There are several benefits to visiting the Mexican Caribbean during the summer months. Smaller crowds, better deals on flights and hotels, and warm temperatures perfect for beach days are a few of these benefits, but during the summer, sargassum is often present on many of the beaches, too. If you’re headed to the region soon, …
Playa del Carmen
The popularity of the Mexican Caribbean beyond Cancun is rapidly growing, with tourists in search of sun, sand, and surf for their vacation getaway. Looking just at occupancy levels for resorts and hotels in the region, several areas had higher levels of hotels full of tourists relative to Cancun. Exploring Beyond Cancun According to reports …
Want to avoid sticker shock at Tulum International Airport from transportation costs which have been leading to tourist complaints? Decide, like many recent travelers have done lately, to go it alone instead and rent a car. Car Rentals Up in Tulum Car rental companies at Tulum are experiencing their best moment due to the high …
The long awaited connection of the Maya Train from Playa del Carmen to Tulum has been placed on hold indefinitely due to environmental concerns. Visitors to Mexican Caribbean hotspots will be a little more dependent on rideshares, taxis, rental cars and even bus service to get up and down the coast for a little bit …
A price war has broken out in Playa del Carmen, and travelers are set to benefit from the more intense competition. It was bound to happen as vacation rental properties in the Mexican Caribbean took market share from the resorts and hotels in the area as they aggressively lowered prices to attract tourists. Now the …
Just because it’s sargassum season in the Mexican Caribbean doesn’t mean that you’ll definitely have to deal with the annoying seaweed if you visit the region. There are several reasons why sargassum might be minimal in the destination you’re visiting. In fact, if you’re planning to vacation in certain Mexican Caribbean destinations, you can forget …
For the last several years, the amount of sargassum arriving on the beaches of the Mexican Caribbean seems to have peaked. Now this year, according to the Secretary of the Environment of Solidarity, it is arriving in lesser quantities than over the last few years. Still, the seaweed has washed up in large amounts, but …
The Mexican Caribbean is a coveted vacation destination for American travelers and tourists from around the globe, so it’s no surprise that millions visit the region every year. There are hundreds of hotels up and down the coast to cater to the growing number of travelers who visit the destination, but only a select few …
There is no shortage of amazing vacation destinations lining the Mexican Caribbean coast, but there are only a few island paradises where you can spend the day. Two, Isla Mujeres and Cozumel, are super popular among tourists who want to experience a day on a tropical island during their Mexican Caribbean vacation. These islands are …
Travelers to Playa del Carmen are fed up and have simply had enough. Enough issues with the high levels of sargassum on the beach and in the waters that is. They recently have taken to social media to express their displeasure with the amount of the stinky brown seaweed hanging around the water and on …