driving yourself: $85 per person, $170 for two. Allow 50 to 90 minutes from San Juan, depending on evening traffic. See the bio bay from San Juan for routes.
• Fajardo with hotel pickup: $145 per person, $290 for two, round trip from hotels in San Juan, Rio Grande, Luquillo and Fajardo.
• Vieques: $85 per person. The Ceiba to Vieques ferry is $2 each way for adults 13 to 59, $1 for ages 4 to 12 and 60 to 74, and free under 4 and from 75 (official rates at the time of writing; check the operator before you travel). For two adults that is $170 for the tour plus $8 in ferry fares, then your ride to the Ceiba terminal, a taxi or rental on the island, and at least one night on Vieques. Our Vieques travel guide covers the ferry and flights.
• La Parguera: $169 per person, $338 for two, or $199 per person, $398 for two, with Ponce and the lunch stop. Courtesy transportation from San Juan is included in both; lunch on the $199 day is not, since you choose and pay for your own meal.

Bio bay tickets: how booking works

You do not buy bio bay tickets at the water's edge. The bays are visited on guided tours, and with us your booking is your ticket. Pick the bay that fits where you are staying, pick a dark night on the moon calendar, then contact us to book on WhatsApp. For Fajardo, we text you the exact time on the day of your tour.

1. Choose your bay

   Fajardo for San Juan and the east coast, Vieques if you are staying on the island, La Parguera for a sunset boat evening on the southwest coast. Not sure? See where the bio bays are.

2. Choose your night

   The moon calendar rates every night by moonlight and marks the select nights La Parguera runs.

3. Contact us to book

   Message us on WhatsApp with your bay, night and group size. Our reply confirms your spot, and that confirmation is your ticket.

Do you need to book a bio bay tour ahead?

Yes, make reservations ahead. Tours run at set times, and the darkest nights around the new moon are the favorites. La Parguera runs only on select nights each month, so lock in its date first. For Vieques, book the tour together with your ferry or flight and your room.

Fajardo runs every night, all year, with two evening tours. We recommend the early tour: you paddle the mangrove channel with some natural light left, and every tour reaches the bay in darkness.

Do you need a tour to see the bio bay?

A guided tour is the way to see Puerto Rico's bio bays. Laguna Grande and Mosquito Bay sit inside protected nature reserves and are visited at night with permitted guides, and La Parguera's bay lies within a nature reserve run by the island's natural resources department. Your tour brings the kayak or boat, the route in the dark and a guide who knows the water.

• Laguna Grande, Fajardo: inside the Las Cabezas de San Juan Nature Reserve. You reach it by kayak through a mangrove channel, and a lesson on shore plus a guide beside you make that easy for beginners.
• Mosquito Bay, Vieques: protected as a natural reserve and a National Natural Landmark since 1980. Gas and diesel boat motors have been kept off the bay since at least 2007 (Primera Hora).
• La Parguera, Lajas: part of the La Parguera Nature Reserve, set up in 1979. Our tour takes you out by boat at sunset, then into the glowing lagoon.

Prefer not to paddle? The La Parguera boat suits you. Want the closest bay to San Juan? Fajardo. Staying on Vieques? The clear-kayak tour. Our guide to kayak or boat compares the ways to see the glow, and which bio bay is best helps you choose.