7 Valladolid Tours to Build a Day Around

1.Valladolid Mayan Bees Tour with Lunch or breakfast and Honey Tasting

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 193 reviews · 1 hour 30 minutes (approx.) Our pick

Explore Mayan stingless bees in a dry cenote, taste local honey, and enjoy breakfast or lunch at Xkopek Park in Valladolid.

“What a neat and informative tour. The grounds of the park are lovely and our guide was great, explaining and showing us the different types of melipona and their nest structures. The honey tasting was a lot of fun and the lunch was delicious! Thank you so much.”

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2.Rio Lagartos guided boat tour- Ek Balam from Valladolid

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 151 reviews · 10 hours (approx.) · from $198

Explore flamingos, crocodiles, mangroves, and Ek Balam on a small-group day tour from Valladolid, with lunch, transport, and boat fees included.

“Amazing experience! Our guide was very informative and having him enhanced the entire experience. A wide variety of sights covered on this tour, and you will learn a ton. Highly recommend”

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3.Full Day Tour Chichen Itza plus Cenotes From Valladolid

★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · 107 reviews · 6 to 7 hours (approx.) · from $88

Review of Valladolid’s Chichen Itza and cenote tour, with Mayan culture, buffet lunch, swimming stops, costs, timing, and practical advice.

“Unorganised chaos. 3 cenotes (only took us to 1)/ mayan village / buffet / chichen itza Joined a bigger group at the mayan gift store. They only took us to 1 cenote which had the buffet basically a water park. Lifejackets and lockers are additional charge at 100mxn each. Buffet was horrible, worst tacos we had in mexico. Cenote was nice but only one hour. Mayan village is the tour operators gift store. Overpriced and unnecessary, basically built to milk tourists of their money selling souvenirs at 5x the price they will find at the next stop. Chichen itza was good because of the english speaking guide. This is why…”

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4.Shared Mezcal Tasting Experience in Valladolid Mexico

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 97 reviews · 45 minutes (approx.) · from $40Best value

Taste five mezcals from Oaxaca and Nayarit, enjoy a signature cocktail, and browse Mexican artisan work at Xoul Art & Mezcal in Valladolid.

“Very disappointed in this experience unfortunately. All of the reviews were great! But maybe we didn’t have a great “guide”. Basically we were served a plate of five tastings each and given a booklet with information about each of the mezcals available. There wasn’t any personal explanation or serving of each drink. Definitely not a guided experience. It would have been really nice to have each of the tastings labeled so at least I knew which page to read about as I sipped. (We were of course told the names of each five when served but forgot as we drank and chatted). The process was not interactive, there was no…”

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5.Chichen Itza skip the line – Cenote – Izamal from Valladolid

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 97 reviews · 11 hours (approx.) · from $189

Review of a full-day Valladolid tour to Chichén Itzá, Cenote Yokdzonot, and Izamal, with early entry, Maya lunch, and small-group transport.

“Loved that we were in a small private group (only 4 plus the guide.) He was extremely knowledgable and a wealth of information.”

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6.All-inclusive Cenotes tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 93 reviews · 7 to 8 hours (approx.) · from $82

Swim in three Valladolid cenotes, enjoy lunch, and travel by private transport on a relaxed 7 to 8 hour Yucatan outing.

“The personal service was great and the landscaping was wonderful. The place and the food were That I was looking for”

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7.Tour to Chichen Itza & 2 Cenotes

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 92 reviews · 8 hours · from $69

Visit Chichen Itza and two contrasting cenotes from Valladolid in a small group, with early entry, local food, hotel pickup, and bilingual support.

“Gustavo was a very careful and good driver and an overall lovely person. We were a group of 5 and felt well taken care off. Everything went according to the description (timings, costs etc)”

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