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Experience Mexico City: Cantinas, Lucha Libre and Mariachi in Garibaldi Square
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Ready to get up close and personal with one of Mexico’s most popular sports? It’s going to get exciting!
Our unique Mexico City tour (say that ten times fast!) starts at a typical Mexican pub called a cantina. Here, you’ll enjoy a couple drinks (at your own expense) and get to know the rest of the travelers on your tour. Most importantly, though, your local Urban Adventures guide will give you a briefing of what’s in store for the rest of the evening, including the basic rules of the eccentric lucha libre.
As we drink, you’ll learn about the story of tequila and mezcal, and your guide will get you up to date on Mexico’s world famous party culture, from mariachis and jarochos to banda music.
To keep the excitement of the night going, we’ll head to another cantina by the Mexican musician’s square of Garibaldi, where we will experience Mexican Mariachi music and many other Mexican music bands. We’ll enjoy the atmosphere of the square for about an hour before heading out to the arena to support the best “Luchadores” of the country.
Lucha libre (aka Mexican wrestling), is the second-most watched sport in Mexico, and hands down one of the most exciting things you can do while visiting Mexico City. For a truly local experience, we’ll hop on the subway to the Arena Mexico to catch the fight. We’ll get you good seats in the arena so you can truly live the experience and see the best matches of the night.
Immerse yourself in the crazy, exciting, energetic atmosphere of the arena and really get into it - scream and whistle whatever you want, while you experience unique and dramatic lucha libre moves like La Quebradora, El Martineta, La Segadora, and many others. You’ll watch some of the best wrestlers in the country in an experience that will leave you awestruck for the two hours you spend at the lucha libre.
At the end of this unreal experience, you will have time to buy some souvenirs, like the mask of the best wrestler you saw in the show, so you can take some fun photos with your masks on.
After all the dancing, singing, drinking, and cheering, we’ll be ready to go back to where it all began, our meeting point, where your guide will offer suggestions for where to continue the party. If you prefer to hit the hay, you can take a cab back to your hotel with the help of your local tour guide.
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Our unique Mexico City tour (say that ten times fast!) starts at a typical Mexican pub called a cantina. Here, you’ll enjoy a couple drinks (at your own expense) and get to know the rest of the travelers on your tour. Most importantly, though, your local Urban Adventures guide will give you a briefing of what’s in store for the rest of the evening, including the basic rules of the eccentric lucha libre.
As we drink, you’ll learn about the story of tequila and mezcal, and your guide will get you up to date on Mexico’s world famous party culture, from mariachis and jarochos to banda music.
To keep the excitement of the night going, we’ll head to another cantina by the Mexican musician’s square of Garibaldi, where we will experience Mexican Mariachi music and many other Mexican music bands. We’ll enjoy the atmosphere of the square for about an hour before heading out to the arena to support the best “Luchadores” of the country.
Lucha libre (aka Mexican wrestling), is the second-most watched sport in Mexico, and hands down one of the most exciting things you can do while visiting Mexico City. For a truly local experience, we’ll hop on the subway to the Arena Mexico to catch the fight. We’ll get you good seats in the arena so you can truly live the experience and see the best matches of the night.
Immerse yourself in the crazy, exciting, energetic atmosphere of the arena and really get into it - scream and whistle whatever you want, while you experience unique and dramatic lucha libre moves like La Quebradora, El Martineta, La Segadora, and many others. You’ll watch some of the best wrestlers in the country in an experience that will leave you awestruck for the two hours you spend at the lucha libre.
At the end of this unreal experience, you will have time to buy some souvenirs, like the mask of the best wrestler you saw in the show, so you can take some fun photos with your masks on.
After all the dancing, singing, drinking, and cheering, we’ll be ready to go back to where it all began, our meeting point, where your guide will offer suggestions for where to continue the party. If you prefer to hit the hay, you can take a cab back to your hotel with the help of your local tour guide.
Included
- Local bilingual tour guid
- Public transportation
- Souvenir - a wrestler mask
- Visit to different cantinas
Not included
- Gratuities
- Entrance fee to clubs
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Food and drinks
Additional
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Minimum age is 18 years
- We recommend dressing conservatively as we will be visiting non-touristy areas. Long trousers or jeans and a t-shirt is recommended. Leave your valuables, such as passports and credit cards, in the hotel and bring a small amount of spending cash. During the rainy season (May to September) we recommend bringing a raincoat or umbrella.
- For your Urban Adventure you will be in a small group of a maximum of 12 people
- No cameras or bottles are allowed in the arena. If you bring a camera you will have to leave it at the entrance in the camera storage. Pictures with cellphones are allowed without flash.
- The order of the activities varies on Sundays because we go to the Lucha Libre first.
- Please note that if the group size exceeds 8 persons then we will take private transport instead of public transport.
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Most travelers can participate
Features
Tourism
95%
Original
80%
Cultural
75%
Nightlife
15%
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First viator tour I have experienced that was nearly a complete disapointment. This tour featured using public transportation, eating first at a cantina, then going to Luche Libre, followed by an hour of dancing/singling at Garibaldi Square. Finally drop off at a pub near Zocolo. In contrast to the description, this is what happened. First we were taken to a bar to drink for over 1/2 hour. Many of us hadnt eaten, expecting to go to cantina first, so we were not pleased, We seemed to be waiting for a driver. Our van not public transport arrived and then took us to the tequila museum at Garibaldi Sq. Altho this was not on the itinerary, we stayed there for over 1/2 hour and then were asked to test some cheap tequila. By then it was 730 and many were starving. We walked across the square, entered a mediocre restaurent. It was not a traditional cantina. It offered OK food, nothing special. while OK, it was the worst food we had in CDMX while discovering places on our own Since we were running late we were asked to order simple things like tacos. We only had 1/2 hour to order, eat, and pay so it was very rushed. No singing and dancing to Mariachi band in the Square. Luche Libre was indeed entertaining. After LL we got into the van and were dropped off in a dark alley blocks away from the Zocolo, not at a pub close to Zocolo I would recommend this trip if Viator can guarantee it will be as advertised. Otherwise I would go to Luche Libre on my own.
This definitely was the best tour I took in México. The tour guide was great, explaining everything we saw and experienced. The lucha libre was awesome, the part I had less expectations and it was a great experience, I had a really fun time. The visit to Plaza Garibaldi was great, even though I think we got short in time or I'd had like to spend more time strolling in the Plaza after dinner. I recommend this tour.
Easily the worst experience of our time in Mexico City. The guide was 30 minutes late, we walked forever to the cantina. and what we thought was going to be a tour of several cantina turned out to be one sit down dinner at one cantina with occasional appearance of a Mariachi. Dinner was incredibly long. We us sat there talking with our friends. Thought we were going to tour several cantinas then go out on the square to listen to music before being bused to the arena. Didn't happen. Then when we got to the arena, there was a mixup on times and tickets and we stood outside on the street for a long, long time, then got to our seats 20 minutes late. A pretty much wasted evening.
This was a great way to experience night life in Mexico City! Our plane was late so we were late in trying to meet up with the group, but our guide Milton was very helpful and accommodating. The earthquake happened during this time as well, so everyone was scrambling to get things back on track. Everything was well organized and very professional.