2026 Coquí Awards nominee badge

The 2026 Coquí Awards

Every year we look at the Puerto Rico operators listed on this site and recognise the ones doing the most for the people who book them. These are the 30 nominees for 2026.

How nominees were chosen

Nominations are drawn from our own catalogue, not from a public vote or a paid entry. Operators are shortlisted on review standing, review volume and how well they fit a category we want to cover properly. It is an editorial choice made by this site — there is no panel and no public vote, and we would rather say so than dress it up. It is recognition from this site, not from an industry body.

Nominees and winners are decided differently. The list below is editorial. Winners are scored on the published rubric underneath it.

How winners are scored

Every operator we list runs on FareHarbor, which means we can check something most review sites cannot: whether a tour is actually bookable right now, at the price shown. That check is the backbone of this rubric.

What has to be true before an operator is scored at all

The score

70% standing, 30% booking integrity.

Why star ratings are not part of the ranking

Across the 99 operators in our network that publish a rating, the ratings run from 4.3 to 5.0, with a median of 4.9. There is no real spread to rank on, and the underlying numbers move: two readings of the same Tripadvisor listing on the same day returned 4.4 and 4.6. Ranking operators on a tenth of a star would be inventing precision that is not there. A rating has to clear our floor, and after that it does not move anyone up or down.

Why we check a near window, not a far one

We check availability over the next eleven weeks rather than the next year. An earlier version of this rubric looked six months out and mistook unopened calendars for cancelled tours — plenty of operators simply do not open bookings that far ahead. Penalising an operator for a calendar setting would be measuring us, not them.

What we do not score

Catalogue size does not earn points. A single-boat operator running one trip well is not worse than one listing eighty products, and scoring breadth would just reward size. We report how many tours an operator lists; we do not rank on it.

Any operator we list can ask for their own score and the figures behind it, and we will send both.

The 2026 nominees

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2026 Coquí Awards nominee badge

Nominees are welcome to use the badge on their own site. Paste this wherever you want it to appear:

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What happens next

  1. Nominees are invited to send a short note about what makes their operation different, plus photos and the names they want printed.
  2. Those notes are published on each operator's spotlight page, in their own words.
  3. One winner per category is named at the end of the 2026 season, scored on the rubric above.

Nominated and want to add yours, or think we have your tour count wrong? Email info@wanderpuertorico.com.