Customer Travel Tips for Palenque
Customer Travel Tips for Palenque
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31 Jul 2014
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: Eat in the main town, not around the hostels and upmarket hotels!
Liked: Chilled, had all that is says on the tin. Food in the main town is good value. Great stop off for a couple of days!!
Disliked: Nil of note
01 May 2014
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Sports, adventure or outdoor activities
Customer Travel Tip: Remember the museum at the ruins is closed on Mondays like all others in the region.
Liked: The ruins are fantastic, great jungle setting, and you can climb on most of them!
Disliked: The road from San Cristóbal is absolutely awful
15 Mar 2014
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Work / volunteering
Customer Travel Tip: Bring repellent!
Liked: Beautiful, tropical setting with indredible ancient ruins
Disliked: The heat was sometimes too much
01 Mar 2014
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: The jungle tour at the ruins is mostly a walk along a well-marked trail. You could probably do this solo without losing much. My guide spoke only Spanish, so I didn't understand half of what he said anyway....
Liked: Palenque is a nice enough town. I mostly visited for the ruins.
Disliked: Nothing.
26 Feb 2014
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: for sure the pyramids
Liked: The pyramids
Disliked: downtown is not that beautiful
26 Dec 2013
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
City break
Events / festivals
Sightseeing & culture
Sports, adventure or outdoor activities
Visiting friends or family
Customer Travel Tip: There's a little coffee and chocolate shop on the road next to Juarez. Everything is amazing there and the owner is a very interesting lady and keen to share her knowledge (and chocolate!)
Liked: The ruins are incredible, as are the casacadas.
Disliked: Everyone trying to sell you things all the time. It's minor though and is the only negative I can think of.
22 Dec 2013
Customer Travel Tip: Visit the waterfalls
Liked: Interesting, safe and active city
Disliked: Nothing specific
05 Oct 2013
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: Go in the jungle and try to spot some monkeys
Liked: the ruins... amazing! we took in the jungle also so we saw more ruins, some monkeys and we had the chance to be able to swim in one of the waterfall.
Disliked: the new town is ugly and tacky
23 Sep 2013
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: Wear lots of deet!
Liked: It was a small simple town ideally located next to some ruins
Disliked: It was hot an sticky and rife with Mosquitos
26 May 2013
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: Take lots of bug spray
Liked: Ruins are amazing. Day tour to Agua Azul and Misol ho are worthwhile
Disliked: Other then ruins not too many other sites. It is extremely hot and humid. You have to pay are park entrance fee as well as a fee for entering ruins.
13 Mar 2013
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Events / festivals
Customer Travel Tip: Have some Spanish< pick up some tequilla
Liked: cultural richness and laid back people. very friendly locals
Disliked: no
03 Mar 2013
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: Just go to the ruins
Liked: The ruins
Disliked: Not a nice town
02 Feb 2013
Customer Travel Tip: Spend a day there looking at Mayan ruins then leave, nothing really else to do.
Liked: Mayan ruins was a great day out and easy to get to and from using bus.
Disliked: No nightlife to speak of or bars.
13 Jan 2013
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Beach / sunbathing
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: Don't book the shuttle to Flores before arrival- much cheaper once here!
Liked: The ruins
Disliked: Only spent 12 hrs overnight here 6pm-6am
12 Jan 2013
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: don´t stay there for more than you need
Liked: close to the palenque ruins and agua azul
Disliked: not a special city
29 Dec 2012
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: Take your time. Do not rush it.
Liked: Food, and the view
Disliked: well, the transportation, a little bit..
17 Dec 2012
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: Don{t spend much time here.
Liked: The sites and history
Disliked: There is not much to do in town.
10 Nov 2012
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Customer Travel Tip: Definitely go to the ruins
Liked: The ruins are really, really amazing. Totally worth the visit, I went specifically to see the ruins. It's easy to walk around.
Disliked: All the restaurants are crazy expensive.
09 Aug 2012
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Beach / sunbathing
Partying / nightlife
Shopping
Sightseeing & culture
Sports, adventure or outdoor activities
Customer Travel Tip: check out the artisan markets in town, very cheap! also the italian coffee shop does great coffee and frappes. and it has aircon! the ruins are amazing! if you get a chance at least check out el panchan if not stay there
Liked: ruins were amazing. fun to wander around the town. bus stop centrally located. public transport to the ruins is easily accessable and very cheap!
Disliked: hard to escape the heat! hardly anywhere has aircon or powerful fans.
14 Jul 2012
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Customer Travel Tip: Get a taxi to the ruins and dont go with the first tour guide that asks you if you want a guided tour around it starts off at nearly 1000pasos but we got one down to 400pasos and our tour guide was great he had lived in the area all his life and was a wealth of information. Dont forget to take water with you as it is super expensive there more than double that if you get it in town.
Liked: The ruins were the only reason to go
Disliked: The heat