Country Info
- Guatemala
- Capital
- Quetzal (GTQ)
- Currency
- 12,974,361
- Population
- GT
- Country Code
Flores Slideshow
Top Hotels in Flores
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Peten Esplendido Flores
24 reviews -
Mayan Internacional Flores
4 reviews
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Villa Maya Flores
42 reviews -
Hotel Casa Amelia Flores
39 reviews
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Hotel Casazul Flores
27 reviews
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Mirador Del Lago Flores
18 reviews -
Hotel Isla De Flores
6 reviews
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Gran Hotel De La Isla Flores
12 reviews
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Hotel Peten Flores
27 reviews
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Hotel Casona de la Isla Flores
56 reviews
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Hotel Casona del Lago Flores
23 reviews
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Hotel Jaguar Inn Santa Elena Flores
3 reviews
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Hotel Mayab Flores
5 reviews
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Hotel Villa del Lago Flores
29 reviews
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Hotel Villa Margarita Flores
4 reviews
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La Lancha Lodge Flores
103 reviews
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Hotel y Restaurante El Peregrino Flores
Flores
Travel Blogs from Flores, Guatemala
The Last of Guatemala
This is a top pick! ... years later), the locals were worshipping a statue of the horse as a manifestation of the Mayan rain god, Chac. Flores is nice, though everything is geared toward the tourist industry. Lots of travel agencies, hotels, and non-typico restaurants. ...
Survivor
This is a top pick! I woke up very early in Antigua and a shuttle brought me to the Guatemala airport. I got out at the domestic airport. It wasn't an airport really. They brought me to this office where they brought people in to check in. It was boring to be there. But the ...
Flores and Tikal
This is a top pick! ... didn't do it for me (but I will come back at some point and check out the Yucatan area and maybe reassess my option). However Guatemala is an amazing place. It seems to be so much more greener than Mexico. We are only here for five days but, given the ...
Breaking and entering
This is a top pick! Even though I was in bed by about 20.00, I donīt feel remarkably good today and nor does Dave. We are due to leave today but first have to pick up our laundry from down the road. Noone there. Go for breakfast. Return to ...
Flores and the Money Man
This is a top pick! ... machine and pulled out about ten cards and said take which one is yours, ahhh the double edged sword of the convenience of Guatemala. And, of course, there was no money in my account. Money Man managed to clear out my account in one day ...
Ahh! You Want a Bribe?
This is a top pick! ... we help a corrupt customs guy, especially when we're near the end of our trip and are basically broke! On the Guatemala side of the border things changed. The road went from being fairly well kept to majorly bumpy with massive (I mean ...
Flores, Tikal and Rio Dulce
This is a top pick! ... half hence we started from Mexico and worked our way south and around. We were quite looking forward to seeing Antigua again and Guatemala is generally a pretty cool place to go. From Belize, we made our way over the land border to Guatemala but on ...
Crossing another border
This is a top pick! Today I left Belize and entered Guatemala. Back to speaking spanish again. It is an AMAZING country ... amazingly cheap too. I went to the ATM machine for the first time and had no problems. I was so happy it worked, I took out $100 Quetzales, grabbed my ...
North to Mayan ruins
This is a top pick! Was scary arriving in Guatemala City last night. Was only about 1900 but was pitch black and for ages we didnīt see a soul on the streets just steel shutters across EVERY building. Not encouraging. We did find some people eventually and ...
Mayan mystique meets Star Wars
This is a top pick! Waking up to the eery silence of the jungle before dawn we boarded the 5AM bus for the town of Flores, Guatemala, deciding to take the direct route and skip Bonampak and Yaxchilan. Mexico was proving a strain on the budget, and we had bigger Mayan ruins ...
Illegal Alien
This is a top pick! ... . I got my passport stamped but later learned from other travelers that that was the Belize exit stamp. So I had no entry stamp for Guatemala and I am an illegal alien. Apparently, there was a small shack I was supposed to stop at for the stamp but the ...
Flores - Lakeside Retreat
This is a top pick! ... tour just a few hours after we had set off. We spent the majority of the afternoon securing tickets for a flight to Guatemala City the following day. Eventually, having walked to the airport and back, we established that it was actually cheaper to get ...
Sunrise Over Tikal
This is a top pick! ... Iīm battered but its been a top day today. We woke up at 3am for a bus ride to tikal, which is 1 and half hours from Flores where we are staying. At the gate like a typical englishman I got a cup of tea and walked with the rest of the group through ...
ticking off Tikal
This is a top pick! ... 6.00am and rounded up some more backpackers around town including 3 lads that I'd met up in the San cristobal hostel. The journey to Guatemala is all set up by the travel agents in palenque town and by the time you arrive in Flores, everybody who went to ...
Ho, ho, ho and a bottle of rum
This is a top pick! Go to the internet, call my sister to wish her a belated happy birthday. Go to the supermarket and buy cream cheese and crackers. Discover Bacardi Gold is about 3 pound fifty a bottle. Sit on the balcony with the rum and coke. Meet a couple ...
Flores & Tikal.
This is a top pick! ... or so required to see the most important ruins. Some of the climbs included very high rickety ladders. Time to leave Guatemala behind. The traditional Mayan people are just lovely. They are small people, gentle, caring with colourful clothes. They never ...
Eastern Guatemala
This is a top pick! ... accountant from Idaho, we felt our odds of him using us as drug trafficking "mules" was pretty low. (Key facts about Guatemala: the largest Central American country population wise with about 14 million people, 44 percent of whom are Mayan. About the ...
Rebel base on Yavin IV: Flores, Guatemala
This is a top pick! ... that we tried to get out of Flores as quick as possible, it was expensive (in relation to most of Guatemala). Today (Friday) we then headed for Dangriga in Belize via Belmopan. We bought our ticket from Flores to ...
Guatemala the Mayan land
This is a top pick! ... the people, Belizian people make it appear as though they are very busy doing nothing (or it may be true!!). Our crossing into Guatemala was pretty straightforward if not a tad costly, but it saved us on time. you pay monies to various offficials, but ...
Talk Like An Egyptian
This is a top pick! Flores, Guatemala - Maybe it's just the latitude talking but I feel like I am getting close to home. Ten countries into my overland trip from southern Brazil to the Pacific Northwest and there is only the vast nation of Mexico separating me from the good ...
Flores
This is a top pick! ... did it and he was covered with injuries and bruises. San Ignacio itself isn't that great so we decided to leave early to Flores, Guatemala for Tikal Ruins. On our way to Flores we came across the infamous coyotes. These are local ticket touts who try to ...
Flores - the fragrant city, thatīs city with an sh
This is a top pick! Flores is a beautiful if touristy paradise in northern Guatemala. The small city is located in the middle of a huge lake accessible by bridge. It is a welcomed contrast to Coban, the Pflugerville of Guatemala (or the Croydon of Guatemala to those in the ...
Tikal and bruising my bum!
... from the beer soaked sweaty gringo. I'm not going to go into too much detail about the tour, but if you are ever in Guatemala or Central America, this is the mother of all Maya ruins. We are shown a small scale version and the guide informs us of the ...
Flores
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from Flores and Tikal in our entry from Antigua, Guatemala entitled 'The Last of Our Real Adventures - For a While......'. Cheers, K & ...
Machismo
This is a top pick! ... . As an attitude, machismo ranges from a personal sense of virility to a more extreme male chauvinism." In my experience in Guatemala they have mostly been shy and respectful. The only notable exception has been taxi drivers. Is that international, I ...
Border Crossing Belize - Guatemala
This is a top pick! We woke up early. I criticized Juliette's flower dress, I told her we're going to Guatemala, not going shopping on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. I didn't mean to yell at her, she looked good however, but border crossing to Guate can be chaotic, and she ...
Island in the Lake
... takes about 15 minutes. The other way is via "auto-rickshaws" (see Darcy's picture with one). We found the best food in Flores at "La Luna" address Calle 30 de Junio, which we fell in love with. We ate their over the 4 days each ...
Flores, Guatemala
Sadly we left Caye Caulker and returned to Belize City, where we caught a four-hour bus ride to Flores, Guatemala. The air-conditioned 'first-class' enormo-bus that we paid for turned out to be a NON-air-conditioned mini bus with room for five people. ...