About Tulum City Guide

An independent, unofficial guide to visiting Tulum — what each gate charges, which cenote is worth the taxi, and how to spend one, two or three days without paying twice for the same thing. We are not INAH, not CONANP, not Parque del Jaguar, not the Ayuntamiento de Tulum and not a tour operator, and we sell nothing. The whole guide starts on the Tulum city guide homepage, and every figure on the site carries the date it was last read.

Why this site exists

Tulum punishes a vague plan in three specific ways. The gate price of the ruins was rebuilt when Parque del Jaguar took over the entrance, and INAH now publishes a single unified fee of MX$265 for a foreign adult — while guides published this year still add three separate charges to a total near MX$515. Most cenotes around the town publish no price at all and take cash only, so arriving without pesos means driving back. And the reserve, the ruins and the cenotes each want a different part of the day, which is why a three-night trip sees more than a four-night one that was improvised.

So every price, hour and closed day here is read off the official page of the body that charges it and stamped with the date it was read. Where the official source does not state a figure, the page says not stated instead of borrowing a plausible one.

Where the information comes from

Opening hours, closed days and admission prices come from the bodies themselves — inah.gob.mx for the Tulum, Cobá and Muyil archaeological zones, descubreanp.conanp.gob.mx for Parque Nacional Tulum and the Sian Ka'an biosphere reserve, parquedeljaguar.grupomundomaya.com for the park at the ruins, and dosojospark.com for the cenotes of the Dos Ojos park. Climate figures are computed from the Open-Meteo ERA5 reanalysis for 1995–2024, and peso-to-dollar conversions use the European Central Bank reference rate on the date printed beside them. Each page prints its source and its check date in the freshness box.

Tour prices, durations, ratings and review counts are GetYourGuide's own published numbers, read on the date shown on the card. Practical detail — which gate takes cards, where the free beach access is, how far the colectivo goes — is cross-checked against several published sources rather than taken from any one of them.

What we do not claim

There is no invented author here, nobody who claims to live on the beach road, and no claim that someone from this site stood at a particular cenote gate on a particular morning. We do not operate or personally conduct these tours, we do not inspect parks and we audit no operator.

We also hold no bookings. Every Check Availability button hands you to the platform the tour is sold on, where the price, the terms and the cancellation window are theirs. Official gates are linked plainly, without tracking, whenever paying at the door is the better move — which for most of the fees on this coast it is.

How the site pays for itself

Tour and activity links on this site are affiliate links: book through one and the platform pays us a commission, at the same price you would have paid going there yourself. That pays for the research and buys nothing else — not placement, not a rating, not the wording of a recommendation. Where the official gate is cheaper or the only sensible option, the page says so even though that link earns nothing.

The mechanics are set out on the affiliate disclosure page.

Corrections

Gate prices in Quintana Roo move every January, cenote parks reprice without notice and a road washes out most autumns. If a number here is out of date, write to us with what you found and when you were there. A corrected figure is worth more than a defended one.