WARNING: THIS IS A TRAP!!We nearly missed the train early in the morning due to a 20 min delay to pick us up in hotel. The guide was very friendly but no archaeologist as announced. My electronic voucher said lunch was included but they left us without lunch and we had to pay for it by ourselves. When we came back, the driver left us 15 blocks from hotel and told us to pick up a taxi. I called Darwin, the agency representative to complain and he kept pretending he couldn't hear me. The receptionist in the hotel was so concerned about us and called the tourism authorities and to our surprise we discovered Amigo tours was an illegal agency.

This was a great trip, but the early access wasn't all that exclusive, since there were 2 to 3 bus loads of people who were before us in line. The guide was good, but he certainly was no archaeologist. Also, the 'executive' level train ride back to Cusco was not really in the executive car. it was in the economy car. Not fun after the long wonderful day at Machu Picchu. Finally, the trip was made extra long by about an hour of confusion when making the train to van transfer back to Cusco. They didn't have enough vans for all the people they were assigned to get back to Cusco, so we had to wait and hour or so before we pulled out from the train station.

Our 'bus ride' to Ollantaytambo was a disaster. A local bus taxi picked us up at our hotel and along the way, our driver stopped to pick up multiple local workers and their huge bags of produce. He dropped them off at random locations before taking us to the train station. I'm not sure what went wrong, but someone definitely dropped the ball on booking our ride to the train station.

The train ride was scenic, pleasant and comfortable.

By far the highlight of the tour was our guide Juan Carlos. He was a local resident and was a SUPER nice guy. He was very knowledgeable about the history of Machu Picchu and told us a lot about the local culture. Couldn't have asked for a better guide.

Our guide was very knowledgeable about the area and the earlier entry helped avoid the crowds that showed up later in the day.

AMAZING!!! a truly once in a lifetime experience.

It was worth all the effort to wake up early to get to Machu Picchu before the rest of the crowd. We enjoy every minute of it. Also, it makes the trip very special to have your own archeologist to explain every detail along the way.

No food, no water, no bathrooms available in Machu Picchu, but the trip is fun and Machu Picchu amazing. If you are going for one day only, get sleep the night before, hydrate well, and use the rest rooms at the entrance to the site.

Your tour was horrible, poorly organized, and poorly executed. I would NEVER recomend your company. We paid for 2tix, u only supplied 1 and then scrambled to find another ticket last minute. As a result we did not tour together, nor were we granted early access as promised. U ignored my emails 4help

The guide was not an archaeologist, just a local guide who spoke English. Also, the tour company forgot to pick us up when the tour was over so we had to hitch-hike from the train station back to Cusco in the middle of the night in a town we were unfamiliar with and did not speak the language. The tour operator, Amigo Tours, has yet to return my phone calls or emails.

Tour explanation and getting to MP ok and were met by our guide@entrance~9am.Guide had a lot of info and working trails and w/in MP for 11yrs.Not sure he was an archeologist tho.
Some ppl didn't want to do hike to gate so had5 hrs w/nothing to do.No option to go early. No mention of stamp available for passport :(