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Tulum Archaeological Site and Cenote Swim: A Cultural Adventure from Riviera Maya
4.3
150 Ratings
Cancún
Embark on a cultural adventure from Riviera Maya to the Tulum Archaeological Site and a scenic cenote. Explore ancient Mayan ruins and swim in a traditional cenote surrounded by beautiful scenery.
Embark on a cultural adventure from Riviera Maya to the Tulum Archaeological Site and a scenic cenote. Explore ancient Mayan ruins and swim in a traditional cenote surrounded by beautiful scenery.
Duration:
6 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Tulum Archaeological Site - Tulum was a port city crucially important to the Mayan culture and its economy in the region. With a professional tour guide, you’ll learn more about what made this city a powerhouse in its time. With temples scattered throughout the city and many other cultural epicenters within reach, this visit will prove to be not…
- Tulum Archaeological Site - Tulum was a port city crucially important to the Mayan culture and its economy in the region. With a professional tour guide, you’ll learn more about what made this city a powerhouse in its time. With temples scattered throughout the city and many other cultural epicenters within reach, this visit will prove to be not only educational but an interesting experience to learn about the Mayan culture, their advanced knowledge and the heritage of the region.
- Cenote Puerta Maya - Take a refreshing swim in the waters of a beautiful cenote, you’ll be able to learn more about the amazing underground networks of water bodies in the region.
Enjoy the scenery and even enjoy the depths with your snorkel gear, should you choose to do so.
What's Included
- Admission fees and priority access at Tulum archaeological site
- Guided tour of Tulum Mayan Temples
- Roundtrip transportation to and from your centrally located hotel (If selected)
- Admission fees and priority access at Tulum archaeological site
- Guided tour of Tulum Mayan Temples
- Roundtrip transportation to and from your centrally located hotel (If selected)
What's Not Included
- Natural reserve fee 300 MXN & Tulum Local Tax 80 MXN
- Optional lunch (300MXN) lifejacket and snorkel rental (200MXN)
- Hotel pickup and drop-off if (Tulum Hotels)
- Food and beverages not listed as inclusions
- Gratuities
- Natural reserve fee 300 MXN & Tulum Local Tax 80 MXN
- Optional lunch (300MXN) lifejacket and snorkel rental (200MXN)
- Hotel pickup and drop-off if (Tulum Hotels)
- Food and beverages not listed as inclusions
- Gratuities
Additional Information
Your day commences with a simplistic, hassle-free pick-up from your hotel or a designated assembly point. You’ll board a cozy, air-conditioned vehicle to transport you to Tulum, a famed archaeological site which played a major role as a significant port during the Mayan period. Relish the picturesque landscape along this journey filled with natural…
Your day commences with a simplistic, hassle-free pick-up from your hotel or a designated assembly point. You’ll board a cozy, air-conditioned vehicle to transport you to Tulum, a famed archaeological site which played a major role as a significant port during the Mayan period. Relish the picturesque landscape along this journey filled with natural beauty.
Priority entry to the archaeological site is included, where you will partake in an expert-led tour of the temples. Discover and gain insights about essential attractions like the astronomical observatory of the ancient Mayan city of Tulum and various cultural edifices within the city walls. Leaving behind the azure waters of Tulum, you will progress to the next phase of your adventure, an impressive cenote that holds historical and cultural value in the Mayan tradition.
Take a moment to soak in the stunning surroundings preceding a tranquil journey back.
- Children 2 and younger are complimentary when accompanied by a paying adult.
- You must be able to walk at a leisurely pace for approximately 1.5miles (2km) and be able to climb and descend stairs.
- An additional surcharge of 380 MXN for the Natural reserve fee for conservation efforts and Tulum Local Tax is payable on the day of your activity.
- Please be ready and waiting in your hotel lobby or meeting point 15 minutes prior to your scheduled pick-up time.
- Roundtrip transportation is available from most centrally located Cancun, Playa Mujeres, Costa Mujeres, Puerto Morelos Riviera Maya and Playa del Carmen Hotels. You will confirm your exact pickup time with the local tour operator.
- If your hotel is outside coverage you will be asked to meet the tour at a nearby location.
- Hotel pickup from Tulum hotels is not available. Passengers staying at Tulum Hotels must meet the tour at the designated meeting point.
- You should bring swimwear, towel, a change of clothes, sunscreen, insect repellent and spending cash for incidentals.
Location
Súper Akí Puerto Morelos
Benito Juárez
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.3
(150 Ratings)
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Danielap0z0
Sep 22, 2024
Great experience, recommended! - The views were beautiful and our guide, Julian, gave great customer service! He was very informative and made sure we stayed on schedule, at the same time, made sure we all had a great time.
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Edmund_n
Aug 19, 2024
Tulúm trip - The guide was excellent (Noah and Alex). Very welcoming and very informed. Felipe the driver was also very good. The centre swim is not to be missed
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974nachom
Aug 11, 2024
Superb tour to Tulum and Puerta Maya Cenote - Magnificent tour! First visit Tulum with Noe! Fabulous Guide and very well organized and then visit the cenote one pass. Very quiet With Tristan in food and drink and helping us with everything. 100% recommended
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Nazar_b
Jul 28, 2024
Best ever - It was amazing. Good service . Thank you for perfect time. Next time I will using this service. Good luck
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Brandy_s
Aug 31, 2024
Ruins & Cenote - The ruins were nice and cenote was beautiful. However, the van was way too tight. They should remove a row of seats for comfort because depending on where you are coming from, the drive can be long! The Viator site should mention $25 USD additional cash is needed after ticket purchase. We were told via What’s App but we were not told to communicate on what’s app. The cenote had lots of bats in the cave but that is to be expected as well. Overall, I still enjoyed the trip and the tour guides.
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Thomas_p
Aug 12, 2024
Wonderful tour - The tour was fantastic our guide for the Mayan ruins was so knowledgeable. then the Cenote was very unique and lots of fun.
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Pauline_d
Jul 18, 2024
Nice trip! - Hi, It was a great visit, but it was beyond hot and humid. I was with a group of girls and we could barely breathe. They wouldn't allow us to bring water with us. That wasn't right. One of the girls I thought would pass out from the heat, humidity and no water allowed. It was rough. The Cenote was great, the food, the cave, etc. The ruins were great, but hard to enjoy in that heat.
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Denise_m
Jul 23, 2024
Alls well that ends well. - Overall the tour was good , except for the 40 minute late pick up. Our guide Abbi ,said he texted me and showed me the text when he arrived , but I didn’t recieve it. (Bad cell service I suppose.) -Apparently there were multiple hotel pick ups and traffic. Nevertheless, once at the Tulum Mayan Ruins it was beautiful & hot. Tip- Definitely wear a hat to shield from the sun. Our onsite guide was very knowledgeable about Mayan culture. We recieved a great history lesson on ancient Mayan culture. After viewing the ruins we headed to The Cenote which we found to be very cool & refreshing . They have a small snack stand there that you can purchase burgers & tacos . After leaving the Cenote we headed back. I wish we would have had time to see some more sights on the way back and our tour guide had narrated things on the way to & fro. Nevertheless, we had a great driver Felipe who got us there & back safe and sound .
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Margaret_m
Sep 2, 2024
Driver never showed - This is such BS we were awake a 6:30am to make it to breakfast and to the lobby of hotel for 9:50 we were out a waiting at 8:20 half hour before pick up driver never showed I tried calling his number 5 times then call Viator and they could not reach him as his phone was turned off I requested a refund And was denied it cause said we were not a the lobby BS we were there waiting well before and well after pick up time so if I do not get a refund I will be going to my bank for fraud do not recommend 🤬🤬🤬
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Dkcoleman
Aug 17, 2024
Unfortunately, worst excursion ever! - To avoid a major disappointment, this is an important read. Because I highly respect TripAdvisor and have paid for many excursions on their site, by far, this was the worst excursion ever. Although not complaining, we were supposed to get picked up at 8 a.m. for a 2 hour ride to Tulum. However, the pick up time changed to 7:30 a.m., and we arrived to Tulum 3 hours later. Our driver, who was brand new, got lost. He also didn’t speak to passengers the entire three hour ride. Two plus hours into the ride, a Spanish speaking passenger finally asked him to at least turn on some music. HERE COMES THE WORST PART: We arrived to Tulum at 11 a.m., and after being allowed a quick restroom break, our tour started at approximately 11:15 a.m. The company’s tour guide divided our group into two and told us to be back to the meeting point at noon. Sadly, the group that I was in was handed off to someone who works at the Tulum Mayan Ruins’ site. He told us he was doing the company a favor by walking us to the actual ruins site. It took 20-25 minutes walking to finally reach the ruins. The entire time, we had no tour guide hearing devices. Instead, the guide spent most of the time typing or texting on his phone. When we finally arrived to the ruins ‘site, it was approximately 11:40 a.m. Without providing any information about the ruins, the tour guide said he was leaving and told us to make two rights to get back to our meeting spot. Mind me, it’s now 11:45 a.m. and we haven’t toured the site and we have 15 minutes to make it back to the meeting spot which is a 20-25 minute walk. Sadly, the instructions the guide gave us were incorrect. He never told us to take a left. Therefore, when we finally made it back to the meeting spot, our group was not there. We then headed to where the bus was parked and we saw the bus pulling off without us, while our backpacks were still on the bus, which is where we were required to leave them. Following the bus was the company’s van that originally picked us up. We had to run as fast as we could and literally bang on the back of the van window before the bus pulled onto the main road. Sadly, other passengers weren’t so lucky and completely got left behind with their personal items still on the bus. The van then caught up with the bus which we followed to Cenote Swim Hole, where we stayed two full hours but had absolutely no time to tour the Mayan Ruins in Tulum, which we paid $25 USD to tour, and seeing the ruins was honestly the main reason we went on the excursion. Julio, the tour guide for half the group claimed that Mexico’s Prime Minister limits Tulum Mayan Ruin visits to 20 minutes because of the heat. I researched his comment and found it to be completely untrue. Even if it were true, their excursion advertisement should have indicated such. In summary, what could have been a beautiful excursion was completely a disaster. The company failed up big time! They actually need to refund us the $25 per person paid to tour the Tulum Mayan Ruins, which their own rushed schedule did not allow us to tour.
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