Cancún Travel Guide

Photo: Cancun Convention and Visitors Bureau

Cancún is a great place to experience 21st-century Mexico since it has everything you'd want in a vacation, including shopping, sports, spas, and beaches. Here you'll find five-star resorts, exceptional food, Mexican culture, and natural beauty within minutes of the world-famous Mayan ruins. There isn't, however, much that's quaint or historic in this distinctively modern city, many of whose residents have embraced the accoutrements of urban middle-class life—cell phones, cable TV—that are found all over the world.

Hotels

Cancún Hotels

A growing number of Cancún hotels are now encouraging people to make their reservations online. Some allow you to book rooms on their Web sites...read more

Restaurants

Cancún Restaurants

Be aware that restaurants that line Avenidas Tulum and Yaxchilán are often noisy and crowded, and gas fumes make it hard to enjoy alfresco meals...read more

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Cancún Experiences

  • Top Reasons to Go to Cancún

    Dancing the night away: Salsa, cumbia, reggae, mariachi, hip-hop, and electronic music dizzy the air of the Zona Hotelera's many nightclubs.... Read more

  • Cancún's Best Beaches

    Offering 22½ km (14 mi) of accessible coastline, Cancún is riddled with postcard-worthy beaches that beckon outdoor enthusiasts... Read more

  • Mexican Food Primer

    The varied culinary characteristics of each region make it difficult to define "Mexican food" as a whole. Its complexity and diversity is a direct... Read more

  • Cancún's History

    The first known settlers of the area, the Maya, arrived in what is now Cancún centuries ago, and their descendants remain in the area... Read more

  • Wet, Wild Water Sports

    Cancún is one of the water-sports capitals of the world, and, with the Caribbean on one side of the island and the still waters of Laguna... Read more

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