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What the cenotes around Tulum actually look like: open sinkholes under the sky, cavern passages hung with stalactites, and the mangrove channel at Casa Cenote where fresh water meets the sea. Use it to work out which kind of water you want before you pick a tour.
On several tours you cannot take a camera or phone into the water at all. Where that applies, an on-site photographer sells images afterwards and travellers regularly find the packages expensive.
Where devices are allowed, a waterproof pouch is the single most recommended item travellers name — the cavern passages are exactly where you will want a photograph and exactly where a bare phone will not survive. At the Tulum archaeological site, GoPros, tablets and selfie sticks carry a fee payable at the box office, and professional equipment and drones are prohibited outright.
If photographs matter to you, choose the tour on that basis. See what to bring and the rules at each site.