Mandarin Oriental Riviera Maya

Km. 298, Playa del Carmen, Riviera Maya, Yucatan Peninsula, 77710, Mexico | 5 star hotel

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Travel Blogs from Playa del Carmen

Finally back, after 4 years!

A travel blog entry by pierre-zuzana

100

... ale musime dobit penezenky. Jinak co se bezpecnosti tyka tak je fakt, ze Mexiko valka mezi drogovymi kartely a vladou opravdu zasahla. Spousta mist, predevsim nocnich klubu a diskotek je uzavreno. Nas pobyt tady to ale nijak neovlivnilo, i kdyz je to velky problem, ktery postupne likviduje turismus v cele zemi a opravdu se s tim musi neco delat. Celkove ale musim sesumirovat, ze Mexiko je jednou z nejkrasnejsich zemi Latinske Ameriky a cele nasi ‘velke’ cesty. ...

Having fun on the Yucatun (mostly)

A travel blog entry by simbrent

10

... by a watch Brent liked but having no cash on us we resolved to come back the following week to purchase the watch and go snorkelling on the second largest reef in the world. The following day we decided to go fishing – up early as and out on the boat, it was a great morning because we stayed relatively close to the shore (even then the waves were like 1 – 1.5m high, which for me is a bit scary) and both Brent and I caught a barracuda each – awesome! ...

Leaving San Miguel/Mexico for Ottawa/Canada

A travel blog entry by burtonx2

... make identification difficult. The bodies were being taken to Monterrey
for DNA tests.
De la Garza said the victims could have been killed as long as two days ago
at another location, then transported to San Juan, a town in Cadereyta
municipality, about 175 kilometres west-southwest of McAllen, Texas, or 125
kilometers southwest of the Roma, Texas, border crossing.
Mexican drug cartels have been waging an increasingly bloody war ...

Let's Get This Party Started!

A travel blog entry by zolina

3

This morning was actually a bad morning. But this afternoon more than made up for it.

We were in port today at Cozumel, Mexico. But we didn't arrive until 10 am. And our excursion wasn’t until 12:45 PM. So we had a late breakfast and then went to the top decks to watch the ship come into port.

What we hadn’t known is that we would be docking ~3 miles from downtown Cozumel. And the only way to get there was by taxi. It looked like there ...

Still alive in the Mexician border war zone.....

A travel blog entry by burtonx2

... you can see 30 or 40 K ahead down a road that is perfectly straight and flat - it was hard not to do 180 K on that kind of a road... Steep cliffs beside the roads and no guard rails - probably would not do much good anyway...

Lots of crosses along the highway commemorating the dead, presumably from traffic accidents. . Not everyone makes it...It would be interesting to know how many fatalities there are from traffic deaths in Mexico. I would bet that it is a ...

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Location

This 5 star hotel, located on Km. 298, Playa del Carmen, is near Sacred Cenote, Balankanche Cave, Parque Niños Héroes, and Museo de la Fauna y Ciencias Naturales de Monterrey.
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