Chichen Itza, Cenote, and Valladolid in One Day from Cancun

Even though it rained, it was an awesome experience! The tour guides were excellent and very knowledgeable. The only thing I didn’t like about the tour was that the main tour guy kept talking about tips. I know what I need to do and I don’t like to be reminded. Valladolid was only 15 minutes. I wanted to see more of Valladolid. It was a very rushed visit. Main tour guide pushes the gift shop near Chi Chen Itza and it is expensive. The Selva Maya Cenote is breathtaking! Julio kept the refreshments coming! He was awesome on the trip.

A few highlights and tips and issues. The stop at Valladolid is 15 minutes. That is enough time to walk in the church and come back out. So walk fast! The bus ride was freezing cold. My husband and I and the two guys sitting by us were freezing.The cenote was awesome and beautiful. You must pay 1.00 to get life jackets which are mandatory. The changing facilities and bathrooms were very clean. Watch out because they are going to try to sell you everything on this tour. The lunch was really good but I was charged for my drinks. Dont know why! Be careful about buying too much at the lunch site. We spent all our money there and didn't have any money left to buy things at Chichen itza. We were told we would be at Chichen itza for 1 hour and 45 minutes. The first part was a guided educational part and the second part was supposed to be where we could walk around independently. I dont know if we got there late but 15 minutes into us being able to walk around independently they were Closing the park!! All in all very educational, very cool, but bring some money!

This is a third party retailer and GO MEXICO is the one who actually operates the tour. We only had two hours at the site, one hour with a guide and one on our own, which is really not enough time. On the way we stopped at an area that had one big shop that offered all kinds of items to buy and was also our bathroom stop. All prices are fixed so no haggling. My advice, wait until you get to Chichen Itza as you will find all the same things there with so many individual vendors on site that will negotiate...MUCH CHEAPER! One of my biggest issues was that even though I booked the English tour, our tour bus was bilingual. The tour guide would go back an forth from Spanish to English and I felt I lost so much information about the history of Chichen Itza. The site was so amazing and I was so disappointed at the lack of information we received, but at least when we arrived we were broken up into an English group and a Spanish group.

I'll make it short and simple.
The experience was nice, this was our first time seeing a pyramid in person.
However, the whole ride there was horrible! way too long and so many stops.
The buffet lunch was disgusting, thank god we ended up eating at the restaurant outside the pyramids delicious food and inexpensive
This is a 15-16 hours excursion!! so BEWARE
I would suggest next time rent your own car and drive there this was you are not stuck in the middle of nowhere.

The best tour we had on our Cancun trip. The guide was informative and quite funny. The tour bus was modern and comfortable. Chichen Itza was wonderful and the Cenote was beautiful! Last but not least, Open bar means limitless ! so don't hesitate on paying a few extra bucks! :

This was a great tour. Hector was a great tour guide for Chichen Itza. He was so informative and answered all of my questions. The tour bus was modern with comfortable seating. The hosts and drivers were excellent and made the trip very relaxing for the long drive to a from Cancun. We had no problems whatsoever and I would most definitely recommend Transalamex. The tour is all day event lasting 12 to 14 hours but it is well worth it.

The guide was excellent. Very personable and funny. VERY, VERY knowledgeable. I had a great time.

The agency arrived on time to the hotel, we met them and told them to wait for us since we had finished breakfast and had to go across the hotel t get our items. The hotel is pretty big so going all the way to the room and back took about 15 minutes. However they left without us and left a note of NO SHOW, which is completely unacceptable. We then had to get a taxi to the plaza and there waited about 20 minutes to leave, No reason for them to left us. Besides that the tour guide was amazing! I will recommend them but make sure they dont leave you a no show note after they have spoken with you...

Hello,

My wife and I had an amazing tour. Despite our bus being tired from waking up early in the morning, our tour guide was very energetic and did a great job using humour to keep the group awake and positive. Our guide was very knowledgeable and ensured that our tour was not boring. The sites were very interesting to see and I would recommend that anyone who visits Mexico to see Chichen Itza and nearby tourist sites.

For credit purposes, I would like to mention Translamex in this review.

Thank you so much.

The guides were excellent and did a great job at explaining the Mayan history and culture. It is a long day so bring snacks and water. There is a buffet included which was very good but drinks are not included.