Museum of Orchids — Attraction in Coatepec

Entrance was 50 peso, which is fine, though visitors have to be escorted. Basically this is not a museum at all, so the name is quite misleading. It's actually a business, with the largest part of the complex consisting of retail stores oriented around orchids. The place was nice enough, but the "museum" is just a lot of orchid plants without the petal bloom one might imagine as they're naturally harvested for sale the moment they reach a point of aesthetic appreciation, thus, the "museum" is 97% green. The staff were friendly and there was no problem as such, it's just absolutely tiny and not a museum at all, so to call it such is a...

Waste of time. The staff is rude. I went there and tried to ask just to see the flowers without a tour guide since my spanish is not so great and the man cut me off. Then he pushed me to the side to help other people and told me to wait a minute. So for anyone who can't speak spanish don't even bother. Since he left me standing there looking stupid, I left to shop and when I returned he said I had to wait 10 minutes for a tour. Needless to say I left. Rude people are a sign the tour is no good to me. However, the businesses around this place had some...

The tour is nice, the guide was knowledgeable (although he admitted he was still learning much of the subject), there's a couple stores for artisans and local producers and the variety of orchids is staggering! Very nice...