Tulum Tour: Explore Ancient Ruins, Taste Tequila and Swim in Cenotes with Authentic Tours
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Tulum

Embark on a Tulum tour with Authentic Tours and experience ancient ruins, tequila tasting, and swimming in cenotes. Discover the rich history and diverse culture of Mexico while having fun!

Duration: 7 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Tulum Archaeological Site - We love to begin our day by welcoming you with mimosas using fresh squeezed orange juice from our neighborhood juice lady. From here you will be transported to one of the top-visited and most sublime archeological sites in the Rivera Maya. It is the only city of the ancient Maya located on the Caribbean Sea. With…
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What's Included
  • Round-trip transportation included from Tulum
  • Snorkeling equipment provided
  • Beverages including morning mimosas, tequila, beer, and carbonated drinks
  • Snacks and lunch included
  • In-vehicle air conditioning for comfort
  • Optional round-trip transportation from Cancun area at $45 USD per person (minimum of 4 people)
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What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

At Authentic Tours Tulum we believe in giving back to our community by utilizing locations, restaurants, and employees native to our area. Our guides can give you recommendations on some of the best spots in town and also help you arrange transportation to any other destinations you may want to visit. The most common feedback we get from our clients is…

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Location
Tulum Archaeological Site
Carretera Federal, Cancun - Chetumal Km 230, 307
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Z8737thdanielles
Jan 30, 2025
Amazing experience! You won't regret booking them - Absolutely amazing tour, highly recommend! Prompt and safe pick up and driving. Joaquin was our Mayan ruins guide- got to explore with neat details about the ruins. You can tell he really enjoyed his work. Our guide for the rest was Daniel. The cenotes- they are on private land, and we were the only ones there for our tour, so a very magical experience- got to swim underneath in caves- the ceiling was very close but wide enough it wasn't claustrophobic. This tour is run by Mayans- get a tour from locals who have their history here. Afterwards we went to a local restaurant that has some of the best tacos I have ever had. We skipped the tequila tour, as we aren't big drinkers. HIGHLY recommend them for this tour!
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Hannah_m
Jan 24, 2025
HIGHLY Recommend!!! - We had a fantastic time on this excursion and I would highly recommend booking this - especially if this is your first visit to Tulum!!! The tour group was small (I think they limit the group size to 8-10 people) so it was the ideal size and wasn’t overwhelming at all! They picked us up directly from our hotel, (and dropped us off at the end of the day!) so we didn’t have to worry about transportation. We toured the Mayan ruins (which were incredible!) and our guide shared some key historical information about each of the places we visited. Although the ruins can get crowded since it’s a popular tourist destination it’s still well worth the visit! The tequila tasting was great as well because we tried so many different varieties of tequila and it was super fun and informative. We swam in 3 different cenotes and Daniel was an excellent guide! Also quite a few of the parks and cenotes require entrance fees and day passes, but the cost of the tour covered all that so it was nice not to have to worry about any of that! The food was delicious, the drinks were plentiful-definitely book this!
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A7398iepaulaf
Jan 22, 2025
Amazing tour guide!! - Daniel the tour guide took such good care of us, and overall the trip was so amazing from start to finish. He was funny and he was very knowledgeable about all the cenotes
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Michael_w
Jan 18, 2025
So much fun - Very unique adventure, traveling to places you wouldn’t be able to get to on your own. The guides were fantastic as well. Swimming in the Cenotes was so dang cool. Really cool stop at some shops as well. Prepare to drink a lot of tequila on this adventure as well
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Andra_p
Jan 15, 2025
Do not hesitate to book this. - Just the best time. Victor our guide through the ruins was fantastic, personable and very knowledgable. Daniel, our driver and Cenote guide was so lovely! I honestly will be dreaming about the Cenote swim for years. Highly, Highly recommend!
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Robert_a
Jan 14, 2025
Awesome Trip - Know how to swim and be comfortable swimming in caves. Bring water shoes and maybe a set of dry cloths. Bring extra money to buy souvenirs and maybe for gratuities. If you're coming from Cancun it is an hour and forty minutes to get there. The drivers come from Tulum and live there...so the transportation is not cheap but worth it. The driver and guide we had were great! The lunch was delicious and plenty.
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Jennifer_m
Jan 8, 2025
Private cenotes were SPECTACULAR - Danny our tour guide was so wonderful to pick us up far away! (Drive was a little scary, but we lived!) The cenote was SPECTACULAR—an experience I’ll always remember!! We thought the Tulum portion of the tour was less strong, but overall, the tour was still worth it because of the cenote portion. Danny took us to a private cenote and we were the only ones there. He took us through the caves and the route was so well planned that even my claustrophobic friend was able to enjoy the cave portion.
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Julius_d
Jan 5, 2025
Knowledgeable local guide - The tour was phenomenal and exceeded all my expectations! I love the fact that we were a small group and lead by a passionate, local guide.
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Markrc5976ot
Jan 2, 2025
Great experience with some drawbacks - Overall the trip was great. Our tour guide was very knowledgeable of the sights we engaged in and the Cenotes were particularly challenging and enjoyable. The only real drawback of the trip was that we didn't get a tour of the Mayan ruins. I did not realize from the print description for the trip that there were two trips--one included the tour of the Mayan ruins and the other didn't because it included a boat ride that went passed the ruins. I would suggest that tour participants clarify the trip before going with enough time to cancel without penalty. I was not able to cancel the trip because I tried to do so within the 24 hours before the trip left,
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Carly_h
Feb 4, 2025
Over priced and underwhelming. - Do not book this as a boat tour if you want to see the ruins. You will See the ruins from a distance for 20-30 Seconds, not much information given other than the connection to the light in the holes being reflective of the summer solstice. The “snacks” are a mini crisp packet. The lunch was really basic and as a pescatarian - non meat eater- my food came after everyone else’s and was scrambled egg and spinage in tacos and basic veg with no flavour.my friend said all the meat taco options tasted the same as each other. The tequila experience consists of free tasters inside a shopping mall…nothing intimate or cultural about the experience- and you will be given a sales pitch…the tequila is good but it is very expensive, especially for apparently locally produced—so be careful not to agree anything without checking the prices. We were being offered 2 coffee tequilas bottles, 1 pistachio bottles aand a mini passion fruit tequila for over £400!!!!!! This was slightly over 3 litres and yes I understand they sell these as local and special…however I wouldn’t expect local produce to have a mark up that high and without warning. The cenotes are great- but you can find a tour for 3 cenotes cheaper elsewhere and then you could see the ruins separately for a more reasonable price. We also had confusing messages about pick up times and despite me chasing by calling to inform them they sent times differing by an hour…they message at the time they arrived…which wasn’t our hotel and I had been messaging for 24 hours so very bizarre. We also drove past our hotel 4 times as they planned the pick up and transportation really badly and spent more time in the van than necessary. This was our 4 excursion on this holiday and the only one we felt let down by and felt wasn’t worth the expensive price tag.
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