How much does two weeks in the Riviera Maya cost?

How much does two weeks in the Riviera Maya cost?

Three plans, 14 nights, one person, every line read from a source on 25 September 2026.

The ferry to Cozumel costs 80 pesos on Ultramar's cheapest fare, about 4.64 USD, and 380 pesos in First Class for the same crossing on the same boat. That is the shape of the Riviera Maya: the water, the ruins and the buses are cheap, and the bill arrives from the bed and the ticket window. Two weeks on this coast runs 450 USD a person or 18,219, through the same turnstiles. ^{12, 2, 13, 4}

So here are three plans for the same 14 nights, priced line by line. The fees come from Mexico's archaeological institute, the Quintana Roo tax portal, the bus and ferry operators, one hostel, one dive shop and two booking sites, all read on 25 September 2026. Pesos convert at 17.2454 to the dollar, the Federal Reserve's rate for 18 September. Wider country planning sits in MMT's Mexico travel guide. ⁴

The spread is 41 times over, and it is almost all bed. Take lodging out and the three plans run 274.86, 515.90 and 719.46 USD, and three-quarters of that spread is dive days. Choose the room and you have chosen the price of the trip. ^{2, 3, 13, 4}

Where does the money go on the cheapest plan?

On this plan the gates cost more than the bed. Five tickets come to 2,228 pesos and the paperwork to 1,266, which is 202.60 USD before anyone boards a bus. That is the floor under a Riviera Maya trip, and it is the same floor for a traveler in a dorm and for a guest at Grand Velas. Only the lodging line above it moves. ^{1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 5, 6, 4}

The 14 nights these budgets price

Four bases, one loop south down the coast and inland for the big ruins. Every priced transfer below appears in the fares table further down this page, and every ticket has a real price in the one before it. One connection, Tulum to Valladolid, has no confirmed fare; it is called out where it happens. ^{15, 16, 17, 12}

Valladolid is the one stop with no priced bed on this page. No Valladolid hotel publishes a rate you can read without a booking widget, so all 14 nights are priced at the Playa del Carmen dorm rate instead. Drop your own Valladolid quote into that line and the rest of the arithmetic holds. ²

Why do the Tulum ruins cost three tickets?

Three organizations collect money at the same gate, and each prints its own price. INAH, the federal archaeology institute, runs the archaeological zone. GAFSACOMM handles the site's services. CONANP charges for the national park the ruins stand inside. A foreign visitor pays all three: 210 plus 295 plus 120, so 625 pesos, about 36.24 USD, against the 210 that a single search result suggests. ^{1, 4}

Chichén Itzá inverts the ratio. INAH charges 105 pesos there, the same for everyone. Yucatán's tourism body, CULTUR, then adds 548 pesos for foreign tourists and 190 for Mexican nationals, and exempts residents of the state. The federal ticket ends up as 16 percent of what a visitor from abroad hands over at the gate. ⁸

Both sites close earlier than a slow morning expects. Tulum opens 08:00 and closes 17:00, with last entry at 15:30. Chichén Itzá runs 08:00 to 16:00, last access 15:00. Cobá takes its final visitors at 16:00. An afternoon arrival at any of the three is a wasted coach fare. ^{1, 8, 7}

What do the cenotes cost, and who collects the fee?

The cenotes belong to somebody, and the price follows the owner. Gran Cenote, on the road from Tulum toward Cobá, is administered by the local ejido, a Maya communal landholding whose members set the fee and take it at the entrance. Reported entry is 500 pesos for Mexicans and foreigners alike and 120 pesos for locals, with gear priced separately. ⁹

That is worth saying plainly, because the brochures rarely do. Mexico's 2020 census counted 774,755 speakers of Maayat'aan, Yucatec Maya, and the communities around these cenotes and ruins are the ones writing the rules, setting the prices and issuing the tickets today. The fee you hand over at Gran Cenote goes to a cooperative, not a park service. ^{23, 9}

• Gran Cenote, Tulum: 500 pesos general entry, 120 for locals, plus 50 pesos for a life jacket, 80 for snorkel gear and 30 for a locker. The ejido that runs it publishes no price page, so those figures come from a local guide site. ⁹
• Cenote Ik Kil, near Chichén Itzá: A round, open-roofed sinkhole with vines trailing down to the waterline and daylight falling straight through the shaft. Entry is 240 pesos with life jacket, locker and parking included, 150 pesos for children under 1.20 m, open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. ¹⁰
• The Ik Kil buffet package: 530 pesos, which adds a meal and one drink for 290 pesos over the entry ticket. It is the only restaurant price on this page read from an operator's own site. ¹⁰

Budget 740 pesos for these two cenotes and the swimming is paid for. Rental gear at Gran Cenote can add 160 pesos on top of that. Pack your own mask and the day gets cheaper by exactly that much. ^{9, 10}

Buses, the train and the ferry: what each leg costs

Every fare below is the operator's own figure, read on 25 September 2026.

A rental car is optional on this route, and the fares are the reason. ADO's coaches leave Cancún for Playa del Carmen every 15 to 30 minutes. The Tren Maya has run the Cancún to Playa del Carmen segment again since 15 August 2026. Ultramar's ferry crosses to Cozumel through the day, roughly every 30 to 90 minutes from about 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. ^{15, 18, 12}

One leg on this route has two prices in public. ADO's own site starts its airport coach to the Hotel Zone at 170 pesos; an independent fare blog quotes 95 pesos for what it calls the same run. The operator's figure is the one in the tables here, and the other one is in the box at the foot of this page. ^{14, 20}

What does a dive day in Cozumel cost?

A two-tank boat dive in Cozumel runs 95 to 135 USD across operators, and 115 USD at Pelagic Ventures with the marine-park fee and tax already inside the price. That 115 is the number to hold quotes against, because the park fee is the line most shops bill separately once you are standing on the dock. ²¹

Three dive days at 115 USD is 345 USD, the largest optional line in the luxury column of the first table and the easiest one to move. MMT's Cozumel diving budget prices a longer dive trip in full, and marine park and conservation fees covers the charges that land after the quote. ²¹

Is Tulum expensive, and what does a day here cost?

Tulum is expensive at the gate and ordinary on the bus. The ruins cost a foreign visitor 625 pesos, three times the 210 a quick search suggests, and Gran Cenote asks 500 more. The ADO coach down from Playa del Carmen is 90 to 136 pesos. Put those together, at the top of the coach range, and a big Tulum day costs about 1,261 pesos of tickets and fares, roughly 73 USD, whatever the room costs. ^{1, 9, 16, 4}

• The bed. 12.50 USD against 238.00 against 1,250.00 a night. Nothing else on this page has that range. ^{2, 3, 13}
• The ferry class. 80 pesos or 380 pesos, same boat, same crossing. ¹²
• Who you are at the gate. Yucatán residents skip the 548-peso state fee at Chichén Itzá, Quintana Roo residents pay 45 pesos of Tulum's 295-peso service fee, and Tulum residents enter their own ruins free. ^{8, 1}
• Whether you dive. Zero to 345 USD across the same fortnight, on one operator's published price. ²¹

Your card moves the number too, quietly, a few pesos at a time. MMT's guide to foreign transaction fees and exchange rates shows how to read a payment quote, and ATM fees abroad covers the cash side, which matters here because the cenote gate and the city bus both want pesos in hand. ⁴

What should you do first?

Five things. Three before you fly, one at the airport, one every morning of the trip. Each one has a price or a time above, and each one is cheaper done early than at a counter in Terminal 3.

1. 01

   Pay the state tourist tax at visitax.gob.mx

   Quintana Roo requires VISITAX of every foreign tourist under Article 51 octies of its Law of Rights, and the state names its own portal as the only place the tax is collected. Pay before you fly and keep the receipt on your phone. ¹¹

2. 02

   Find the entry permit on your airline ticket

   Mexico's tourist entry permit, the FMM, is reported at 983 pesos for 2026, and air travelers usually have it bundled into the fare as a tourism-tax line. Look for it on the receipt before paying a second time at the airport. A 14-night stay falls outside the seven-day waiver. ⁵

3. 03

   Buy the data before you land

   Airalo's Mexico eSIM runs on Movistar at 26.00 USD for 10 GB over 30 days with 100 minutes and 100 texts, or 62.00 USD for 30 days of unlimited data. Either one covers the whole fortnight in a single purchase; a 15-day unlimited plan is 43.00 USD. ²²

4. 04

   Take the ADO coach out of the airport

   ADO's airport bus to Punta Cancún in the Hotel Zone starts at 170 pesos and takes about 45 minutes, with up to nine departures a day from Terminals 2, 3 and 4. A zone taxi is 350 to 550 pesos for the whole car, so with three people and bags, price both. ^{14, 20}

5. 05

   Put the big ruins in the morning

   Tulum's last entry is 15:30 and Chichén Itzá's last access is 15:00, and the coaches from the coast take time. Book the early bus, carry pesos for the gate, and keep the afternoon for a cenote. ^{1, 8, 16}

Think in pesos. Every government fee, ruin ticket, cenote entry, bus fare and ferry seat on this page is set in pesos; the dive, the dorm bed and the eSIM quote in dollars. At 17.2454 pesos to the dollar, the fixed stack of permits and tickets is 202.60 USD a person, and the rest of the trip is a choice about the room. ^{4, 2, 21, 22}