Tour Reviews

Louise
Canada
Mayan Experience
NCL Sun

Amazing Experience

I highly recommend this shore excursion! Ivan our tour guide was very knowledgeable and shared his passion with us. Having lunch in the village was an experience I will never forget. It was authentic delicious food.

Please don't change a thing.

Phillip
Ohio
Dzibanche Ruins Premier
Norwegian

Wonderful tour!!!

We book this tour online. This was our second trip to Costa Maya. There is not a whole lot to do in the port town. We decided to do something adventures and explore some ruins. The van was shiny and clean. We traveled with a group of eight. The drive to the ruins was a little over two hours. Our guides were fantastic! Joel informed and entertained us the whole journey. I have been on several ruin tours but this by far was the best. Joel, a native Mayan, shared his Mayan history with passion and great respect.
When we arrived at the ruins our tour group was the only ones there. I felt like a real explorer. The area is full of ruins. We saw locals in the process of restoring many of the buildings. It is hard to imagine this area without trees. Even the grounds were covered in concrete underneath layers of dirt. In its day it must have been awe inspiring.
I left the tour wanting to learn more....take the tour...you will not regret it :)

Dave McKissick
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Chacchoben Ruins
NCL Sun

Chacchoben Ruins Tour

This was a wonderful tour. A 10 minute walk from the pier, air conditioned bus with free Wi-Fi (while in the city), free water and we stopped for fresh pineapple.

Our guide (David) was very informative and engaging.
We saved 1/2 the price by booking through Native Choice.

I highly recommend this to anyone.

Caroline Flinn
Durham, NC
Chacchoben Extreme
Royal Caribbean Vision of the

Great Day!

We had a large group from both NC and FL - all cruising together. I had seen this excursion listed in reviews on a few sites, including TripAdvisor and suggested it to our travel agent several weeks prior to our cruise.

She made the arrangements for us and this ended up being one of our best days during the week-long cruise. Rose was our guide and Raul was our driver - they were both awesome! The van seemed brand new and was very comfortable. The ruins were very impressive and the lagoon and accompanying facilities were absolutely beautiful. Lunch was great and the pineapple we had along the road was fantastic.

The only problem we had was finding the Native Choice building and getting set to go (we ended up with a late start). But once we took off we had a blast!

Robert colton
Orlando fl
Chacchoben Ruins
Princess Caribbean

Tour guide Ivan

Just wanted to say how much my family and I enjoyed our tour and especially our guide Ivan this was by far our highlight of our cruise and I'm so glad he was our guide I could see he went the extra mile for our group well done Ivan

Fred Feurer
Ohio
Dzibanche Ruins Premier
Carnival Pride

A must do!!!

We are so glad we took a chance by not use the ship's excursion and went with The Native Choice instead. Their web sight way under sells the magnitude of this tour. You could literally send the hole day there and not see it all.

Our driver and tour guide were great, very friendly and full of information. It did take 2 hours to get to the sight, but we knew that when we booked it, but it was very comfortable ride and again, so worth it.

Regina George-Berry
Lees Summit, MO
Dzibanche Ruins Premier
NCL Dawn

Awesome Experience

This was our first visit to experience an awesome history site of the Maya ruins. We learned so much from Kasi who was so knowledgeable about the Mayans. The trip from the ship was well worth the travel time to Dzibanche Maya Ruins.

Kasi, thanks again for sharing so much with us.

Shawn and Toshi
Gainesville, GA
Chacchoben Ruins
Carnival Sunshine

Best of the Best!!

Cannot possibly find enough vivid, eloquent words to describe our experience with Erick our guide to Chacchoben. Erick's father worked on the excavation of Chacchoben so Erick actually grew up around the ruins giving him even greater insight to the history and impact of the site. We learned so much not only about the history of the Maya, but also the environment, economy, agriculture, and daily life of the region. I really, really, appreciated the visual and tactile learning aids that Erick continually produced from his magical backpack. Artifacts, maps, pictographs on Mayan paper, illustrations, and of course his amazing white board for all other explanations.

We had a small group (about 12) of all ages so we could ask questions and get clear answers. Abel was our very able ;) van driver getting us safely over and around all bumps in the road.
Booking with The Native Choice is a superb and smart choice!

Don't hesitate to save money and yet support the local economy directly.