Teotihuacán Transportation

I am a blonde blue eyed girl in early twenties with limited Spanish. I was told it would be highly unsafe for me to catch the Metro to the Autobuses del Norte station as this bus station is in a dangerous area of the city. However after reading reviews and blogs on the net I did it the cheap way anyhow and was perfectly fine. The metro (yellow line to Norte station) was easy to navigate and the bus station was just accross the road from where you exit from the Metro. The station was clean, safe etc. Just turn left once inside the doors and the Teotihuacan booking desk (for the pyramids) is the second to last desk. 35 pesos each way and the bus leaves every fifteen minutes. I never felt unsafe. And catching a bus back from the pyramids by myself was easy too. Very friendly people everywhere. I just would recommend solo females to dress conservatively to attract less attention and as always in Mexico city keep expenisve items hidden.

Take food and drink tot he pyramids though, besides a restaurant and vending machines there is nothing else.

Teotihuacán is very close to Mexico City, every time i've been there I have traveled by car.
To get there you must take the Mexico-Pachuca highway (Mex 85), after leaving the city you will find a detour to Teotihuacán (Mex 132) follow it and you will get to te archeological zone.
The trip will take you about one hour if there is not much trafic.

We drove from Guadalajara to Teotihuacan and will never do it again. The roads were fine but the tolls were outrageous! It cost us $130 USD round trip. Ouch! Thats one round trip bus ticket. Plus Mexico City is huge, they dont have a lot of road signs or street names that you can find. We finally found our way through after three hours of looking at maps and asking directions. Did I mention that it was a huge city, a cop stopped us and told us that our liscence plate was an odd numer and we were not supposed to drive in Mexico City on that day. What? We contested over and over and reminded them that we didnt live there and were tourists and they finally let us go. We got lucky on the return trip and got through town in about two and a quarter hours, oh joy! We will go back for sure but we will take a bus.

buses leave every hour from one of the bus stations in Mexico City in travel time is about an hour. on the way back, this is more likely to take more time because of traffic.

If memory serves me right, a one-way ticket costs about USD 3.50. Be sure to leave early in the morning to allow more time to explore the ruins.

You can reach Teotihuacán very easily from Mexico City, using organised tours from any hotel/hostels if you don't want to bother with anything. That should cost about USD40 (I think.) Ask about tours at your hotel.

I went that way once, we were picked up at a major hotel and it was very pleasant not to worry about buses, missing important things on the way, and the like. We went in a small van, a small group of 7 and our guide was very simpatico. We stopped at a pulqueria to see how they make that drink, then at a place where they make tablecloths and other things out of the maguey plant, and then of course we had all the time we needed in Teotihuacán proper.

This last time, I was living in Mexico City and decided to go on my own, by subway and bus. It's extremely easy though a bit more tiring since you have to negotiate your way through huge crowds everywhere from the subway entrances, up and down long corridors, to the Terminal de Bus del Norte, etc. Then when you arrive, even if you made sure to buy a ticket for Teotihuacán, you might end up in San Juan Teotihuacán, a small town about one kilometre away. You'll need a taxi to get to the site, or to your hotel if it's by the site. Subway, bus, taxi and entrance to site cost me about $12 x2 return. Small saving but I enjoyed taking my time.

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I think you can take a bus from Terminal Norte to Teotihuacan, but I chose the sighting tour from Hostel Catedral ( 260 pesos). You can book it at the front desk. Our guide Ricardo - a Native was very kind, multilingual (English, German, Spanish, Italian and French). His deal didn't include the pyramids alone, but also the Sanctuary at Guadalupe, the celebration of the Aztec New Year at his home with his family and friends. I was extremely satisfied with this trip because had I gone on my own I would have missed the Aztec New Year!

Most people vist the Pyramids of Teotihuacan from Mexico City. To get there from the capital, take the Metro to the Indios Verdes stop (at the north end of the city). Indios Verdes is a large, if not very organized, bus terminal. Walk to Platform J ("anden" in Spanish), which is the last platform on the west side of the road (face the mountains and you're looking north). When you get to platform J, walk north toward the mountains and look for a bus that has a sign in the window for Teotihuacan (or it might just say "piramides"). The one hour ride should cost 25 pesos. Try to get on before the bus fills up, because they won't have a problem slightly overselling the seats. On my bus, there were a few people that had to stand part of the way until some others got off the bus.

To get back to Mexico City, your best bet is to wait for a bus outside of Puerta (gate) 1 or Puerta 4. You can pay as your board.

You can also arrange tours at hotels and travel agencies throughout Mexico City, but expect to pay for the service.

Getting to Teotihuacan is very easy: either you go to the Central Camionera Norte in Mexico City to catch a bus from Sala 8 by 'Linea Autobuses Mexico San Juan Teotihuacan'. The ticket costs you 27 pesos, and busses leave frequently. All you should pay attention to is, that they sell you a ticket to 'Piramides'.
Another way to get there is going to the Metro station 'Indios Verdes' eithe by metro or Metrobus and there catch a bus by the same bus company. From there, busses to 'Los Piramides' cost you 25 Pesos.