Sundays are our favorite day here because it is so much less busy as no cruise ships come into port. When you think about it, we see between 4 and 7 ships each day, so if each ship has an average of even 3,000 people as a modest count, that's 12,000 - 21,000 people visiting here for the day everyday. No wonder they need over 600 taxis and every place gets so packed! Most mornings by time we get up, there are already a couple of ships here, they generally arrive very early, then leave around dinner although some will stay until midnight. There are two ports (International Port and Puerto Maya) that hold four ships right near our condo so we can watch those ships come and go, then another port downtown that holds two
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