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The Cancun Palace Resort, located near Cancun's entertainment area - which includes shopping and party centers - is situated on a white sand beach with mesmerizing turquoise water. The beautiful building, scenic surroundings, and superior staff will make you feel like royalty, living in a real palace. The Concierge and bellstaff will handle all the small personal details for you, so you can relax and enjoy your vacation.
The Cancun Palace Resort is a great place for the young and old alike. Featuring a 36 hole miniature golf course, three interconnected swimming pools with a swim up bar, two tennis courts, beach and water volleyball, billiards, ping-pong, and basketball, the Cancun Palace makes sure that there is plenty of activity for all ages. Other activities include theme parties and shows, and other daily scheduled activities.
If you want to stick with your fitness program while on vacation, the Cancun Palace can easily accommodate you with a fitness center, as well as a sauna, steam baths, massages, and a beauty salon.
The Cancun Palace Resort has three restaurants for your dining pleasure, featuring international cuisine, gourmet Mexican food, Italian food, and Cajun food. There are also two snack bars for lighter fare. You won't be thirsty with three bars, including a piano bar and a pool bar. If you prefer to dine on the private terrace outside your room, the hotel offers 24 hour room service as well.
Most of the 560 rooms inside the Cancun Palace have ocean and lagoon views. Standard rooms feature private terraces, while superior rooms boast double Jacuzzis. All rooms have private safes and mini bars. The hotel has convenient services to further ensure that you have a pleasurable stay, such as car rental, a gift shop, a jewelry store, a laundry service, and a doctor who is on call 24 hours per day.
The Cancun Palace offers golf packages, as well as all inclusive vacation packages that include: hotel taxes and gratuities, all meals and snacks, unlimited beverages, 24 hour room service, daily entertainment, evening theme parties, non motorized water sports, and unlimited selected tours. These packages ensure a complete vacation fit for royalty.
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Deemed as one of the most luxurious hotel resorts in Cancun, Rui Cancun offers guests everything they can imagine and more. Offering an all inclusive vacation package, the rui Cancun has been given a rating of five stars. The resort is located in Corazone, which is Cancun's famous resort area. The main building is fourteen stories, with a five story annex building. It takes that much space to house everything the Rui Cancun has to offer guests.
The main building features a lobby bar, a lounge bar, and a sports bar, as well as the Don Juan Restaurant, a Corazone theme restaurant, a Japanese restaurant, a disco, two conference rooms, and 569 guest rooms and suites. One of the most beautiful aspects of the rui Cancun is the terrace solaruim.
The all inclusive vacation package includes room, taxes, and service fees, all meals, snacks, and beverages, an in room mini-bar and liquor dispense, windsurfing, sailing, kayaking, body boarding, snorkeling, one scuba diving lesson in the diving pool, all resort fitness and recreation facilities, all resort activities and entertainments, and a supervised kids club.
For water lovers, the Rui Cancun Hotel and Resort offers a beautiful beach, three swimming pools, a children's pool, jacuzzi, complimentary lounge chairs, umbrellas, and towels, a 'swim-up' bar, a pool bar, and a pool restaurant. There is also a miniclub and playground for children, as well as a daytime entertainment program for children aged 4 - 12 years old. If you want to mix some good health and spa services into your vacation, the rui Cancun Hotel and Resort provides a full gym, sauna, Renova Spa, beauty salon, and massages.
Other activities the resort offers are tennis, ping-pong, windsurfing, catamaran, canoing, and snorkeling. There is also a golf course nearby. Daytime entertainment is offered daily for adults, and in the evening, you can enjoy live music, shows, dancing, and the Rui Evening Program. You can also take advantage of the numerous cultural events, sporting and recreational activities, tours, sightseeing, and other activities that are nearby.
With the life of luxury the Rui Cancun Hotel and Resort offers, you won't want to go home at the end of your vacation. But, if you must go home, it is a safe bet that you will be immediately planning your next vacation and your return to the rui Cancun Hotel and Resort.
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As the name implies, the Oasis Cancun Hotel and Resort is a literal oasis, located in the middle of the Cancun hotel zone. Surrounded by lush gardens on three sides, and a half mile of white beach on the fourth side, you won't even realize that you are in the middle of a busy tourist area. Your entire vacation could be spent exploring all the the Oasis Cancun Hotel and Resort has to offer.
When you arrive at the International Airport, it is only a twenty minute drive to the Oasis Cancun Resort and Hotel. You will be greeted by two beautiful Mayan style buildings that contain 446 guest rooms, and a friendly staff that is waiting to serve you. Their goal is to make your stay a pleasurable and relaxing experience.
The first thing you will probably want to do is explore the half mile white sand beach. After a swim in the crystal blue water, you can soak up some sun under clear blue skies either directly on the beach, or in the sundeck area. The hotel provides a towel service, lounge chairs, and has a beach bar as well.
If you prefer to do your swimming in a swimming pool, Oasis Cancun Hotel and Resort can accommodate you there as well, with a uniquely shaped pool that is so large it requires foot bridges to cross from one side to the other. The hotel also provides a children's swimming area, a sundeck, and a pool bar.
Other activities that can be enjoyed at the Oasis Cancun Hotel and Resort are tennis, golf, kayaking, various aquatic sports, diving, and daily and nightly entertainment programs. The hotel also provides pedal boats, a multi sports course, a marina, a gym, a jacuzzi, a sauna, and a marina.
The kids aren't left out at the Oasis Cancun Hotel and Resort. The hotel has a kids club to help keep the kids entertained, and provides many different activities and entertainments that your kids will enjoy. The kids will be having so much fun, they won't even mind when you leave them with a babysitter - provided by the hotel - to go experience the Cancun nightlife at the resort, or downtown.
The Oasis Cancun Hotel and Resort offers two theme parties with buffets and Mexican and Caribbean shows. The Up and Down Disco holds its famous Foam Party every Thursday night as well. After a day of activities, you will be ready for a good meal. The hotel features five restaurants, serving an international buffet, Mediterranean food, Italian specialties, Mexican gourmet, and seafood.
There are also seven bars located throughout the hotel. At the end of a long day of fun and relaxation, you can relax even more in your spacious room, and enjoy a drink from your mini bar out on your private terrace, or order room service.
The hotel offers several different tours around Cancun. Close by, you will also find Kings Ruins, Nichupte Lagoon, Park Nizuc, and four shopping malls.
The Oasis Cancun Hotel and Resort also provides a laundry valet service, safe deposit boxes, massages, a beauty salon, rental car services, and various other services to make your stay as enjoyable and stress free as possible.
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ONE Friday evening last December, in a typically modern Cancún condo complex, a party was under way. A motley crew of revelers — well-tanned men with curly gray hair, 20-something tourists, women with children and grandchildren on their hips — crowded around four long folding tables sagging with food, and the turquoise-trimmed white walls reverberated with the sounds of familiar songs sung in unison.
The party’s hyperactive host, his shiny yellow tie flung rakishly over his left shoulder, stood on a folding chair, held aloft a plastic cup of Stolichnaya vodka and proposed a toast — to what, I wasn’t sure; the words were lost in a jumble of languages I didn’t understand. But then a traditional cry rose up, and I recognized it instantly:
“L’chaim!”
Yes, in sultry, sinful Cancún, I was spending my Friday night at Chabad House, the outreach center for the Lubavitchers, the Orthodox Hasidic Jewish sect. But why had I, a long-lapsed Jew, chosen this Sabbath bacchanal to break my 11-year avoidance of Jewish events?
Two words: free dinner.
O.K., it was more complicated than that. Frankly, Cancún scared me. On the one hand, this overdeveloped hub of Mexico’s so-called Mayan Riviera seemed like a frugal traveler’s dream, and the $500 I carried for the weekend could easily install me in a hostel with a refrigerator full of Jell-o shots, but I’m about a decade past my “Gross Gone Wild!” days. On the other hand, the five-star Cancún experience — represented by resorts like the Ritz-Carlton and Le Meridien, with their beachside cabana restaurants and hoity-toity spas — was well beyond my budget. And while I could surely afford all-inclusive bliss in one of the Riu Hotel chain’s pseudo-neo-Classical monstrosities, that sort of utter mindless ease offends my adventurous soul.
No, I wanted all of the above — sophomoric fun, total relaxation, a taste of luxury — plus the alternative, “real” Cancún, whatever that might be.
Before stumbling upon the all-too-real Chabad House, my search led me first to Puerto Juárez, a speck of a town five minutes north of Cancún’s gritty but lively downtown, and the Villa Playa Blanca, a $45-a-night bed-and-breakfast opened last March by Alejandro (Alex) Gutiérrez, 26, and his 27-year-old friend Horacio Viazcán.
A whitewashed four-story home in a quiet subdevelopment, the Villa Playa Blanca is a study in clean, contemporary design — soft fabrics, fresh flowers, tea lights on the staircase — and precision hospitality. Minutes after I arrived, I was standing on the roof deck when Mabelu Pedraza, the housekeeper-chef-receptionist, brought me a chilled towel and a glass of pineapple juice with a splash of vodka. I sipped my drink and gazed at the glittering Caribbean and the distant ridge of buildings that make up Cancún’s “zona hotelera,” 13 unfortunate miles of beaches, hotels, malls and nightclubs.
Not only was the Villa Playa Blanca cool, but its proprietors, Alex and Horacio, were just the kind of friendly, knowledgeable locals I’m always hoping to hang out with. And within an hour of checking in, we were taking a late lunch at Pozolería Castillo, a busy little restaurant that specializes in pozole, a rich pork-and-hominy soup embellished with chilies and oregano. A big bowl cost 55 pesos, or about $5 at 10.99 pesos to the dollar, and 15 pesos more bought me a lemonade. I had begun to think I’d discovered my own private, perfect Cancún.
After a solo late-afternoon walk on Playa Niños, a family-friendly beach just down the road from Villa Playa Blanca, I was at Chabad House — one of thousands worldwide, from Bangkok to the Brazilian rain forest — and totally out of my depth. As bearded men in white shirts and dark pants prayed and swayed, their tzitzit, or tassels, dangling from their waists, I tried (and failed) to follow along in the bilingual siddur, and comforted myself with the idea that my atrocious Hebrew made me seem almost fluent in Spanish by comparison.
When the praying ended, dinner began, and I relaxed. Over baked salmon, challah, hummus, baba ganoush, and a cucumber salad that, I swear, tasted just like my mom’s, I befriended Yardena Landau, a Spirit Airlines employee who’d moved there from Mexico City; we bonded over a love of travel and wariness of zealots. Actually, my wariness of the true believers around me slowly dissipated, and while I wasn’t about to go kosher — certainly not on the Yucatán peninsula, home of cochinita pibil, the slow-cooked suckling pig — I happily raised my cup of Stoli when Mendel Druk, the 26-year-old rabbi, reminded us all, “You can come to Cancún, and you can still pray in a synagogue!”
Well, l’chaim to that.
The next morning, after devouring my breakfast in bed of coffee, orange juice, toast, yogurt and fruit salad, I went beach-hunting. Still reluctant to confront the zona hotelera, I instead hopped a 35-peso ferry to Isla Mujeres, a five-mile-long island whose Playa Norte had been recommended by Jenny, a veteran Cancún visitor who was staying at my hotel.
Playa Norte was indeed quiet and, as Cancún area beaches go, unpopulated. I settled into a lounge chair between a pair of small piers and waited for the inevitable: a waiter demanding I buy an overpriced cocktail to secure my seat. He never came. For hours I had a free, umbrella-shaded spot next to the bathtub-warm azure water. In fact, I soon began to crave a waiter. I was getting hungry. I wound up having to — horror of horrors — walk across the warm sand to order some fish tacos and a Dos Equis (75 pesos total).
By midafternoon, I caught the ferry back to Puerto Juárez, jumped in my car and drove to Cancún’s inland downtown area and the Xbalamqué Hotel, whose clean, low-key spa is known not only for its traditional Mayan and Nahuatl treatments but also for its affordability. Nothing on the menu, from sports massage to mud, algae and chocolate baths, cost more than 550 pesos, a small fraction of the prices at the Ritz-Carlton.
Still, I picked the cheapest option: 30 minutes in the temazcal, a Nahuatl steam bath, for 120 pesos. Essentially a sauna, the temazcal was a small, brick-lined room illuminated by a single yellow filament bulb, the steam perfumed with mint that tingled my lips as I lay on a bench. When I emerged, every toxin had drained away, and my skin glowed.
Cancun has transformed from a deserted strip of sand to a world class destination for sun weary travelers in just 30 years. The 17 KM long hotel zone has resorts to fit any budget or lifestyle. There are so many attractions in and around Cancun that it is no wonder so many people choose to visit this jewel in Mexico?s crown. There are 7 great reasons why you should visit Cancun 1. The Beaches - The first reason to visit Cancun is the beaches. White coral sand that is so fine you will be picking out of your belly button for weeks after you return home. There is a 17 km long silver, white beach that is fully open and accessible to the public. Along the east coast the surf rolls in from the Caribbean Sea and creates a fun playground for those looking to body surf the day away. Along the north coast the beaches are sheltered from the waves and are calm, perfect for small children or those looking for less wave action. 2. The Food - Looking for dinner in the hotel zone is an experience in itself. There are restaurants for almost any type of palette; Mexican, Italian, Continental cuisine plus a wide selection of fast food and health conscience choices. The interesting thing about walking through the hotel zone is that you quickly realize the restaurants are in stiff competition for your business. Restaurants hire staff to come out to you on the street with a menu and offer you the most amazing food creations. All restaurants have sample meals on display outside vying to get you to come in. It often works, seeing a lobster dinner and the likes as you walk past makes it hard not be drawn inside. 3. The Shopping - Kukulkan Plaza is the show piece of Cancun's shopping experience. With over 60,000 square meter of space and 250 shops there is no doubt that you will find exactly what you are looking for. There are many other shops and boutiques that offer everything from jewelry to authentic Mexican blankets and crafts. One of the best shopping experiences is the street vendors. Gathering every afternoon and evening shoppers can find fabulous art work and hand made jewelry made by local artisan. 4. The Resorts - The entire length of Cancun, all 17 KM, is lined with mega resorts that offer travelers absolutely everything you could want or imagine. Spa, restaurants, recreation, you name it and there is a resort that provides it. With an all inclusive package you will hardly need to leave the resort for the duration of your holiday. 5. The Ruins - Cancun is surrounded by Mayan temples and ruins that are as old as 2000 years. The most popular are Chichen Itza and Tulum with tours visiting both locations daily. Bring lots of film (memory card), sun screen and a bunch of money for water, snacks and souvenirs. 6. The People - The locals in Cancun are wonderful. We have not gone to Cancun yet where we weren't inspired by the kindness and generosity of the locals. 7. The Ocean - It is hard to top the Caribbean. The water is as warm as a bath and a deep turquoise color. For the divers out there nearby Cozumel is rated one of the top diving sites in the world. With a large Marine park divers can dive to majestic coral walls and underwater pinnacles. Year round divers get about 120 feet of visibility. Cancun offers a great holiday for singles and families alike. There is plenty to do and Cancun is under five hours by air from most major North American Cities. If you are in need of a break from the winter blahs give Cancun a try.
Holbox offers incomparable sunsets that can be seen from the most gorgeous beaches; it is an exotic place full of attractions. Here you can get excited about being in direct contact with nature or, if you prefer, simply relax. On this island, you will find plenty of romantic and charming bungalows that will offer you all the delightful pleasures of the typical Caribbean lifestyle. Hundreds of flamingoes can be seen flying over this wonderful island at certain times of the day or while they are eating fish and seaweed in the lagoon.
The island features a modest population comprised mainly of fishermen, incomparable white beaches, and exotic wildlife. This remote place, away from massive tourism, belongs to the natural reserve and protected area of Yum Balam.Sample the pleasures of this unequalled island. Its simple tourist infrastructure and relaxed lifestyle offer you an unforgettable Holbox vacation.
Holbox Island is a secluded and unspoiled territory inhabited by a small population. On this island, you will find few phones, cars, and computers but a great variety of flamingoes, seashells, and all kinds of birds and dolphins in their natural habitat. Before the Spanish conquest, Mayans inhabited Holbox. Over the years, while Holbox was prospering from its coconut plantations, an important fishing industry developed due to the richness of the surrounding sea.
Holbox Island offers several miles of unspoiled beaches, full of seashells and lush mangrove vegetation. The seawaters change tone, going from the turquoise blue of the Caribbean, to the emerald blue of the Gulf of Mexico. All these conditions make Holbox a perfect habitat for abundant and exotic wildlife.Here you can amuse yourself watching dolphins jumping out of the water or flamingoes moving elegantly with a magical sunset as the background.
During your time in Holbox, you can stay in charming "casitas," small houses usually built of wood with thatched roofs. Most Holbox people sleep in hammocks that are knitted by local women; you can buy one to take home with you. Many souvenir shops also offer other crafts and accessories handmade by local people.
To get to Holbox Island, you have to board the public ferry from Chiquila.Holbox is located in the northeast corner of the Yucatan Peninsula, just where the Mexican Caribbean starts in Cabo Catoche. The island is 25 miles long and its width varies from less than 1/2 to over a mile wide, making a total area of 25 square miles.
Holbox in Mayan means "black hole," named after the tiny lagoon in the southern area of the island. The bottom of this lagoon is dark, giving the impression of being black. Different rivers cross the jungle mangroves dividing the island into three separate sections. Only the smallest one is inhabited by humans.
Holbox has a friendly population. It is a peaceful town, where life moves at a slow rhythm. Escape from the hectic, modern world and relax in your hammock in this heavenly village. You can also rent a bike, motorcycle, or golf cart to get around this unique town.
Nowadays, fishing is the main economic activity, although tourism is growing slowly and continuously. The natural attractions make Holbox an excellent destination, perfect for ecotourism, which contributes to local people's income. The government has declared this island a protected area, to ensure the survival of the extraordinary local wildlife in future generations.
Holbox cuisine consists mainly of fresh and healthy seafood obtained directly from local fishermen. Enjoy the delicacies, including the traditional lobster Holbox style, or savor mouthwatering shrimp, fish, crab, tuna, clams, and octopus. You can also try traditional "ceviche" and typical fish "empanadas." In addition, you will find fresh and exotic fruits such as papayas, mangoes, and pineapples. Coconuts grow all over the island; therefore, "coconut water" (sometimes mixed with rum) is a Holbox drink par excellence.
