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Mexico

Self-Drive: Yucatán Escape


10 days from £1,208 per person

Mexico's Yucatán is a great place for a self-drive holiday adventure, with a network of good paved roads. The area has dozens of Mayan ruins hidden within tropical vegetation bursting with wildlife. With your own hire car, you can discover these in your own time. Your rental car is provided and your point-to-point itinerary planned out for you, with hotel reservations made in advance and maps provided.

This holiday can also be taken with a car and driver, in which case a full day trip to Cobá and Tulúm, visiting Dzitnip cenote en route is included; along with a guided tour of Chichén Itzá and full day tour of Celestún.

Suggested Holiday Itinerary

Day 1: Arrive Cancún, collect car, overnight.
Day 2: Drive to TulumCobá and Chichén Itzá, overnight.
Day 3: Explore Chichén Itzá, drive Mérida. 3 nights.
Day 4: Drive to Celestún for the day.
Day 5: At leisure in Mérida.
Day 6: Drop off car, transfer to Holbox Island, 3 nights.
Day 7: At leisure on Holbox Island.
Day 8: At leisure on Holbox Island.
Day 9: Transfer to Cancún, overnight.
Day 10: Transfer to airport.

Owing to many clients' preference for flexibility, and the variation in flight price according to season and availability, the price quoted excludes the cost of international flights, which we will happily arrange for you. Flights to Latin America can be daytime or overnight, while the return flight is always overnight, so you will need to add at least one day to arrive at the total length of your holiday. 

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Our Comment

The attraction of beautiful Holbox is that very few people are aware if its existence, let alone the fact that its shores play host to the world's largest fish - the whale shark
Rafe Stone, Product Manager

Tulum
Tulum

Chichén Itzá
Chichén Itzá

Casa Sandra, Holbox Island
Casa Sandra, Holbox Island



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