Posada Yum Kin Tulum

... for) this had turned into a torrential downpour and we checked into the hotel up the road which Nadia liked the look of. Turns out that it was a 5* all inclusive place but we managed to get a good rate after bartering with the manager for about half an hour. Room was amazing with hot tub and they forgot to lock the adjoining room meaning we had 2 rooms, 3 double beds, 2 jacuzzis, 2 huge bathrooms and minibars all to ourselves...one of the best ...

... and 2 cokes (500ml) came to about 24 Australian dollars. vowing never to eat Dominos again (despite how good it tastes) we ate our expensive dinner and got ready for our early morning bus to Tulum. <br><br>We arrived just after lunch and our hostel was great. It was many bamboo sort of beach shacks, except we were about 4 km&#8217;s from the beach. Included breakfast was good and the price was right. The town of Tulum is pretty much just one strip full of a few bars ...

... to the ruins. The ticket was 70 pesos per person to Tulum and the taxi was another 30 pesos to Hotel El Crucero across from the Tulum ruinas ADO stop. Because there wasn't many tourists, we got a dorm room to ourselves with ensuite shower and fan for 100 pesos per person. This place is like a backpackers paradise with great guacamole. Spacious bathroom, hot water, comfortable mattresses that smelled nicely and big lockers. What a ...

... close to the ruins ... just to remember the past and share it with my partner. And now, lets go to enjoy this beautiful site: The lasts days we went to the SPA and to the beach ... and of course, we eat a lot!!!

... experience of Mexico but I assured them that Tulum wasn´t the Mexican "norm". I don´t want to run down the place but it just wasn´t the cheap alternative to Cancun that we were expecting. While we were there, Mish and I decided to treat ourselves to a day of Cenote diving and sea fishing. Cenotes are fresh water pools, hidden in the jungle with tunnels that lead out to the sea. Our guide lead us to one close by, where we excitedly plunged in and used a ...

... the beach we decided to try and speak to the hostel manager to ask why our room wasn't checked and fumigated before we had slept there for two nights and to try and get compensated in some way. Me and Ellie locked into Apprentice-style negotiations with him in his office and, despite catching him out several times, he clearly wasn't going to give us anything except his kind advice that we should steam our bags before we left to stop the spread! A bit ****** off ...

... cave line. The Barbie line is so called because someone decided to put a barbie doll in the mouth of a fake crocodile in the middle of the line. Jokes aside, the stalactites and stalagmites formations were incredible. Unfortunately everything was seen under the torch light, so the photos were not fantastic. The average growth of these formations is normally about 1 millimetre a year.... judging from their size, they ...

... reemerged. So there is a big hole or cave that you enter and you pass through tunnels and larger openings containing all the cave-like things such as stalactites, etc. OK, I can hear the yawning so I`ll skip the class. Gunnar and I signed up for 2 dives on our first day here and neither of us really knew what to expect. The first site was Grande Cenote. I was a bit nervous about my buoyancy in fresh water but Nadia inspired confidence and ...

... was like disney world. Close to a 1000 tourists from playa del carmen or some other resorts were there with us. The only nice thing was we did not have to pay the 5 dollars for the entrance because we managed to look touristy enough to join a american guided tour until we were in. So the guidebook says go in the morning and thats abolutely true. It isn't too much fun to get pushed of the cliff just because everyone wants ...

... get to bypass a rather long line at the airport and walk right up to the front of the "Primera Clase" line. Yes, we were some of "the jerks" that got to hop in front of the folks that had spent an hour getting to the front of the coach line. Don't worry, next year we'll be back with "the little people". We finally get to the gates, and grab some grub and wait. And then we wait some more. Our plane is delayed about a half hour out of Cancun ...