Transportes Fuente Del Norte ( Santa Elena Flores) — Local services in Flores

Setting prices at will; one price on WhatsApp, another on the San Pedro Sula ticket station, and a much higher one from the bus driver in the Morales bus stop. They definitely were taking advantage. The bus from Honduras to Morales was ok, reasonably comfortable, but the one from Morales to Petén was terrible; old, dirty, weak/bad AC, and super slow, it took 7h to finally get to the destination, and showing all sorts of signs of mechanical malfunction. Taking the bus was another hassle, we were at the station at 4:30am, waited an hour for them to depart, no numbers on the tickets, was an all-out war scenario to be able to get a seat, and people pushing-in and jumping the line by all...

I booked a ticket with Fuente Del Norte 10 minutes before bus departure. The ticket price from Flores to Morales, Izabel was supposed to be 150Q. When I purchased at the counter they quoted 200Q, cash only.

I challenged and stated I was at the station yesterday and was quoted 150Q for the route. The ticketing office quickly relented and I paid the 150Q.

Luckily I speak passable Spanish or I would have been dooped and the employee would have pocketed the difference. I understand wages are low at 3900Q a month for employees but that is just straight up dishonest trying to charge a 'gringo price'

The bus itself is air-conditioned but no wifi...

We have booked the trip from Flores to Antigua via a travel agency on Flores Island. It was all a bit non-transparent but that's how it is. The trip itself was actually way better then expected. The bus was clean, the seats really good and declined a very good amount. All the charging ports around us were not working though. And the profile on the tires was practically not existing anymore which is pretty worrying. All went well for us though and we arrived around 5 o'clock in Guatemala City already and were in...