Playa del Carmen
A couple good friends of mine and my wife and I just got back from Playa del Carmen. Check out a few vacation pics in our photo gallery.
We flew into Cancun on Friday morning and drove about 100 km to Puerto Aventuras (PA) where we had a little house on the beach. Puerto Aventuras is a great little enclosed community where you feel pretty safe walking around and riding your bike at any time of day or night. There was a lot of construction on some new condos there so you'd want to avoid the construction area but, otherwise, really nice place to stay.
The Omni Hotel in PA had some great meals but we really enjoyed trekking out in our jeeps to Tulum and Playa. Playa is a great place for shopping and dining with some great night-life. People were bussed in from all over to swim with the Dolphins in PA during the day but, at night, PA was a little quiet which was fine with us.
When in PA check out Gringo Dave's - the first round is always on Dave. By the way - he rents out his house in PA so you can eat at Dave's and stay at Dave's!
While in Mexico, we met a local guide in the Tulum ruins plaza with Edventure Tours named Danny who took us around to go snorkeling in a cenote, out to swim with some sea turtles (don't touch) and to a great estuary called Yalku Lagoon with gorgious gardens and many interesting sculptures - it was great - the time out with Danny was the best part of the week. If you go to Cancun/Playa/Tulum and you don't look up Edventure Tours, you're cheating yourself!