Digital immigration machines had been set up at the Cancun airport for the better part of four years, however, the machines were actually never in use throughout that time period. It turns out that there was actually a law in place that essentially prohibited immigration checkpoints to be run digitally. They had to be staffed …
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Quintana Roo’s Growth Continues Long After The COVID Surge Cancun and the rest of Quintana Roo will have another two thousand rooms added over the course of the next year. The figures point towards continued growth in the Mexican Caribbean. The figures, which were announced by the local government, will be welcome news for the …
In Cancun taxi companies charge different prices based on the different routes through the city and starting May 1st taxi prices are going to increase for Cancun tourists. The reason tourists specifically will be paying more is that the rates will be increasing for the routes that they will use the most while visiting Cancun. …
Reduced Financial Margins May Prompt Increase For Tourists Cancun and Quintana Roo hotel rates may be set to rise as sargassum and Covid safet protocols reduce local establishments’ profit margins. This may be compounded by general surges in demand. Cancun and the rest of the state have had an outstanding period in the face of …
Decision Marks An Important Departure From Pandemic Era Travel Cancun and the rest of Quintana Roo will no longer operate under Mexico’s epidemiological traffic light system as the program ends. The Mexican government has announced the end of the COVID-era initiative. As the world begins to emerge from two years of the COVID pandemic, restrictions, …
In Cancun, the outdoor mask mandate was removed in March and now the indoor mask mandate will be removed too if cases stay low. The removal of the indoor requirement was recently hinted at by Governor Carlos Joaquín González, who also mentioned relaxing other preventative measures as well. The removal of these protective measures will …
Tourism in Cancun is currently booming despite the fact that recent reports show that hotel rates in Cancun, the Riviera Maya, and Mexico in general, are up 48 percent compared to 2019. For some more luxury hotels, this increase has raised the per night rate to as much as $1200. Tourists who pay that for …
Huge Deposits Expected Across The Mexican Caribbean Next Week Over 46 thousand tonnes of sargassum seaweed are expected to be deposited across Cancun and the Mexican Caribbean in the next week. A further ten thousand is heading in the same direction the next week. According to the Oceanographic Institute, which works in conjunction with the …
Post COVID recovery continues for Cancun hotels at seemingly unexpected rates. Hotels in the beach city are expecting to be at around 90% capacity over the summer months. In fact, some hotels have already filled their books all the way up to the last week of July. In spite of the fact that Cancun is …
Although Covid cases in Cancun are few and far between right now, health authorities are warning of a possible increase in cases this summer. The city has been in the green in regards to its level of risk, which is measured by a “traffic light” warning system, due to the steady decrease in cases so …