Originally Posted by
alanw
To be fair a good number of those other destinations are like an hour away. It's a tiny country. Also impoverished, without a ton of infrastructure. If you're looking for a Cancun alternative this isn't it.
I’d consider “this isn’t Cancun” to be an actual positive. The Zona Hotelera didn’t really appeal to me. A friend called it “very south Texas full of partying college kids”. But I liked getting out of the city to Isla Mujeres or down the coast for more local feel, which isn’t too hard to do, which seems to be what you’re talking about here?