Tours/Cusco/Machu Picchu by Train: A Seamless Full-Day Adventure
Viator · group up to 12 pax

Machu Picchu by Train: A Seamless Full-Day Adventure

3.8(27)Cusco1 hour
VIATOR3.8(8)TRIPADVISOR3.8(19)

Description

For many visitors to Peru and even South America, a visit to the Inca city of Machu Picchu is the long-anticipated highpoint of their trip. In a spectacular location, it’s the best-known archaeological site on the continent. This awe-inspiring ancient city was never revealed to the conquering Spaniards and was virtually forgotten until the early part of the 20th century.

Tour Options

Machu Picchu by Train: A Seamless Full-Day Adventure
  • Pickup included

Itinerary

Pass by

At 3:55 am, hotel pick-ups will begin.

Pass by

You’ll be driven to the train station in Ollantaytambo, where you will catch the 6:40 am train to Aguas Calientes, arriving around 8:00 am.

30 min

Upon arrival, your guide will meet you at the train station and escort you to the bus for a 30-minute ride up to Machu Picchu, arriving around 8:45 am.

Guided tour of Machu Picchu: Once at Machu Picchu, you will enter the site and enjoy a 2.5 to 3-hour guided tour, during which your bilingual guide will explain the history and major sites of the Lost City. Free time to explore: After the guided tour, you’ll have free time to explore the site on your own. You can exit to visit the café and re-enter, as your ticket is valid for the entire day.

Pass by

Same route back to Cusco.

Highlights

Train (Ollantaytambo - Aguas Calientes - Ollantaytambo)
Bi-lingual guide (English and Spanish)
Bus (Aguas Calientes Train Station to Machu Picchu and back)
Entrance to Machu Picchu
Cusco Hotel Transfer (Cusco - Ollantaytambo - Cusco)

What's included

Included
Train (Ollantaytambo - Aguas Calientes - Ollantaytambo)
Bi-lingual guide (English and Spanish)
Bus (Aguas Calientes Train Station to Machu Picchu and back)
Entrance to Machu Picchu
Cusco Hotel Transfer (Cusco - Ollantaytambo - Cusco)
Not included
Meals
Accommodation

Pickup Locations & Times

We will be picking you up from your hotel within the historic centre of Cusco.

Traveller Ratings

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Important Information

  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Reviews(27)

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inog2024
April 25, 2026
Stuck toilets and taps without water, old

Whoever it is. I think it's about time Change some trains Ave Shame on the toilets Stuck, taps without water Too bad we go a lot bird 🦃 and it is worse than those that cost less.

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andreiagregorio2011
September 20, 2024
Warning of Problems!

After making the Reservation the company contacted and said that they had no more tickets for the informed circuit. The alternative would be another circuit that does not allow entry into the city of Macchu Picchu or extend the journey for two days, at an additional cost. I chose to cancel the tour, however, the company does not cancel and does not make the refund. Nor answer my messages anymore. My mistake was not reading the reviews before making the Reservation, so I leave the warning here. TripAdvisor needs to remove this company from the site!

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federicorG9204NI
May 20, 2024
Overrated

Overrated, a long dense and expensive excursion. The attention of the train staff left much to be desired. The ugly place.

Operator response

Machupicchu es una de las 7 maravillas del mundo, no puede ser un lugar feo. Para poder visistar Machupicchu es necesario varias horas, aproximadamente 15 horas, debido a que es necesario hacer uso de transporte y tren para poder llegar. Nos parece una calificacion injusta, pero entendemos debido a que es desde su punto de vista.

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Rebecca_K
January 8, 2024
Great easy day trip

Easy trip and excellent communication from the vendor! A great day trip. They even helped me get an earlier train back. It was highly organized regarding transport and went smoothly. Great guide too!

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Aleksandra_N
October 21, 2023
They didint provide tickets

this tour does not actually include a ticket. you will arrive a day earlier in Aguas Calientes to waste the whole day standing in line for entrance ticket to Machu, and if you go to get a coffee from the train, it may turn out that there will be no tickets because they only sell 1000 tickets. When we got off the train at 8, we were standing in the line 2 hours and we had a number 908/1000, and later in the evening another 3 hours in the line to get a ticket. You can organize it yourself, but no one mentions it in the description of the trip, that we have to get the tickets ourselves. if this is normal in Peru, it should be written about it so that tourists are aware because every visitor was pissed about it

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XIAOBO_W
October 14, 2023
The arrangement and the...

The arrangement and the services are perfect. The agent is reliable. You should book the trip earlier enough in order to make sure to get the entry ticket.

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Dave D
October 11, 2023
Save yourself the disappointment….

My husband had booked the one day tour for Machu Picchu. He received the confirmation email and his credit card was charged. Everything seemed good to go. Three days before his trip he received an email informing him his trip had been cancelled. No explanation. We ran around to some offices in Cusco to see if by chance he could get a last minute ticket/trip, but couldn’t find one. So he flew all the way to South America excited about Machu Picchu, and was extremely disappointed. Luckily South America is such a wonderful place, he was still able to enjoy the trip. Think twice about using this company, especially if it is an important trip. Robin, Georgia

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V4172BHwilliamw
October 1, 2023
Terrible Tour Company

This is one of the worst tour companies I’ve ever dealt with. We booked a one day tour by train. The night before our trip, the tour company called me to tell me they changed it to a two-day tour. The told us they didn’t have Machu Picchu tickets for us and we would have to get them ourselves. We had to scramble to rearrange all of our travel plans and missed our tour to rainbow mountain. We had to keep our hotel in Cusco an extra night with no reimbursement. We made it to Aguascalientes where now we had to spend the night in a hostel that the tour company arranged for us. After getting off the train, we were met by a tour guide. He took us to the ticket place where we had to wait in line to get a time to come back to get tickets. After we got our time, I asked the tour guide if was going to help us purchase our tickets. He said yes he would meet us later but he never showed up again. I also had to get money from him to purchase the tickets since I had already paid the tour company. He gave me cash but it didn’t cover all the costs. Then we had to return later in the afternoon and wait in line at the Machu Picchu operations for hours again to buy the tickets. The tour guide at the actual Machu Picchu was the only excellent part. When we left, they reserved us on the train in two different train cars. I went to the train station and changed them myself. Essentially, I did all the work that the tour company was supposed to accomplish for us. The whole goal was to hire the company to make things easier. They did almost nothing. I would stay clear from this company.

1 people found this helpful
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beatrizhelenal2019
September 24, 2023
Excellent experience

Spectacular views. Excellent support and assistance from the agency during the experience. A guide with extensive knowledge and excellent disposition with the group

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Georg_E
August 3, 2022
Terrible guide and not the tickets we were promised

We paid for a whole day tour that includes the transfer in their morning, tickets valid for the whole day and a guide. But what we got was a transport picking us up 4.5 hours later than scheduled, a terrible guide (Ulysses) that mentioned barely anything significant about Machu Picchu but preferred talking about celebrity gossip and the duration of Llama orgasms. Lastly we didn’t get full day tickets and had to leave after the tour since we weren’t allowed reentry and the tour ended at the end of the one way leading through Machu Picchu.

1 people found this helpful
Operator response

Thank you for your rating. but it is a very unfair rating for us. We have indicated a day before that the pick-up time was modified, we have left them in no time. This happened because your entrance to Machupicchu was at 2:00 p.m. because it was the only time of access left and we could not take them very early since they would be standing without doing anything for 3 hours or more. which we decided to do the best for you with all the good intentions and not leave you without access to Machupicchu as it has happened to many people. You mention that we have not given you your tickets, however we have and we have evidence. And we emphasize that the time to visit Machupicchu is only two hours, now it is with limited time before the pandemic if you could visit all day, not now. You comment on our guide, but it is your opinion and from your point of view that he is not a good guide. but it is the opposite, he is one of our best guides and his qualification is strange to us because that same day they were not the only clients. our other customers rated the opposite of you. We imagine that it is because we have not accepted the refund they requested because it was not fair, we have complied with the entire service, we did not do anything of fraud. and they were also given their respective tickets.

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