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The Mexico guides

Playas del Caribe, ciudades coloniales, zonas arqueológicas mayas y la cocina más premiada del mundo. Empieza por lo que te mueve.

12 guides published 4 families 4 steps to plan

How it is organised

Four families of guide

Each family answers a different question. Most trips use two or three of them.

Destination guides One destination, in depth The places, when to go, how to arrive and where to sleep — destination by destination. Riviera Maya Oaxaca Yucatán /guides/destinos → Regional guides Mexico in nine regions How the country changes every four hundred kilometres, and which region fits your trip. Central highlands The peninsula The Bajío /guides/regiones → Trip types It depends who you are with The same destination reads differently as a couple, a family, alone or on a tight budget. With children First time Long stay /guides/tipos-de-viaje → Practical guides What gets you through the day Buses, money, water, safety, tipping and everything nobody explains before you land. Getting around Budget Safety /guides/practicas →

13 guides

Destination Riviera Maya A hundred and twenty kilometres of coast, six stops and sargassum explained straight. 14 min Upd. September Destination Mexico City Neighbourhood by neighbourhood, the altitude, the metro, and why lunch runs two to four. 16 min Upd. September Destination Oaxaca Seven moles, village mezcal, Monte Albán and the two weeks that change everything. 13 min Upd. August Destination Yucatán Mérida as a base, six thousand cenotes and Chichén Itzá at eight in the morning. 12 min Upd. August Region Central highlands Mexico City, Puebla, Querétaro and the Bajío: everything two or three hours apart. 11 min Upd. July Region The Yucatán peninsula Ruins, cenotes and reef on a single slab of limestone. 10 min Upd. July Trip type First time in Mexico Ten to fourteen days, two regions, and the mistake almost everybody makes. 9 min Upd. September Trip type Mexico with children Capped cenotes, sane distances, and where all-inclusive genuinely makes sense. 8 min Upd. June Trip type The long stay Monthly rentals, first-class buses, coworking and Spanish schools. 10 min Upd. May Practical Getting around When the bus beats the plane, and the legs where there is no argument. 7 min Upd. September Practical What a day costs Three real budgets per person, each with its market range. 6 min Upd. September Practical When to go Month by month: weather, prices and the two most expensive weeks of the year. 8 min Upd. August Practical Safety, without the drama How to actually inform yourself: official advice, state-by-state variation, common sense. 7 min Upd. September

Every guide lives at /guides plus its family and its name; destination guides point straight to their page under /areas. Reading times are real, measured on the published text.

Where to start

Four steps, in this order

If you only read four things before booking, make it these.

Step 01 Pick the month In Mexico the month decides the weather, the price and whether there is sargassum. Start here and the rest follows. See the calendar Step 02 Pick two regions No more than two in a fortnight. Three means three flights and not one full day anywhere. See the areas Step 03 Decide how you travel First-class bus between central cities; fly only towards the peninsula or Baja. Bus or plane Step 04 Set the budget With fondas, buses and a small hotel, a day costs far less than you think. See budgets

How we write

The five rules

A travel guide stands on what it is willing not to say. These are ours, and they apply to every page on the site.

01 Nothing goes in unseen We do not publish a guide to a place we have not been. If it is missing, we have not been yet. 02 Nobody buys a place No paid listings, no sponsored content. Booking commissions are disclosed and never change the order. 03 Prices carry a date Every figure says when it is from and in what currency. An undated price is useless for planning. 04 The photograph is of the place If we have no real image of somewhere, we do not borrow one: we would rather run the entry without a photo. 05 The awkward parts too Sargassum, hurricanes, altitude, queues and months to avoid. A guide that only praises is not a guide.

The Mexico guides

Four families of guide

Four steps, in this order

The five rules

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