Yucatan (Mexico) > Reviews

Advantages: Great day out
Disadvantages: Crowds

The only thing better than an early morning start to a tour is when your allocated time passes and you're still waiting and waiting at the pick-up point. Luckily for me, one of the guys who works at the tour place turned up early for work and called the company to see where they were. They thought they were meeting me in Playacar, but somehow they were still there within 5 minutes which is weird since Playacar is further away than that. We set off ... Read review

Advantages: Great beaches, great snorkeling, nice weather
Disadvantages: Cancun can be a bit crowded

...the best places in the Yucatan to see ruins after the Mayans. The area is quite big and some of the stuff is spectacular. It costs about 75 pesos to get in but it is worth that. I do regret that we didn't go for a guide when we were in there because they seemed to be giving out lots of interesting details about the buildings and the Mayan history to their groups. The main building in Chichen Itza is great pyramid "El Castillo" (The castle). I was ... Read review

Advantages: friendly people, excellent facilities, brilliant staff
Disadvantages: none

...for you. First of all the yucatan peninsula. The attractions are numerous second largest reif in the world so the snorkelling is fantastic. There are the mayan ruins, numerous throughout the peninsula we visited Tulum and Chichen Itsa but there are more. There are also the eco parks Xel ha and Xcharet, unfortunately we didn't get around to visiting Xcharet but we spoke to people that had been and we regret not fitting it in. We did go to Xel ... Read review