Lanquín & Cobán to Flores: Shuttles, Prices & Times [2026]

Lanquín to Flores is the leg that turns a Semuc Champey stop into a Petén trip, and on this pair every published option is a tourist shuttle: no bus to compare against, no overnight option, no second departure. What you actually choose is which shuttle company to hand US$35 to US$45 to, whether to board in Lanquín or in Cobán, and whether to stop in Flores at all.

The other thing to know before booking: the operators do not agree on how long the trip takes, or on where in Lanquín the van collects you. That disagreement is printed below exactly as each company publishes it.

Quick summary

• Shuttles only. None of the bus sources we checked (CheckMyBus, Fuente del Norte) lists this pair.
• Published fares: from US$35 (Champey Travels), from US$37 (Cobán Travels), US$40 (Guatemala Transportation and AtitlanTour), US$45 (Adrenalina Tours), from US$325 for a private transfer.
• One published clock time from Lanquín: 08:00, on Adrenalina’s, Guatemala Transportation’s and AtitlanTour’s schedules. The Marvelus operators publish only “1 times a day”.
• From Cobán: 09:30 (Guatemala Transportation and AtitlanTour, US$40) or 10:00 with a hotel pick-up in the centre (Adrenalina, US$45).
• Duration is disputed: 8 hours per Adrenalina, 7 hours per Marvelus Travel, 6-8 hours in AtitlanTour’s heading. We do not average them.
• Four different boarding points are published for Lanquín: confirm yours on the booking.
• A through-product exists: Adrenalina sells Lanquín (08:00) or Cobán (10:00) straight to Tikal for US$85 in 9 hours, skipping the Flores stop.

The shuttle products

Guatemala Transportation lists “Shuttle Lanquin to Flores at 08:00am – USD$40 p/p” on its own schedule page, with no duration and no boarding point attached; AtitlanTour’s schedule has “Shuttle Lanquin to Flores, Santa Elena 08:00am – USD$40 p/p” under a heading that gives 6-8 hrs. Champey Travels and Cobán Travels are both sold as 14-passenger shared minivans. The Alvarado product is listed as a private transfer, yet Marvelus’s own trip note for it describes “a Shared Minivan for 06 PAX”: worth settling with the seller before paying roughly nine times the shared fare.

Adrenalina’s rules on its US$45 seat are firm: the service must be reserved and prepaid 48 hours in advance (“We only guarantee the service if prepaid 48 hours in advance”); collective shuttles are “NOT punctual”, so be ready 15 minutes early and call if the van is 15 minutes late; not every shuttle is direct, since “there is a possibility that they are a few connections”; and drivers do not knock (“people have to wait in front of the hotel”). Champey Travels asks for 10 minutes of margin rather than 15.

Boarding in Cobán instead

The same shuttles pass through Cobán, so there is no separate Cobán to Flores product to hunt for:

AtitlanTour’s schedule lists “Shuttle Coban to Flores 9:30am – USD$40 p/p” under a heading of 6-8 hrs, and the Marvelus Cobán to Flores route page listed no product when read on 25 September 2026. Adrenalina’s US$85 Tikal run lists Departure Coban 10:00 AM and Departure Lanquin 08:00 AM. If you are coming up from the capital and want to break the trip in Cobán, the buses and shuttles into Cobán are on Guatemala City to Cobán.

Straight through to Tikal — US$85

Adrenalina also sells a “Collective Shuttle + Private transport Coban or Lanquin to Tikal” at US$85 per person, leaving Lanquín at 08:00 AM from the same El Recreo bus station (Cobán 10:00 AM), published at 9 hours.

That is US$40 more than the same company’s Flores seat for one extra published hour, and it removes the onward transfer at the far end. Guatemala’s Ministry of Culture puts Tikal at 63 km from Flores, about an hour’s drive, so the real comparison is US$85 delivered to the park against US$45 plus whatever that last hour costs you. If you would rather base yourself on the island first, see Flores to Tikal and the Guatemala City to Flores and Tikal route guide.

Why there is no bus

Three separate checks on 12 September 2026 all came back empty:

1. CheckMyBus, which does index Antigua→Flores and Flores→Belize City, returned HTTP 404 or 410 for every Lanquín spelling tried, including lanquin/flores-gt and san-agustin-lanquin/flores-gt.
2. Fuente del Norte lists its complete station set in its own booking engine: Guatemala, Aguilar Batres, Sayaxché, El Naranjo, Melchor de Mencos, Santa Elena/Flores, Esquipulas, Belize City and Quetzaltenango. Lanquín does not appear, and neither does Cobán.
3. No second departure and no night service is published on this pair by any source read that day, or on the re-read of 24-25 September 2026.

We are not going to tell you why, because no source read supports a road or junction explanation. The honest finding is the negative one: nobody publishes a bus here, and every published option is a tourist shuttle.

The boarding-point problem

Four companies publish four different places to stand in Lanquín:

• Adrenalina Tours — “Bus station next to hotel EL RECREO in Lanquin”
• Champey Travels — “Parking Hotel El Recreo”
• Cobán Travels — “next Health center of Lanquin”
• Adrenalina, return leg from Flores — the only pick-up and drop-off point it publishes in Lanquín is the “EXXON” gas station

Treat the point printed on your own booking confirmation as the only one that counts, and message the operator the day before to confirm it. Adrenalina publishes a single contact number for exactly this (“The only number is 00502 5308 5106”) and flags its own timetable as possibly out of date.

One hard limit: Adrenalina states it serves hotels in the centre of Lanquín only and will not collect near Semuc Champey. From a Semuc-side lodge you need your own ride into town before the 08:00 departure (Greengos, beside the park, runs a Q35 transfer to Lanquín at 07:00), which is also why the Semuc day and the Flores day cannot be the same day. Do the pools first and travel the next morning; our Semuc Champey logistics guide covers the arrival side, and Antigua to Semuc Champey and Guatemala City to Lanquín cover the way in.

Where you are actually dropped

Adrenalina and the Marvelus operators drop at the entrance to Flores (Adrenalina specifies the I love Peten letters) and not at the Terminal Nueva bus station, which sits 1.5 km south of the causeway to the island. From that station, Wikivoyage puts a tuk-tuk to the island at Q15 per person, “as of 2026”.

Fares, departure times and pick-up points as published by the operators: first read 12 September 2026, re-read 24 September 2026 (Adrenalina, Guatemala Transportation, AtitlanTour) and 25 September 2026 (Marvelus). The operators quote this route in US dollars; we do not convert, and none of them publishes a quetzal price.

Going on to Belize? The 06:00 shuttles from Flores to San Ignacio are on Flores to San Ignacio. Heading to the Caribbean side instead? The 08:00 shuttle to the river is on Lanquín to Río Dulce. Coming to Lanquín from the lake? See Lake Atitlán to Semuc Champey.

Flores to Semuc Champey / Lanquín

Adrenalina Tours, Guatemala Transportation and AtitlanTour list these reverse shuttles (read 25 October 2026). The sellers publish different durations.

Adrenalina’s Flores boarding point is LAS LETRAS “ I LOVE PETEN “. Its Lanquín pick-up and drop-off point is the EXXON gas station (read 25 October 2026).

Source: Adrenalina Tours Flores shuttles; Guatemala Transportation schedule; AtitlanTour schedule, read 25 October 2026.

Flores to Cobán

Adrenalina Tours sells its reverse service as Flores to Coban or Lanquin. Guatemala Transportation names Cobán alongside Lanquín and Semuc Champey on its Flores departure (read 25 October 2026).

Source: Adrenalina Tours Flores shuttles; Guatemala Transportation schedule, read 25 October 2026.