We based ours lives in the central and incredibly charming San Cristobal de las Casas. What a massive difference I hear you say? Yup… ADO has various levels of bus travelling its routes. The other prices are for ADO, pretty much as above but a slightly newer bus, ADO gl or gold line has lovely comfy seats, personal charging points for laptops phones etc, and ADO platino which is the same again but with sex segregated bathrooms, free soft drinks, coffees and a snack, bigger seats that recline further and the movies are piped into individual headphones instead of blared over the speakers.
In my opinion the OCC bus is totally fine, the others are overkill, but hey, that choice is yours to make. Our journey took us just under 11 hours with a VERY brief stop at roughly the halfway mark. I would recommend eating before you get on the bus, and take some snacks and plenty of water. Accommodation in Chiapas: We stayed in Planet Hostel, and could not recommend it more highly. The staff were amazingly friendly and informative. If you need to do laundry have a shop around there are cheaper places, but saying that we shopped around for various tours see below and ended up booking all of them through the hostel as they were the cheapest we found.
Also there are volunteering opportunities available at the hostel, we met a really cool guy who was staying there in a dorm for free in exchange for a few hours a day of work. The guides are super friendly, incredibly passionate about their city you get to try loads of local bits and bobs. It leaves every morning at 10am from the big cross in front of the church in the Plaza de La Paz. The tour will take you on a Beautiful speedboat journey up and back the river in a canyon approx 2hrs.
Monkeys and a speedboat? Where do I sign? Afterwards, you also visit the local town of Chiapa de Corzo. Take a trip up the bell tower for 10pesos and enjoy the views.
Montebello Lakes and Chiflon Waterfalls: The first stop on this tour was the waterfalls at el Chiflon We were picked up at our hostal at 8am and arrived at the waterfalls at about After this we hit the Montebello Lakes, 5 lakes in total. We got 20 mins at each lake, and then there is a long drive between each lake.
