Mexico City alone

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I am hoping to go to Mexico City on a solo trip early next year. Any tips and recommendations of where to stay, eat and sightseeing? I particularly love lazing in parks.

Reading the Foreign Office's advice would put me off completely!

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/mexico/safety-and-security

I’ve been to Mexico City (I went in June 2022). What a fantastic city! There were so many great museums and I particularly enjoyed the Palacio de Bellas Artes & Fridha Kahlo’s House (probably spelled that wrong). The pyramids were good also. It’s also very green.

The food was great! I enjoyed Madre Cafe especially but you won’t be short of places to eat while you’re there. I found it safe to wander around and my partner has been there 5-6 times - nothing bad has happened to him. Enjoy OP!

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Would love to go to Mexico City and I usually travel solo.
My son has been and loved it.

Been to Mexico. Playa del Carmen. With son when he was much younger.

Amazing city although the traffic is crazy. We stayed in Condesa and it was beautiful, very green and very safe. We did a food tour round the main market-definitely would have got lost without a guide-which was really fun.

Are you aware that the situation in Mexico has changed over the past year snd currently Americans aren’t advised to go at all? It’s not the time to visit Mexico City alone

Lived there for five years and visit reguraly as a solo female
Stay in the main areas and take the same precautions you would in any large city - you will be fine.

I live in Mexico City and do not recognize the place I live in that foreign office advice. I come and go when I want and where I want. I've often been out walking by myself late at night. I am certainly a lot safer than I was in Dublin in the 90s

Whao, if this a boycott? There are over 100,000 foreigners, mostly North Americans, living in Mexico City. They love it here and often comment about how much it is here than in the USA

It isn’t a boycott. It was official government advice

Governments can implement boycotts. Jamaica was subtly boycotted with in the 1970s because its prime minister, Michael Manley, did not want to cut free primary school education on the instructions of the FMI. For two years the media around the world stressed that Jamaica was extremely violent and much too dangerous for tourists to visit. As soon as Manley lost the next election, the media returned to recommending Jamaica as a tourist destination.

It is just that the information is so contrary to the reality on the ground.

OP, things are very safe in Mexico City at the moment. And as for sights to see there are so many, but the Pyramids of Teotihuacan are wonderful, the Historic Centre is beautiful just for wandering around. The Centre of Coyoacan is also well worth a visit.

Feel free to send me a message if you ever want any more detailed information.