Guatemala Tours and Trips for Young Adults

What an incredible experience of a part of Central America. Guatemala took my breath away and I would highly recommend this tour to anyone considering Latin America. The activities, the pace, the nature and cultural experience was a perfect balance. My only regret is not staying on the second leg of the tour to continue onto Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador.

This trip is an ideal way to experience Central America, which has a mix of fast-paced immersive activities as well as quieter spots to chill out. The amount of travel is just right considering the distance and number of countries covered, but do expect potentially long waits at border crossings. The optional activities are definitely worth doing, and the homestay was a nice highlight. Prepare for not-so-warm showers! If you decide to climb the volcano at the homestay, prepare for a difficult 10 hour hike. Our guide, Ana, was brilliant from beginning to end - she was particularly good at communicating and giving updates as well as making sure everybody felt comfortable and happy. She was also excellent at constantly providing recommendations on places to eat and drink and we always felt she was part of the group, not just the guide. Overall, I would highly, highly recommend this tour to anybody.

What an experience! Jungles, beaches, caves, volcanoes.. and the food! Sure, the optional activities are an extra expense that can feel expensive, but they are, on this trip, worth every penny!

Very thankful for the CEOs for making the trip so safe and fun Improvements to be made on some accomodations especially with the weather Wished the optional activities can be cheaper / more to be included in the itinerary

The tour is fast paced but I still felt like we had enough down time. You definitely get great experiences that aren't possible for ordinary solo travellers such as their planeterra supported community visits which were so amazing!

Positives- travel times were short and smooth. Accomodation was good overall. The rest -Our TM wasn't attentive to the group as a whole and picked favorites. He went first through most lines, border crossings, planes etc and didn't always wait for the last people in the group to get through. Nightclubs were the only recommended evening activities in each place. Our TM didn't care if girls got home safely from nightlife, he told us he wasn't responsible for any of us. There was a push to be involved by the TM in nightlife and for everyone to be paying for open bar at every place. We weren't given the option to do entry only. Our TM got irritated at people asking to do entry fee only, made us feel like we were rude for asking for more information. Poor communication from the TM and a disjointed trip with late supply of day sheets that weren't clear. Our TM shared minimal/incorrect/no information on regions culture, background, history of places we went to. We ended up just googling things overselves. It felt like we had really short turn around at historic sites, like Chitcehnza we had a brief guided tour then were given 20min free time to explore the rest of Chitcehnza including the 10min walk back to the meeting point. (although that did mean we had longer at the cenote, which was good). A similar experience at Teotihuacan. The places we were taken for included dinners were terrible. The optional dinners were expensive for the regions and terrible food also. Places I found myself by googling outside of the recommendations were 1000x better and cheaper al it is possible do to better. The only good food places were on Caye caulker. But they were expensive compared to other places on the island and breakfasts that were meant to be included were not fully, I had to pay extra myself to cover the 10% service fee for our included breakfast for 3 mornings. We weren't told to budget for the Ubers/taxis that we needed multiple times a day to get around for included activities and dinners.