Viajes a medida a Mexico City

The main tourist areas — Centro Histórico, Roma, Condesa, Coyoacán, Polanco — are safe and busy with local residents at all hours. The highest-risk areas (Tepito, parts of Iztapalapa) are not on tourist itineraries and are easily avoided. Standard urban precautions apply: Uber over street taxis (safer and priced in advance), bags at front in crowds, avoid displaying expensive equipment. The Mexico City metro is safe during daytime; women's-only cars are at the front of each train during peak hours. The city's tourism security has improved significantly since 2015; major sites are police-patrolled.

Yes — Mexico City is at 2,240 metres, equivalent to Denver or many European alpine resorts. First-time high-altitude visitors commonly experience headache, fatigue, and mild breathlessness for the first 12–24 hours. Practical mitigations: drink 3 litres of water on Day 1, avoid alcohol on the first evening, take ibuprofen for headache, and plan Day 1 as a low-intensity acclimatisation day. By Day 2, most visitors feel normal. Altitude sickness (severe headache, nausea, confusion) is rare at 2,240 m but possible; descent to lower altitude resolves it immediately.

Tacos al pastor are the signature CDMX street food — pork on a vertical spit (identical in technique to shawarma, brought by Lebanese immigrants), shaved directly onto a tortilla with pineapple, onion, and cilantro. El Huequito (Bolívar St, Centro) has been making them the same way since 1959. Tostadas at Tostadas Coyoacán are the second essential. Restaurant destinations: Pujol (book 2 months ahead, Enrique Olvera's mole madre aged 1,000+ days), Contramar (fish, Colonia Roma), Quintonil (market-driven Mexican, Polanco). Budget: tacos MXN 20–35, restaurant meals MXN 200–800.

Metro: 12 lines, extensive coverage, MXN 5 per trip, safe during daytime — the fastest option for cross-city travel. Uber: widely available, safe (licensed drivers, GPS-tracked), more expensive than metro but comfortable — MXN 80–200 for most tourist-area journeys. Avoid hailing street taxis; use Uber or radio taxi services. The Ecobici bike-share system covers Roma, Condesa, and Polanco; MXN 310 for a weekly pass. Walking is practical in individual neighbourhoods (Coyoacán, Centro, Roma) but the city's scale makes walking between areas impractical.

Minimum 4 days to cover the essentials (Anthropology Museum, Templo Mayor, Teotihuacán, Xochimilco, Frida Kahlo). Five to six days adds Coyoacán properly, the Roma/Condesa food scene, and Bellas Artes. Seven days is the comfortable minimum for a first visit; 10+ days for visitors interested in art, architecture, and neighbourhood life. Mexico City has enough cultural depth for two weeks without repetition — it is one of the great museum cities of the world alongside Paris, London, and New York.