Huge place, you can stay all day long and have a lot of activities. There is a Publo Maya, very interesting. Also, a lot of birds or kinds and butterflies. They even breed them so I saw a 15 day recent born guacamaya, amazing. There is a river where you can swim for 800 m. Five restaurants with good food and a lot of other activities.

Great fun! We spent the day here, and it was great! Lots to do, different things to see! Our favourite part was swimming with the turtles in the snorkelling pool. The staff are so lovely and helpful & the food is brilliant too.

I enjoyed it very much. The scuba stingray experience was one of a kind. The nature and animals were beautiful. Went during Day of The Dead fest, well worth it. The show at the end was the best part Cons: expensive One and done type of attraction The river is man made, the "rock" on the left is pretty much wallpaper

It's an outstanding park. It's, in my opinion, a lot better than any park in Orlando. The reason for that is because it's in perfect harmony with nature. They respect and take care of it. You can do so many things. Activities like swimming in the river, snorkeling, visit the aquarium, the aviary, the butterflies, pumas +++. There are also excellent shows during the day and evening

Xcaret has a bit of everything, from a Mayan village, to an amazing aviary, butterfly dome, orchid greenhouse and flowers, animals, archaeological sites, beaches, water based activities and a spectacular show. We managed to have a good wander round and see an overview of everything in 1 day but didn’t do any additional paid activities or the included river swim, you could easily spend multiple days here. We visited during the Festival of Life and Death which was an even more special experience. This combines lots of highlights of Mexico in one place and we really enjoyed ourselves and learnt a lot during our visit.

For starters it’s not as big as you think but you can take all day to go round various parts at a relaxing pace and rest in between. Do your “wet” activities first, get some lunch, have a rest on the beach, then go round the rest of it. The evening show is good and worth getting an Xcaret Plus ticket which includes your lunch and the evening show. There are plenty of drinking water top up places so buy one bottle of drink and top up as you go round. The locker system is good so you don’t have to carry your stuff round all day. Plenty of photo opportunities as you go round but the professional photos are very expensive.

We have now done both Xcaret and Xelha. Here are our observations: Xcaret—more culturally oriented. Animals, ruins, cultural exhibits, lazy river, beach, and nighttime spectacular. Xelha—more actively oriented. Mangroves float, ziplines, ropes courses, huge water slides and crazy bridge, etc. Regarding Xcaret, we stayed at the Hard Rock Riviera Maya. 20 minutes away—which was wonderful. We were some of the first to arrive. We chose to do the dolphin experience—which was spectacular. If some in your party aren’t swimming with the dolphins, there is a viewing area. You will get some pictures and videos, but it will be from a distance and not directly facing you. The picture packages for the dolphins are ridiculously priced. Xcaret and Xelha have the park phot package. You can scan your wristband on something like 60 cameras placed throughout the park and they load into your online account. The kids loved finding them and taking crazy pictures. The show is really good—but it makes for a really, really long day. Still, I recommend doing it. Great experience!

Full day needed to see all they have. Underground river a blast; jaguars were awesome to see as were the butterflies and birds in the aviaries. Evening show fun and good history attached to dancing seen.

Amazing day out with lots to do. Top tips do the water activities first. We did the Cenote/underground river then spent some time at the beach before getting changed into dry clothes Animals: We loved seeing the animals the butterfly sanctuary and bird aviary were beautiful with waterfalls and bridges too. There are also turtles, flamingos, monkeys, jaguars. They also have an aquarium with lots of marine life. You can do optional activities such as swim with dolphins and sharks. We chose not to do this as there was so much to do already and we have done this activity elsewhere Food: We chose to do the plus package which includes a buffet lunch. There are a choice of restaurants and the food was really good lots of variety and delicious. Show: The show at night was amazing so so good. Well worth staying for. Top tip would get there early we got there about an hour and half early and seats were starting to fill up. Overall such an amazing day actually wish we got there earlier. We booked a tour through our rep and didn’t arrive until 11am would recommend arriving earlier if you can.

We had a fabulous time at Xcaret. It's hard to describe - a mash up of a theme park, botanic gardens, a zoo, and a celebration of Mexico. It's like if the Smithsonian museum system was built around Mexican Culture and oriented for fun. Absolutely worth the money - which was a pleasant surprise. Go early if you can and do the water activities before the park becomes too crowded, then make sure to visit the attractions around the Mayan village.