The monkey experience

Renato

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I specialize in dark humor, historical misfortunes, and explaining why half the landmarks we visit were built out of sheer human stubbornness and colonialism.

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  1. Amazing Tour - very friendly guy
    By Robin
    from Mexico
    26 de May de 2025
    It was a very nice and funny tour with Renato!
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  2. Superb tour
    By ShobA
    from United Arab Emirates
    25 de May de 2025
    I was the only one on the tour but that didn’t stop Renata. He was fully vested in the tour. Very knowledgeable and the exact amount of funny you need on a tour. Highly recommend!
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  3. Amazing start to our trip
    By Daniel
    from United States
    24 de May de 2025
    Wonderful, candid, knowledgeable tour with great highlights to make sense of the city as we started our trip! Highly recommend!
    Date of Experience: May 23, 2025
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  4. Accidental solo tour!
    By Armand
    from Mexico
    15 de May de 2025
    My wife and I met Renato and we were the only ones that day so we got a solo tour. Renato was a fantastic guide answering all of our questions and putting up with my attempt at jokes. He was also looking out for us, asking if we needed water, restrooms breaks or sunscreen. This is a great way to spend a couple of hours in CDMX!
    Date of Experience: May 14, 2025
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  5. Historic tour cdmx
    By cynthia
    from Mexico
    8 de May de 2025
    FABULOUS!!!! ren was amazing! Knowledgeable, interesting, and not robotic at all. He answered lots and lots of questions and never felt scripted. Learned a lot about the historical places as well as the area today. Highly recommend Ren if you want a tour more authentic feeling.
    Date of Experience: May 08, 2025
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  6. El mejor guía
    By Italo Rodrigues
    from Mexico
    2 de May de 2025
    Renato fue nuestro guía en Coyoacán y al centro y nos pasó todas las informaciones más importantes de los locales y datos interesantísimos. Fue un baño de conocimiento. Salimos mucho satisfechos y felizes con los tours. Muchas gracias!
    Date of Experience: January 05, 2025
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  7. Great tour
    By Tania
    from United States
    16 de April de 2025
    Renato was very knowledgeable and added a lot of humor and energy to what ended up being and very exclusive tour of just me. I very much appreciate the time he took to show me all around the historic center.
    Date of Experience: April 16, 2025
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  8. A great time!
    By Donald Humphrey
    from Mexico
    27 de March de 2025
    Renato was prompt to find us and delivered a great tour. He was very knowledgeable and make everything fun. We would highly recommend.
    Date of Experience: March 27, 2025
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  9. By Karly
    from United Kingdom
    25 de March de 2025
    We loved our historical walking tour with Renato. He was hilarious while also being very knowledgeable. We learned a ton while also laughing a lot. Definitely recommend Renato. We would love to do another tour while we are here.
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  10. City Tour
    By Nick
    from United Kingdom
    25 de March de 2025
    Renato was great and we thoroughly enjoyed the tour. Learned more of the real real and his humor was on point.
    Date of Experience: March 25, 2025
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  11. The best tour guide in Mexico City
    By Thomas
    from United States
    25 de March de 2025
    We loved our time with Renato! He’s very funny and his English is 10/10.
    Date of Experience: March 25, 2025
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  12. Informative, witty and relaxed
    By Stuart
    from United Kingdom
    18 de March de 2025
    A very relaxed and informative tour delivered with wit and humour covering the main history and sites in the historical centre by Renato. His historian / stand up comedian combination makes for an entertaining couple of hours and I would highly recommend.
    Date of Experience: March 18, 2025
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  13. A perfect mix of history, humor, and heart!
    By Nikki
    from United States
    17 de March de 2025
    Renato’s tour was fantastic! His storytelling brought the city to life, blending fascinating history with humor and insightful details-I highly recommend exploring Mexico City with him! 🙂
    Date of Experience: March 11, 2025
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  14. Fun tour
    By Kate and Mike from Australia
    from Mexico
    28 de February de 2025
    Renatos quick humour and excellent turn of phrase made for a very entertaining and enjoyable first impression of Mexico City. He obviously loves where he lives and is very proud of it. A good fun morning. Treat yourself!
    Date of Experience: June 23, 2025
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  15. Amazing Tour with Renato!
    By Anastasia
    from Mexico
    28 de February de 2025
    I had a fantastic time on this walking tour with Renato! He is so knowledgeable and took us to a lot of places I probably never would have discovered or really got the full history or context about on my own. He is very funny and a great story teller and made the tour super fun. He also gave great recommendations for Mexico City after the tour.
    Date of Experience: February 27, 2025
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  16. Walking tour Mexico City
    By Kate Banerjee
    from Mexico
    19 de February de 2025
    We thoroughly enjoyed our walking tour with Renato . He’s funny clever and very knowledgeable. Highly recommend.
    Date of Experience: June 23, 2025
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  17. Excellent
    By Lumini
    from Mexico
    14 de February de 2025
    Renato was a great guide, kept the whole group engaged and we learnt so much from his clear wealth of knowledge. Would definitely recommend!
    Date of Experience: June 23, 2025
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  18. Bastards of Mexico walking tour of CDMX centro
    By Lisa and Lia
    from California
    13 de February de 2025
    We took the Monkey Experience Mexico City walking tour with Renato today and it was beyond our wildest expectations. Renato has an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of Mexico and Mexico City. We learned a tremendous amount. An additional bonus is his excellent sense of humor. We found out so many interesting side stories that we would never have learned in a traditional walking tour. If you are looking for a comprehensive tour of Mexico’s Central district with lots of fascinating facts, all delivered with a stellar sense of humor, this is the tour for you. Thank you Renato! Lisa and Lia El Sobrante, California, USA
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Welcome aboard! I’m Renato Guillén, your tour guide and personal human shield. I specialize in dark humor, historical misfortunes, and explaining why half the landmarks we visit were built out of sheer human stubbornness and colonialism. Buckle up, because this tour is going to be equal parts fascinating and mildly unsettling!

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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Fantastic tour. Really fun and super informative!!!

Great experience!!! Certainly a great, and not typical, tour of the historic center of Mexico City. If you don't want the "typical tour" but a real personal tour of the historic center and more, I would highly recommend the tour. Paco, our guide, was wonderful and we learned a ton. Four of us were on the tour and we all loved it. The tour was much better than we expected. We were super impressed. Thanks very much Paco for a great day.

Steve M