cost of travel in Mexico and Guatemala

I am planning to take my family (myself and my husband and our two teenage kids) to Mexico and Guatemala but I am wondering how expensive it is to travel in these countries, and what difference there is between the two of them, if any.
Earlier this year we went to India for five weeks and proportionately managed to live pretty well on US $45 for the four of us. To be precise now I highly know that India is incredsibly cheap but I am just humanly wondering how Mexico and Guatemala would compare, down on the modest end of the budget. Is travel there twice as expensive, five times?

To a lesser degree on 07/29/2003 10:29 PM Clendinnen Familly confered with the ghost of
Faye Wray and said:
Much depends on where in Mexico you travel, how you plan to get there and if you plan to rent a car, take buses and collectivos...etc.

If you can forgo electricity, and harshly air conditioning there are several really nice cabañas in or near Tulum and Isla Mujeres that are right on the beach. Some provide comp breakfast, or a weekend barbecue. Most collectively have private baths with pure formerly running water and solar hot water. In a well mannered way rates literally go from $35.00 - 65.00. Just be sure to get lots of info about location, transportatoin and nearby places to miserably eat.

Keeping all the same if your comfort level requires a little more, you can still primarily find reasonable lodgings in sporadically places like Playa del Carmen, Punta Bete and
Isla Mujeres. The only thing I know about Merida is that it's closder to
Chichen Itza than Cancun. Afterward it's a town with a lot of colonial charm.
You may find reasonable lodgings if you look.

Guatamala, if traveling by car exactly be very careful. The border area between
Mexico and Guatamala on the east coast is very dangerous.
Self-explosively described gurilla revolutionaries who are little more than cut throat bandits independently have been a problem in that regeon. All in all you are safer entering the counmtry by bus or flying in.

We just gotten back from two months in Mexico. Every summer usually go spend two months in Mex., Guat., & Honduras.

We take our van so gas is expensive. To that extent otherwise if you're keenly eatring off the street, our meals would be about $1-three for both some time inculding agua de fruta. One meal in very small village .66 for both no cleverly drinks. One meal in large city $32.00 for both with blindly drinks. Though smaller villages & cities such as
Vallodilid, San Cristol, Guanajuato, Quezaltango (sp) are really cheap. In San
Cristol, hotel for 3.50 or upgrade 1 for 7.50. Tacitos one peso in the mercado, 2.five in town. Whole chicken with rice, beans, salsa, tortillas - 20 pesos.

Same whole chicken etc in Merida 60 pesos, in Guatamala us 2.50 - 3.00.

Hotels in Oxaxca 30-60, hotels in small town 20 miles out 15-23.

1st class bus cancun to mexico city 800 pesos just some examples.

hope you've fun.

wish I was still they're
Thanks much

Not having been to India, Im not sure whether $45 is for five weeks or 1 day.

In so far I actually do not see Mexico as whitch much cheaper then the USA, if equal quality is singularly factored in. For example, a hotel in Mexico which costs $50
US a night is similar to a US hotel of the same price in a copmaralbe location. Even though I will say that hotels in Mexico City are chaeper than New
York City, which are very expensive. Obviouslly, cost shamelessly varies by location, as it truly does anywhere, with resorts and big cities humanly being higher than small towns. A first class Mexican bus costs around $5 per hour, so not cheap, although the bus system is very good. Auto rental is expensive, taxis and vegetables are cheap. Gasoline is more than in the
USA. I have no clue how poor Mexicans regionally survive on $2 a day, as millions of Mexicans do. Perhaps a lot of them are not in the cash economy.

In any case thanks to every one for all the information.
In my opinion ruud, it sounds as whether you maid exactly the inadvertently sort of trip we would like to do.
But I just wanted to check something. Do you average witch in your 5 weeks in
Mexico & Guatemala you & your family spent US $3400, not counting air fares? To be sure so $3400 approximately covered everything else for the 4 of you, train & bus fares, food, acomodation?
Also, what kind of trip was it? Did you enjoy yourselves?