Jeg gir dette full pott, da serverdigheten Chichen Itza veier opp for alt annet. Turen var litt lang, men verd det. Besøkte en "mayan village" på veien dit, men det var ikke annet enn en stor souvernirbutikk. Med dyre souvernirer du får til halve prisen inne på ruinområdet (der er det tusenvis av selgere). Dette stoppet på en halvtime kunne de droppet. Vi stoppet også ved en cenote. Vi badet ikke, og den var ikke så imponerende som mange av de andre cenotene vi så på ferien. Dette kunne de også ha droppet. Ruinene var fantastiske og verd hele turen! Maten var grei nok, hadde 2 soft drinks inkludert, men rakk knappt nok en. Lyd og lys showet kunne vi vært foruten, men vi slapp ihvertfall å stå opp så tidlig, og vi fikk oppleve ettermiddagen ved ruinene når det tømmes for folk. Da var det enda flottere der. Denne 14 timers-turen kunne vært unnagjort på halve tiden om vi hadde droppet alle stoppene, og bare dratt direkte til ruinene. Eller vi kunne brukt tiden på ruinene, for der ble det litt knappt med tid. Buss-guiden/koordinatoren var flott, fortalte mye interessant om mayaene, (men får nok provisjon av den butikken vi stoppet ved, han reklamerte veldig for dem, men det tålte vi å høre på), guiden ved ruinene var sikkert flink, men gruppen vår ble slått sammen med annen/andre grupper, vi var for mange, så vi hørte ikke en brøkdel av hva han sa. Så: Selv om det var noen "men" på turen gir jeg denne turen full pott!! PS: Ta med niste! Ett måltid på 14 timer er ikke nok.

Excellent trip! Victor was the BEST!!!

Great! Great! Great! We had Victor as our guide and he was great! He was very knowledgable and answered all of our questions. The bus ride was comfortable, the time we had in the park was good (as well as the tour) and the food was good. The best part was Victor taking time after Lunch to give us more mayan history and culture info. Tip: Bring bug spray/sunblock, rent the english audio head phones for the light show so you can follow the story, and pack a good snack (lunch might not be until 5 pm).

The trip was long but our narrator/guide was very good, knowledgeable and kept us entertained. It rained halfway towards end of guided tour inside and we did not get to see the light and sound feature of the trip. Our driver was very good and safely got us back to our hotel in the pouring rain.

This was the second time I'd taken this tour after I lost my photos first time round. Very disappointing. The tour includes a visit to a cenote, but last year the tour went to an impressive wide open cenote only 5 minutes drive from the pyramids. This time it went to a very interior newly opened cenote more than an hour away (where we were unsurprisingly the only people there). What hadn't changed about the tour was the driver spending 30 minutes talking up a "local" craft work shop only for us to stop there for half an hour to look at heavily overpriced mass produced trinkets which are also sold later in the day at the pyramid (by hundreds of street sellers) for a fraction of the price. The pyramid remains very impressive and is definitely worth seeing, but be aware that the daylight opening time end at 16:30 so if you want to see the two cenotes on site, the other pyramids and the observatory, you will have to walk away from the heavily drawn-out guided tour and explore for yourself. I left the tour at 16:00 and just about saw everything, but in retrospect I should have left at 15:30. The light show is OK but repetitive. If you don’t speak Spanish you need headphones, and there are no actors or dancers. The buffet meal was disappointingly poor and the cost of the drinks cancelled out any notion of it being free. Still worth it to see the pyramid though.