Highlight of our trip - We did the Chichen Itza classic tour and highly enjoyed it. The first stop is the colonial city of Valladolid where you have about 30 minutes to use the restroom, explore the city square and buy souvenirs. We then drove to Ik Kil Cenote where we had an hour for lunch and an hour to swim in the cenote/explore. I would recommend renting a life jacket as the cenote is 200 feet deep! You can rent lockers to store your valuables while you are swimming. There are also nice restrooms to change in when you are finished. A meal at the restaurant is included in the tour but we did need to pay for drinks. I would recommend having some pesos on hand for this as that is how the prices were listed. Finally, we arrived at Chichen Itza (just down the road from the cenote). The tour provides you with an ice cold bottle of water and a lanyard to attach it to for your tour. Our tour guide Santos was amazing and provided us with a unique perspective as he is Mayan himself. Be aware that Chichen Itza is overrun with vendors. The moment we stepped off the tour bus a man was placing a hat on my husband's head and asking for $5. We stayed in Cancun so it did take 3 hours each way on a bus to do this tour, but it was 100% worth it. We are looking forward to taking another Xcaret tour the next time we are in Mexico!

Xichen Classic - We did the classic version of the Chichen Itza, and would HIGHLY recommend it! This tour has three stops, the town of Valladolid, Ik Kil cenote, and Chichen Itza. Stopping at Vallodolid was very neat to see, and broke up the long drive from Cancun. While the bus was comfortable, it was nice to get off. Here we were able to walk around the town, buy snacks and souvenirs, and use the washrooms. Next was a swim at the Ik Kil cenote, which was so beautiful. (make sure to bring some cash for locker and life jacket rentals, I think they were $3 or $4 each). The lunch at Ik Kil was just ok, but good enough. Our tour guide at Chichen Itza was informative and entertaining. We then had over an hour to tour around the site on our own. There is a little market on the site with the typical Mayan souvenirs, do your shopping here! This market had waaayyyy lower prices than the ones we visited in Cancun and Playa Del Carmen.

Delightful experience for a full day - We did the classic tour but i can’t find it in the drop down list. The tour has 3 main attractions - Valladolid town, Chichen Itza and a Cenote. First if all you need to know that you will be riding a bus for a while, I estimate that it’s about 4 whole hours without the transfer from your hotel. Depending on the hotel positioning you could add about two more hours. This times are for the whole day. The bus used was confortable. The guides really did an effort to pass historic and other Informations to the Group during the day and they also try to entertain you :) The town “visit” is very short, 30 minutes, but you get to have a feeling about hispanic cityes in Mexico. You should not be late for the bus because they will leave without you. They left behind 4 tourist which ceased the bus with a taxi afterwards. The pyramid tour is longer and worths every penny. You also get a guide for the tour which stays with you for anii 45 minutes and a Boyle of water. Afterwards you get about an hour of free time to explore the site and take pictures. We were there on the last day of the year and it was not crowded but expect a to be crowded on a normal day. The Cenote..well...the changing rooms and the meal are bad and very bad. Apart of this the experience is very nice, the cenote is beautiful and you can swim or jump from about 6 meters. If you are not a really good swimmer take a life jacket because the water is fresh and it also has some curents. Also take with you some water shoes because you will need it for the stairs that descend to the cenote. Many thanks to Raul, the main tour guide on the trip. I hope that I remembered His name correctly :)

Xichen Deluxe - We went for the deluxe tour that included the Chichen Itza tour as well as a visit to a Cenoté. This also included breakfast and lunch on the tour. The breakfast was a ham and cheese sandwich, juice box and cupcake. It was ok. The lunch was at a buffet restaurant which was pretty good at La Casona in Valladolid where the Zací Cenoté is. They have a large selection and the service was great. Overall a great value.

Great trip - Loved Chichen Itza, tour guide amazing. Not impressed by the Cenote or their need to charge extortionate prices for everything. Tour guide on bus a little difficult to understand. Once in a lifetime trip was worth it overall.

Too much money for too little experience - They try to pack too much into the day. Stops prior to Chichen Itza were more tourist traps then anything else. Spent more money on the early tour with a max of 15 people that was really 15 people on a van before you all piled on the bus to go on the actual tour. Felt misled and rushed. Mayan Village buffet lunch could have been 1 hour instead of 2, Chichen Itza was only 2 hours and Cenote was 1 hour (it takes at least 30 minutes to get a locker, life vest (which is mandatory) then you are left with 30 minutes to enjoy the water and get re-dressed before the bus leaves you. Was asked by a staff member on the bus for an addl $120 for taxes. It states in the fine print-taxes are an addl $20 per person totalling for us $60, we were lucky enough to prove this to the tour guide with our smart phone in the middle of the jungle-or argue and become snake food. Final stop was Valladolid for 20 minutes. Back home at 10pm. Paying extra for early bird special, being asked to pay more on the bus, and feeling pushed to spend/tip at additional locations makes me wish I had talked to a real tour guide first. There are a lot of awesome things to see where I don't feel taken advantage of. Viator should not allow listings for misleading tours i.e. early bird special, 15 person tour, be back early, be first to chichen itza etc... none of that was true but that is the price that was paid. should have at least booked cheapest tour. it's the same.