Customer Travel Tips for Cusco
Customer Travel Tips for Cusco
Read a selection of great customer tips provided by HostelBookers customers like you
24 Jun 2019
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Age Range:
31-40
Customer Travel Tip: Acclimate yourself.
Liked: Cusco has everything to offer a tourist.
Disliked: The altitude is a challenge.
13 Jun 2019
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Sports, adventure or outdoor activities
Age Range:
41+
Customer Travel Tip: Do your research, be prepared.
Liked: The food, culture, and experience of Cusco are outstanding.
Disliked: Altitude
08 Jun 2018
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip: Might need a couple days to get used to the altitude
Liked: Everything
Disliked: Hustlers
03 May 2018
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip: Go to macchu picchu
Liked: Great culture lots in the area to do
Disliked: No
04 Jan 2018
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Age Range:
31-40
Customer Travel Tip: Cusco is easy going. Machu Picchu is tough and expensive.
Liked: Great value for money, except Machu Picchu.
Disliked: Fotos in menus don't help much. Most of times, the actual dish looked great but I'm adventurous. So, restaurants, improve pictures.
15 Apr 2017
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Visiting friends or family
Work / volunteering
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip: buscar buenas agencias
Liked: la gente y su tranqulidad
Disliked: muchos vendedores
01 Apr 2017
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Age Range:
31-40
Customer Travel Tip: Get out into the sacred valley. the buses and collectivos are easy to use and cheap.
Liked: Easy to get around sacred valley
Disliked: too many touts.
17 Mar 2017
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip: Pack warm clothes and a rain jacket
Liked: sights, activities
Disliked: nothing I can think of now
14 Mar 2017
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Age Range:
18-24
Customer Travel Tip: Make sure to stay informed about expected prices for products and services.
Liked: Many interesting and old buildings! Lots of markets and restaurants!
Disliked: Price discrimination is very apparent. Foreigners and tourist, particularly those that do not speak Spanish, can expect to pay higher prices for food.
22 Dec 2016
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip: Visit all of the close-by ruins. Eat the local foods and shop in one of the markets.
Liked: The culture and sense of pride in the city is uparalleled.
Disliked: Cusco is one of my favorite cities in South America.
01 Dec 2016
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Age Range:
18-24
Customer Travel Tip: Take a free walking tour and go to the San Pedro market!
Liked: I loved the food, the beautiful churches and architecture, and the incredible history behind the "navel" city. The markets were lovely and the Inca ruins nearby were definitely a intriguing site!
Disliked: We had problems with travel agencies and transportation. Additionally, do not take Peruvian Airlines.
30 Oct 2016
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip: Rainbow mountain
Liked: Great city
Disliked: Very touristy (but that is normal)
22 Oct 2016
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Age Range:
41+
Customer Travel Tip: the day tours cram a lot for one day , you can only spend so much time at each site. if your staying more than a week , you can get some personal service and take more time at each site.
Liked: your in a different world.
Disliked: not really.
14 Sep 2016
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Sports, adventure or outdoor activities
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip: Ask for guides
Liked: The culture
Disliked: The prices for sightseeing are high.
03 Sep 2016
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
City break
Sightseeing & culture
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip: Be careful about the weather, it changes so much!!
Liked: Everything.
Disliked: Nothing
27 Aug 2016
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip: The miniature Christ costs 70 soles- skip it.
Liked: The culture
Disliked: The traffic
14 Jul 2016
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Sports, adventure or outdoor activities
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip: A
Liked: A
Disliked: A
13 Jul 2016
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip: Go for salar de Maras
Liked: Nice atmosphere, very tidy
Disliked: Some museums cost too much