Stumbled upon this place while searching for things to do while in Akumal. Not really close to Akumal but in my opinion worth the drive!! Depending on when your flight gets in you can hit it on your way out of Cancun. You can't miss the big sign on the side of the road-(the main highway 307) up and down the riveria.

The time we spent there falls into the one of my "best day ever!" catagories!

Saysa (?) was our guide and spoke very good english and was absolutely wonderful. Very friendly and attentive. We took the tour with a family with two children. So four adults and two kids total. He had lots of patience with the kids (they were very well behaved) and talked to them as well as the whole group. We saw plenty of crocodiles and snakes (eeewww) and some other interesting reptiles. But the highlight of the tour were the monkeys, the deer being a close second. We were able to feed the deer and were lucky enough to see 2 day old twin fawns! Amazing. Then it was off to the monkeys. Oh my gosh, it was one of the coolest things I have ever done. We got to feed them and feeling the monkey's fingers grazing mine was breath taking. Truly! I will never forget it as long as I live. There were two baby monkeys that we were able to see pretty closely as well.

The tour guides are volunteers so plan on tipping well $20-$30 as you are helping to fund their schooling.

Make sure you buy a bag of food or two or three!:) It is great fun to feed the animals.

We will definately do this again next time we go down it really was great fun-even for adults!

My husband and I loved it!! It was great. A great way to spend the morning. If you want to see animals upclose and personal, then this is perfect. I agree with all the other great reviews.

This is a must see in the mayan Riviera. We have kids aged 10 and 7 (boys) and a 2 year old daughter. You actually get to hold rather large crocodiles and all the kids loved it. Walking through the Croc pen was also amazing. Feeding the animals was neat and the guide was very informed.

Anyone who misses this attraction that is not offered by the tour companies is missing something special.

We went to Xcaret and did the dolphin swim and while that was awesome, Crocun was even better!

First, like a couple of others, I was spectical about visiting a "Zoo", thinking that we would see a few poorly treated, caged animals as part of a tourist trap.

I was very pleasantly surpised that this was not the case at all.

I would classify Crococun more as a Rehabilitation Center than a Zoo. Many of the animals have been rescued from homes where they were mistreated. The crocs are bred to be re-released into the wild to replenish the population that suffered(s) from poaching.

The guides here are all veterinarians in training. Our guide was very knowledeable, funny, sincere, and patient. He did not rush us through the tour, but really took the time to thoroughly answer all of our questions at each stop, and gave us lots of great photo opportunities. In fact, he placed our kids in certain areas and took the photos with our cameras himself to make the best shot possible. For example, he placed the kids behind a crocodile, then had the croc open its mouth, and the photo shows a closeup of our kids right next to an enormous toothed croc!

We saw and handled/touched, crocs, a boa, monkey, deer, and iguanas. The landescaping is very nice--it is like one large, lush, tropical garden.

The animals are rotated so that it is not the same animal being presented all the time to tourists. They have a few days away from the tourists.

This place was not at all crowded--6 others in our group, and one other tour going on at the same time with 8 people that we saw occasionally.

You can buy for a couple of $ a bag of fruit and nuts that you can feed the animals with to get better photo opportunities.

Small gift shop and restaurant. Friendly, low-key, polite staff.

I can't imagine that anybody who goes here will be disappointed.