Trips To Mexico City is an independent guide to the city, written and maintained by Samer Alqaisi. It is part of a network that includes Trips To The World and separate guides to Istanbul, Madrid, New York, Dublin, Prague, Budapest, Vienna, Edinburgh, Dubai, Cairo, Sydney, Toronto and Hong Kong.
What this site is trying to be
Mexico City is written up either as a warning or as a food destination, and both miss what makes it strange: it is a city of twenty-two million people at 2,240 metres, built on the bed of a lake that was deliberately drained, sinking into it, and shaken by earthquakes that originate hundreds of kilometres away.
So this site gives that its own article — The Lake Under the City — and treats the practical consequences seriously: the altitude, the seismic alert and what the safety picture actually is.
It also points out the small things: that the trajineras at Xochimilco are priced per boat, not per person, that a quesadilla here does not automatically contain cheese, and that the federal museums are free on Sundays to residents, which makes Sunday the worst day to visit them and the best day to watch the city use them.
How it is researched
Opening times, ticket structures and access rules come from the venue’s own source and are dated on the page. Where a price is not shown, it is because it has not been checked recently enough to print.
Some things here move: access to the Palacio Nacional has been opened, restricted and suspended repeatedly since it became a presidential residence, and climbing rules at Teotihuacán have changed more than once. This site says check rather than printing a rule that may have lapsed.
Corrections are made quickly and acknowledged.
How it is funded
Advertising and some affiliate links, mainly hotel and flight search. If you book through one, the site may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.
What that does not buy: no hotel, restaurant, tour operator or attraction has paid for a mention or a position here. No sponsored posts, no paid placements, no press trips.
Where something is not worth the money, the page says so — which is why the Teotihuacán entry recommends the public bus over an organised tour, and why the Day of the Dead entry explains that the parade was invented for a James Bond film in 2016 and points you to the cemeteries instead.
Photographs
The photographs on this site are not the author’s. They come from Wikimedia Commons under licences permitting reuse, and every one is credited beside the image and again at /credits/.
Corrections and contact
If something here is wrong or out of date — a price, an opening day, a closure — please say so. Specific corrections with a date or a link are the most useful kind.
The contact form goes to a person, or write to [email protected].