sssteve

I've been planning a 12 day trip to Mexico to start on January 23, 2008. Our program has us in Merida on the weekend of February 1 (arrive on Feb 1, and depart on Feb 5 AM). I have now noticed that February 5 is Shrove Tuesday. I checked and have read that Merida has a well known festival leading up to Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday.

This has led me to have a few questions: Should I factor the festival into my plans? What are the festivities like? Should I make hotel reservations earlier than normal? Should I try to stay through February 5 to take part in the festivities?

Any advice will be welcome.

Steve

sssteve

Has no-one been to merida on carnaval weekend??

Any Merida residents out there?

SusanInToronto

We were in Merida for a few days during carnival several years ago. Carnival was great! The city was very lively - there were a number of parades (we had already moved on by the time of the big parade), but it was a great time to visit the city. I would expect that hotels do get booked up. As I said, it was several years ago for us, and we were in a low budget hotel.

xxxx

sssteve:

Sorry I'm not able to answer your questions. However, I'd like to ask if you'd post a brief recap of your travel plans for the Yucatan. We will be in the area in December and am wondering if you'd share what you put together so far.

sssteve

XXX:

If you do a search on my name, you'll find a thread (at this moment #13 on the list) where I discussed my itinerary and you'll find lots of information there.

In short the itinerary is now as follows:

6 nights in Mexico City (including one day trip to Puebla)
Fly to Merida, rent car
2 nights in Uxmal
1 night in Chichen Itza
Drive to Merida, return car
4 nights in Merida (Carnaval!)