Cenote Oxman: The Hacienda Swim Near Valladolid
An 18th-century hacienda, a great vine-hung cylinder of water, a rope swing and a pool deck on top: Oxman is Valladolid’s most sociable cenote. Here is what the swim is like, what the 2026 reports say it costs, and where its hours genuinely disagree.
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The Hacienda Cenote South of Valladolid
Cenote Oxman sits in the grounds of Hacienda San Lorenzo Oxman, an 18th-century henequen hacienda about 5 km south of Valladolid, and it is the most playful cenote in the Valladolid set: a great open cylinder of rock with vines and roots hanging down its walls, a swimming pool and restaurant at the surface, and, across the water, the venue's signature, a rope swing that launches swimmers into the pool, plus a jumping platform on the rock wall. Where Suytun is contemplative and Xkeken is a cavern, Oxman is a lido built around a sinkhole, and Valladolid families treat it that way on weekends.
Not our swim. Our shared Chichen Itza tour swims at Cenote Ik Kil. Oxman is covered as part of this site's complete cenote guide layer, for travellers spending time in Valladolid itself.
The hacienda publishes no official website tariff that we could verify, so prices and hours below are a dated ladder of published reports, the same discipline as this site's Hubiku and Saamal and Xkeken and Samula guides, with conflicts printed rather than averaged away.
The Swim: Cylinder, Roots, Rope Swing
The cenote itself is an open to semi-open cylinder: you descend a stairway cut into the rock to a pool ringed by near-vertical walls, reported at roughly 20 to 25 m from rim to water across the sources, with roots and vines trailing down them and sunlight reaching the water through most of the day. At one side, a platform part-way up the wall gives a jump of about 3 m in the reports; across the pool, the rope swing is swung from the stairs side and released over the deepest-looking water, supervised informally by the flow of other swimmers. Life jackets are available at the venue and described as included with the basic ticket in several 2026 reports.
Depth, honestly. A single blog publishes a figure of about 45 m deep for Oxman; no second source supports it. This page therefore prints no verified depth: treat the pool as deep, as its walls suggest, use the jacket if you are not a strong swimmer, and do not dive except from the platform in the way the venue permits.
Above ground is half the venue: the hacienda runs a swimming pool, a restaurant and bar, gardens with hammocks, and showers and changing rooms, and it also operates as a hotel. That shapes the visit: Oxman is the Valladolid cenote to choose when your group includes non-swimmers, sunbathers or anyone whose cenote day should include lunch and a hammock, and the one to skip if what you want is the hushed underground of Xkeken.
Prices: The Dated Ladder
Basic entry. Several 2026 reports put basic entry at 150 MXN per adult, two of them describing the life jacket as included; 2025-era roundups put it at 80 MXN. Read the move as a price rise across two seasons and expect about 150 MXN, confirming at the gate.
Packages. Reports describe tiered packages around 200, 250 and 300 MXN bundling entry with restaurant credit, but the credits attached to each tier differ between reports (50, 150 and 200 MXN all appear). The tiers exist; their exact current composition does not survive cross-checking, so decide at the ticket desk with the day's board in front of you rather than from any website, including this one.
Hours. The reports genuinely conflict: openings at 7:00 or 7:30 and 8:00 and 9:00 all appear, with closings at 17:00 and 18:00. The safe planning position is a morning-to-late-afternoon venue: arrive mid-morning and you are inside every reported version of the day; arrive near a reported closing time and you are gambling on which version is current.
Facilities in the reports are consistent even where prices are not: pool, restaurant and bar, hammocks, showers, changing rooms and, in some reports, lockers, plus the hotel operation. The complex is bigger than a cenote ticket suggests, and half-day visits are the norm in the accounts.
Getting There and Fitting It Into a Valladolid Day
Hacienda San Lorenzo Oxman lies about 5 km south of Valladolid (some guides say south-west; the distance is the reliable part), a short drive out of town with parking at the hacienda. This page prints no taxi or colectivo fares, because none were verifiable to this site's standard; the pattern of Valladolid transport, and the town plan Oxman hangs off, is in the Valladolid travel guide. Timing advice from the reports: weekday mornings are the quiet window, the rope swing queue is shortest early, and the venue fills with local families on weekend afternoons, which many visitors count as a feature. Pair it with the town in either order, cenote in the morning and Valladolid's convent and calzada in the afternoon, or the reverse to swim in the day's heat; and if your Valladolid time allows two cenote excursions, Oxman and the Dzitnup pair are the complementary choices, open-air lido against underground cavern. The full comparison is on the best cenotes hub.
The Hacienda Itself: San Lorenzo in the Henequen Era
The house around the cenote has its own history. San Lorenzo Oxman is an 18th-century hacienda, built when this part of Yucatan was cattle and estate country, and remade like most of the region’s haciendas during the henequen era, when the sisal fibre boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries made Yucatan’s estates rich and turned their lands into fibre plantations worked from houses exactly like this one. The cenote in the garden was the estate’s water long before it was anyone’s swimming venue: on a working hacienda, a cenote was not scenery but infrastructure, the well the whole operation drank from, which is also why so many of the Valladolid area’s swimmable cenotes sit in old estate grounds.
That double life is what you are visiting: a working-era hacienda house and grounds, now run as a hotel and day venue, organised around the same water that justified building here two and a half centuries ago. The definition page explains why a settlement, a hacienda or a whole city forms around one of these wells; Oxman is the hacienda-scale example of the rule.
Our Tour’s Swim Is Ik Kil: The Shared Tour
Our shared day trip visits Chichen Itza, Cenote Ik Kil for a swim, and Valladolid. The price is $130 per adult and $115 per child up to age 12, including the 697 MXN Chichen Itza entrance fee. We pick you up at your hotel or pickup point and confirm the exact time on WhatsApp the night before. A 30% advance secures your reservation, with the balance due on the tour day. Cancellation is free up to 48 hours before the tour, with a full refund of the advance. We are a new operator, and we say so plainly.
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Cenote Oxman: Questions, Answered
How much does Cenote Oxman cost?
Basic entry is about 150 MXN per adult in several 2026 reports, with the life jacket described as included in two of them; 2025-era roundups listed 80 MXN. Packages bundling restaurant credit are reported at 200, 250 and 300 MXN, but the credits per tier differ between reports, so confirm the day’s board at the ticket desk.
What are Cenote Oxman’s opening hours?
The reports conflict: openings of 7:00, 7:30, 8:00 and 9:00 all appear, with closings at 17:00 and 18:00. The venue is a morning-to-late-afternoon operation in every version; arrive mid-morning and you are safe in all of them.
Where is Cenote Oxman?
In the grounds of Hacienda San Lorenzo Oxman, an 18th-century henequen hacienda about 5 km south of Valladolid, with parking on site. The hacienda also runs a pool, restaurant and a small hotel operation.
What is the rope swing at Oxman?
The venue’s signature feature: a rope swung from the stairs side of the cenote and released over the water, alongside a jumping platform of about 3 m in the reports. It is the main reason Oxman is the most playful of the Valladolid cenotes.
How deep is Cenote Oxman?
No verified depth is published. One blog gives about 45 m, unsupported by any second source, so this page prints no figure. Treat the pool as deep, use a life jacket if you are not a strong swimmer, and jump only from the platform as the venue allows.
What facilities does Oxman have?
Per consistent reporting: a swimming pool, restaurant and bar, hammocks and gardens, showers and changing rooms, lockers in some reports, and the hacienda hotel. It suits groups with non-swimmers better than any other Valladolid cenote.
Oxman or Xkeken: which should I choose?
Different cenotes for different days. Oxman is open-air, social and equipped, with the swing and the pool deck. Xkeken is an underground cavern, atmospheric and quiet, with mandatory jackets. With two excursions available, do both; with one, choose by mood.
Is Cenote Oxman on the shared Chichen Itza tour?
No. Our shared tour swims at Cenote Ik Kil. Oxman is covered for travellers based in Valladolid, and the Valladolid travel guide on this site plans the days it fits.
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