Affiliate disclosure
How this site makes money, what that commission does not buy, and where every number on it comes from.
The short version
This site earns a commission when you book a tour through one of its links. You pay the same price either way — the commission comes out of the operator's side, not yours. It does not change which tours appear here or the order they appear in.
Who we are, and who we are not
Xunantunich Mayan Ruins Tours is an independent guide. We are not the Xunantunich Archaeological Reserve, we are not Belize's National Institute of Culture and History (NICH), and we are not a tour operator. We do not sell entry tickets and we cannot admit you to the site.
Site admission is sold by NICH, at the gate or through their own channels. Tours are sold by the operators who run them, through Viator. We are a third party that reads those listings, compares them, and links to them.
How the links work
Every tour link on this site goes to that tour's own listing on Viator, carrying a tracking code that tells Viator we sent you. If you book within Viator's tracking window, we receive a percentage of Viator's fee. Links are marked rel="sponsored" in the page's HTML so search engines can identify them too.
You are booking with Viator and the tour operator, not with us. Your payment, your confirmation, your cancellation and any dispute are between you and them. We never see your card details or your booking.
What the commission does not buy
- Operators cannot pay to be listed here. Nobody on this site has paid us for placement, and nobody has been offered the chance.
- Order is not for sale. Tours are ordered by rating and review volume. A tour paying a higher commission does not move up.
- We list tours we would not recommend. Where a tour costs more and delivers less, we say so on its own card, in the same words we would use if there were no commission.
- Non-refundable tours are marked non-refundable, even though saying so costs bookings.
Where the numbers come from
Prices, ratings, review counts, durations and inclusions come from each tour's live Viator listing.
They will drift. Operators change prices, run promotions, and accumulate reviews. Some listings on this site were already running a promotion when we read them. Treat every figure here as a guide and the live listing as the truth — the price you see at checkout is the price, not the one we printed.
Where a listing contradicts itself, we say nothing rather than guess. If a tour's inclusion list omits lunch but its itinerary mentions one, we do not promise you lunch.
Facts about the ruins
Anything on this site about Xunantunich itself — hours, admission, the height of El Castillo, the excavation history — comes from NICH or from published archaeology, not from tour marketing copy. Where the two disagree, we follow NICH. Where we cannot verify a claim, we leave it out, even when operators repeat it.
Questions
If something here is wrong, out of date, or reads like an advert we have not disclosed, tell us: get in touch.