Tourists heading home from their Cancun vacations faced up to 3-hour flight delays on Wednesday. Most of the flights that suffered these delays were set to take tourists back to multiple US cities. Flights to Dallas, San Francisco, Chicago, and Denver were amongst the most affected by these delays. With other flights to Colombia, and …
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The Mexican President Has Plans For A Piece Of Land In The Popular Resort Town The Mexican President has announced he is attempting to acquire a piece of land in Playa del Carmen for the purpose of constructing a cruise ship dock. If those plans fail, he hopes the government will build an ecotourism complex. …
Mexican marine forces have been deployed to Cancun beaches to keep the areas safe during the spring break peak season. This was something that was actually requested by local business owners around the main Cancun beaches. As they potentially wanted to keep their businesses safe from both organized crime, and intoxicated spring breakers. Now the …
Long-awaited Reopening Marks Another Step Towards Normality in Quintana Roo And Yucatan As many as twelve archeological sites in Quintana Roo have reopened for the first time in two years, coinciding with the arrival of the Spring equinox. The openings mark yet another positive step towards normality in Quintana Roo. Since the beginning of the …
Thinking about going for a swim in your upcoming Cancun vacation? About 99.9% of folks who head over to Cancun for vacation will at some point find themselves swimming in a pool. According to local experts though, there’s a chance that the pool could be filled with bacteria. There are actual legal standards that regulate …
The Cozumel cruise industry seems to be back on track. The island relied heavily on cruise liners arriving with foreign tourists who contribute greatly to the local economy. So far in 2022 more than double the number of cruise ships are arriving to the island compared to 2021. One of those cruise ships that is …
A verbal conflict between taxi drivers erupted at the Cancun airport. According to witnesses things did not escalate beyond these verbal arguments. The issue seems to be that fake taxis are arriving at the Cancun Airport terminal and poaching tourists from regulated taxi drivers. This has sparked the rage of the authorized taxi drivers who …
The current conflict between Russia and Ukraine has made oil prices rise considerably in the last few weeks. All things considered, the price of gasoline in Mexico hasn’t skyrocketed. At least not as much as it could have. Currently, gasoline prices in Cancun on average sit at around just under 86.95 pesos per gallon (about …
The tourism industry in general continues to take blow after blow. It seems that all of the latest main world events spell disaster for the tourism industry. The COVID pandemic is obviously the biggest one in a generation. Travel restrictions are still in effect in some countries. That has heavily impacted the number of flights …
Workers at more than 15 Walmart locations (including Superama, Sam’s Club and Bodega Aurrera stores) in not only the Cancun area, but all of Quintana Roo have gone on strike. Monday around 1 p.m. the workers arrived at the Walmart Centro Cancun location, and stood in front of the store with picket signs that spelled …