Please be aware of that you should avoid taking chicken busses in Guatemala City. Please consider this article a community project: If you travel and find that some information needs to be updated, please let me know – either here in the comments section or in the Facebook group linked above. As a matter of fact, I decided to gather information about transport on the major tourist routes.

Other than that, renting a car can become quite expensive with daily rents starting at 250 Quetzales (about 30 USD) for a small eco car with which you can basically only drive in the capital because the streets outside the city are pretty bad so that you definitely need something bigger, which results in higher costs. I do understand that travelers cannot just simply buy a car in Guatemala to get around. I had already made this experience several years ago when I came to Guatemala which was why I tried to get a car as soon as possible in order to be flexible. Having been part of the Guatemala Travel Group as both, regular participant and administrator, I figured that most of the travelers coming to Guatemala have problems finding information about transport in Guatemala. Transport in Guatemala – reasons for writing this article

Guatemala city from airport uber