Antigua to Lake Atitlan Motorcycle Adventure

Our experience began in Lake Atitlan, we decided to take the sunset tour and it was really a different experience, we went up to the top of the mountain at a viewpoint called Ojo de Águila, an incredible view, we had fun going up through complex terrain on the ATVs, in One of them we almost didn't get out of a hole, but that's what's really interesting about this tour. This time Yeshua, someone from the area, accompanied us, he gave us lots of videos, photos, we had a great time, we even managed to have coffee organized in a small shop at the end of the afternoon. What a great experience

Super expérience avec le tour du lac en moto ou, il y a une partie en off-road qui est vraiment cool. Je recommande vraiment les Guide sont vraiment bien ils sont attentionné. Nous avions de Guide avec nous un pour ouvrir et un pour fermer la marche. Les motos sont des deux cents centimètres cubes en bon état avec 40 000 km. Nous mangeons dans un restaurant le midi qui est vraiment chouette avec une belle vue et un cadre idyllique.

BUYER BEWARE: We just finished a motorcycle tour in antigua. The guide was nice, the woman at the front was nice. However, beware - there is NO briefing. There is also no walk around on the bike. There is NO identification of what works or what doesn’t. All the bikes are damaged. My friend’s bike (MTR) had a speedometer that didn’t work, along with a majority of the gauges and neutral was spotty and functioned part of the time. My other friend’s bike had a bad clutch and damage all over the bike (MTR). The bike I was on, the third bike was an old BMW. Neutral worked half the time, the horn didn’t work. We were told we would be back by 3. We just got back at 6. We had to make a river crossing, no real itinerary was given, and there were some crossings that they take you on which should only be done by people with more experience. At the atitlan location where we also stopped one of the employees was engaged in inappropriate and profane conversations (my friends might be white, I am not). One of the stops led to a very sandy patch of road where you could stop as a lookout. My friend was trying to get the bike in neutral (it wasn’t working) to park, and because it was so sandy and she had problems getting it in neutral and this resulted in the bike slipping and making contact with my bike. We finally make it back to the antigua shop and they said they are charging my friend 200 quetzal for the “damage.” The bike was already damaged. My friend was not happy with this and she expressed frustration regarding the bike already being damaged, and not functioning. The man, who was an older balding man, was rude and offensive. She eventually said fine whatever we just want to leave and she held out the money to pay. He says she has to bring it to him because he isn’t coming to her. What? I took the money and tried to approach him to say look, I get you’re frustrated, she is frustrated, and I tried to mediate the situation. He said whatever and walked off saying “I don’t care”. What?! Are you serious? Not only are you trying to extort us for cash here and there, but now you’re going to be rude and offensive even when a neutral party approaches you in a polite and neutral manner? Right. I saw him before we left and I approached him and tried to once again say look, I know you both were frustrated, but I was trying to fix the situation and you walked off. But he once again started going on a tirade about my friend and just kept going making hand motions and swearing under his breath. Never again. Just because if this man. My other friend asked if he was the owner and he says “no”. My female friend said he was rude. He says “I know. I don’t know why he’s like that.” If someone is like that - they don’t need to be in the service industry. Buyer beware. They will try to make you pay for damage already on the bikes.