Blogs from Quintana Roo, Mexico, North America - page 63

We’ve been in Mexico just over a week now and we’ve been having a really good time. We started off in a hotel in Cancun just to make things easier to get over the jetlag. Our room was slightly weird but clean and comfortable. The hotel was really quiet so when we went down to the beach there was hardly anyone on there. It was really good just to have a day to completely relax because we had both lost the plot a little due to the jetlag. We also didn’t have a clue how much the Mexican pesos were compared to the pound as we never looked beforehand! Our first meal on the day we got there was in some tacky Americanised shopping and eating complex and was expensive and rubbish but it did the ... read more

Whale sharks! We’re at the pier (it’s a one-pier town) by 7:30 AM. Morning Holbox is slow but not drowsy. There is too much sunlight, unyellowed by the fullness of day, to be sleepy. Multiple boats are readying their passengers and checking their reservation lists. We are with Willy’s Tours and there are 2 Americans (me and Kurt), one Swiss woman, and six Mexicans (three couples from Cancun). That proportion is pretty spot-on for the tourist demographic we see in town. Kurt and I both remark on it; this pleasant, slightly posh beach town has far more Mexican tourists than foreign ones. Which makes it feel much more homey. Our guide, Abram, is a 30-something sweet-faced man who brings along his shy wife (turns out she’s only been out 3 times before!). Our captain is a ... read more

So, we flew to Mexico in hopes of locating a wedding location for our June 2012 wedding. After having the car for all of 5 minutes, literally, James ran through a red light (I believe it was the first one we had seen). In all fairness, the lights in Mexico operate differently than either of us have seen before. We immediately got pulled over, and butchered our way through explaining what happened in espanol. After several minutes, and confused expressions, the officer kindly let us know that the fine for running a red light was well over a few hundred dollars. We tried again, this time with a bit more sincerity and a dash of implied bribary (you know, it's Mexico, sometimes you have to buy your way out), and this time it worked! "Lo siento", ... read more

Benous Diaz!!! After 10 days we leave Mexico to head back to the grand US of A. I am so keen to get back to the USA, there are so many things I have missed about it already, not that I didn’t have a good time in Cancun/Playa Del Carmen, there were just a few issues that really stressed us out. First of all the plumbing; I am not sure how appropriate it might be to share these stories but the plumbing in both of our ‘5 star’ hotels was shocking. On one occasion the toilet began to overflow with diluted urine (will not mention names, but it was not me) and actually reached the bedroom floors. Melissa’s solution was to simply close the toilet lid…. Who is a dumb bitch? And Kelle’s aka Keller or ... read more

Thursday we headed (early again) to Xcaret (ish-car-et) which is about an hour - hour and a half drive from Cancun depending on the traffic (mas o menos). I have learned that in Mexico almost everything is mas o menos...more or less. Anything related to time or money is mas o menos. Xcaret was originally a Mayan city upon which a resort, natural park, semi playland have been built. One of the Xcaret hotels has been in the top ten for Mexico the last two years. It is about 5 miles from Playa del Carmen so it is still in the Quintana Roo province or state. Chichen Itza was in the Yucatan. Xcaret has a natural inlet from the Caribbean Sea. They have created rivers for floating and a short boat experience. They also have available ... read more