Travel through
local eyes.
I don’t sell tours. I design days, built around what you love, and filmed so you can watch them for the rest of your life.
Hola, I’m Tan.
Mexican. Ten years in Playa del Carmen. I’ll be the one picking you up.
My story →“Everyone here will sell you a tour.
I’d rather build you a day.”
I’m Mexican. I’ve lived in Playa del Carmen for more than ten years, and before that I was the person my friends called when they came to visit. The one who knew which cenote is empty on a Tuesday, and which taquería runs out by ten.
So that’s what I do now. You tell me what you love. I build the day around it, I drive, I do the talking, and I photograph the whole thing. There is no van, no lanyard, no gift shop stop. It is just me, and it is just your day.
Years living in Playa
Group per day. Ever.
I’ll do the talking
Your film delivered
Imagine you’re here
for four days.
Instead of booking something generic, you tell me what you actually love. That is the whole brief.
The days I design are never the same twice. That is rather the point.
The photographer is
already in the car.
A vacation photographer here charges around $590 for one hour. I am with you for nine, and I am also the one who planned where we are going.
- A cut, graded 60 to 90 second reel, delivered the same night
- The full gallery, usually 150 to 250 frames, within 48 hours
- Vertical and horizontal cuts, because you are going to post it
- Yours to keep, print and use however you like. No watermark, no upsell
Three things a tour company can’t say.
A local, not a guide
I am not partnered with local communities. I am from here. Ten years in Playa, and the people we visit are people I know by name.
Designed, not booked
There is no menu and no fixed route. There is a conversation, and then a day that has never existed before and will not again.
Your money stays here
Cash to the family kitchen, the beekeeper, the boat guy. Not a resort activity desk taking forty percent off the top.
Real prices, on the page.
Everyone else in this category says “contact us for a quote.” Here is exactly what it costs, and exactly what is in it.
Tu Mapa
Your Map · design only
A call, then your whole trip planned out. Where, when, what to order, what to skip. You run the days yourself.
- 60 to 90 minute planning call
- Day-by-day plan with map pins
- What to order, and from whom
- My number while you are here
El Día
The Day · hosted and filmed
Eight or nine hours, designed from a conversation and hosted by me. Everything included, and your film that night.
- Custom-designed, hosted all day
- Transport, entries and food in
- Reel same night, gallery in 48h
- Plus $85 per extra guest, max six
La Ruta
The Route · three days
Two days hosted, one designed for you to do alone, because a good local knows when to hand you the map and step back.
- Two full days hosted by me
- One self-guided day, fully planned
- A film of the whole arc, not clips
- Restaurant and stay recommendations
A group excursion runs $80 to $150 a person. A vacation photographer here charges $590 for one hour.
El Día is $247 each, for the whole day, and the film.
Don’t collect places.
Collect stories.
“Real words from a real guest go here, once the first filmed days are done.”
Guest name · trip type“Real words from a real guest go here, once the first filmed days are done.”
Guest name · trip type“Real words from a real guest go here, once the first filmed days are done.”
Guest name · trip typeNote for Tan: nothing invented goes here. Three real reviews with real names beat twelve made-up ones, and Google will not credit a rating nobody left. Ask at the moment you hand over the film.
All of it is a drive away.
Most of what is worth seeing here is not in Tulum. It is forty minutes past it, down a road with no sign.
What I’d tell a friend.
Tell me what you love.
I’ll build the day.
No forms full of questions you don’t care about. Four quick things, and then I write back myself, usually within a couple of hours.