We opted for a beer since we weren't about to pay $27 for a gin and tonic. The most negative experience I had was stopping for a drink at Rosanegra while we waited for our table at Arca. It was shaded, practically empty, and absolutely serene. We had planned to go to Coba, but fearing a repeat of Tulum we went to Muyil instead. I cant really recommend the Tulum site since it was super overcrowded even at 9am, hot with no shade, and our kids had a meltdown after only 30 minutes. It is an hour long snorkling tour swimming through a crazy underground cave system. We also took a tour of Cenote Sac Actun without the kids and it was absolutely mindblowing for me. It was one of the best meals I've ever had. Ana and Raquel were great.īabysitting allowed us to have a couple nice dinners at Arca and Hartwood. We got babysitting a couple nights and one day. We were never pulled over by cops, and Pemex didn't try to pull any fast ones on us. We were charged the exorbitant rate we were quoted online and there weren't any attempts to scam us. We rented a car for two days from Avis Tulum. This hotel is the main reason we had a great trip. The kids loved the pool, playground, and we all made friends with other families staying or visiting during the day. As an added bonus, our baby monitor could reach anywhere in the restaurant, so we could have nice dinners without babysitting. With a plunge pool and beach at our front door we didn't feel trapped after our baby fell asleep. All-inclusives aren't really great with kids this age because after one kid fall asleep at 7pm we are stuck in the room for the night. We wanted a beach vacation to escape our hometown Chicago's weather, and to celebrate my wife's recent promotion. This place seems to be very full of negative energy most of the time, but we ended up having a great time. I followed things on here for a few weeks before the trip to help plan everything. If you want your cocktail sweetened with fresh-squeezed sugarcane juice that’s pressed on the hotel’s antique hand crank, you’ll have to get sand between your toes on the walk to the bar, but if you’re willing to squeeze your own limes, the tequila in the room is free.I just got home from my family vacation to the Tulum area. No surprise, the food served here is almost entirely local - fresh-caught fish from that sea you’ve been gazing at, herbs from the organic garden. So far, it’s still home to the most ambitious works of architecture around. The ruins of Chichen Itza and Coba, either of which make a nice day trip from the hotel, draw substantial crowds, while Tulum’s own Mayan city, perched on a cliff above the beach, is minutes away. Kayaking, scuba diving among the coral reefs, swimming in the cenotes (fresh-water sinkholes and caves), kiteboarding, deep-sea and fly fishing are all on offer, as are excursions to the area’s famous pre-Columbian ruins. The hotel straddles the Caribbean on one side and the Sian Ka’an wilderness on the other, so there’s no shortage of natural splendor to explore, nor of ways to explore it. The essentials are all here: hammocks, loungers, a sea-view cantina and a beachside bar, plus plenty of uncrowded coastline for the lucky few guests. There are some small touches that would be hard to imagine at one of the big resorts up the coast.Īccommodations are comfortable but simple, the point being not to pool-hop and bar-crawl but to walk the few steps to the beach, lie under a thatched parasol or a swaying palm, and wade into the warm blue water. On Sundays, they put on an asado and salsa party, an affair so casual and jovial you suspect they’d do it even if guests weren’t there. The service is about as far from stiff as it gets. Maybe someday the mega-resorts will come to dominate Tulum, but for now its palm-lined, white-sand Caribbean beaches remain largely the territory of places like La Zebra, a low-key, sixteen-room throwback of a seaside hotel.
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