The Mexico City tour where you learn Spanish.
Spend 6 hours walking the Historic Center with your own Spanish teacher, practising as you go. Halfway through: a private class and lunch overlooking Bellas Artes.
- Private
- Just you, up to 4
- Duration
- 6 hours
- Spanish
- Any level
- Includes
- Class + lunch
$169+$59 per extra person
Book a dateWhat the experience is
It’s a tour. It’s a Spanish lesson. It’s both.
Instead of listening to a guide, you talk: you use Spanish to ride the metro, ask questions, order lunch and shop.
What’s included.
- Your own Spanish teacher for the entire 6 hours
- Spanish conversation adapted to your level
- A formal private Spanish class at Café Finca Don Porfirio
- Lunch at the café
- Metro transportation during the experience
- Entry to the Museo Mural Diego Rivera
- Water and snacks
- A vocabulary sheet based on your day
- Not included: Torre Latinoamericana viewpoint ticket (optional)
You order lunch yourself, in Spanish. The city isn’t just the backdrop, it’s part of the lesson.
Your Spanish. Your level.
You don’t need advanced Spanish. English is always there if you get stuck.
Beginner
Slow, simple Spanish for getting around. English whenever you need it.
Intermediate
Real conversations, and the expressions people actually use in Mexico.
Advanced
History, culture, opinions. Less translation, more conversation.
Your day in Mexico City.
6 hours · Metro + about 3 km walking · Spanish at your level
Stop 1 Start
The metro
We meet at a metro station near where you are staying; we agree which one by email. Before we go anywhere you buy the tickets and ask for directions yourself, so by the end of the day you can get around the city on your own.
“¿Qué línea va al Zócalo?”
You practise: buying tickets, asking for directions, understanding announcements
Stop 2 Catedral and Palacio Nacional
The Zócalo
We come up out of the metro into one of the biggest squares in the world. The Catedral took 240 years to build and is still sinking, a little more every year; the Palacio Nacional is where the president works. The history comes out in the past tense, which is exactly the tense that needs the practice.
“¿Cuándo construyeron la catedral?”
You practise: describing, past tenses
Stop 3 Beside the CatedralOptional
A limpia with the concheros
Next to the Catedral, dancers in feathers and copal smoke do limpias, a traditional cleansing with herbs and smoke. If you want one, you ask for it in Spanish. If not, you watch, and we talk about what is going on.
“¿Me puede hacer una limpia?”
You practise: asking, understanding a tradition
Stop 4 On footGoing up: ticket not included
Madero and the Torre Latinoamericana
We walk Madero, the pedestrian street that crosses the Centro, to the Torre Latinoamericana. You can go up to the viewpoint and see the whole city from above.
“¿Cuánto cuesta subir al mirador?”
You practise: street small talk, numbers
Stop 5 The formal classClass + lunch included
Your classroom for the day: Café Finca Don Porfirio
Halfway through the day, on this terrace facing Bellas Artes, we sit down for your formal private class. The material is your morning: the words you needed and the mistakes worth fixing. Then you order lunch in Spanish.
“¿Me trae un café, por favor?”
You practise: the class, then ordering lunch
Stop 6 Walk it off
The Alameda Central
Down past Bellas Artes and into the oldest park in the Americas. A slow walk under the trees, and the part of the day where you ask strangers for things.
“Disculpe, ¿nos puede tomar una foto?”
You practise: small talk, asking for help
Stop 7 End of the AlamedaTicket included
Museo Mural Diego Rivera
One mural fills the whole museum: Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central, the park you just walked, crowded with a century of Mexican history. Frida is in it, so is La Catrina, so is Diego as a boy. You find the characters and tell their story.
“¿Quién es ese personaje?”
You practise: describing people, history
Stop 8 FinishIf there is time
Mercado de Artesanías La Ciudadela
The city's big craft market, to end on: alebrijes, textiles, silver, Talavera. You do the buying, in Spanish, and you do the bargaining too.
“¿Me lo deja en doscientos?”
You practise: numbers, prices, haggling
One teacher. One day. One city. A lot of Spanish.
If plans change.
Paid upfront. Mexico City time, counted from the start time.
Cancel more than 2 days before
You get 85% back. The rest covers the payment fee and the day already held for you.
Cancel inside 2 days
No refund, because the day is already blocked. But you can move it once, free, if you tell us before the start time.
If we cancel
Illness, a march that closes the Centro, anything on our side: you choose a full refund or a new date.
No Spanish? That's okay. Complete beginners are welcome: your teacher adjusts the experience to your level and uses English whenever necessary. For the best experience, we recommend having at least a little Spanish before you come. If you are unsure, take a free online class first and ask.
Most of the day has a roof anyway: the Catedral, the café and the market are all indoors, and there is a museum on every other block. Your teacher adjusts the route in the morning. You do not lose the excursion.
Yes, up to 4 people in total. The price shown is for one person; each extra person is $59, which covers their lunch, water and snacks. They do not need to speak Spanish: the beginner listens, you translate, and translating out loud is its own lesson. It is about about 3 km at an easy pace, so kids who can walk a morning in a city are fine.
Yes. Lunch is at Café Finca Don Porfirio, on a terrace right across from Bellas Artes, and it is also where the sit-down part of the class happens. You order it yourself, in Spanish, which is the point. Water and snacks are on us all day. Tell us about any allergies beforehand.
A week is comfortable. Same-week requests sometimes work, so ask anyway.
Not exactly. You'll explore the Centro Histórico with your own Spanish teacher, but the experience is conducted in Spanish at your level. You'll talk about what you see, practise real situations, ask questions, interact with people and learn about Mexico City along the way. Halfway through the day, you'll also have a formal private Spanish class at Café Finca Don Porfirio. Think of it as a private tour where Spanish is part of the experience, plus a real class in the middle.