Wonderful Pacific Islands Snorkeling Trips

Guided Snorkel Travel to the Best Places in the Pacific

Are you looking for Pacific Islands snorkeling trips? You have come to the right place! While there are numerous islands to visit in the Pacific, not all of them offer great snorkeling. But, the trips on this page will take you to places with beautiful coral gardens teeming with fish, and places where you can snorkel with manta rays, sharks, and even whales.

A massive school of goatfish over colorful hard coral French Polynesia reef you could see on one of these Pacific Islands snorkeling trips.

Come home with beautiful memories and lifelong new friends. These group snorkel vacations are arranged and led by a tour company owned by friends of ours (we are just promoting them, not running them). We join some of these trips ourselves. We wish we could go on all of them!

  • Professionally Guided – Effortless Planning and Travel
  • World’s Best Snorkeling Destinations – See the Last Remaining Reefs Full of Life
  • Snorkelers Only – 100% Focused on Snorkeling Spots (Not Diving), and Friendly Camaraderie

Pacific Islands Snorkeling Trips

World map with Pacific islands highlighted

Islands are spread out over thousands of miles of the Pacific Ocean. They belong to geographic areas known as Micronesia, Melanesia, and Polynesia. Some of those islands are excellent snorkeling destinations. Our trips partner has created these Pacific Islands snorkeling trips to get folks like you to the best snorkeling places in the area. Trips can be based at resorts, or on liveaboard yachts, and sometimes a combination of both. We have more information down the page about the benefits of group snorkeling trips from resorts and liveaboards. Below are the current Pacific Islands snorkeling trips on offer.

Palau Resort and Liveaboard

Palau soft coral reef with snorkeler

Join this Palau snorkeling adventure that combines a stunning resort stay, along with a seven night liveaboard cruise of the islands. Remote Palau is extremely abundant with sea life underwater, with over 500 corals, and 1500 species of fish, all surrounded by beautiful islands and culture. This trip will be a wonderful way to explore everything Palau has to offer, underwater and above. Learn all about this trip here.


French Polynesia

Black tip sharks and Rainbow Runner fish near the surface of water in French Polynesia

This exclusive trip for six snorkelers allows you to explore the famous passes in the Tuamotu Island chain of French Polynesia. These passes have schools of large pelagics like sharks, rays, dolphins, and others, that frequent these areas for feeding. This trip begins with a night in Tahiti. You then make your way to Fakarava where you board the Aqua Tiki II catamaran for your 10 or 11 day snorkeling trip. In addition to the passes, you will have time to explore the best hard coral reefs in the area. Find out all the details about this wonderful trip here.


Other Snorkeling Trips

If you are interested in snorkeling vacations to other parts of the world, like the Coral Triangle, Indonesia, the Caribbean, Mexico, or the Red Sea in Egypt, check out our main snorkeling trips page. If you want to know when new snorkeling trips are released, sign up for our newsletter.

What Are These Pacific Islands Snorkeling Trips Like?

We are always looking to bring you exciting trips to some of the best places on earth, like the Pacific Islands snorkeling trips above. Many of our readers have experienced the best snorkeling holidays of their lives on these trips. If you have never gone on one of these trips you can get a general idea of some of the types of adventures we like to share below.

Liveaboard Snorkeling Trips
There is a world of difference going on liveaboard trips designed for snorkelers, instead of a mixed boat with divers, because most of the time the boat is really focused on the divers, the reefs are too deep, and snorkelers are sometimes treated like second class citizens! On a snorkeler only boat, every spot you visit, from remote atolls to barrier reefs, has shallow snorkeling at perfect depths. And instead of being limited to only an hour on the water because of diving schedules, you normally spend and hour and a half to two hours at each spot.

Liveaboard boat and tender used for snorkeling trips

And being able to be immersed in snorkeling two or three times a day, in a different amazing spot each time, for a week or two, is really a great way to explore the ocean. You get to see so many different ecosystems and types of fish and coral reefs. It’s a very different experience than snorkeling tours that go out for a few hours in popular tourist areas. These are more like snorkeling expeditions.

These types of snorkel trips are full service, where your food is prepared for you, your rooms are taken care of, and all you have to do is get in the water, rinse and repeat.

Group of snorkelers on the surface of ocean
Palm tree, sandy beach, over water snorkeling resort

Resort Snorkeling Trips
There are also resorts with beautiful house reefs for snorkeling and small boats that can take you to wonderful nearby snorkeling reefs. You can choose whether you want to venture out or stay close each day. The best resorts are usually remote and include some meals with your stay. These spots make for great Pacific Islands snorkeling trips.

Snorkeling programs like these are hard to find though. But we have a fantastic partner we work with who creates these types of adventures.