Our destinations in Mexico

⏱ 6-minute read🔄 Updated 8 September 2026✍️ By Mexique Aventure In short: Akumal means "place of the turtles" in Maya, and that is exactly what you find. The bay shelters a seagrass bed where green turtles graze all year round. Since the regulations came in, you no longer swim there however you like: a certified

⏱ 7-minute read🔄 Updated 8 September 2026✍️ By Mexique Aventure In short: Cozumel is the largest island in Mexico and one of the best dive sites on the planet. It is 45 minutes by boat from Playa del Carmen. Its west coast, sheltered from wind and sargassum, runs along the Palancar reef and the El

⏱ 7-minute read🔄 Updated 8 September 2026✍️ By Mexique Aventure In short: Isla Mujeres is twenty minutes by boat from Cancún, and it is the best day you can spend from the hotel zone. An island eight kilometres long, a beach ranked among the finest in the Caribbean, and the departure point for the two

⏱ 8-minute read🔄 Updated 8 September 2026✍️ By Mexique Aventure In short: Holbox is a car-free sand island at the far north of the Yucatán, where you get around by golf cart and watch the sunset with your feet in the water. You come here to slow down, not to tick off sights. Allow three

⏱ 9-minute read🔄 Updated 8 September 2026✍️ By Mexique Aventure In short: the Riviera Maya is the 130 kilometres of coast between Cancún and Tulum, strung along a single road, federal highway 307. Everything happens along that axis: the beaches, the cenotes, the parks, the Maya sites and the ports for the islands. Here is

⏱ 8-minute read🔄 Updated 8 September 2026✍️ By Mexique Aventure In short: Playa del Carmen is the best base camp in the Riviera Maya. You are an hour from Cancún, an hour from Tulum, forty-five minutes by boat from Cozumel, and you can do everything on foot from Fifth Avenue. This is where we live,

⏱ 8-minute read🔄 Updated 8 September 2026✍️ By Mexique Aventure In short: Cancún is not a destination, it is a gateway. The hotel zone is a 22-kilometre strip of sand between the sea and a lagoon, downtown is a real Mexican city, and most travellers spend two nights here before heading down to Tulum or

⏱ 5-minute read🔄 Updated 8 September 2026✍️ By Mexique Aventure In short: Chetumal is the capital of Quintana Roo, right at the south, on the bay that forms the border with Belize. It is not a beach destination and nobody comes here for the sand. You come for its museum of Maya civilisation, for the

⏱ 6-minute read🔄 Updated 8 September 2026✍️ By Mexique Aventure In short: Isla Contoy is a national park that admits only 200 visitors a day, and only with an authorised operator. No hotel, no restaurant, no shop. An island eight kilometres long, more than 150 bird species, four species of sea turtle. It is the

⏱ 8-minute read🔄 Updated 8 September 2026✍️ By Mexique Aventure In short: Yucatán is the state next door to the Riviera Maya, inland. No postcard beaches, but the most impressive Maya sites, colonial towns, quieter cenotes and prices that bear no relation to those on the coast. This is where many of our travellers say