Travellers' reviews about Mexico

Copper Canyon is astonishingly beautiful and, as planned by Ivana, makes a brilliant and well-shaped trip, uniquely Mexican but easy to navigate. Although I was travelling on my own, I was soon 'adopted' by various groups - some Mexican, some foreign - and ended up having quite a sociable time.

Good hotels , excellent guides and worthwhile excursions to the various sites

Mexico is a very interesting destination combining history, monuments,tradition, colours, good food. We particularly enjoyed Gouanahuato and the mummies, Sumidero and the Indian villages near San Cristobal where we saw religious rituals.

Copper Canyon was enjoyable. We would recommend other travellers do not use the train to get from Chihuahua to Creel. The departure time of 6 a.m. is anti-social, too early to get breakfast in most hotels, and on the train the restaurant car doesn't open till 7 a.m.. The countryside seen from the train on this sector is not very exciting. Travel light as often we either boarded or alighted from the train onto the railway track. Hotel Divisadero needs to upgrade its food. The view is not enough! The Mayan sites were wonderful. Mexico City was not. We enjoyed everywhere we went in the Yucatan Peninsula, except Playa del Carmen.

We loved Mexico. Its vibrancy, light and colours will stay long in our memories. Its a hugely diverse and fascinating country in terms of its history, culture, geography and environments and its people. All the Mexican people we met were so friendly, welcoming and helpful. From Mexico City, to Oaxaca, Chiapas and into the Yucatan Peninsula, we combined experiencing the life, art and culture of lively, bustling towns and cities, visiting fascinating ancient Mayan sites, wonderful natural environments with so much wildlife, relaxing on beautiful beaches and eating great food wherever we went. There are so many highlights from our trip. The day we spent with Suri, a young Mexican woman and gastronomist tasting food and shopping in the markets in Merida and then cooking and eating a wonderful Mexican meal at her mums house was definitely one of them. Also up there was swimming with dolphins on the Pacific coast of Oaxaca, hearing the mysterious calls of howler monkeys booming out across the Lacandon jungle and our learning so much from our wonderful guide Professor Gilberto at the ancient Mayan sites in Palenque, Yaxchillan and Bonampak.

12 day itinerary from Cancun incorporating 7 varied Mayan sites, an outstanding 2-hour boat journey at Rio Lagartos viewing a wide range of bird life, local villages tour, hacienda visit, city tours in Merida, Campeche & San Cristobal de las Casas, waterfalls and Sumidero Canyon boat trip. Surprises included a Mayan cemetery, Indian village churches and an unplanned invitation into a Mayan household. With the exception of a poor 5* hotel in Villahermosa, all other mostly boutique accommodation was varied and of high quality. Our guide was local, knew his stuff and was a safe driver. After a privately arranged stay on Isla Mujeres, Our last 3 days were at a small hotel in Tulum with an excellent guide for a day visit to local Mayan sites.

The hotels were varied but all to a good standard. The travel arrangements (apart from the trip to Taxco) were efficient and the guides very good. This has been my second visit to Mexico and I have thoroughly enjoyed myself on both occasions but this time met more of the locals which made the trip more memorable. I am afraid I don't do photographs, sorry!

Mexico is a wonderful country, and I loved it all. Eight months before travelling I had sent Sonia an outline of the sorts of places and sites I wanted to visit, and which were my priorities. She arranged it all: in-country flights, hotels, tours and guides, collection to/from airports etc, covering Mexico City, Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Merida, Chichen Itsa and Tulum. And everything went to plan meaning I could just relax and enjoy it. I'm already thinking I'll revisit in a year or so's time.

We thought Mexico a very interesting country, we didn't realise that it had so much history. We hadn't anticipated travelling so many kilometres (our fault) so long periods were spent in the car. Our guide was excellent, very helpful and informative. The Mexican people we came into contact with were lovely.

The 3 hotels (in Tulum, Merida and Holbox), were all lovely and the drivers who did the transfers and one guided tour were all prompt and polite. It was the perfect holiday for easy independence so we could enjoy everything we wanted at our own pace. Sonia, the local travel agent is one of the best holiday agents I've experienced - she was very patient and flexed the itinerary to suit us when we were planning it. During the holiday there were a couple of local issues e.g. a group tour planned from Merida didn't turn up for us.....and she very quickly arranged a private tour. The driver picked us up within 30 minutes we very much enjoyed it. I would recommend her!

Travelling around the Yucatan peninsula, lots of ruins, wildlife habitats, jungles.

This was an excellent well planned holiday with lots of variation, the agency provided an excellent guide. Swimming with Turtles was a definite highlight, as were the Myan sites.

We wanted a 7 day trip in Yucatan focusing on the Mayan archaeological sites and other local attractions. We had a 7 day itinerary that balanced the amount of traveling and sightseeing with leisure time for my wife and I with our University age children. (We spent the following 7 days in a beach resort hotel). Our tour included the Mayan sites at Chichen Itza, Uxmal and Calakmul which range from very touristy, easy to get to and good through to very remote, hard to get to but excellent. We all thought Calakmul was the highlight of the tour. We also visited the towns of Valladolid, Merida, Campeche, Bacalar and Tullum with several cenotes on the way. We felt we got an excellent feel for this part of Mexico, the good, the bad and the ugly and, excepting the police scam on our first day, our experiences were pretty positive. The advice and recommendations for the trip and local conditions we got from Sonia were excellent - we didn't appreciate how good until we until we inadvertently didn't follow them and ended up in a road construction which was interesting.

Two week trip from Mexico City to Oaxaca and Peurto Escondido. Very well organized with private driver. accommadation was excellent. We had nothing to complain about and will definately use service again and have allready reccommended to friends.

We travelled on our own and started off in Mexico city ,visited the colonial towns of Guanajato,San Miguel and Queretaro and travelled by bus .We spent a few days in Mexico city and then flew and to Oaxaca and then Campeche. where we picked up a car and stayed in Merida,Chichen Itsa ,Tulum and isla Holbox.