Viator Exclusive: Early Access to Tulum Ruins with an Archeologist
Overview
- Early-access Tulum tour with a private archaeologist — a Viator Exclusive
- See Tulum in the early morning and beat the crowds
- Discover the archaeological ruins and learn about excavations with the expertise of your guide
- Enjoy a box lunch and round-trip hotel transportation
- Bring sunscreen, hat, bathing suit and towel (for optional swimming at the beach)
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
Why Travellers Choose This Tour
From EUR35.00
Lowest Price GuaranteeArrive at Tulum before the crowds, looking out over the Caribbean Sea from the perch of a cliff. Follow your guide for an in-depth tour of the Tulum ruins with a group of just 20 other people. Learn about the meaning of Tulum, the Mayan word for "wall," and the ancient Mayan civilization that occupied this site.
Throughout the tour, the certified guide teaches you more about the political, commercial and military history of this important Mayan city. View the remains of the walled city's elaborate murals, painted blue and red on stark white walls. Imagine what life must have been like for the ancient Mayans who occupied this city as far back as the 13th century.
Stop at the nearby beach to relax and take an optional swim.
Return to your Riviera Maya or Cancun hotel in the early afternoon. Spend the afternoon at your leisure while the rest of the crowds are just arriving at the Tulum ruins.
Please note: Bring a hat, sunglasses and sunscreen to help beat the heat for the duration of your tour. If you'd like to take a swim at the beach in Tulum, pack a swimsuit and towel, too.
Reviews
Viator Traveller's Reviews
The part at the ruins site itself was good. I was also glad that we booked early, before the heat and crowds really set in. However, I was deeply disappointed by the transport. On the way there, we were first collected by a very rickety van driven by a man who was constantly distracted by his phone. Having had to get our 2 young children up early to meet at a different hotel, it was annoying that a the driver was late and b drove right past our original hotel anyway to pick up other guests.
We did transfer to a larger coach 48 seater just outside Cancun, which seemed like a good move to start with but turned out to be a problem on the way home for the following reasons:
1. the tour guide tried to cram too many people onto the bus and didn't seem to know who should be with us and who not.
2. the bus stopped at 11 other hotels on the way back to Cancun, elongating the journey unnecessarily.
3. the bus driver had a minor accident with another bus only a mile from our hotel, the altercation didn't seem to be ending so we left and caught a taxi the rest of the way.
Overall the ruins are worth going to, but Amigo are hopelessly disorganised, and I'd booked this because it sounded like it was a small tour, and therefore more efficient. It turned out to be very disappointing on all counts.
I confess I was a bit disappointed with this tour. The archaeological site is small and crowded. The guide gave us a long and tedious explanation of the Mayan calendar. Overall, the tour was not bad, but I expected more. The best part of the tour was the wonderful view of the caribbean sea.
Early access tour with Mary to a lovely site. Some of the explanations got lost as she was doing dual languages with a majority being Spanish speakers. We didnt get the whole way round with the guide before being left to our own devices.
Early access is a must as by the time we left, the place was heaving.
Once again toured with Amigo Tours. They were prompt with their pickup and we beat the crowds at Tulum. We spent the first hour and a half with our guide, Sara, while she discussed some of the history of the area. The remaining 90 minutes of the tour was our free time to visit the areas of the ruins which we did not see the first time around or visit the beach. The beach, in my opinion, wasnt the cleanest, so we roamed the ruins from a different view than from our guide originally took us in. I would have given them a higher rating, however, I feel we could have received much more information and seen more temples had our guide been more fit and able and willing to move us around more. We did a lot of standing or for some, sitting in one place while some items were discussed. In addition, the title of the tour states that this tour was to be with an Archeologist as with the Chichen Itza tour. I question whether our guide was in fact an archeologist as most of the information we received was information we could have found on the internet. We were back in Cancun by early afternoon and still had half a day left....for the price, I guess it was worth it.