COSTA MAYA, MEXICO (MAHAHUAL)
we visited Costa Maya in 2015 on our Princess cruise.
Transportation, there are not any taxis right where you get off the ship, there are little open air shuttles that will take you to the downtown part of Mahahual 5 to 10 min ride, its about $3 each, it was a little bit of a bottleneck, alot of people all heading that direction. from there you can hang out at the beach , shops, etc. and taxis to where ever else you want to go, here is a good site that talks about taxis in Cost Maya and good info for taxis in general for Mexico. i found out later that it is also an option to walk out of the port area 5 min to main street plaza taxi stop MAP here ,that is what i will do next time.
There are a couple Myan ruins accessible from Costa Maya, we went to the Chacchoben Mayan ruins, we took the little open air shuttle (about $3) that took you a couple miles to a shop and beach area, from there we took a taxi to Chacchoben (here it is on the map), it cost about $5 each to get in the park, there were 6 of us (we made a little group out of some friends we made on the ship) the taxi was about $120 round trip and he waited there a couple hours and took us back to the ship, so it cost us about $25 each, we did not have a guided tour, and didn’t really want one, but could have paid for one at the park if we wanted. a taxi for 1-4 would have been about $80, so if there are just 2 of you the local tour may do just as well for you.
so you have an idea what it would have cost as an excursion (per person)– through the ship on Princess is $89, Royal Caribbean $94 or you can go with a local tour for $55
