Anywhere with a zona hotelera should be avoided, unless Disneyland is your second favourite place on earth. Saturated with Burger Kings, Starbucks and all things American, including the language, I was confused as to where I was. It's true I wasn't in Central America, Mexico is in fact part of North America, but it's also definitely a different country. Mexico definitely has a different language, a distinct culture, a Mayan history and indigenous people. Didn't it? Doesn't it? So, we quickly left Cancun, but not before spending a couple of hours fighting with hotel security to get onto the beach, to then fight with the "lifeguard" for some shade, which was more of a priority for him than actually saving a drowning man, who he was unaware of until we insited he get in the water
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