Chichen Itza Clasic with Sacred Cenote from Playa del Carmen and Mayan Riviera

Francisco is a great guide. He provided in depth description of the history of Mayan and Chicken Itza. Unfortunately, too much time spent at the buffet lunch, and the shopping places at the lunch place. Probably this is how the company makes more money. Be prepared for those time spent.

It was a well worth it experience than I did with my spouse Jesus is our travel guide and Driver were awesome an excellent very trustworthy just like anybody else they are trying to feed their family and they try to make the best of your trip come true I honestly recommend hooked in these people because it is hard to survive all of their salary be generous Thanks and may you have a great day

Picked up at the hotel in Playacar at 7:00, back at the hotel at 21:30. We were picked up more or less on time, several pick ups later, you're brought to a shop in Playa Del Carmen to pay taxes, get your wrist band, use the toilet and be left until your tour is ready. They try and sell you items from the shop while you wait. It was organised chaos. We waited an hour to leave the shop on our coach. On the coach itself we had little to no information about what was going on and what was happening. We waited in Tulum for 30 minutes to pick up more tourists... by this point its about 10:30 before even setting off!! The guides didn't switch the air conditioning on while we were on the coach, only when we were off the coach so at least the driver kept cool. First stop "Mayan Village". This is the biggest rip off. It's not a real mayan village, it's one big sales pitch and a MASSIVE WASTE OF TIME!! The buffet was bland and for two cokes... £5! They try and sell you items for 3 hours claiming they are authentic and handmade. They also prepare a later sales pitch here for on the coach, where they try and sell you overpriced cheap alcohol. Next stop, Chichen Itza. I liked Chichen Itza but didn't enjoy the tour. It was very rushed but the tour guide was very informative in that short time. Only 1.5hrs there, NOT GOOD ENOUGH!! The cenote next. It was too busy, so busy you couldn't move in some parts. The stairs down are full of posers getting in the way and the stairs are slippery and dangerous. We had 30 minutes here. 30 minutes to get changed into swimwear, get lockers, push past everyone to get in the cenote, to then realise you have to get out, dry off and change into clothes again. What was the point? Valladolid, pointless. 30 minutes to get food, queues everywhere, the queue for food was 20 minutes, and that ws only for a sweet snack. You can't do anything here and its dark by then. They need to organise the morning better, actually they need to organise the whole trip better and get rid of the fake mayan village. This would save so much time. Overall, I wouldn't recommend this tour, I mean sales pitch.

I enjoyed the places we visited, they were all unique and memorable. Our guides and driver were amazing, guide (sorry forgot his name)answered all our questions at Chichén Itzá and was very nice. He spoke both English and Spanish on bus but, at Chichén we broke up into smaller groups and only spoke English. Our guide was funny and make the very long day entertaining. I do wish we spent less time at the beginning of the trip waiting around at meeting point, we would have got to Valladolid earlier. The church at Valladolid was so beautiful and a stop at choco-story was a delicious end to our day. The best chocolate ever. Over all it was worth the 14+ hour journey.