Pepe Barbero Academia de Barbería, Guatemala City

Pepe Barbero teaches from zona 10 in Guatemala City, near Centro Comercial Géminis, and offers what is by a distance the best value in this directory’s Central American listings.

The programme runs eight months at one two-hour class a week, with slots available from 08:00 to 16:00 seven days a week and the option to accelerate if you can attend more often. The price is 1,900 quetzales as a single payment, no enrolment fee, no monthly instalments, and all materials and equipment included. For an eight-month course, that is remarkable.

The structure is five modules plus a final mastery stage, covering cutting technique, fades, beard design, styling, cranial morphology, business operations and current trends. One claim to treat carefully: the academy describes itself as the only Guatemalan barbering academy endorsed nationally and internationally, but names no accrediting body, not INTECAP, not the education ministry, so that endorsement is unevidenced and the certificate should be understood as its own.