Editorial Methodology

What this site is

An independent comparison of the guided trips that run to the Teotihuacan pyramids from Mexico City, plus the practical information a visitor needs before booking one. We are not a tour operator, a travel agency or a seller of travel. We hold no bookings, take no payments and have no staff in Mexico.

Every booking happens on the operator's own platform under their terms. If something goes wrong with a trip, the operator and the platform are who you deal with, not us.

Where the tour data comes from

Prices, durations, ratings, review counts, inclusions, pickup points, age limits and cancellation terms are read directly off each operator's own listing and reproduced with the date they were read. Eleven tours are compared, spanning $31 to $166 per person on GetYourGuide and Viator. Every tour page carries the same fields in the same order so the trips can be compared line by line, and each one states its own price-last-checked date.

We do not copy operator marketing descriptions. Where an itinerary time, a pickup address or an inclusion is quoted, it comes from the listing's own itinerary block — which is also where the time-on-site figures on this site come from.

• Tour listings checked: August 2026
• Last price check: August 2026
• Review counts and ratings read on the same date as the price
• Product IDs published on every tour page so you can verify the listing yourself

Where the site information comes from

Entry fees, opening hours and what visitors may climb are checked against official tourism information and recent first-hand visitor reports, then dated on the page.

Entry fee verified against official tourism information and recent visitor reports: August 2026. For 2026 that is 210 MXN for foreign visitors and 105 MXN for Mexican nationals, with free entry for children under 13, for students and teachers with valid ID, and for visitors aged 60 and over holding an INAPAM card. Mexican nationals enter free on Sundays. The archaeological zone runs 8:00 to 17:00, with last entry at 16:30.

Two climbing facts decide how the day actually feels, and outdated guides still get them wrong. The Pyramid of the Sun summit has been closed since 2019 — visitors reach the first flight of stairs and no further. The Pyramid of the Moon is open to the first platform only. Where sources disagree, we say so and show the date attached to each number.

• Entry fee 2026: 210 MXN foreign visitors, 105 MXN Mexican nationals
• Free: under 13, students and teachers with ID, 60+ with INAPAM; Mexicans free on Sundays
• Open 8:00–17:00, last entry 16:30
• Pyramid of the Sun summit closed since 2019; Pyramid of the Moon open to the first platform only

How traveller feedback is used

Traveller feedback reviewed: 14,000+ reviews across the eleven tours, plus each platform's own category sub-scores for guide, transport and value.

We quote reviews with the reviewer's first name, country and the month they travelled, exactly as published, and we do not edit them into something more flattering. Where a recurring complaint matters to your booking — the commercial obsidian-and-tequila stop that some itineraries build in, the full-day trips that run over schedule, the pickup address that is easy to mistake for a lookalike branch nearby — it is written into the guide text with the practical fix attached, rather than dressed up as a testimonial. We never write testimonials.

What we cannot verify

We do not inspect the archaeological zone, ride along on the tours, meet the guides or audit safety records. We cannot tell you whether a particular driver is careful, whether a listed inclusion appeared on the day, or how hot the shade-free Avenue of the Dead will be on your morning.

We also cannot see live availability or the price you will be quoted for your date. Prices move with season, group size, platform promotions and the exchange rate, and platform ratings and review counts change between checks — several of the discounts quoted here are the platform's own and will not last. The figures on this site are starting prices at the time of the check; the number that matters is the one on the checkout page.

How affiliate links affect this

Links to tours are affiliate links. If you book through one, the platform pays a commission and you pay the same price you would pay going directly. The full arrangement is set out in the affiliate disclosure.

Commission does not decide which tours appear, the order they sit in, or what is said about them. The cheapest trips in the catalogue pay the least and are the ones recommended to most visitors, and the highest-priced days carry the site's most cautious wording.

Corrections

Prices in Mexico move, opening hours shift and structures close for conservation. If a number here is out of date, tell us what you found and when you were there. Corrections get made and the check date on the page is updated with them.