Xochimilco, Coyoacan, Unam And Panoramic View Of Casa Frida Kahlo

Really fun experience riding in the trajineras: food, drink and mariachis! Our guide Adrian was very friendly. Wish they allotted more time to visit the Coyoacan markets.

It was fun riding, and enjoying the fun atmosphere of people sharing a new experience with drinks, music, and food.

I will preface this by saying in my opinion that CDMX has so much going that visiting Xochmilco under any circumstances isn't worth it. This tour in particular though.....just do not do it. The lack of communication was startling bad, starting in the morning when there was a long game of musical vans that had us dumped on the sidewalk for 15 or so minutes with nothing more than "you are changing vans." Through the next few hours very little information was shared about the structure of the day, or the places we were traveling to or through beyond that they were very important. Almost none of this information was in English despite choosing a bilingual tour. After a nearly 3 hour boring, silent drive, a short boat ride and another long boring drive we were dumped at the church in Coyocan with a "here is the church, it was built a long time ago see you in an hour." We gave up on the tour at that point and explored Coyocan on our own, which we wish we had done in the first place instead of wasting the morning. Coyocan is great. Take an Uber and enjoy yourself.

Amazing experience and the tour guide Dante was great and informative both in English and Spanish also funny. Thanx Dante 🙂

Should not offer as a service if they can’t book frida kahlo museum tickets. Day largely spent stuck in traffic or being taken to tourist traps - including instantly being taken to a trash ‘artisinal’ market for tourists to buy trash. Cheap-ish but you get what you pay for. Hate to leave a bad review but it is what it is.

I’ve been trying to find one good thing about this tour. I can’t. From the moment of pickup to the time of drop off I cannot think of a positive experience. Maybe it’s the way tours are arranged in Mexico City but it does not give a tourist a positive experience or want to take one of these tours again. I can understand not getting into the Kahlo museum because it was sold out for the day we went. We were not charged for it. Ah, there’s a positive. But to be picked up in one van and shuttled to a second meeting point was a waste of time. We spent enough time doing that in traffic but again it’s Mexico City. I never got the name of our actual guide but from the beginning I had the feeling it was not going to matter. Our guide was able to give us general information about the sites we did see. Unfortunately, he was not receptive to questions and did not enhance the experience with additional information when asked. He very nicely discouraged questions. The guide should be very cautious about letting people stray from the group. This happened a couple of times which caused further delays for the remaining group. One last concern. The description of this tour was very confusing. It seems if the museum had been available and we chose and paid for that portion of the tour, we would not have been able to participate in the Coyoacan tour. As I read the inclusions it sounded like it would have been both. According to the guide, this is not the case. Unfortunately I don’t know if this is a Viator problem or a Encuentro T problem.

First and most importantly: if you have your heart set on visiting this museum, book a ticket in advance. You won't be able to just show up. It's small and always sold out. From what I can tell, there are about 10 tickets sold for each 15-minute window, so those 10 people with the "2:30pm" ticket line up at 2:15 or so and then get let in at 2:30. As to the museum itself, it was a pretty neat learning experience about the artist's life. Plenty of biographical information and artifacts about her medical challenges. I was a little disappointed that there wasn't all that much art on display. I probably saw less than a dozen works by Frida Kahlo. Maybe I wasn't being observant enough, but that was my impression. I expected this to be an art museum, and it really wasn't. The home and outdoor space on the property were surprisingly big--interesting to learn that she grew up there and hence her family owned it before she was successful/famous. Quite a cool space in which to live and work. Location: It's a bit of an effort to get here from the zocalo or Roma Norte or Polanco. We took a taxi one time and it was a marathon. On a second trip, we took the metro, and that was quicker and quite efficient (and only 5 pesos!!). There are some cafes within a block or two to cool your heels while you wait for your timed entry or want to get some food after your visit. Overall: worth checking out. Book in advance!

The first visit was at Rafael’s Plateria. With the demo and sales which involved 2 hours - itcould have been avoided. Next was Coyoacán -which was good and then visit to UNAM. By this time it was 2 pm. Then finally we visited Xochimilco and had lunch on the Trajerina. Most of our group were Spanish speaking. The Guide was cooperative and did his best. But most of the times he was speaking in Spanish and I felt that there was a general aversion to English. The self pay lunch was organized on the Trajerina and was exciting with musicians playing around. The meal was to be ordered and luckily with the guide’s suggestion, we could avail of Vegan food. Return was by about 4.15 pm. Surely it could have been made into a half day tour.

The trip offered included Frieda Kahlo museum but on the day of trip it’s not. Just a stop at museum to take pictures

Daniel was our tour man. He was amazing, he explained to us so many things and it was so easy to spend the entire day with him. Highly recommended to get this excursion, you don't have to drive and you have everything in the schedule to make everything happen in one day. Communications through the app was very easy. We did this excursion and the day after the one to Teotihuacán, same company, and both were amazing.

Great tour with excellent explanations and history from Carlos. Suitable if you want to visit Xochimilco and Coyoacan in a quick visit. Yo get also to Azteca Stadium stop and UNAM.

Ursula and Riccardo were fabulous, the tour was great and very informative. Xochimilco is a must....

Our tour was excellent!! Allen and our driver Juan were the BEST!! Loved our tour to UNAM, learned so much about the university! And my favorite place was the Frida house! Thank you for a great trip!

Seeing the home movies of Frida y Diego. Seeing the art Frida created and collected. Learning that she could speak and read many languages. Also thinking about her ability to make art during her lifetime of extreme physical pain.

We had a wonderful guide Daniel very helpful and pointed out interesting facts about the city as we were driving to our various destinations.

We had a great day with our guides. Not only did we see many interesting sites, we learned history about them. And we had a blast with our guide Daniel.

Hotel pick up 815AM. Drove around picking up people until 1030AM at a tourist shop. It would be better to take an uber and meet then at 10am at the tourist shop and sleep more. Or better yet skip entire tour and take the cheap ubur or hop on hop off bus and spend more time touring then in a van picking up other tourists!! Waste of time. No time was given to us see coyoacan town because while half group was seeing this cute town, we booked the frida kahlo museum and so both were at same time, had to pick one or other Unam murals were a 20 minute stop on way to the one hour boat ride. You can buy food for 250 pesos optional. We did not take their van back at 430pm because we wanted to see coyoacan and took a cheap ubur directly back to or hotel 30 mins instead of wasting 2+ hours like we did in the morning. This tour is waste of $$ and of time.

I purchased two tickets to the tour and was then informed that the Frida Kahlo Museum was not included in the tour. At that point, tickets to the Frida Kahlo house were sold out and I was not able to receive a refund. If purchasing the tour, be sure to double check that you will get everything you are promised. I ended up cancelling and never received a refund.

The tour was advertised as Xochimilco, Frida Kahlo Museum, and UNAM murals from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. As soon as we got going, the guide said the tour would end at 5 or 6 p.m. The first stop was an unannounced, but obviously planned, visit to a silver store with other tour groups. After the UNAM stop, we made another unannounced stop, this time at the Azteca Stadium. We abandoned the tour soon after that because it was not what was promised.

Xochilmilco was a lot of fun though the cost of food is not included in the cost of the tour you can purchase a meal on the boat for $12 includes tons of food. Beers and sodas are available on the boat for 30/40 pesos and you can purchase drinks on passing boats. Mariachis are also available 150 pesos per song. You can pay with US dollars as well. Frida Kahlos house was very nice there are clean bathrooms and coffee shop there. I would have liked the tour guide to go through with us but it's fine.

It was an exhausting day. Too much time in the van just riding and picking people up. The Frieda Kahloe museum is a must see

The tour says 6 hrs but it was 9 hrs because of traffic. Traffic is an issue everyday so they should let tourist know that most of the time will be spent in the car : we spent 4 hrs touring the places and 5 hrs in the shuttle. Our tour guide was unpleasant in nature. . She was grumpy, on her phone most of the time, and was not engaging. We could of done without the “guide” and had a better experience. I would not recommend.

The tour guide NEVER showed up at the hotel on Sunday morning ( May 29th.) I had paid to go to the Frida Khalo Casa Azul, Coyoacán, and Xochimilco. After paying in advance, the agency sent me an email on Saturday at 1:30 AM saying that there were not available tickets to see Casa Azul. On Saturday morning, I sent three messages stating that I would take the tour without going to the Frida Khalo museum. When I called the tour agency on Sunday at 9:15 a.m, I was told that they didn’t check emails or messages on the weekends. Basically, they ignored my payment and reservation. It is unprofessional group of people running a “tour agency” without having communicating skills. If the “agency” is going to cancel the tour, they should let the tourists know in advance, so other plans can be made. I could have booked a more reliable tour and avoided a headache.

My niece and I booked a private tour of the Frida Kahlo Museum. Our guide was Estefania. The museum was wonderful and well worth the visit. What made our trip the most special was our guide Estefania. She was absolutely wonderful. She grew up in Mexico but has spent time in Spain (Barcelona) studying Art History. Her in depth knowledge was incredible. She was very impressive. She was also able to cater the tour to our interests. I would definitely recommend touring the Frida Kahlo Museum and I would recommend requesting Estefania to by your guide.

The tour was a small group with a very good driver and Ursula our guide was excellent. She handled the tour well with both Spanish and English. Although a shorter 6 hour tour it was in rushed with time for lunch on our own. We highly recommend this tour!

It is a good opportunity to see parts of Mexico City. The boat ride is a fun experience and the Frida Khalo Museum inspiring. If you do visit the museum you miss out on seeing Coyoacan. However, the day is rushed following a whole morning of being take to craft markets and souvenir places. These are good places to pick up some gifts. The guide was knowledgeable and narrated the trip well.

This tour was very disappointing. The guide picked us up at 8:30 and until 12:30 we have been in the van. We have only stopped at a tacky souvenir shop and in front of the 2 stadiums for 5 minutes to take a photo of them from outside. We didn't see the university nor the murals. The boat trip was nice, but the guide made us feel guilty at the end saying that the guy driving the boat doesn't get paid and pushed us for leaving him a tip. We barely saw coyacan and got immediately dragged to a churro place. When we finally got to Frida's house, we were expecting the guide to come with us to explain us about Frida's life and so on, but he waited in the van instead. The tour description was also saying that we were able to visit Trotski house if we wanted to (at our own expenses). I asked the tour guide about 3 times and they said it wasn't possible and he didn't know why it was mentioned in the tour description. I chose this tour appositely because of it. I wanted to see both Frida and Trotski houses and ended up spending a whole day in a van. I will have to go back tomorrow even if we had other plans for our last day in CDMX. We would like to get a refund as we saw half of the things mentioned in the tour description and basically spent all day in the van. Also, we chose this tour appositely because of the possibility to see Trotski house and the guide denied us the possibility to go saying they didn't know why it was mentioned in the description.

Loved the boat ride on the Xochimilco and home of Frida Khalo. Our guide, Enrique, was knowledgeable and our driver, very patient considering the traffic.

Loved the small group and our guide was excellent! We had a bilingual group and our guide Ursula was able to bring everyone in. A very fun and informative day ! Would highly recommend !

Interesting sites, however, the driver was texting while driving and the guide smelled of alcohol at 8:30 in the morning. He was not a great guide to say the least.

Our tour guide, Carlos, was amazing. The driver was great. His knowledge and overall attitude. Great

Guide & driver were kind, but tour is not advertised correctly and there was very little information or history shared. Also need more time spent outside van - morning felt wasted going to a souvenir market for almost an hour which was not advertised, and the little information about stops given to us was told to us from front of van when we could’ve just stepped outside and walked around. The morning time could’ve been spent more in coyoacan. The hour+ drive to the floating gardens was in complete silence, the guide had no history to share, points of interest, etc. Almost missed our stop at casa azul (self-guided) because tour guide had misinformation from company. Floating gardens was the highlight of this day trip but this part also didn’t feel like a tour - no history or background info was given to us. The driver did their best but this tour itinerary should be restructured and talking point materials should be supplied to guide in both English and Spanish. Lastly, the tour guide rarely had his face mask on inside the bus which is a real risk.

I could have done without the murals and gone straight to Xochilmo and then Casa Azul. There was a little confusion about entrance tickets to Casa Azul. Other than that, we had a great time.

They kept taking us to all these places that were not listed as part of the tour and "what to expect." For example, we stopped at a couple stadiums for some reason. Most of our time was spent on the tour van which just made the day more tiring. The best parts of the trip were the random street food (found at the silver shop at yet another unnecessary stop) and xochimilco which felt way too quick. When we got to coyacan, the guide wouldn't let us stop where we wanted to and made us go to a churro place. We finally got annoyed and told him that we're going to a coffee shop with or without him. We opted out of the Frida Kahlo Museum.

We booked a private tour and it was the best we could have done. Our guide was don Rafa, she was amazing, trying not only to take us to the places included as part of the booked tour but as many others he could. He is ver kind and knowledgeable. Coordination was very good, he picked us up at the hotel but given that the street was closed due to some events, we managed to communicate with us and align on the best place. He gives you tips on what to do or not to do when you are on certain places like in Las Trajineras in Xochimilco. I will keep using this site to book my tour. Don Rafa, fully recommended.

Excellent excursion but a guide with more fluency in the English language would have even made the tour better.

This tour sounds great but it is not what it seems. You only see the outside of the stadium at UNAM and in the distance you glimpse the library. You are taken to a tacky souvenir shop for 45 minutes! The food served on the boat at Xochimilco is way overpriced and poor quality. The back seat of the van has no suspension and the seat slides sideways when you turn corners. The on route information is minimal. I would not recommend this tour.

The two top tourist attractions outside of the area from the historic district out to Chapultepec Park are Coyoacán and Xochimilco; this tour combines both areas - the historic parts of Coyoacán, the Museo Frida Kahlo (avoiding the long lines to get in), and Xochimilco. You could do this on your own, but believe me, between the metro, waiting on line, the light rail, and walking, it's worth it to go with Viator for something like this. In addition, you get to meet interesting people - and riding on a trajinera with a group of people is a lot more fun than just with your traveling companion. On a side note, I've done this tour before, but this time brought someone else who had never been. After a confusing incident at the pickup location (we were told to get on a bus after showing the Viator confirmation) but unfortunately it was for another tour company - there were others on this bus going to numerous places and it left us all on the street near Bellas Artes but off the beaten path waiting for this other tour company to group people going to wherever they were supposed to go. Our Viator pickup arrived and, although we were 15 minutes early, we were not there; they waited; they contacted us, and picked us up at our unplanned location - which wasn't easy knowing CDMX morning traffic. We didn't miss a thing, and the rest of the people on the van didn't hate us for being the last, late ones. Thank you to the Viator/Encounter team, our guide Melissa (who is excellent) and our driver for making what could have been a let down into a wonderful day.

Mario was great. Very informative and kind man. The insight and history was great. Would do the tour again!!

It can't be denied that these sites are interesting and important unfortunately we got stuck with a terrible tour guide and it ruined half the experience. We were told to be at the hotel of our lobby at 8:30am but the guide didn't show up until 9am. At that point people were restless and had gone off to find coffee which made him have to wait 7 whole minutes for us to gather and he glared and scolded us that entire time. The unhappiness continued when he informed us that he had not secured the tickets to Frida Kahlo's house until 2 pm and because of that, in order to hit all the attractions we would need to SKIP LUNCH. This is a 7 hour tour for 14 people; you can't just ask that they don't eat (or they should have given us some warning to pack a lunch). The ridiculousness continue when he refused to help us find a bathroom two hours into the tour. He acted like this request was unreasonable and said we should have "planned" to not use the bathroom for longer! His explanations were cursory and in some cases inaccurate and when someone in the group would correct him he would get annoyed (he told us, for example, that Frida's father was Austrian - he was of German background). At the UNAM murals he only showed us two and then rushed us out (I think there are 8 total, including one that was *right across* from the large one in the library, and he didn't know about or care to explain). We had to wait another 35 minutes to get to Xochimilco to use the bathroom. Once we got to Coyoacan, we managed to convince him that we needed a snack (it was 1:10pm), he tried to convince us to go to the 7/11 and was VERY upset that we decided to go to a Taqueria instead (no one wanted stuff from 7/11). We bought him lunch thinking we could improve his mood but he acted annoyed again, that people needed to use the restroom (the nerve of humans who need to pee!) and rushed us to the Blue House. Thankfully he didn't enter the House with us so we had a reprieve but let us go with a warning to use the restroom before we left because he would not be stopping. On the way back we inquired whether he could make two stops so that some people could stay at the crafts market and the answer not surprisingly was "no" Our 7 hour tour ended 20 min early as our "very busy" tour guide rushed us through every site and we were dropped off at the hotel with the clear sense that we didn't get our money's worth. Mario's poor English we could have accepted but lack of knowledge = unacceptable

Frida Kahlo museum doesn’t accept Viator tickets so don’t waste your money. You can buy them online but not from Viator.

This tour from Viator was one of the better organized tours in CDMX. I had a wonderful time in Coyoacán spending time in the market and Frida Kahlo museum. The mosaics at UNAM we’re a marvel, especially the olympic stadium. The canals of Xochimilco were the best and they serve great food there as well.

Coyoacan and the Frida Kahlo house were great. Very interesting information about Cortes and the early days of the Spanish in Coyoacan, also beautiful church interior. Frida’s home also was very interesting and beautiful. A lot of art work and memorabilia. Loved this part of the tour. Xochimilco was a bit of a let down for me. You just ride down the main canal and back along with many other boats. Another boat sells you a meal and drinks which is good. I was hoping that we would take a short trip on the side canals and see a little more. Then University tour was not much to see but basically on the way back not that much out of the way. I’m glad that I took this tour .

Definitely for lovers of Frida, this is her house preserved for eternity, some fascinating facts about her an her life, loves and her art. Great location and well worth a visit, you do not have to be an art lover but it helps

The description of the tour sadly did not match the reality. First our pickup time was changed the day before from 9:00 to 10:30, changing the timing of the whole day. Yes, the actual places visited were worth seeing and experiencing, but from the moment we met our tour guide, it was more about him than about the places we had come to see. Yes, he has some knowledge about Mexican history that was interesting to hear, and about the artists whose works we viewed, but he took too many opportunities to turn the conversation to himself, what a great guide he was, his political views, etc. Beyond that, he kept up a high-pressure push for big tips for himself that put an uncomfortable edge on the day. The description of the boat ride in Xochimilco as a relaxing and beautiful experience was again marred by the high pressure sales efforts to buy extras while on the boat, and to make sure to appreciate the superior skill of our guide. The late start of our tour also made the day feel rushed; we ended up with only 20 minutes to find lunch near the Frida Kahlo Museum, which our guide handled by taking up to a less crowded but very expensive restaurant and tacking a huge tip onto the tab for fast service. The full hour ride back to our airbnb involved more of listening to our guide's opinions, some of which were not that well informed, and more high pressure sales pitch for a great tip at the end. He gave us a hand written "evaluation form" to fill out for his employer, because he had forgotten the actual forms. The kicker was the next day when we were on a delightful tour of Teotihuacan with an amateur guide (booked through airbnb) who had a genuine interest in the history and the astronomy associated with the temples/pyramids, and we ran into a tour group with our guide from the previous day. (He had told us that other guides would rip us off at Teotihuacan, and that all of the "theories" about the place were "lies".) He greeted us loudly and tried to grab us to say great things about him to the group he was leading, but I couldn't get away quickly enough. For what was supposed to be an economical tour, all of the extras and high pressure for tips made it more expensive than expected. The jaded attitude of the guide and his need to be the main focus of everything didn't help, either. Lesson learned. No more "economical tours".

If you love Frida this is a must do. Get there early or make your reservations in advance. We took a Viator tour which put us in the front of the line. They also took us to the University and down the canals. Great tour.

<p>This was a perfect combo tour when we didn't have the whole day for a longer tour of these places. Victor was an excellent, experienced tour guy who spoke fluent English, who knew tons about Mexican history and culture etc. Skipping the line at the Kahlo museum was important, even so it was very crowded on a Sunday afternoon. The floating gardens at Xochimilco are lovely and relaxing, not to be missed. Another time I would take more time on my own with Kahlo museum and walking around Coyoacan, which was brief because of our 1 pm museum tickets. Note this says full-day tour, but we were picked up at 9 and finished up by 2 pm would have been more like 3 but we skipped lunch after the museum.</p>

<p>A great day. Victor was a great guide. Highly recommended.</p>

<p>Too crowded, but crowds kept flowing nicely. I wanted photos and they were not allowed, later found out that you could pay for a photo pass, information not given at the entrance. Knowing that before entering the museum would have been nice. University city your was short, may have beeen avoided all together. Xochimilco needs work to keep with the Unesco designation, not bad but will skip next time.</p>