Playa del Carmen is a coastal town located 45 minutes south of Cancun. Popular with short-stay tourists as well as long-stay digital nomads, it’s rarely quiet here. The city’s combination of well-priced accommodation, its fantastic food scene, buzzing nightlife, and great transport links, all help to keep visitors flowing into Playa del Carmen. Here are …

Cancun is famous for its white-sand beaches, water sports, ruins from the Mayan civilization, and its thriving nightlife. Millions of tourists flock to this city of Yucatan Peninsula every year and enjoy the great weather and incredible waters. So it only seems natural that this place would be inviting a notable amount of well-known musicians …

Construction Permits Blocked As Controversy Rages Over Maya Train And Tulum’s Hotels A branch of the Mexican Government has blocked the construction of two hotels in the Cancun Hotel Zone. The decision comes as the Maya Train Project faces a similar barrier to its own construction. At this point, it is unclear which companies were …

Sargassum washing up on the shores of the Mexican Caribbean is a naturally occurring phenomenon that has gotten worse in recent years and this year has been one of the worst, which is why Cancun hotels want to see government action, as the collection ships that have been promised to deal with the issue have …

With the summer season set to begin, Cancun is expecting to see 100 percent hotel occupancy and is already registering 82 percent before the season has even officially started.  Tourism in the city and surrounding areas in the Riviera Maya have not seen much of a slow season at all this year, despite the major …

Quintana Roo authorities have begun to increase surveillance of beaches near the Cancun hotel zone after tourists were robbed at gunpoint at Isla Blanca beach last week. According to eyewitnesses, 6 armed robbers entered the beach on jet-skis near the Extreme Zone Beach & Spa Hotel. They then began to threaten beachgoers, severely beating one …

Details Emerge Of Canadian Fugitive Wanted By Interpol For Extensive Fraud Charges A Canadian man murdered in Playa del Carmen this week has been revealed as a wanted fugitive for multiple years. The man and his apparent girlfriend were found dead in their popular beachside resort town condo. Initial reports stated the two Canadians were …

For the second day in a row, the tourist hotspots of Cancun, Playa Del Carmen, Merida and Campeche have been affected by electrical blackouts. Reports from social media have described how this has severely affected drivers coming in and out of the cities, as traffic lights and crossings had stopped working. As of today, the …

Three More Drownings To Add To A Steadily Increasing Number Three bodies have been retrieved from the ocean on Cancun beaches in four days, marking another grim marker in the region’s beach deaths. A fourth died just a week ago in a swimming pool in the area. Cancun has been marred with multiple tragic drownings …

Surge In COVID Cases Sees Mexican Risk Level Raised By The American Health Organization The CDC has raised its advisory level on Cancun and the rest of Mexico after the region saw a significant increase in Covid cases. The country and region are now registered as “Level 3: High Levels of Covid”. In what will …