About Mexico City Trip

Mexico City Trip is an independent travel guide dedicated to Mexico City (CDMX) and central Mexico — the historic centre, Coyoacán, Xochimilco, Chapultepec, the Teotihuacan pyramids, and day-trip towns like Puebla, Cholula, Taxco and Tepoztlán. Our mission is to plan the trip you actually want, honestly: which Teotihuacan tour is genuinely worth it, how to do Xochimilco without overpaying, how the mild altitude at 2,240 m affects your first day or two, and which neighbourhoods are safe and worth basing yourself in.

Our approach

Every guide, itinerary and recommendation on this site is built on first-hand research. We name real neighbourhoods (Roma, Condesa, Polanco, Coyoacán, Centro), real markets and food spots (Mercado de San Juan, Garibaldi for mariachi, the street-taco stands worth queuing for), real day trips (Teotihuacan, Puebla, Cholula, Taxco, Tepoztlán, Tolantongo), and we quote real prices in MXN and USD. We give honest assessments of tourist traps — the overpriced airport taxis (use Uber or DiDi for ~$10–12), the padded Xochimilco trajinera fares, the museum queues you can skip, and the tours that rush Teotihuacan. If something is genuinely not worth it, we say so.

What we cover

Mexico City Trip covers CDMX and its surroundings in real depth: the historic centre (Zócalo, Templo Mayor, Palacio de Bellas Artes, the Metropolitan Cathedral, Diego Rivera murals), Coyoacán and San Ángel (the Frida Kahlo Casa Azul, colonial plazas, weekend markets), Xochimilco's canals and the Island of the Dolls, Chapultepec (the castle and the National Museum of Anthropology), the Teotihuacan pyramids (which tour, the hot-air balloon option, and why you can no longer climb them since 2024), and the wider central-Mexico circuit: Puebla and Cholula, Taxco, Tepoztlán, Tula, the Tolantongo hot springs and Valle de Bravo.

How we earn revenue

Mexico City Trip is a free resource. We earn commissions when you book tours and activities through our affiliate links with GetYourGuide (partner ID LDXYA0P). This costs you nothing extra and helps us keep our guides free and up to date. We do not run our own tours, we have no financial relationship with hotels, restaurants or tour operators, and we have no Booking.com / Expedia / Airbnb affiliations. GetYourGuide commissions are our only revenue stream — which is why we can be honest about which museums, pyramids and day trips are worth your money. Read our full affiliate disclosure.

Available in 8 languages

Mexico City Trip publishes in English (canonical), Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch and Polish. Spanish is a priority because a large share of visitors to Mexico City are Spanish-speaking travellers from Latin America and Spain — and most English-language Mexico blogs simply ignore them. Our Spanish content uses native Mexican phrasing, not auto-translation.

Contact

Email: agencexen@gmail.com

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